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Connecticut Historical Society collection 2012.312.103  © 2012 The Connecticut Historical Socie ...
Rufus Blanchard
Connecticut Historical Society collection 2012.312.103 © 2012 The Connecticut Historical Society.

Rufus Blanchard

American, 1822 - 1904
BiographyRufus Blanchard worked as a book merchant in Cincinnati, OH before opening a mapmaking and map-publishing business in Chicago in the mid-1850s. During this period he co-published several prints by the Hartford lithographers E. B. & E.C. Kellogg. Blanchard also wrote several histories, often to accompany his maps.
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