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First Church in Green Bay

Date: 1823
Description: First church in Green Bay.
Map or Atlas

Manuscript Map of Early Prairie du Chien

Date: 1820
Description: A manuscript map of Prairie du Chien.
Drawing

Drawings of Jimson Weed Flower

Date: 1827
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...
Drawing

Lapham Shell Drawings

Date: 1828
Description: Increase Lapham's drawings of Unio plicatus and Unio radiatum (?) from the Scioto River, Cypraea tigris (Tiger cowry), and an Atlantic...
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...
Drawing

Increase Lapham Plant Drawings

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

Mr. Dibble's Machine

Date: 1827
Description: Increase Lapham's drawing of a rig designed by Mr. Orange Dibble for removing rocks and other large debris from deep canal cuts.
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.
Map or Atlas

Plat of the Town of Munnomonee in the County of Brown

Date: 1829
Description: This map of Munnomonee is ink and pencil on tracing cloth. The map shows a plat of the town, local streets, highways, land donations for public use, and pa...
Map or Atlas

Map of Prairie du Chien

Date: 1828
Description: This plat map is pen-and-ink and shows landowners, the Mississippi River, the Marais de St. Friole, Fort Crawford, the town commons, and the Village of St....
Map or Atlas

Plat of the Private Claims at Prairie du Chien

Date: 1828
Description: This map is pen-and-ink and served as the model for the lithograph produced in 1828 by C.B. Graham. Landowners are labeled as is the Mississippi River.
Book or Pamphlet

Native American Marks

Date: 08 05 1820
Description: Sketches of Native American marks in James Doty's travel journal. Most of the marks represent different types of fish.

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