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600 Block of State Street

Date: 06 1967
Description: Composite panoramic view of the south side of the 100 block of State Street. Businesses include: Brathaus, The Perfume Shop, Lou's Tobacco Bar, Pattie Wago...
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Wisconsin Postmasters' Management Conference

Date: 02 28 1960
Description: Key participants in the Wisconsin Postmaster's Management Conference are shown, left to right: Harold Van Buren (Hartland postmaster and secretary-treasure...
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Senator William Proxmire Talks at Postal Wage Rally

Date: 03 13 1960
Description: Senator William Proxmire stands at a podium to address an overflow crowd of about 600 federal employees in the second congressional district at the wage in...
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Postal Clerks Local 241 January Christmas Party

Date: 01 08 1961
Description: Cecelia and Ken Miller and Dorothy and John Switzky share a moment of laughter.
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Postal Clerks Local 241 January Christmas Party

Date: 01 08 1961
Description: Local 241 president Al Schmook and Dorothy Schmook and Mrs. and Mr. James McDaniel waiting for other guests to arrive.
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Postal Clerks Local 241 January Christmas Party

Date: 01 08 1961
Description: Betty and Nate Hillmer and Joseph and Rosemary Haas stop for the camera. About 85 Post office workers and their wives attended the Christmas party.
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East Side Postal Station to Open

Date: 04 28 1961
Description: Madison postal officials looking over mail ready for processing through the new East Side postal station. Left to right: John F. Whitmore, postmaster; Arv...
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Postal Service Retirees

Date: 07 18 1961
Description: Dell Winters (left) presents gifts from fellow Post Office Department employees to three who are retiring. Retirees include, left to right: John McCullough...
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Mailman John L. Smith

Date: 07 29 1965
Description: John L. Smith standing on a Madison sidewalk with letters in his hand and his mail cart beside him. He is featured in a newspaper article about his busy li...
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Postal Loading Dock Inside Tent

Date: 12 07 1965
Description: Two postal workers arranging mail carts full of "yule mail" inside of a large canvas tent. The men working are George DeVoe, left, a superintendent enginee...
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Federal Post Office Workers Celebrate

Date: 07 01 1960
Description: A group of six smiling postal workers are listening as Floyd Switzky, center, reads the news that Congress voted to override President Eisenhower's veto of...

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