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| Date: | 10 12 1944 |
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| Description: | Fred Boyle, clerk at the post office, looks overwhelmed surrounded by a mountain of Christmas parcels to be sorted for shipment overseas to men and women i... |
| Date: | 02 24 1944 |
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| Description: | Private William Huneke and Sargeant Harold Gleaves checking in a stack of mail from soldiers and sailors at the fighting fronts of the world for the United... |
| Date: | 10 12 1944 |
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| Description: | Clerk at the post office sorting Christmas parcels to be shiped overseas to men and women in service. |
| Date: | 05 11 1945 |
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| Description: | Madison Disabled American Veterans (DAV) officials, Mark R. Kilp, left, Adjutant G. Earl Heath, center, and right, Postmaster Walter J. Hyland inspect a sh... |
| Date: | 06 1946 |
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| Description: | View of the 3500 block of University Avenue, site of the Coca-Cola Bottling plant. There are trees along the road and names on mailboxes of "Middleton" and... |
| Date: | 12 06 1948 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of five seated members of the Madison branch of Letter Carriers (#508) being served a pot luck supper in their honor by seven women at the GA... |
| Date: | 11 20 1948 |
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| Description: | Men and women in line at the Madison Central Post Office, 215 Monona Avenue. |
| Date: | 12 31 1948 |
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| Description: | Joseph J. Wirka, former superintendent of mails, on the left, is shown receiving the keys to the post office from Walter J. Hyland, on the right, retiring ... |
| Date: | 12 31 1948 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Walter J. Hyland, retiring Madison postmaster, taken in his office behind a bouquet of roses presented to him by the postal clerks and supervis... |
| Date: | 12 31 1948 |
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| Description: | William R. Riley (left) turning in his mail carrier's sack and keys to Superintendent Leo Coyle of the University Avenue postal station. Riley, with the p... |
| Date: | 02 22 1949 |
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| Description: | Seated at the speakers table at the Dane County Rural Letter Carriers' meeting (left to right), are: Earl Bagley, Cambridge, treasurer; R.C. Salisbury, Mad... |
| Date: | 02 22 1949 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Grace Haugen, DeForest (left), retiring president of the Dane County Rural Letter Carriers' Association Auxiliary, talking with the new president, Mrs... |
| Date: | 02 22 1949 |
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| Description: | Vice-president Leslie Larson, McFarland, (left) and president Wilbur Johnson, Lake Mills, who were re-elected to head the Dane County Rural Letter Carriers... |
| Date: | 10 26 1949 |
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| Description: | The 15th Anniversary Banquet of the Four Lakes Auxiliary, Number 508, National Association of Letter Carriers. Pictured, left to right, are Mrs. Alexandria... |
| Date: | 12 14 1949 |
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| Description: | Henry Olson, a post office employee of nine years, was loading parcel post packages at the Madison post office this week, signalizing the start of the Chri... |
| Date: | 12 20 1949 |
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| Description: | A crowd gathers at the main post office located at 215 Monona Avenue to post their Christmas mail. |
| Date: | 12 29 1950 |
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| Description: | U.S. postman Nels A. Anderson delivers mail to a door marked "15." Anderson began delivering mail in Madison in 1912 and is the city's senior postman. |
| Date: | 10 31 1951 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the 125 vehicles which were used in Wisconsin's first civil defense support battalion test in Madison. The vehicles were parked on Monona ... |
| Date: | 02 18 1952 |
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| Description: | Nancy Wetzel, a finalist in the University of Wisconsin Prom Queen contest, is shown putting pretzels in the mail boxes at Elizabeth Waters Hall, as part o... |
| Date: | 03 24 1954 |
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| Description: | Portrait of the state convention planning committee of the National Association of Postal Supervisors which is planning a convention to be held in Madison.... |
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