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| Description: | This manuscript map by Increase Lapham shows the lakes and streams in the northwestern quarter of Waukesha County, Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1832 |
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| Description: | Page from the handwritten index to Lapham's Notes and accounts of canals, particularly the Ohio Canal near Portsmouth, 1830-1832. |
| Date: | 1844 |
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| Description: | Handwritten first page of Increase Lapham's unpublished gazetteer of Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1844 |
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| Description: | Handwritten page from Increase Lapham's unpublished gazetteer of Wisconsin. The page includes entries for Choaking Creek, Cincinnati, City of the Four Lak... |
| 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: | Increase Lapham's drawings of Unio plicatus and Unio radiatum (?) from the Scioto River, Cypraea tigris (Tiger cowry), and an Atlantic... |
| Date: | 1846 |
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| Description: | This map shows lot and block numbers, roads, railroads, and some landowners’ names and includes the manuscript annotations: "From the Lapham collection" --... |
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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... |
| Date: | 1849 |
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| Description: | Handwritten list of plants in the Ranunculaceae or crowfoot family. |
| Date: | 02 15 1830 |
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| Description: | Increase Lapham's drawing of a railroad tunnel and railroad tracks. |
| Date: | 1854 |
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| Description: | Increase Lapham's drawing of Oryzopsis asperifolia or Mountain Rice (Rough-Leaved Rice Grass). |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1840 |
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| 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... |
| 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 Zizania aquatica. The plant's common name is Northern Wild Rice. |
| Date: | 1850 |
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| Description: | A drawing of ancient works at the southeast angle of the Third Lake. |
| 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: | 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... |
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