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J. Robert Taylor Christmas Card

Date: 1914
Description: A Christmas card with oval family portraits of (from top left clockwise) Alma Reinhardt-Taylor, Ellen Taylor-Higgins, Donna Taylor-Adams, Fred Taylor, and ...
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Frank and Delia King's Christmas Card

Date: 1939
Description: A Christmas card in the form of a stained glass window featuring Delia and Frank King as Mary and Joseph. The card reads, "Merry Christmas and Happy New Ye...
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Robert "Bob" Mahnke Celebrates Eightieth Birthday

Date: 03 17 1951
Description: Robert "Bob" Mahnke of 1155 Williamson Street admires a special birthday card signed by 127 of his fellow employees at the Gisholt Machine Company, where h...
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Front Street Greeting Card

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Description: Christmas greeting card or postcard with view of Front Street. Business signs read: "First National Bank," "John Wernecke Merchant Tailor," "Moore's," "Sal...
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Mail Early for Christmas

Date: 12 04 1958
Description: Wisconsin State Journal Editor Roy L. Matson buys stamps from Charles Smythe, wholesale stamp clerk, while Postmaster John F. Whitmore waits his turn. They...
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Christmas Mail

Date: 12 17 1958
Description: Postal workers deal with a shipment of Christmas mail that was "arriving by the roomful and the ton." Workers are, left to right: William Borjinkhof, John...
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Billboard Christmas Greeting

Date: 12 19 1958
Description: Employees at the Madison division of the Borden Company arrange for a billboard to deliver Christmas greetings to their general manager, Henry A. Soldwedel...
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Happy Days!

Date: 1944
Description: A photograghic card created by Robert Doyle to wish friends and family "Iamu Mwasawa!" A smiling, quarter-length portrait of Robert Doyle in uniform appear...
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Madison Post Office Christmas Rush

Date: 12 16 1953
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...
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Madison Post Office Christmas Rush

Date: 12 16 1953
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...
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Madison Post Office Christmas Rush

Date: 12 16 1953
Description: Postal worker, Eugene Hathaway, emptying a mail bag of letters onto a table for sorting crews at the United States Post Office on Monona Avenue.
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Madison Post Office Christmas Rush

Date: 12 16 1953
Description: Postal workers, George Mader, Jr. (left) and Russell Anderson, are standing on the back of a truck and unloading a small part of a day's incoming (to Madis...

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