Portraits of Scientists: Increase Lapham's Cartes-de-visites Collection

Moses Strong. "...Carte-de-visite portrait of Moses Strong, a Wisconsin archeologist who served as Increase Lapham's assistant. His most important article was titled, 'Prehistoric Mounds of Grant County, Wis.'" From Portraits of Scientists: Increase Lapham's Cartes-de-visites Collection. "...A self-educated engineer and naturalist, Increase Lapham was Wisconsin's first scientist and one of the state's foremost citizens. He wrote the first book published in Wisconsin; made the first accurate map of the state; investigated Wisconsin's effigy mounds, native trees and grasses, climactic patterns, and geology; and helped found many of the schools, colleges and other cultural institutions, including the Wisconsin Historical Society, that still enrich the state today. He also kept in-touch with many of the leading geologists, botanists, and other scientists and artists of his day, amassing an album of photographs to visually complement his extensive personal correspondences. Lapham's album of portraits, 93 in all, is the feature gallery this month from Wisconsin Historical Images, the Society's online image database."