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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.
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...
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...
Map or Atlas

Plan of the Canal Termination on Portsmouth Point

Date: 1833
Description: Increase Lapham's plan for the canal terminus on Portsmouth Point at the confluence of the Scioto and Ohio Rivers.
Map or Atlas

Map of the Wisconsin River Near Kilbourn City, Wisconsin

Date: 1866
Description: This manuscript map by Increase Lapham shows the Dells of the Wisconsin River, from Stand Rock and Witches Gulch at the north to a point approximately one ...
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...
Map or Atlas

Wisconsin a Sectional Map with the Most Recent Surveys

Date: 1848
Description: This map by Increase Lapham shows the township and range system in southern and eastern Wisconsin as well as along the Wisconsin River in present-day Marat...
Drawing

The Dells — Wisconsin River

Date: 1849
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...
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...
Book or Pamphlet

Title Page of Wisconsin: Geography and Topography

Date: 1846
Description: Title page of the book "Wisconsin: Geography and Topography".
Map or Atlas

Map of Milwaukee

Date: 1845
Description: This map shows lot and block numbers, local streets, railroads, some landowners’ names, Milwaukee River, Menomonee River, and part of Lake Michigan. The ma...
Map or Atlas

Sections of the Blue Mounds: Section E and W from the Mounds

Date: 1864
Description: This map is pen and pencil on paper and shows a profile of the Blue Mound and East Blue Mound.
Map or Atlas

Sections of the Blue Mounds: Section N and S from the Blue Mound

Date: 1864
Description: This map is pen and pencil on paper and shows a profile of the Blue Mound and East Blue Mound.
Map or Atlas

Profile [of Blue Mounds]

Date: 1864
Description: This map is pen and watercolor on paper and shows a profile and the geological formation of Blue Mound. Also shown is the location of Arnold's Hotel and Br...
Map or Atlas

Maps of the Blue Mounds: Area of East Blue Mound Showing Land Ownership

Date: 1864
Description: This map shows locations of quarries, sink holes, creeks, springs, rivers, houses, forts, and roads.
Map or Atlas

A Geological, Topographical, and Subterranean Map of the Brigham Lead Mines near the Blue Mounds, Wisconsin

Date: 1867
Description: This 1867 manuscript map by Increase Lapham shows the topography and geology of the Blue Mounds region in the Town of Brigham in Iowa County and the towns ...
Map or Atlas

Profile from Summit of Blue Mound 3 Miles South

Date: 1864
Description: This map is pen and watercolor on paper and shows profile and geological formation of Blue Mound and location of Arnold’s Hotel and Brigham Lead Mines.
Map or Atlas

Maps of the Blue Mounds

Date: 1864
Description: This map shows locations of quarries, sink holes, creeks, springs, rivers, houses, forts, and roads. Annotations in pencil read: "Is the top of the mound l...
Drawing

Millet

Date: 
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...
Map or Atlas

Maps of the Blue Mounds: Town 6 N Range 6 E

Date: 1864
Description: This map shows locations of quarries, sink holes, creeks, springs, rivers, houses, forts, and roads. The upper right corner and right margin includes anno...

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