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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. |
| 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: | 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: | 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: | 1903 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Mail man driving an International Model M U.S. Mail truck that was part of the Rural Free Delivery service. The truck was equipped with tire chains to driv... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | A man stands in the back of a horse-drawn Weber wagon to deliver mail to rural resident, possibly a farmer, standing by mailbox. |
| Date: | 02 1915 |
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| Description: | A mail carrier on horseback is approaching a stranded horse-drawn carriage along a stretch of poor quality rural road. Farmhouses and farm buildings are on... |
| 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... |
| 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: "... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Farmall A tractor fitted with a homemade, wooden cab for the purposes of delivering mail, parked in front of a post office. A car is also parked in front o... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Francis Shirbroun delivers mail to a mailbox in a Farmall A tractor that has been fitted with a homemade cab for delivering mail. The cab has a "FARMALL" d... |
| Date: | 02 03 1978 |
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| Description: | Winter scene with mail carrier in car putting mail in a mailbox. "Ralph Koll, Rural Mail Carrier. Somewhere in this monstrous snow drift is Helen Moldenha... |
| Date: | 02 06 1908 |
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| Description: | The horse-drawn mail delivery sleigh used by Franklin Herrling. |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| 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... |
| 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: | 1971 |
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| Description: | Four black and white images of a man using a Scout II to deliver mail to a mailbox. Note that steering wheel is on the right side. |
| Date: | 07 29 1965 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1972 |
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| Description: | Portrait of the postal carrier Carl Wagner on the porch of Sid's house, displaying a Life magazine in his arms, and holding a stack of mail. |
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