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Photograph

Post Office

Date: 1911
Description: Men, possibly postal workers, standing on the front steps of the local post office with crates and barrels in the foreground.
Postcard

Post Office

Date: 1909
Description: Exterior view of post office on a street corner. Caption reads: "Post Office, Lancaster, Wis."
Photograph

People on Street

Date: 1906
Description: View down unpaved street with snow along the curbs. The Post office is the first building on the left. Other buildings are occupied by a doctor's office, s...
Postcard

Post Office

Date: 1920
Description: Exterior view of the Post Office. Caption reads: "Post Office, Platteville, Wis."
Photograph

Main Street Looking South

Date: 1921
Description: View down Main Street. Osward's restaurant is on the far left. The post office and a plumbing shop are on the right.
Photograph

Main Street

Date: 
Description: A man driving a carriage pulled by two horses is at the curb of the post office. On the street, there is the dentist office of H.H. Hancock, a bank, and J....
Photograph

Hotel and Post Office

Date: 1916
Description: A hotel, barbershop [?], and post office. The hotel has a roofed porch and chairs. A man stands under the awning of the barbershop, and another man leans a...
Photograph

Post Office

Date: 1921
Description: A group of men stand outside of the post office. There is a parked car at the curb. A building is being demolished and there is a pile of rubble in the str...
Photograph

Business District

Date: 1909
Description: View of row of shops taken from the intersection. A public telephone station, post office, and a barbershop are on the street. Employees and pedestrians po...
Photograph

Depot and Train

Date: 
Description: View down railroad tracks of a busy scene at the train depot. A train is arriving at the crowded platform. On the side of the depot a man sits on a cart, n...
Photograph

Depot

Date: 1925
Description: View down railroad tracks of the Cuba City train depot and post office.
Photograph

General Store

Date: 1933
Description: View across road of the Mount Ida post office and general store. A man is sitting on the porch.
Photograph

General Merchandise Store and Post Office

Date: 1920
Description: Six people standing on the porch of L.J. Ryan Dry Goods and Groceries. A sign above the door says: Post Office North Andover." A team of two horses are pul...
Map or Atlas

Map of Grant County, Wisconsin

Date: 
Description: A map of Grant County, Wisconsin that shows the townships, cities, villages, rivers and streams, roads and railroads, landownership, post offices. The map...
Photograph

Mailman and His Family

Date: 1890
Description: On the right a mailman is standing with his horse and cart. The cart is labeled "RFD Route No.1" and "U.S. Mail." Members of his family, one boy and one gi...
Map or Atlas

Grant County, Wisconsin : Showing Rural Delivery Service

Date: 1910
Description: Shows roads, railroads, post offices, schools, houses, churches, and routes. Includes distant chart and explanation. "Price 35 cents"--Upper left margin. "...
Photograph

Business District

Date: 1921
Description: View across street towards the row of businesses along the sidewalk on the right. Includes, from the right, a man in an apron, and three young girls standi...
Photograph

Street Scene

Date: 1918
Description: View down street of the central business district. A large brick building on the left with awnings includes a furniture store. Automobiles are parked at an...
Photograph

Main Street

Date: 1909
Description: View down Main Street. On the right is a general store, and Livery/Hardware building with horse-drawn carts parked in the street in front. A group of men a...
Photograph

Putnam Residence

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Description: View of Putnam residence and post office, with Mrs. Putnam sitting in a chair on the lawn, and Mr. Putnam (with a pipe in his mouth) standing behind her on...

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