1895 Steel Engraving Portrait Harvey Birchard Milwaukee General Store HWC1 XGAG8 by candy manufacturer Clarence Crane

by candy manufacturer Clarence Crane

the city was not as populated in the sixteenth century as it was in the pre-Columbian (pre-Hispanic) period

Designer: The Crichton Studios

There is a small brown blemish on the bottom right side of this image

1895 Steel Engraving Portrait Harvey Birchard Milwaukee General Store HWC1 XGAG8 by candy manufacturer Clarence CraneThis is an original 1895 black and white steel engraving of a portrait of Harvey Birchard, a Bridgeport, Connecticut native, who came to Milwaukee in 1838 and set up a business partnership with Lewis, Harrison and Ludington, which was named Ludington, Birchard and Company. Birchard opened a General Store on the corners of Wisconsin and East Water Streets (where the Pabst building now stands). He also aided and often funded various buildings