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| Date: | 1863 |
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| Description: | Sketch of John Muir's clock design.The built clock was a combination of scythes, wheels and arrows. A rough bough of burr oak was set upon a base incrusted... |
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| Description: | Rendering of a Thordarson Electical Manufacturing Company product. Chester Thordarson was a Chicago inventor and manufacturer of electical apparatus, famo... |
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| Description: | Rendering of a Thordarson Electical Manufacturing Company product. Chester Thordarson was a Chicago inventor and manufacturer of electical apparatus, famo... |
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| Description: | Rendering of a Thordarson Electical Manufacturing Company product. Chester Thordarson was a Chicago inventor and manufacturer of electical apparatus, famo... |
| Date: | 1863 |
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| Description: | A watercolor illustration of a combined thermometer, hygrometer, barometer, and pyrometer. |
| Date: | 1745 |
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| Description: | A two page illustration featuring a small globe in the center of numerous astrological spheres. Additionally, the representation features writing, in Lati... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | A diagram of sun angles for the Chicago latitude shows angles on the 21st days of December, March, September and June. Study done for design of the Hugh D... |
| Date: | 1828 |
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| Description: | Increase Lapham's drawings of Unio plicatus and Unio radiatum (?) from the Scioto River, Cypraea tigris (Tiger cowry), and an Atlantic... |
| Date: | 1828 |
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| Description: | Increase Lapham's drawing of a Union mondonta (or Unio soleniformis) shell. There are also two views of another shell drawn below and a drawi... |
| Date: | 1828 |
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| Description: | Increase Lapham drawings of Poa pratensis, Festuca duriuscula, Lolium prenne, Alopecurus pratensis, Anthoxanthum odoratum |
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| Description: | Increase Lapham's drawing of Setaris Italica or foxtail millet and Panicum miliaceum or proso millet. There are also inset drawings of a spik... |
| Date: | 1854 |
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| Description: | Increase Lapham's drawing of Oryzopsis asperifolia or Mountain Rice (Rough-Leaved Rice Grass). |
| Date: | 1854 |
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| Description: | Increase Lapham's drawing of Zizania aquatica. The plant's common name is Northern Wild Rice. |
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| Description: | Illustration art of candling an egg. On a black background, the bright flame at the end of a tapered candle on the left illuminates a right hand holding up... |
| Date: | 08 2003 |
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| Description: | Site plan of the wreckage of the schooner Lumberman at the bottom of Lake Michigan. |
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