Box 7, Folder 9: Correspondence 1849
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- 1849
- Description
This folder contains correspondence, both personal and professional, received and sent by Increase Allen Lapham between 1844 and 1845. The correspondence cover a variety of Lapham's interests and pursuits, including his work as an engineer on the Milwaukee & Rock River Canal, geology, land surveys, map making, Lake Michigan tides, and a personal letter to his wife Ann Alcott Lapham regarding his travels to the east coast. Also included in the folder is a name badge from a N.Y.S. Agricultural Society conference Lapham attended, broadside advertisements for events in Milwaukee, a news clipping, and various charts and graphs of data.
- Creator
Lapham, Increase Allen, 1811-1875
- Partner
- Recollection Wisconsin
- Contributing Institution
- Wisconsin Historical Society
- Subjects
- Agriculture
American Antiquarian Society
Data & lists
Drawings (Lapham's)
Engineering
Geology
Graphs
Indian mounds (effigy mounds)
Institutions & associations
Lakes
Map-making
Maps (included in folder)
Milwaukee & Rock River Canal
Milwaukee (city)
Railroads
Surveys & surveying
Travels (Lapham's)
Weather & climate
Personal & family life
Ilsley, C. F
Kilbourn, Byron
Foreman, Edward
Root, E
Ewing, Thomas
Reichenbach, Heinrich Gustav
N.Y.S. Agricultural Society
Howard, H. B
Duncan, G. E
Whittlesey, Charles
Desor, Pierre Jean Edourd
Randall, Alexander
Guest, W. E
Gibbes, Robert W
Haven, Samuel F
Brigham, Will M
Tenney, H. A
Milwaukee Collegiate Institute
Lapham, Ann Alcott - Type
- text
- Language
- English
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- Lapham, Increase Allen, 1811-1875. Box 7, Folder 9: Correspondence 1849. 1849. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15932coll7/id/8063. (Accessed April 19, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- Lapham, Increase Allen, 1811-1875, (1849) Box 7, Folder 9: Correspondence 1849. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15932coll7/id/8063
- MLA citation style
- Lapham, Increase Allen, 1811-1875. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15932coll7/id/8063>.