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Drawing

A Geological Profile Extending from Utica to Knob Creek

Date: 1828
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.
Photograph

Increase Claflin

Date: 1850
Description: Portrait of Increase Claflin, first white settler of Door County.
Biographical Book Excerpt

Case, Jerome, Increase

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County: 
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Letters written by Increase A. Lapham

Date: 1895-10-16
County: Milwaukee
City: Milwaukee
Biographical Book Excerpt

Lapham, Increase, Allen

Date: 1811 - 1875
County: Milwaukee
Drawing

Eriophorum Gracile

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Description: Drawing by Increase Lapham of Eriophorum Gracile. It is a species of flowering plant in the sedge family, Cyperaceae. It is known by the common name slende...
Biographical Book Excerpt

Lapham, Increase, Allen

Date: 1811 - 1875
County: Milwaukee
Drawing

Increase Lapham Plant Drawings

Date: 1828
Description: Increase Lapham drawings of Poa pratensis, Festuca duriuscula, Lolium prenne, Alopecurus pratensis, Anthoxanthum odoratum
Manuscript

Lapham Gazetteer Page

Date: 1844
Description: Handwritten page from Increase Lapham's unpublished gazetteer of Wisconsin. The page includes entries for Choaking Creek, Cincinnati, City of the Four Lak...
Manuscript

Title Page of Lapham's A catalog of Plants Found in the Viciinity of Milwaukee, Wisconsin Territory

Date: 1838
Description: Title page of Increase Lapham's Catalog of Plants Found in the vicinity of Milwaukee, Wisconsin Territory.
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.
Biographical Book Excerpt

Lapham, Increase, Allen

Date: 1811 - 1875
County: Milwaukee
Manuscript

Increase Lapham letter

Date: 06 28 1850
Description: Letter from Increase Lapham to his wife, Ann Maria Alcott, in Milwaukee. Lapham was at Aztalan and wrote to Anna regarding the geology of the region. He in...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Descendents of Increase Allen Lapham at Unveiling

Date: 1915-06-19
County: Milwaukee
City: Milwaukee
Biographical Book Excerpt

Case, Jerome, Increase

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County: 
Biographical Book Excerpt

Lapham, Increase, Allen

Date: 
County: 
Biographical Book Excerpt

Lapham, Increase, Allen

Date: 
County: 
Biographical Book Excerpt

Lapham, Increase, Allen

Date: 1811 - 1875
County: Milwaukee
Manuscript

Plants of Wisconsin Page

Date: 1845
Description: Page from Increase Lapham's 1845 list of plants of Wisconsin including Oxalidaceae, Zanthoxylaceae, and Anacardiaceae and notations of where and when indiv...

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