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| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Howard Russell with dog team bringing the mail to La Pointe. |
| 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: | 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: | 02 24 1944 |
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| Description: | Private William Huneke and Sargeant Harold Gleaves checking in a stack of mail from soldiers and sailors at the fighting fronts of the world for the United... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Lathrop, the town post mistress, pushing her wheelbarrow down a long wooden dock at La Pointe. She is on her way to haul merchandise for her store. |
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| Description: | A view of the post office, which has a stone foundation, horizontal siding, and a gable roof. Men and women are posing on and in front of the porch. |
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| Description: | A mailman in a horse-drawn vehicle delivers mail to the mailbox of a rural boarding house. |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard down road toward a building on the right. Signs indicate that the Post Office and Fire Marshall can be found within. Two automobiles ... |
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| Description: | View of the town center with shops, a church, and a horse and wagons. |
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| Description: | View of Central Town Square featuring a post office, stores, a park, and a church. Published by R.W. Emerson. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Two men sit at the reins of a horse-drawn United States mail sleigh which ran from Sturgeon Bay to Egg Harbor. Another man is kneeling inside the sleigh ne... |
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| Description: | View of the post office, a small shingled house exterior. |
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| Description: | View of a residential town street featuring a post office, general store, and gas pump. |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | A Farmall A tractor that has been fitted with a homemade cab delivering mail to a farm. The cab on top of the tractor has a decal on the side that reads: "... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of Rural Route No. 3 in Fall Creek, Wisconsin, with a woman in front of a house retrieving mail from a mailbox and a horse-drawn U.S. R.F.D. ma... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the Post Office in Arkansaw, Wisconsin, with a uniformed man on horseback blowing a trumpet with a U.S. Mail banner streaming out of it. The ... |
| Date: | 02 1925 |
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| Description: | Four men with their collars turned up against the cold stand beside the Fayette Tourists Lodge. The Fayette post office was housed in the building. On the ... |
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| Description: | View from street of the Hotel Lewis and other buildings on along the left. The hotel has a large front porch, with men relaxing in rocking chairs. A mail c... |
| Date: | 09 04 1962 |
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| Description: | Three-quarter view from front of driver's side of an International Scout parked by mailbox. A man in the driver's seat is putting a letter into the mailbox... |
| Date: | 12 07 1965 |
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| 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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