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Van Camp Packing Co.

Date: 1912
Description: View of the Van Camp Packing Company. People, including a horse-drawn vehicle are on a driveway on a hill near the side of the factory. Caption reads: "Van...
Photograph

Van Alstine Exchange

Date: 1860
Description: Slightly elevated view of The Van Alstine Exchange, an early hotel in Watertown.
Postcard

3rd Street

Date: 1900
Description: Elevated view of 3rd Street. Caption reads: "Market Day, 3rd Street Looking South from Main St."
Drawing

Octagon House

Date: 1885
Description: Drawing of the Octagon House with a horse and carriage in the foreground.
Photograph

Octagon House

Date: 1870
Description: Exterior view of the Richards' Octagon House, with a horse and carriage and various people posed in front of it. Caption reads: "Octagon House Watertown Wi...
Photograph

Octagon House

Date: 1870
Description: Exterior view of the Octagon House with a horse and carriage posed in the foreground and several people around it and on its porches. Caption reads: "Octag...
Postcard

Cady Street

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Description: Horse-drawn vehicles and pedestrians are in the street. Caption reads: "Cady Street. Watertown, Wisconsin.
Photograph

Military Parade

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Description: A small crowd watches as parading soldiers march down the street.
Photograph

The Carl Schurz House

Date: 1905
Description: Exterior view of the Carl Schurz home in Watertown, Wisconsin. Schurz was a German-American politician and statesman. There is a horse and a horse-drawn ve...
Photograph

Couple in Horse-Drawn Sleigh

Date: 1913
Description: Winter scene of couple in horse-drawn sleigh on residential street.
Photograph

Third and Main Street Scene

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Description: View from Third and Main Street of storefronts. There is signage for the Tetzlaff and Co. Building Materials above a pile of bricks in a sideyard near the ...
Photograph

North First Street Livery

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Description: Jacob Jossi building with man sitting on horse-drawn wagon in open doorway. A buggy is parked in front of G.W. Evans Livery. The steeple of a church buildi...
Photograph

Horse-Drawn Parade Carriage

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Description: Horse-drawn carriage elaborately decorated with flowers appears to be stopped off parade route. The carriage is carrying four women wearing formal dresses ...
Photograph

High School

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Description: View across street toward the facade and right side of a high school building. A postman walks along the sidewalk in front, and nearby a man sits in his ho...
Photograph

Chapman Street

Date: 1900
Description: A view of tree-lined Chapman Street. Houses with broad lawn are behind tree on the left, and two carriages can be seen farther down the road.
Photograph

Main Street

Date: 1900
Description: View from bridge towards businesses on Main Street. Pedestrians are walking along the wide sidewalks. Horse-drawn carriages and streetcars share the road o...
Photograph

Hotel

Date: 1900
Description: View across intersection toward a hotel on the corner. Two doors are on the left facade; the one at the left corner enters into a buffet. The door in the m...
Photograph

North Washington Street

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Description: View down North Washington Street, a residential area. Two girls are running on the terrace toward a man sitting in a horse-drawn carriage.
Photograph

Main Street

Date: 06 1900
Description: View down Main Street.
Photograph

Pawnee Bill's Circus Parade

Date: 07 28 1901
Description: View of Pawnee Bill's Circus Parade.

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