Box 3, Folder 7: Typewritten Letters, 1852-1856
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- 1852; 1853; 1854; 1855; 1856
- Description
This folder contains both personal and professional correspondences from Increase Allen Lapham written between 1855 and 1863. Also in this folder are several drawings by Lapham and others, essays including "The Grasses of Wisconsin and the Adjacent States of Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and Michigan, the Territory of Minnesota and the Regions about Lake Superior", lectures, and reports. The contents of this folder were transcribed by Lapham's daughter, Julia Alcott Lapham who began in the early 1870s to hand write and then type a chronology of her father's life titled "Autobiography". In the process she destroyed much of Increase Lapham's original correspondence. In the "Notes on Sources" section of the Lapham biography, Studying Wisconsin, the authors comment on the editing and destruction of the original correspondence: "Though she [Julia Lapham] apparently destroyed many original documents, enough remain that we can compare them to her typescript and see that her changes were sev
- Creator
Lapham, Increase Allen, 1811-1875; Lapham, Julia Alcott
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- Recollection Wisconsin
- Contributing Institution
- Wisconsin Historical Society
- Subjects
- Agassiz, Louis (1807-1873)
Beecher, Catherine (1800-1878)
Draper, Lyman C. (1815-1891)
Gray, Asa (1810-1888)
Juneau, Solomon (1793-1856)
Lapham, Julia Alcott
Alcott, Ann Marie
Edward, Foreman
Haven, Samuel F
Hoy, Philo Romayne
Engleman, George
Ingham, Albert C
Darlington, William
Bailey, J. W
Hildreth, Samuel Prescott
Pearson, Jonathan
Sprague, Charles Jas
Warren, J. C
Percival, J. G
Juneau, S
Odlin, William H
Short, Charles W
Lea, Isaac
Dawson, Henry B
Powers, D. J
G. C. S
Hopkins, B
Dana, James D
Kennicott, Robert
Desor, E
Wells, Daniel Jr
Shugert, S. T
Mason, C
Holt, J
Locke, Eric M
Halloway, D. P
Potter, John F
Newton, Isaac
Agriculture
Animals
Archaeology
City
Data & lists
Drawings (Lapham's)
Engineering
Geography
Geology
Images (not Lapham's)
Indian mounds (effigy mounds)
Institutions & associations
Lakes
Maps (included in folder)
Milwaukee (city)
Minerals
Native Americans
Personal & family life
Plants
Publications (Lapham's)
Railroads
Rivers
Surveys & surveying
Travels (Lapham's)
Weather & climate
American Antiquarian Society
Aztalan
Grasses - Type
- text
- Language
- English
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- Chicago citation style
- Lapham, Increase Allen, 1811-1875; Lapham, Julia Alcott. Box 3, Folder 7: Typewritten Letters, 1852-1856. 1852; 1853; 1854; 1855; 1856. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15932coll7/id/4724. (Accessed March 29, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- Lapham, Increase Allen, 1811-1875; Lapham, Julia Alcott, (1852; 1853; 1854; 1855; 1856) Box 3, Folder 7: Typewritten Letters, 1852-1856. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15932coll7/id/4724
- MLA citation style
- Lapham, Increase Allen, 1811-1875; Lapham, Julia Alcott. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15932coll7/id/4724>.