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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...
Photograph

Lapham School Children at Bowman Farm Dairy

Date: 11 1953
Description: Lapham School third grade children observing milking machinery during a tour of the Bowman Farm Dairy on Fish Hatchery Road. Identified left to right are C...
Photograph

Lapham School Children at Bowman Farm Dairy

Date: 11 1953
Description: Four Lapham School students and an adult eating ice cream from a paper cup at the end of a tour of Bowman Farm Dairy on Fish Hatchery Road.
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Great Lakes

Date: 1879-11-30
County: 
City: 
Property Record

7317-7319 W LAPHAM ST

Community: West Allis
County: Milwaukee
Historic Name: 
Reference Number: 144814
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.
Property Record

7313-7315 W LAPHAM ST

Community: West Allis
County: Milwaukee
Historic Name: 
Reference Number: 144812
Photograph

Lapham School Halloween Party Bobbing For Apples

Date: 10 31 1950
Description: At Lapham School, more than 800 costumed children and their parents attended one of the largest Halloween night parties held in Madison. A boy is shown bob...
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 ...
Photograph

Kindergarten Grocery Display

Date: 10 29 1930
Description: Six kindergarten children wearing aprons stand in front of a classroom grocery display at Lapham School, 1436 E. Dayton Street.
Photograph

Yahara River Parkway

Date: 1907
Description: The Yahara River Parkway, with the old Lapham School at 1436 East Dayton Street at North Thornton visible on the righthand side.
Document

Milwaukee Iron Works Letterhead

Date: 
Description: Letterhead stationery featuring an engraving of the Milwaukee Iron Company foundry. The letter is from an officer of the company to noted geologist Increas...
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...
Photograph

Voters

Date: 11 08 1960
Description: A crowd of Second Ward voters in Lapham School, 1045 E. Dayton Street.
Property Record

SE CNR OF E WISCONSIN AVE AND LAPHAM ST

Community: Oconomowoc
County: Waukesha
Historic Name: 
Reference Number: 8519
Map or Atlas

Dells Of The Wisconsin River

Date: 1873
Description: Map of Wisconsin Dells area.
Photograph

Philo Romayne Hoy, Ornithologist

Date: 1874
Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of Dr. Philo R. Hoy (1816-1892), Wisconsin ornithologist and entomologist. Settled in Racine with his family in 1846. Served as pr...
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...
Property Record

730 W LAPHAM BLVD

Community: Milwaukee
County: Milwaukee
Historic Name: Allen-Field School
Reference Number: 237876

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