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Christmas Mail
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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 in service.
October 12, 1944
Vinje, Arthur M., 1888-1972 (photographer)
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Christmas Mail
October 12, 1944
Clerk at the post office sorting Christmas parcels to be shiped overseas to men and women in service.
Postal Clerk with Christmas Mail
December 21, 1944
Mrs. R.S. Briggs, postal clerk, with Christmas cards and packages.
Packing Red Cross Christmas Boxes
September 9, 1944
Lois Wiessinger, Michael Mack, and Harold Stone, state employees, filled 21,600 Christmas packages to be sent by the American Red Cross to hospitalized servicemen overseas. The photograph was taken...
Christmas Mail
December 17, 1958
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 Coliva Jr., Leonard Meyer, and C.F. Hunt,...
Post Office at Christmas
December 18, 1947
Elevated view of two postal employees sorting mail at the Madison post office, 215 Monona Avenue, at Christmas. Pictured are clerk Donald Memhard dumping letters onto the facing table where James ...
Post Office at Christmas
December 18, 1947
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 Boyd, and Harold Burchette.
