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| Date: | 1917 |
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| 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. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Howard Russell with dog team bringing the mail to La Pointe. |
| Date: | 06 27 1912 |
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| Description: | Suffragist Mrs. Katherine McCullough speaking to a gathering in front of the store and post office run by Mrs. W. Bunda in Sister Bay. |
| Date: | 08 1919 |
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| Description: | View down long line of workers from the United States Postal Service demonstrating for an increase in salary to meet war-time cost of living increases. |
| Date: | 11 22 1927 |
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| Description: | Souvenir envelope mailed by John A. Lester on the flight that inaugurated air mail service between Madison and Minneapolis in 1927. Madison's first incomin... |
| Date: | 10 19 1911 |
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| Description: | Pilot Hugh Robinson and his Curtiss hydroplane at Prairie du Chien during a flight that was intended to be the first all the way down the Mississippi River... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | The completed Lawson L-4, the second and larger airplane designed and built by Alfred Lawson in Milwaukee in 1920. Not only was Lawson's airliner intended ... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Commercial pilot Dave Behnke, who later headed Airline Pilots Association, signing for a load of airmail. After service as a pilot during World War I, Behn... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Map of Dane County rural delivery in Madison and the town of Westport. |
| Date: | 09 1912 |
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| Description: | The first airmail shipment from Cicero Field to Wheaton and Elmhurst, Illinois. Postmaster MacDonald of Cicero is swearing-in pilots Max Lillie, Paul Stude... |
| Date: | 04 14 1948 |
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| Description: | View across railroad tracks of cart loads of mail sacks on the platform, awaiting the arrival of the next train. The four men standing on the left have bee... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | View across street towards the Post Office. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | John Lloyd Jones standing between his house and the post office shed. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | View of three buildings; a store, hotel and post office. A group of men are gathered on the porch at the post office. |
| Date: | 12 22 1972 |
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| Description: | Senator William Proxmire walked thousands of miles in Wisconsin to meet constituents. Here he is, in a snowmobile suit, shaking hands with a woman outside ... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Caption reads: "Looking West on Main Ave." View down center of commercial area, with automobiles moving down the street, and parked along the curbs. A U.S.... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Exterior of Post Office. Caption reads: "Post Office, Fond du Lac, Wis." |
| Date: | 05 29 1948 |
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| Description: | The 100th Anniversary of Wisconsin Statehood envelope on the first day it was issued on May 29, 1948. It is addressed to Governor Oscar Rennebohm, State of... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View down a business-lined street in Hub City. Caption reads: "This is Hub City as it looked in 1910. On the right, looking north, is the store, hotel, and... |
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