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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. |
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| Description: | Bennett Studio, 200 block of Broadway, Kilbourn, Wisconsin. Post office next door. |
| Date: | 07 11 1981 |
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| Description: | A male mail carrier taking a break sitting in a mailbox on the sidewalk in a neighborhood. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| 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... |
| 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: | 10 12 1944 |
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| Description: | Fred Boyle, clerk at the post office, looks overwhelmed surrounded by a mountain of Christmas parcels to be sorted for shipment overseas to men and women i... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| 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. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Commercial pilot Dave Behnke, who later headed Airline Pilots Association, signing for a load of airmail. After service as a pilot during World War I, Behn... |
| 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: | 11 08 1943 |
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| Description: | Four messenger girls and a man in the First National Bank mail room. |
| 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: | 08 01 1928 |
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| Description: | View looking north from corner of Monona Avenue and Wilson Street of front and side of the building, with workmen finishing the basement level. Automobiles... |
| Date: | 01 02 1929 |
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| Description: | Interior view of first floor lobby with construction debris and some tile work completed on the floor. In the background a man is standing on a ladder near... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | View across street towards the Post Office. |
| Date: | 08 31 1955 |
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| Description: | Postal clerks Stanley A. Kolenda, William G. Spencer, and Nathan C. Hillmer sorting mail at the Madison Post Office. |
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