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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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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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Post Office at Christmas

Date: 12 18 1947
Description: Two postal employees of the Madison post office, 215 Monona Avenue, sorting heaps of packages in carts at Christmas. Pictured from left are clerks Fred Boy...
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Post Office at Christmas

Date: 12 18 1947
Description: Elevated view of two postal employees sorting mail at the Madison post office, 215 Monona Avenue, at Christmas. Pictured are clerk Donald Memhard dumping ...
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Post Office at Christmas

Date: 12 18 1947
Description: Postal clerk Matt Morrell stacking sacked parcels on a cart at the Madison Post Office, 215 Monona Avenue, to be hauled to the railroad station during the ...
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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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Country Road

Date: 1940
Description: View down a country road leading from the outskirts of town. On the right, a horse-drawn carriage is parked outside the Post Office and F.A. Irish Grocerie...
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Post Office and Johnson's Store

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Description: View of the post office and Johnson's Store, located in a rural setting. A man carries goods in a horse-drawn wagon. Published by E. Vosseller Stationer.
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Post Office Square

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Description: View of the town center with shops, a church, and a horse and wagons.
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Main Street

Date: 1910
Description: Men walk in the street past storefronts on Main Street.
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Fremont Railroad Station

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Description: Men at a railroad station awaiting the arrival of a train in Fremont (later Pray). There is snow on the ground. Two men are standing on a hand-powered rail...
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Postal Carrier and Route Truck

Date: 1970
Description: An African-American postal carrier is standing on the sidewalk with mail in a rolling cart. He is wearing a winter postal employee uniform and a hat. Behin...
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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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East Side Postal Station to Open

Date: 04 28 1961
Description: Madison postal officials looking over mail ready for processing through the new East Side postal station. Left to right: John F. Whitmore, postmaster; Arv...
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Mailman John L. Smith

Date: 07 29 1965
Description: John L. Smith standing on a Madison sidewalk with letters in his hand and his mail cart beside him. He is featured in a newspaper article about his busy li...
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Postal Loading Dock Inside Tent

Date: 12 07 1965
Description: Two postal workers arranging mail carts full of "yule mail" inside of a large canvas tent. The men working are George DeVoe, left, a superintendent enginee...
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Madison Post Office Christmas Rush

Date: 12 16 1953
Description: Postal worker, Ray Kindschi, is pushing a load of packages on a cart at the Williamson Street warehouse for the United States Post Office. He is usually a ...

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