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| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Main Street with the Post Office and the Hotel Racine. Caption reads: "Main Street, showing Post Office and Hotel Racine, Racine, Wis." |
| Date: | 1868 |
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| Description: | Elevated view up Wisconsin Avenue showing City Hall on the corner at Mifflin Street on the left, with the Post Office to the right. Further down is the Pre... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Milwaukee's first mail truck, here referred to as an "auto car." The date comes from a similar postcard that is postmarked. Caption reads: "Auto Car in Ma... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Shows railway lines in Wisconsin marked in red and counties in colors. The meridians are Greenwich, Wisconsin and Washington, Wisconsin. The map folds into... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Two buildings: a post ofice and a livery stable/feed store. A man is exiting the post office. Sign on livery stable reads: "Livery Feed and Sale Stable." C... |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | View across street towards the Columbia County Court House and Post Office. Caption reads: "Court House and Post Office at Portage, Wis." |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Milwaukee Post Office. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | View from street towards the Post Office and bank. An advertisement for a hardware store is on the side of the building on the left. Caption reads: "Post O... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Post Office. The first post office in Oshkosh was established in the 1840s, and the postmaster was Joseph Jackson. Caption reads: "Pos... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View across street towards the post office. The first post office in Oshkosh was established in the 1840s, and the postmaster was Joseph Jackson. Caption r... |
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| Description: | Exterior view from street towards the post office. The first post office in Oshkosh was established in the 1840s, and the postmaster was Joseph Jackson. Ca... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Post Office and insurance buildings (on right), at Monona Avenue and East Wilson Street. The Wisconsin State Capitol is in the background. Two children are... |
| 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: | 1995 |
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| Description: | Destruction of the old post office building. |
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| Description: | View of a horse-drawn sleigh used as a mail and passenger stage between Tanana and Fairbanks. Writing on sleigh reads: "Tanana-Fairbanks Stage" Caption rea... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Postmistress Mrs. Lathrop poses next to Harold Russell's airplane. This plane was the first to land on Madeline Island. |
| Date: | 08 31 1910 |
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| Description: | Looking northwest on Fond du Lac Avenue from W. Walnut Street. In the center is a building with awning that reads: "1220 Zautcke Bros." Streetcars, pedestr... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Lathrop, the town post mistress, pushing her wheelbarrow down a long wooden dock at La Pointe. She is on her way to haul merchandise for her store. |
| Date: | 11 24 1924 |
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| Description: | A mail carrier pauses outside the back door to an International truck dealership or branch house. A sign above the door advertises "repairs" on the second ... |
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