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Ancient Works, Second Ward, Milwaukee

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Description: Map showing Indian mounds in Milwaukee's Second Ward from a sketch made by Increase Lapham in 1836. Streets shown on the map include 6th Street, 5th Street...
Manuscript

Earth Borer

Date: 1828
Description: Increase Lapham's drawing and description of an earth borer for his handwritten manuscript, Notes and Accounts of Canals, Particularly the Ohio Canal Ne...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Lapham in bronze

Date: 1899-03-07
County: Milwaukee
City: Milwaukee
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...
Map or Atlas

Map of East Half of Waukesha County, Wisconsin

Date: 1840
Description: This manuscript map by Increase Lapham shows the railroads, roads, wetlands, lakes and streams, dams, prairies, and settlers in the eastern half of Waukesh...
Drawing

Unio mondonta

Date: 1828
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...
Biographical Book Excerpt

Lapham, Increase, Allen

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Book or Pamphlet

Ancient Works at Third Lake

Date: 1850
Description: A drawing of ancient works at the southeast angle of the Third Lake.
Drawing

The Great Bird and Other Effigy Mounds

Date: 1850
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...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Proposition to name Schlitz park for the late Dr. Lapham earnestly indorsed

Date: 1909-08-29
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Newspaper Article/Clipping

A significant reminiscence

Date: 1861-02-13
County: Columbia
City: Portage
Newspaper Article/Clipping

An early journey through Sauk County

Date: 1912-01-04
County: Sauk
City: Baraboo
Newspaper Article/Clipping

The minerals of Wisconsin

Date: 1872-05-01
County: Milwaukee
City: Milwaukee
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Will unveil monument

Date: 1915-06-17
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City: 
Map or Atlas

Chapman’s New Sectional Map of Wisconsin

Date: 1868
Description: This map of the state of Wisconsin was created in 1868 and later used by Increase Lapham to trace an outbreak of tornadoes going across the state in May of...
Drawing

Drawings of Jimson Weed Flower

Date: 1827
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...
Drawing

Millet

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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...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

An early journey through Sauk County

Date: 1912-01-04
County: Sauk
City: 
Map or Atlas

Map of the Penokee Iron Range Near Lake Superior - Wisconsin

Date: 1855
Description: This map by Increase Lapham shows the Penokee Iron Range in Ashland and Iron counties, Wisconsin. Part of the Gogebic Range, the Penokees extend from an ar...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Great Lakes

Date: 1879-11-30
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