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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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O.N. Falk

Date: 1948
Description: Stoughton druggist, O.N. Falk, sorts the mail with a smile.
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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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Don's Delivery Service

Date: 08 15 1937
Description: Employees of Don's Delivery Service, Inc. near the main Post Office, with Harley Davidson motorcycles and a closed panel truck. They are parked across the ...
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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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Northwest Airways Air Mail Delivery

Date: 07 01 1933
Description: A Northwest Airways crew delivers a bag of airmail to Madison postmaster W.A. Devine. With him, posed in front of the Ford TriMotor, are pilots Elmer Wahl ...
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Sorting Christmas Mail

Date: 12 23 1955
Description: Postal workers sort parcels into bins during the Christmas holiday rush.
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Rennebohm's Drugstore #2 "Santa's Zoo" Window

Date: 11 11 1944
Description: The window of Rennebohm's Drugstore #2, 204 State Street, displaying Santa Claus and an array of stuffed animal toys, mainly Teddy bears. A sign on the dis...
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Rennebohm Display Window

Date: 11 30 1944
Description: Display window at Rennebohm Drug Store #2, 204 State Street, showing "His Gifts" and "Her Gifts" for Christmas. The sign painted on the window on the left ...
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Rennebohm Drug Store

Date: 01 14 1944
Description: Display of personal care products in the window of Rennebohm Drug Store #10, 676 State Street. Here the promotion to buy large size items seen in other Ren...
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First National Bank Mail Room

Date: 11 08 1943
Description: Four messenger girls and a man in the First National Bank mail room.
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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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CUNA Mailing Room

Date: 02 26 1936
Description: Three men in CUNA (Credit Union National Association) mailing room, Raiffeisen House, located at 142 East Gilman Street.
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Charles H. Hopkins

Date: 05 31 1935
Description: Charles H Hopkins, retiring postal employee, closing his rolltop desk for the last time. He was the superintendent of the East Side postal station, located...
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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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