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| Date: | 1849 |
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| Description: | Pencil sketch of a cross-section of the Dells of the Wisconsin River. People are in a row boat in the center. Caption at bottom: "The Dells — Wisconsin Riv... |
| Date: | 1827 |
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| Description: | Drawings of Datura Stramonium, more commonly known by the names jimson weed, devil's trumpet, devil's weed, thorn apple, tolguacha, Jamestown weed, stinkwe... |
| 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 |
| Date: | 1827 |
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| Description: | Increase Lapham's drawing of a rig designed by Mr. Orange Dibble for removing rocks and other large debris from deep canal cuts. |
| Date: | 1828 |
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| Description: | Drawing by Increase Lapham showing the geological profile of the land between Utica and Knob Creek, Kentucky at a scale of 1/2 inch to a mile. |
| Date: | 02 15 1830 |
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| Description: | Increase Lapham's drawing of a railroad tunnel and railroad tracks. |
| Date: | 12 22 1830 |
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| Description: | Increase Lapham's drawing of the geological profile between the Sandusky plains and Portsmouth, Ohio. |
| 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. |
| Date: | 1850 |
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| Description: | Diagrams of four effigy mounds surveyed by Increase A. Lapham and W.H. Canfield in 1850. No. 1 is an unidentified animal shape, No. 2 consists of two linea... |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Page 11 of a speech written by Increase Lapham on embryonic development in plants. There are drawings at the top of the page. |
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