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Brennecke and Bergmann Pharmacy

Date: 1910
Description: An interior view of Brennecke and Bergmann Pharmacy on the corner 4th and Main Street. Two children are sitting on a chair in the middle of the floor, whil...
Postcard

Octagon House

Date: 1912
Description: Exterior view of the Octagon House. Caption reads: "The Octagon House. Built 1852 by Hon. John Richards on Richards Hill. Watertown, Wis."
Photograph

Operating Machinery Outdoors

Date: 1915
Description: A young boy in overalls operates a machine, perhaps a pump for water, underneath a windmill. There are overturned buckets in the foreground. An elderly man...
Map or Atlas

Historical and Illustrated Map of Watertown Wisconsin

Date: 1940
Description: This map of Watertown pictorially shows historic buildings, locations, and events with dates. The map is printed in brown ink with the border printed in gr...
Photograph

Octagon House

Date: 1940
Description: View of the spiral staircase inside the Octagon House.
Photograph

Octagon House

Date: 1940
Description: View of the Octagon House's spiral stairway.
Photograph

Octagon House

Date: 1945
Description: Exterior view of the Octagon House.
Photograph

Octagon House

Date: 1945
Description: Exterior view of the entrance to the Richards' Octagon House.
Photograph

Octagon House

Date: 1946
Description: Exterior view of the Richards' Octagon House.
Photograph

Octagon House

Date: 1948
Description: Exterior view of the Octagon House, built by John Richards, an early local lawyer.
Photograph

Octagon House Model

Date: 1948
Description: A model of the Richards' Octagon House, showing the original structure of the porches.
Photograph

Octagon House

Date: 1950
Description: View of the spiral staircase inside Richards' Octagon House.
Photograph

Octagon House

Date: 1950
Description: Interior view of the parlor of Richards' Octagon House.
Photograph

Watertown Park

Date: 05 1950
Description: Weeping willows overhanging the Rock River in a city park. An adult and child are in the lower left. Rocks are along the shoreline.
Photograph

Octagon House

Date: 1951
Description: Exterior view of the Octagon House, built by the Hon. John Richards and completed in about 1852.
Photograph

Watertown Service Station

Date: 2008
Description: The public was invited to inspect the town's newest station and its modern conveniences, when the 501 South Third Street station opened on July 30, 1927.
Photograph

Three Dogs on a Bench

Date: 
Description: The photographer's poodles pose on a bench.
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Church Decorated for Christmas

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Description: Interior view of the Old Moravian Church at 6th and Cole Streets decorated for Christmas. There is a very tall Christmas tree behind the pulpit, and other ...

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