Summary Information

Title: Increase A. Lapham Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1825-1930

Creator:

• Lapham, Increase Allen, 1811-1875

Call Number: Wis Mss DB; SC-O 53; Micro 62; PH 24; PH 2822 (3); PH 6796

Quantity: 12.9 cubic feet (24 archives boxes, 7 card boxes, 5 flat boxes, and 1 oversize folder), 4 reels of microfilm (35 mm), 98 photographs, and 1 broadside

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

Papers of Increase A. Lapham, the most prominent figure in early scientific research in Wisconsin. The papers consist of personal and biographical papers, correspondence, and research and writing files. In addition, there are papers of Lapham's daughter Julia A. Lapham, consisting of correspondence, a draft biography, transcribed copies of her father's correspondence, and scrapbooks concerning Milwaukee events that honored him such as the Lapham Centennial and the naming of Lapham Park.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-wis000db