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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: | 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: | 01 15 1929 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of rear of finished Post Office and Courthouse, with snow on the ground. |
| Date: | 04 01 1927 |
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| Description: | Ground being prepared for the construction of the U.S. Post Office, 215 Monona Avenue, showing Beaver Building (National Mutual Benefit Insurance), 119 Mon... |
| Date: | 12 22 1972 |
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| Description: | Senator William Proxmire walked thousands of miles in Wisconsin to meet constituents. Here he is, in a snowmobile suit, shaking hands with a woman outside ... |
| Date: | 12 1918 |
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| Description: | Post Office advertising the sale of War Savings Stamps. A sign above the entrance reads: "Do Your Christmas Shopping Here." Snow is on the ground. |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | View down unpaved street with snow along the curbs. The Post office is the first building on the left. Other buildings are occupied by a doctor's office, s... |
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| Description: | View of a horse-drawn sleigh used as a mail and passenger stage between Tanana and Fairbanks. Writing on sleigh reads: "Tanana-Fairbanks Stage" Caption rea... |
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| Description: | A stagecoach full of people is outside the post office on snow-covered ground, waiting to leave town. Text on image reads: "Stage, Leaving Arbor Vitae, Wis... |
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| Description: | Man delivering mail in winter using a sled pulled by two horses. |
| 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... |
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| Description: | View of a mail carrier using skis and a walking stick to navigate the snow of Mount Tab. The man carries a backpack and a dog sits at his feet. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Holiday card given by a mail carrier to a patron. An old fashioned horse-drawn buggy is paused at a mailbox on a rural road. This image is within a wreath ... |
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| Description: | A snow-covered street with several horses standing at the curb. Groups of people pose on the porches of the hotel and the post office. |
| 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: | 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... |
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| Description: | View of a horse-drawn stagecoach of the Chitina and Fairbanks Stage Line. Published by E.A. Hegg. |
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| Description: | Side view of a horse-drawn sleigh used as a mail and passenger stage between Tanana and Fairbanks. |
| Date: | 02 06 1908 |
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| Description: | The horse-drawn mail delivery sleigh used by Franklin Herrling. |
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