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| Date: | 1972 |
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| Description: | Portrait of the postal carrier Carl Wagner on the porch of Sid's house, displaying a Life magazine in his arms, and holding a stack of mail. |
| Date: | 09 20 1920 |
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| Description: | Photograph of Alfred Lawson's telegram confirming that Otto Praeger, second assistant United States Postmaster General, had received Alfred Lawson's air ma... |
| Date: | 09 13 1920 |
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| Description: | Letter to Alfred Lawson from Otto Praeger, the second assistant Postmaster General, accepting Lawson's proposals for carrying air mail along three routes: ... |
| Date: | 06 26 1919 |
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| Description: | Map outlining Alfred Lawson's plan for airmail delivery routes across the United States, including several stops in Wisconsin. The accompanying text reads:... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | View along stream towards people standing in front of buildings and near a stone bridge. The buildings include a post office and a feed mill. Caption reads... |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | View across street towards the Ephraim Village Hall. Automobiles are parked on both sides of the street. Text on reverse reads: "A view of Ephraim's pic... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Hand-colored corner view from intersection towards the post office. A postcard display is inside the window. Caption reads: "Post Office Block, Fairchild, ... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | A rustic wooden post office in Chicago Bay. Chicago Bay, Minnesota, is now called Hovland. |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | A McCormick-Deering calendar with a pinup girl. Attached to the calendar is a label for the "Townsend Mercantile Co., Farm Implements and Hardware, Marion ... |
| Date: | 1979 |
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| Description: | A mature sycamore tree standing in front of farm buildings and a silo. There is a mailbox and fire number sign at the edge of a road in the foreground. The... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Colorized postcard street view of a central business district in a small town. The post office is on the corner on the left. Caption reads: "South Main St.... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard view of a central business location. A drugstore is on the left, and a post office is on the right. A horse and buggy and an automobi... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Black and white photographic postcard of a Neo-classical style building. There are street signs and a traffic light on the corner. Caption reads: "United S... |
| Date: | 11 08 1928 |
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| Description: | Two male mail carriers are standing with a mail delivery truck in a neighborhood. |
| Date: | 12 16 1953 |
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| Description: | People waiting in line to mail their letters, packages and parcels in the lobby of the United States Post Office on Monona Avenue. A woman is standing at t... |
| Date: | 12 16 1953 |
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| Description: | Postal employee, Harry Bunbury, receiving bundles of Christmas cards from inside the letter window at the United States Post Office on Monona Avenue. Bundl... |
| Date: | 12 16 1953 |
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| Description: | Postal worker, Del Winters, working at a pouch rack, where mail is sorted prior to going out of the city. He is in the back of the United States Post Offic... |
| Date: | 12 16 1953 |
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| Description: | Postal workers (left to right): Robert Clark, Fred Boyd, and Donald O'Leary, are loading outgoing parcels and packages at the United States Post Office on ... |
| Date: | 12 16 1953 |
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| Description: | Postal workers, John Hoyt (left) clerk in charge, and Sidney Schoyes, station examiner, are handling stamp requisitions for branch offices and drugstores a... |
| Date: | 12 16 1953 |
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| Description: | Monitoring the outgoing mail are (left to right): William C. Davis, assistant superintendent, George Gauke, superintendent, and William Vaeble. They are in... |
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