John Plumbe diary, 1838 Oct. 17-1839 July 5.

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John Plumbe diary, 1838 Oct. 17-1839 July 5.

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Diary entries describe the development of Sinipee, efforts to bring a railway to town, boat traffic on the Mississippi River, his duties as a postmaster, and preparation of his maps and 1839 book "Sketches of Iowa and Wisconsin."

1 v. ; 20 cm.

Iowa State Historical Society

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Plumbe, John, 1809-1857

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At the time this diary was written John Plumbe was a civil engineer in Sinipee, Wis. and Dubuque, Iowa waiting for a commission from the United States Congress to survey the route for a transcontinental railroad. In 1840 he took up photography as a career after seeing the work of a daguerreotypist in Washington, D.C. The following year he opened a gallery in Boston and eventually maintained galleries in thirteen cities. Plumbe opened the nation's first Washington, D.C. gallery in 1844. By 1848 P...