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| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait of Professor W.W. Daniels, University of Wisconsin geologist. Daniels worked as one of Increase Lapham's assistants during the Wis... |
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| Description: | Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Colonel Samuel Stone (1798-1876), Massachusetts-born Union Colonel. Before his army service, Stone's various occupati... |
| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | Vignetted carte-de-visite quarter-length portrait of John Torrey (1796-1863), American botanist. Worked as New York state botanist from 1836. Handwritten i... |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Leo Lesquereux, American paleobotanist. Also worked as assistant to L. Aggasiz. |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait of Dr. Philo R. Hoy (1816-1892), Wisconsin ornithologist and entomologist. Settled in Racine with his family in 1846. Served as pr... |
| Date: | 1869 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait of Thomas Bassnett (b. 1808, d. aft 1885), American meteorologist. Handwritten inscription at bottom of card reads, "Thos. Bassnet... |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite map of Wisconsin. Broken down into a grid, and includes some topography and Lake Michigan. The letters "M.C." have been written on top of t... |
| Date: | 1868 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait of Fielding B. Meek (1817-1876), American paleontologist. Meek became the Smithsonian Institution's first full-time paleontologist... |
| Date: | 01 30 1865 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait of Chester Dewey (1784-1867), American Congregational minister, educator, and scientist. Served as Rochester University's first p... |
| Date: | 1863 |
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| Description: | Full-length carte-de-visite portrait of Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875), Danish poet and author of fairy tales. Inscription at bottom of card reads, "H... |
| Date: | 1869 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait of Sir Charles Lyell (1797-1875), Scottish lawyer, geologist, and advocate of uniformitarianism. Handwritten text at the bottom o... |
| Date: | 1869 |
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| Description: | Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of John W. Taylor, British genealogist. Handwritten inscription on bottom reads, "John W. Taylor, Leeds - England, 1869.... |
| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Samuel Foster Haven (1806-1881), Massachusetts anthropologist, librarian, and archaeologist. Haven is best known as t... |
| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait of Charles Whittlesey (1808-1886), American Geologist. Fought in the Black Hawk War. Opened a law office and newspaper in Clevelan... |
| Date: | 1867 |
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| Description: | Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Peter Engelmann (1823-1874), Wisconsin educator and naturalist. Engelman founded the German-English Academy in Milwau... |
| Date: | 1867 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait of B.K. Emerson (1837-1928), professor of Minerology and Geology at Amherst College. Handwritten inscription at the bottom reads, ... |
| Date: | 1869 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait photograph of Hubert Anson Newton (1830-1896), American astronomer and mathematician. He was best known for his research on meteor... |
| Date: | 1869 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait of Henry B. Nason (1831-1895), head of the Chemistry department at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the first Technological s... |
| Date: | 1869 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait of Richard Owen (1804-1892), English comparative anatomist, and paleontologist. A controversial figure, Owen is credited for coini... |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait of Moses Strong, a Wisconsin archaeologist who served as Lapham's assistant. His most important article was titled, "Prehistoric M... |
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