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With a Carload of Love…

Letters from Wallie illustrates a beautiful courtship, romance and marriage with wife Mabel via mail by rail from Wausau to Milwaukee in 1930s Wisconsin before and during the Great Depression.

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Growing Up Nancy

August 27, 2018September 19, 2018 ~ Krista Polansky

Nancy (Polzin) Dallmann Leffel - Milwaukee, WI Nancy - Nancy Leigh Dawn Polzin (1931-2018)

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Walter Carl Polzin - Milwaukee, WI
Walter Carl Polzin – Milwaukee, WI

Walter Carl Polzin (1901-1983) was born and raised as the youngest of three sons born to German immigrants Otto F. W. and Albertina (Fischer) Polzin in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. After a brief stint with Milwaukee Road, he attended the Walton School of Commerce in Chicago and worked as a field auditor in public accounting involving a considerable amount of travel for the firm Mollerus & Heuel throughout the state of Wisconsin. He would later work locally for the next 38 years as a cost accountant for Milwaukee Stamping Co. after marrying the love of his life and the birth of their only child, a daughter, Nancy Leigh Dawn.

On the Victrola

“Snap-Crackle-Pop!” - [Music] Explore the soundtrack of life via the collection of 78s on the Victrola.

Snapshots

"Wallie & Mabel" Mabel & Wallie - Walter "Wallie" & Mabel (Schrader) Polzin through the years

In Her Own Words: A Memoir

“The Story of My Life as I Remember It” - The first home I remember was at 218 North 4th Avenue in the city of Wausau. When I was a baby my parents had lived in an upper flat on North 3rd Avenue but I do not remember living there. My father delivered groceries with horse and wagon for a grocery store called “Cash Trading … Continue reading “The Story of My Life as I Remember It”

Consignment of first class dead letter mail. Library of Congress: Benj. Morse, 1925.
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