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Howard Russell and Dog Team

Date: 1920
Description: Howard Russell with dog team bringing the mail to La Pointe.
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Dog Drawn Traino

Date: 1930
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.
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Mailman

Date: 07 11 1981
Description: A male mail carrier taking a break sitting in a mailbox on the sidewalk in a neighborhood.
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Mail Carrier

Date: 1905
Description: Carte-de-visite of a mailman dressed in his full uniform gazing at a piece of mail he is holding in his hands. He is carrying his mail pouch over his shoul...
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Winter Mail Delivery

Date: 02 15 1987
Description: A woman mail carrier pushes her cart with a full mailbag along a sidewalk edged by snowy lawns.
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Mail Delivery at the Dock

Date: 1921
Description: A woman and her dog meet the mail carrier in his delivery boat at the end of a pier on the west shore of Fox Lake.
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Postman Michael P. Adler

Date: 1910
Description: Full-length studio portrait of mail carrier Michael P. Adler, with his mailbag, an armful of mail, and a parcel. He is standing in front of a painted backd...
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Madison United States Mail Carriers

Date: 12 07 1944
Description: Fifteen Madison U.S. Mail carriers standing on the front steps of the Madison U.S. Post Office. Lower row left to right: Martin T. Digney, Thomas M. Carey,...
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WIBA Christmas Mail

Date: 12 17 1947
Description: Mailman delivering Christmas letters and packages to a man at NBC - WIBA radio station.
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Officers of the Dane County Rural Letter Carriers Organization

Date: 02 22 1948
Description: Five officers of the Dane County Rural Letter Carriers organization at their annual meeting.
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Retiring Mail Carrier, Mike Cawley

Date: 05 01 1948
Description: Retiring mail carrier, Mike Cawley, accepting an envelope containing a token of appreciation from Myrtle L. Hansen, clerk of circuit court at the Dane Coun...
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Letter Carriers Christmas Pot Luck Supper

Date: 12 06 1948
Description: Elevated view of five seated members of the Madison branch of Letter Carriers (#508) being served a pot luck supper in their honor by seven women at the GA...
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Willian R. Riley

Date: 12 31 1948
Description: William R. Riley (left) turning in his mail carrier's sack and keys to Superintendent Leo Coyle of the University Avenue postal station. Riley, with the p...
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Dane County Rural Letter Carriers' Meeting

Date: 02 22 1949
Description: Seated at the speakers table at the Dane County Rural Letter Carriers' meeting (left to right), are: Earl Bagley, Cambridge, treasurer; R.C. Salisbury, Mad...
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Dane County Rural Letter Carriers' Association Officers

Date: 02 22 1949
Description: Vice-president Leslie Larson, McFarland, (left) and president Wilbur Johnson, Lake Mills, who were re-elected to head the Dane County Rural Letter Carriers...
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Mailman George A. Perkins

Date: 03 10 1949
Description: Mailman George A. Perkins receiving a purse containing 25 silver dollars from Marshall Browne, publisher of the East Side News, on the 25th anniversary of ...
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Montello Rural Mail Carriers

Date: 1903
Description: Three rural mail carriers pose with their horses and buggies in front of the Montello Post Office. Postmaster (Dr.) Edward A. Bass stands in the backgroun...
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Postman Delivering Mail

Date: 04 23 1937
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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Nels A. Anderson, Madison Postman

Date: 12 29 1950
Description: U.S. postman Nels A. Anderson delivers mail to a door marked "15." Anderson began delivering mail in Madison in 1912 and is the city's senior postman.
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Rural Mail

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Description: Man delivering mail in winter using a sled pulled by two horses.

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