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Milwaukee Iron Works Letterhead
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Letterhead stationery featuring an engraving of the Milwaukee Iron Company foundry. The letter is from an officer of the company to noted geologist Increase A. Lapham, and it concerns their common interest in iron ore.
circa 1860-1869
Western Engraving Company Chicago
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WHi 56016
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Franz Brandecke, Geologist
Carte-de-visite portrait of Franz Brandecke, Milwaukee-based geologist. Worked on Wisconsin geological survey with Lapham. Handwritten text on front reads, "F. Brandecke."
Milwaukee Exposition Association Letterhead
1883
Letterhead stationery of the Milwaukee Industrial Exposition Association, with an engraving of the building constructed for that event.
A. Whittemore & Co. Letterhead
circa 1860-1869
Letterhead of A. Whittemore & Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, bookseller, stationer, and manufacturer of blank books of various types. In the center is a desktop with books, an inkwell, quill pens...
Badger State Tobacco Works Letterhead
Letterhead of the Badger State Tobacco Works of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with a three-quarter view of the building, men working on boats moored near the waterfront along the side of the building, peop...
Examining the Wisconsin Meteorite
1868
Stereograph of Increase Lapham examining a fragment of a meteorite.
Edward Hitchcock, Geologist and Theologian
1869
Carte-de-visite portrait of Edward Hitchcock (1793-1864), American educator and geologist. Hitchcock served as the third president of Amherst College from 1845 to 1854. He ran the first geological ...
