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| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Howard Russell with dog team bringing the mail to La Pointe. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Howard Russell standing next to his dog team pulling the "Traino." Russell and the team are ready to leave Madeline Island with the U.S. Mail. |
| Date: | 02 15 1987 |
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| Description: | A woman mail carrier pushes her cart with a full mailbag along a sidewalk edged by snowy lawns. |
| Date: | 01 15 1929 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of rear of finished Post Office and Courthouse, with snow on the ground. |
| Date: | 04 01 1927 |
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| Description: | Ground being prepared for the construction of the U.S. Post Office, 215 Monona Avenue, showing Beaver Building (National Mutual Benefit Insurance), 119 Mon... |
| 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: | 12 1918 |
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| Description: | Post Office advertising the sale of War Savings Stamps. A sign above the entrance reads: "Do Your Christmas Shopping Here." Snow is on the ground. |
| 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: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Mail man driving an International Model M U.S. Mail truck that was part of the Rural Free Delivery service. The truck was equipped with tire chains to driv... |
| 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: | 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: | 02 03 1978 |
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| Description: | Winter scene with mail carrier in car putting mail in a mailbox. "Ralph Koll, Rural Mail Carrier. Somewhere in this monstrous snow drift is Helen Moldenha... |
| Date: | 02 06 1908 |
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| Description: | The horse-drawn mail delivery sleigh used by Franklin Herrling. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Six people standing on the porch of L.J. Ryan Dry Goods and Groceries. A sign above the door says: Post Office North Andover." A team of two horses are pul... |
| Date: | 02 1925 |
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| Description: | Four men with their collars turned up against the cold stand beside the Fayette Tourists Lodge. The Fayette post office was housed in the building. On the ... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Winter scene with Chester Thordarson (left) and Bill Jepson standing next to a vehicle with skis attached to the front, and three crawler wheels in the bac... |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | An African-American postal carrier is standing on the sidewalk with mail in a rolling cart. He is wearing a winter postal employee uniform and a hat. Behin... |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | Winter scene with Joseph Langenbach sitting in a horse-drawn cutter (sleigh) at the end of the snowy driveway. In the background is a fence and a U.S. Mail... |
| Date: | 03 1955 |
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| Description: | Four mailboxes and a tree are silhouetted against the sky with low clouds on South River Road. |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | A mailman is trudging through the snow with his loaded mailbag. A city street and buildings are barely visible through the snow. |
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