Box 7, Folder 8: Correspondence 1848
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- Created Date
- 1831; 1832; 1833; 1834; 1835
- Description
This folder contains mostly professional correspondences sent to and received by Increase Allen Lapham in 1848. The letters discuss Lapham's many interests and hobbies, including botany, geology, and Wisconsin's landscape. Professional letters discuss Lapham's work as an engineer on the Milwaukee & Rock River Canal. There are a few personal letters to his wife Ann Alcott Lapham, and his parents Seneca and Rachel Lapham. Also included in this folder are two geological section sketches, one of Wisconsin and one of Illinois.
- Creator
Lapham, Increase Allen, 1811-1875
- Partner
- Recollection Wisconsin
- Contributing Institution
- Wisconsin Historical Society
- Subjects
- Agriculture
Animals
City
Drawings (Lapham's)
Fish
Geology
Images (not Lapham's)
Institutions & associations
Lakes
Map-making
Maps (included in folder)
Milwaukee & Rock River Canal
Milwaukee (city)
Minerals
Native Americans
Personal & family life
Plants
Real estate transactions
Rivers
Smithsonian Institution
Surveys & surveying
Travels (Lapham's)
Gray, Asa
Wood, Alphonso
Kilbourn, Byron
Ilsley, C. F
Wendrey(?), E
Mills, Simeon
Bartlett, John
Woole, S
Foster, John Wells
Shuntteff, Simeon
Henry, Joseph
Espy, James P
Christy, David
Tenney, Horace A
Tenney, H. W
Jones, George W
Dewey, Nelson
Professor Baine's Circular
Doty, James - Type
- text
- Language
- English
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- Chicago citation style
- Lapham, Increase Allen, 1811-1875. Box 7, Folder 8: Correspondence 1848. 1831; 1832; 1833; 1834; 1835. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15932coll7/id/7981. (Accessed April 18, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- Lapham, Increase Allen, 1811-1875, (1831; 1832; 1833; 1834; 1835) Box 7, Folder 8: Correspondence 1848. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15932coll7/id/7981
- 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/7981>.