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View from Crawfish Bridge

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Description: View down Crawfish Bridge, with a horse-drawn buggy approaching the bridge. Buildings and trees are along the river on the right. Caption reads: "View from...
Postcard

Tivoli Island

Date: 1900
Description: View across water towards Tivoli Island. There is a smokestack and a building among trees in the distance. Caption reads: "Tivoli Island, Watertown, Wis."
Postcard

Cady Street

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

Street Name and Building Numbering System, City of Jefferson, Jefferson County, Wis.

Date: 06 1959
Description: This blue line print map shows lot and block numbers and dimensions, fair grounds, schools, court house, parks, and the street numbering system. The Crawfi...
Postcard

Pumping Station & River Front

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Description: View across water towards the Pumping Station on the riverfront. Central Jefferson is in the background. There are billboards on the right, with one that r...
Postcard

River View from Town Bridge

Date: 1911
Description: View across a still river with buildings reflected in it. Boathouses are along the shore. Caption reads: "River View from Town Bridge, Jefferson, Wis."
Postcard

Bird's Eye View

Date: 1945
Description: Elevated view of the public library and the church next door. Caption reads: "Bird's Eye View Jefferson, Wis."
Postcard

Fishing at Dam on Rock River

Date: 1912
Description: A group of boys are fishing on the river bank beside a dam. Buildings are on the far bank. Caption reads: "Fishing at Dam on Rock River, Jefferson, Wis."
Postcard

Scene on Rock River

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Description: View across water toward a bend in the Rock River with a footbridge crossing it on the opposite shoreline. Buildings are along the shoreline and behind the...
Postcard

The Little Red Bridge

Date: 1911
Description: View from shoreline towards a footbridge across the Rock River. People are standing on the bridge. Caption reads: "The Little Red Bridge, Jefferson, Wis."
Postcard

Rock River and Bridge

Date: 1906
Description: Hand-colored postcard view of a bridge over a river from railroad tracks. There is a building on the far shoreline. Caption reads: "Rock River and Bridge, ...
Postcard

Milwaukee Street

Date: 1910
Description: View of Milwaukee Street and the bridge crossing the Rock River. Horses and buggies are in the road. A building with a bell tower is in the background. Cap...
Postcard

Main Street, Looking West

Date: 10 12 1912
Description: Text on front reads: "Main Street, Looking West, Rome, Wis." Unpaved street in a small town, framed by a truss bridge over the Bark River. Trees are on bot...
Postcard

Ice House

Date: 06 24 1914
Description: Handwriting on front reads: "Front View of Ice House." A group of men and women view the destruction as the result of a tornado that swept through the nort...
Postcard

River View

Date: 1907
Description: Text on front reads: "River View, Watertown, Wis." The Main Street bridge over the Rock River, with large buildings on both sides.

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