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International Scout Parked Near Mailbox

Date: 09 04 1962
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...
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Scout Mail Truck

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Description: A United States Postal worker is loading mail in the back of aInternational Scouts, parked outside a post office. It is snowing and several other cars are...
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Scout Mail Truck

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Description: A three-quarter view of a International scout postal truck. A mail carrier is reaching out the left-hand window and placing mail in a mail box.
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Federal Post Office Workers Celebrate

Date: 07 01 1960
Description: A group of six smiling postal workers are listening as Floyd Switzky, center, reads the news that Congress voted to override President Eisenhower's veto of...
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Madison Residents Await Income Tax Return Help at Internal Revenue Service Office

Date: 04 14 1959
Description: Madison residents receive help completing their income tax returns at the Internal Revenue Service office located at the U.S. Post Office Building, 215 Mon...
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Mailing Letters from a Car

Date: 01 20 1959
Description: A driver mailing letters into a roadside mailbox from a car at the corner of Monona Avenue and Doty Street. The photograph was taken with a long-lens camer...
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Mailing Letters from a Car

Date: 01 20 1959
Description: A driver mails a letter in a roadside mailbox from a car on the corner of Monona Avenue and Doty Street. The photograph was taken with a long-lens camera.
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Mailing Letters from a Car

Date: 01 20 1959
Description: A man using two hands to deposit letters in a roadside mailbox from a truck on the corner of Monona Avenue and Doty Street. The photograph was taken with a...
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Post Office Telephone Operator

Date: 12 31 1958
Description: Mrs. Mary Snell who has been the post office telephone operator for almost 19 years. She answers complaints, refers calls, and gives information for hundre...
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Post Office and Store

Date: 1940
Description: Text on front reads: "Post Office and Store, Winnebago, Wis." A corner store and post office with three gas pumps, surrounded by trees. A man leans on his ...
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Post Office Block

Date: 02 23 1907
Description: Text on front reads: "Post Office Building, Whitehall, Wis." Known as the "Post Office Block," the building was constructed in 1898 by postmaster Christoph...
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Entrance to Forest Lodge

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Description: Snow covered driveway into Forest Lodge through two stone gate posts. A mailbox with "Forest Lodge" printed on it stands near the road. Snow covered trees...
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Main Street

Date: 1907
Description: Text on front reads: "Main-Street. Wausaukee-Wis." An unpaved street lined with buildings and storefronts. A Post Office, hardware store and furniture stor...
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Post Office Building

Date: 1909
Description: Text on front reads: "The Post Office Building, Wausau, Wisconsin." Built of brick and stone, all of the windows have striped awnings and there is an ornat...
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Post Office

Date: 11 17 1941
Description: Text on front reads: "Post Office, Waukesha, Wis." Built in 1913 of Bedford Limestone in the Neoclassical style. It has an impressive portico, supported by...
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Merle Patton and Dr. H.T. Sondergaard

Date: 1937
Description: Two men ---- one in a mailman's uniform ----- standing on either side of an oversized special pass to a screening of the film "The Life of Emile Zola" star...
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Post Office

Date: 1907
Description: Text on front reads: "Post Office, Thiensville, Wis." The first Post Office in the community was located in a cabin in 1840. Many of the next Post Offices ...
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New Commemorative Stamp Issued

Date: 05 29 1958
Description: George and Sara Johnson holding a strip of 3 cent Gunston Hall commemorative stamps featuring the home built in 1758 for George Mason. He was the author of...
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Post Office

Date: 09 04 1929
Description: Text on front reads: "Post Office, Stevens Point, Wis." Exterior of the stone building constructed in the classical revival style, built in 1919. Stairs le...
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U.S. Post Office

Date: 1940
Description: Text on front reads: "U.S. Post Office, Stevens Point, Wis." Exterior view from street of the Post Office on a street corner, built in 1919. Women and chil...

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