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Digital Image: 1913 Wellge / Cox Bird's-Eye View of the Keweenaw Peninsula, Upper Peninsula, Michiga
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Title
Panoramic View of the Keweenaw Peninsula, The Great Copper Country of Northern Michigan Population near 100,000, including the towns of Houghton, Hancock, Calumet, Lake Linden, Etc.
1913 (dated) 12.75 x 28 in (32.385 x 71.12 cm)
1913 (dated) 12.75 x 28 in (32.385 x 71.12 cm)
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Cartographer S
Henry Wellge (1850 – 1923) was an American panoramic bird's-eye view publisher, artist, and cartographer active in Milwaukee in the late 19th and early 20th century. Wellge was born in Germany in 1850. His first view, in 1878, was of Chilton Wisconsin, but most of his early work is in association with J. J. Stoner, another prolific view maker. Eventually established his own firm Henry Wellge and Company. Later his published and Norris, Wellge and Company. Ultimately though, most of his work appears under the imprint of the American Publishing Company. He continued to publish views until about 1910 with about 152 views bearing his imprint. Wellge is known for large dramatic views illustrated with emphasis on the horizontal dimension. More by this mapmaker...
Albert Kennedy Cox (July 11, 1874 - April 24, 1856) was a Canadian-American publisher, stationer, and bookseller active in Houghton, Michigan. Cox was born in Huron, Ontario. He was working in Ontario as Dry Good Clerk before emigrating to the United States in 1892. He moved to Houghton, Michigan, in 1906 to become the manager of the Houghton Office of the Western Express. Houghton was then the heart of the vibrant Keweenaw Peninsula Upper Peninsula mining industry. He established a music and bookshop on Isle Royale Street around 1909. In 1910, he relocated with a 3-year lease to larger premises on 162 Shelden, Houghton. Throughout he entire time in Houghton, Cox was deeply involved with music and booked regular theater and musical spectacles. When his lease at 162 Shelden expired in 1913, he sold the business to James McRae. Cox moved Minnesota, where he opened a music shop and, with financial backers, managed regional musical performances. He remained in the Minneapolis area through the 1930s. He relocated again, to Wheeling, West Virginia, where he died in 1956. He was married to Ella May Jamieson (1874 - 1955). Learn More...
References
OCLC 7732006. Library of Congresss, G4112.K4A35 1913.