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Digital Collections
Explore more than 100,000 collection items online through the Society’s digital collections. For over two decades, we’ve been scanning, photographing, and digitizing materials from our collections, creating a rich and growing digital archive that brings history closer to you.
The Wisconsin Historical Society offers an ever-growing digital collection. Digitized materials reflect the full range of items in the collections including photographs, letters, newsletters, films, posters, architectural drawings, menus, and ephemera.
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Embryonic Development in Plants
1876
Page 13 of a speech written by Increase Lapham on embryonic development in plants. There are drawings at the top of the page.
Increase A. Lapham Speech
February 1876
The cover page of a speech handwritten by Increase Lapham titled: "On the Law of Embryonic Development Showing that it is the Same in Plants as in Animals."
Plant Classification Lecture
September 1870
The first page of a handwritten lecture titled "On the Classification of Plants" by Increase Lapham.
Increase Lapham Plant Drawings
1828
Increase Lapham drawings of Poa pratensis, Festuca duriuscula, Lolium prenne, Alopecurus pratensis, Anthoxanthum odoratum, Poa compressa, Lobelia siphilitica, Myrica cerifera (candle berry myrtle),...
Scirpus Pungens
Drawing by Increase Lapham of Scirpus Pungens. It is a species of flowering plant in the sedge family known by the common name Common Three-Square. It is a herbaceous emergent plant that is native ...
