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| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Holiday card given by a mail carrier to a patron. An old fashioned horse-drawn buggy is paused at a mailbox on a rural road. This image is within a wreath ... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Holiday card with a 10¢ War Stamp Album glued inside. The front of the card shows Uncle Sam's large shoe kicking Hitler, Mussolini and Hirohito into space.... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | View down Main Street. Osward's restaurant is on the far left. The post office and a plumbing shop are on the right. |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | View down Main Street looking west. On these blocks there is a restaurant, rug store, post office, and Farmers State Bank. Automobiles are parked on both s... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | View across street of a group of employees, all men, posing outside their cafe. The cafe advertises Kennedy Dairy Company brand ice cream, Coca-Cola produc... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | A wooden chest with a sign "[illegible] Cement Work" stands on West Dayton Street near its intersection with Wisconsin Avenue. There is a bucket nearby, an... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | A street scene at the post office. The post office houses J.E. James Childs Cabinets. One man stands at the doorpost and three men sit on makeshift seats o... |
| Date: | 06 1967 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | A hotel, barbershop [?], and post office. The hotel has a roofed porch and chairs. A man stands under the awning of the barbershop, and another man leans a... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | A group of men stand outside of the post office. There is a parked car at the curb. A building is being demolished and there is a pile of rubble in the str... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the International Harvester Company Knoxville branch. A sign advertising P&O plows hangs from a covered porch along the side of the build... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | A man and his two children pose at the corner near the post office. |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | View of row of shops taken from the intersection. A public telephone station, post office, and a barbershop are on the street. Employees and pedestrians po... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | View down dirt street. Two women and three children pose at the intersection. Farther down the street is a post office. There is a bridge at the end of the... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Exterior of the post office. On the sidewalk, a man and woman stand and three men sit on the steps. A black car is parked at the curb. A hand-powered pump ... |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of front of Post Office. |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | The exterior of the post office and hotel. A group of boys and men pose at the front of the post office. Another man leans on the side of a wagon. A young ... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | This map shows parcel zones, counties, electric lines, and railroads. Includes text and charts about parcel post regulations and laws. Also includes an ins... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Two men sit at the reins of a horse-drawn United States mail sleigh which ran from Sturgeon Bay to Egg Harbor. Another man is kneeling inside the sleigh ne... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | View from road of the exterior of the Lee and Company General Store/post office. A young man stands on the porch; two girls walk on the sidewalk, and a man... |
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