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| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | A man is posing with his left hand resting on the trunk of the General Grant Giant Elm, S.E. of intersection of Green Bay and Good Hope Roads. At site of P... |
| 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: | 08 15 1937 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Silverford's A.I.D. Pharmacy, with proprietor, assistant, customer and mailman standing among numerous retail displays and a McCormick-Deering "four in lin... |
| Date: | 07 05 1933 |
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| Description: | Two workmen use a McCormick-Deering I-12 industrial tractor to a pull Boeing U.S. mail and express airplane from a Municipal Airport hangar during the Amer... |
| Date: | 07 01 1933 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 10 29 1937 |
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| Description: | Men and women working in the 5th floor mail room of International Harvester's general office building. |
| Date: | 08 28 1937 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 02 26 1936 |
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| Description: | Three men in CUNA (Credit Union National Association) mailing room, Raiffeisen House, located at 142 East Gilman Street. |
| Date: | 05 31 1935 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 07 03 1934 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 03 23 1932 |
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| Description: | A man is leading Dudgeon School children through the mail sorting area on their tour of the post office. |
| Date: | 03 27 1931 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 01 29 1931 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | View of post office. There is a wire fence in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Exterior view across street toward the Courthouse and Post Office. Caption reads: "U.S. Courthouse and Post Office, Superior, Wis." |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | View up Main Street, with houses up on a hill on the left above a stone wall that runs along the sidewalk. On the right is a sign that reads: "Maiden R[ock... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Post Office and insurance buildings (on right), at Monona Avenue and East Wilson Street. The Wisconsin State Capitol is in the background. Two children are... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | The tower of the building is on the right, with flag poles at various peaks on the roof. On the right across the street is a building with classical style ... |
| Date: | 04 23 1937 |
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| Description: | A postman handing an envelope to a woman sitting behind a desk in an office. The woman is wearing a headset, perhaps for a telephone. |
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