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Lyman Copeland Draper



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Title: Lyman Copeland Draper
Description: Tintype portrait of Lyman Draper (1815-1891), an American historical collector and librarian.
Image ID: 35
Creation
Date: 		1858 ca.
Creator
Name: 		Nichols, H. D.
Collection
Name: 		State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Collector : Cased Image Collection
Genre: Photographs
Additional
Information: 		He spent years traveling through an area ranging from New York to Mississippi, gathering the stories of old pioneers and documentary material on frontier history for a projected series of biographies of Western heroes. His extensive collection was deposited with the Wisconsin Historical Society at Madison, of which he was secretary and librarian (1854-1886). His collection, valuable to many researchers, contains the George Rogers Clark papers and other manuscript sources.
Subjects: Indoor photography
Men
Portrait photography
Beards
Suits (Clothing)
Librarians
Neckties
 

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