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| Date: | 02 06 1954 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Alfred Plaenert, a candidate for Madison postmaster general. |
| Date: | 02 13 1954 |
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| Description: | Part of the group of eighty-two Madison mail clerks and carriers write their promotional exam to qualify for supervisory jobs. Standing are V.K. Peterman (... |
| Date: | 12 29 1950 |
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| Description: | U.S. postman Nels A. Anderson delivers mail to a door marked "15." Anderson began delivering mail in Madison in 1912 and is the city's senior postman. |
| Date: | 08 1955 |
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| Description: | Harriet Irwin, a high school graduating senior, opening her invitation to the tea sponsored by the Madison Alumnae Panhellenic Council. |
| Date: | 04 14 1959 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 08 31 1955 |
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| Description: | Postal clerks Stanley A. Kolenda, William G. Spencer, and Nathan C. Hillmer sorting mail at the Madison Post Office. |
| Date: | 12 15 1958 |
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| Description: | Esther Haack (seated left) sells a page of Christmas seals to Leone Wagner at the post office. The Madison Tuberculosis Association sells about $150 worth ... |
| Date: | 03 24 1954 |
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| Description: | Portrait of the state convention planning committee of the National Association of Postal Supervisors which is planning a convention to be held in Madison.... |
| Date: | 12 23 1955 |
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| Description: | Postal workers sort parcels into bins during the Christmas holiday rush. |
| Date: | 10 31 1951 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the 125 vehicles which were used in Wisconsin's first civil defense support battalion test in Madison. The vehicles were parked on Monona ... |
| Date: | 12 04 1959 |
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| Description: | Acting Postmaster for Madison, John F. Whitmore (right), receives a certificate of appointment from Adolph Knudson (left), postal department field services... |
| Date: | 09 16 1957 |
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| Description: | Madison Post Office employees John T. McCullough, left, (4607 Tonyawatha Trail) and Robert Kurth (334 Glenway Street), look over unstamped, misaddressed, o... |
| Date: | 06 24 1958 |
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| Description: | A convention of the state auxiliary of the National Association of Postal Supervisors met in Madison at the Simon House. Wives of state postal supervisors ... |
| Date: | 12 16 1953 |
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| Description: | Postal workers, George Mader, Jr. (left) and Russell Anderson, are standing on the back of a truck and unloading a small part of a day's incoming (to Madis... |
| Date: | 06 24 1958 |
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| Description: | A convention of the state auxiliary of the National Association of Postal Supervisors met in Madison at the Simon House. Elected president of the group is ... |
| Date: | 06 24 1958 |
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| Description: | A convention of the state auxiliary of the National Association of Postal Supervisors met in Madison at the Simon House. Pictured at center is Edith Cooper... |
| Date: | 06 24 1958 |
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| Description: | A convention of the state auxiliary of the National Association of Postal Supervisors met in Madison at the Simon House. Children and wives of postal super... |
| Date: | 12 16 1953 |
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| Description: | Postal workers (left to right): Robert Clark, Fred Boyd, and Donald O'Leary, are loading outgoing parcels and packages at the United States Post Office on ... |
| Date: | 12 16 1953 |
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| Description: | Postal worker, Paul McConnell, loading packages onto his mail truck for delivery. He is handling different sized boxes stacked on the lowered gate of his o... |
| Date: | 12 16 1953 |
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| Description: | Postal workers, John Hoyt (left) clerk in charge, and Sidney Schoyes, station examiner, are handling stamp requisitions for branch offices and drugstores a... |
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