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Post Office in Rabbit Hash

Date: 05 26 1894
Description: Exterior view of the Wilson Riddell general store, with a horse-drawn wagon parked in front. There is a post office and paint shop attached to the store. S...
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Middleton Railroad Crossing

Date: 1873
Description: Elevated view of several men, some of whom may be railroad workers, posing in front of a Minnesota and St. Paul wood-burning engine at a train crossing. Th...
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Post Mistresss at Post Office

Date: 1917
Description: Elizabeth Lathrop, Post Mistress, stands with a dog and other people in front of the Post Office. There is a shoreline on the left.
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Madison Post Office

Date: 05 01 1928
Description: Madison Post Office at 215 Monona Avenue. View looking north of the front of nearly completed Post Office from across East Wilson Street, with automobiles ...
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Howard Russell and Dog Team

Date: 1920
Description: Howard Russell with dog team bringing the mail to La Pointe.
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The Old Post Office

Date: 08 01 1929
Description: The old U.S. Post Office and Federal Building at 4 East Mifflin Street, just months before it was torn down and replaced by Manchester's Department store. ...
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Madison U.S. Post Office

Date: 10 10 1944
Description: U.S. Post Office Building, 215 Monona Avenue, on the corner of East Doty Street and Monona Avenue (South Wisconsin Avenue until December 1, 1877; Martin Lu...
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U.S. Post Office Under Construction

Date: 04 01 1927
Description: U.S. Post Office under construction at 215 Monona Avenue. Scaffolding is in place as stone walls and pillars rise on the second floor, in a view of the fro...
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Bennett Studio

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Description: Bennett Studio, 200 block of Broadway, Kilbourn, Wisconsin. Post office next door.
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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.
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IH General Office Mail Room

Date: 10 29 1937
Description: Men and women working in the 5th floor mail room of International Harvester's general office building.
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Wadhams Oil Co. Float

Date: 08 28 1937
Description: Wadhams Oil Company float in the Elks Parade, with a child "driving" a Mobile Oil Flying Red Horse symbol. The float is on E. Doty Street with the Post Off...
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W.A. Devine with his Portrait

Date: 07 03 1934
Description: W.A. Devine, Madison postmaster for 24 years, with his portrait, painted by Arthur N. Colt, a Madison artist, at State Historical Society, 816 State Street...
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School Field Trip to the U.S. Post Office

Date: 03 23 1932
Description: A man is leading Dudgeon School children through the mail sorting area on their tour of the post office.
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Panoramic View of East Side of Monona Avenue

Date: 03 27 1931
Description: Panoramic elevated view of the east side of Monona Avenue (Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard,) showing Wisconsin Foundry and Machine Co. road construction e...
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Road Equipment Exhibit

Date: 01 29 1931
Description: Elevated view of Wisconsin Machine and Foundry road construction equipment, featuring a new portable rock crushing plant, on display at Road Show on Monona...
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U.S. Post Office & Courthouse Under Construction

Date: 01 15 1929
Description: Finished face brickwork at opening F-31 looking northeast.
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U.S. Post Office & Courthouse Under Construction

Date: 04 23 1927
Description: Reinforcing steel in main wall footing, East Doty Street side, looking toward corner of Monona Avenue.
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U.S. Post Office & Courthouse Under Construction

Date: 01 15 1929
Description: Exterior view of rear of finished Post Office and Courthouse, with snow on the ground.
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U.S. Post Office & Courthouse Under Construction

Date: 08 01 1928
Description: View looking north from corner of Monona Avenue and Wilson Street of front and side of the building, with workmen finishing the basement level. Automobiles...

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