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Copy of Fox and Wisconsin Rivers, Wisc., Water Routes from the Mississippi to the Lakes by Maj. D.C. Houston, Corps of Engineers, U.S.A.

Date: 1873
Description: A hand-colored, geological map of the Fox and Wisconsin rivers’ water path from the Mississippi River to the Great Lakes. The map also shows those railroad...
Map or Atlas

Geological map of Wisconsin prepared for Walling's atlas

Date: 1874
Description: This map of Wisconsin shows cities, counties, railroads already completed and railroads projected, and geological makeup of the land such as lakes.
Map or Atlas

Oconomowoc Lake

Date: 1875
Description: This manuscript map by Increase Lapham, drawn in the last year of his life, shows landownership, roads and railroads, springs, and boat houses around Ocono...
Manuscript

Increase Lapham's 1870 California Diary

Date: 1870
Description: Page from a diary kept by Increase Lapham in California between April 11 and May 19, 1870. The page shows a portion of a list of minerals of California.
Map or Atlas

Town 13, range 3 E.

Date: 07 1870
Description: This map of Ironton is pen-and-ink on paper and shows lots and block numbers, mill, foundry buildings, limestone quarry, iron mine, and roads. Relief is sh...
Map or Atlas

Mississippi River Basin East of the Mississippi and North of Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin

Date: 1870
Description: This map is mostly pencil on paper map but includes latitude and longitude grid in ink. The map covers the Mississippi River from Lake Itasca to the Wiscon...
Manuscript

Plant Classification Lecture

Date: 09 1870
Description: The first page of a handwritten lecture titled "On the Classification of Plants" by Increase Lapham.
Manuscript

Increase A. Lapham Speech

Date: 02 1876
Description: The cover page of a speech handwritten by Increase Lapham titled: "On the Law of Embryonic Development Showing that it is the Same in Plants as in Animals....
Manuscript

Plants Drawings

Date: 1876
Description: Four drawings showing embryonic development in plants.
Drawing

Embryonic Development in Plants

Date: 1876
Description: Page 11 of a speech written by Increase Lapham on embryonic development in plants. There are drawings at the top of the page.
Manuscript

Embryonic Development in Plants

Date: 1876
Description: Page 13 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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