1895 Steel Engraving Portrait Harvey Birchard Milwaukee General Store HWC1 XGAG8 Williams Bronze Foundry and Wrought

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1895 Steel Engraving Portrait Harvey Birchard Milwaukee General Store HWC1 XGAG8 Williams Bronze Foundry and WroughtThis 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