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| 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: | 1833 |
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| Description: | Increase Lapham's plan for the canal terminus on Portsmouth Point at the confluence of the Scioto and Ohio Rivers. |
| Date: | 1825 |
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| Description: | Engraved view of several wooden cranes extracting large stones from a cut during the construction of the Erie Canal. The rig in the foreground is horse-dri... |
| Date: | 1825 |
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| Description: | Engraved view of boats being towed by horses through the Erie Canal at Lockport Erie Canal at Lockport. The horses can be seen on a high towpath at right. ... |
| Date: | 1831 |
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| Description: | Map of the city of Louisville, Kentucky on the Ohio River showing streets and numbered lots. The Ohio River, Corn Island, and the Louisville and Portland C... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view map of Appleton, Wisconsin. Map reads: "NOTE.-Since the above cut was engraved, the Fox River Pulp & Paper Co.'s Mammoth Mills have been er... |
| Date: | 1828 |
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| Description: | Map of the Louisville and Portland Canal on the Ohio River. The map shows Louisville, Shippingsport, Clarksville, Jeffersonville, Gravel Island, Corn Islan... |
| 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: | 1828 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | This map is of the towns of Neenah and Menasha and shows existing and proposed canals. Water depths shown by soundings. Little Butte des Morts Lake, Doty I... |
| Date: | 08 1892 |
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| Description: | Engraving, probably after a photograph, showing Frank Lenz posing with his safety bicycle near the stone arch entrance of a canal tunnel cut through a moun... |
| Date: | 1892 |
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| Description: | Second page of calendar for March and April, 1892. Features two illustrations: the top one is of a man using a team of horses to pull a Buckeye harvesting ... |
| Date: | 1892 |
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| Description: | Third page of calendar for May and June, 1892. Features two illustrations: the top one of a man using a team of horses to pull a Buckeye harvesting machine... |
| Date: | 1892 |
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| Description: | Fifth page of calendar for September and October, 1892. Features two illustrations: the top one of a man using a team of horses to pull a Buckeye harvestin... |
| Date: | 1892 |
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| Description: | Sixth page of calendar for November and December, 1892. Features two illustrations: the top one of a group of boys in a tug of war using twine from a roll ... |
| Date: | 1892 |
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| Description: | Back cover of calendar, with the text: "Hail Columbia, Happy Land!" Features a bird's-eye illustration of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition (World's Fa... |
| Date: | 1846 |
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| Description: | This plat map, which features the very early spelling of Wisconsin as "Wiskonsin", was created sometime between 1846 and 1854 and shows a canal and dam on ... |
| Date: | 1800 |
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| Description: | This map shows the land claim owned by the Portage Canal Company and includes an index of landownership and landmarks. The Wisconsin and Portage River, the... |
| Date: | 1836 |
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| Description: | This map shows lot and block numbers, streets, a proposed canal basin, Fort Winnebago, and the Wisconsin and Fox Rivers. Relief is shown by hachures and no... |
| Date: | 1855 |
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| Description: | This map shows landownership, lot and block numbers, streets, a canal, bridges, Fort Winnebago, the Wisconsin River, and the Fox River. Relief is shown by ... |
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