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| Date: | 1828 |
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| Description: | Open spread of Increase Lapham's diary. |
| Date: | 1828 |
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| Description: | Increase Lapham's drawings of Unio plicatus and Unio radiatum (?) from the Scioto River, Cypraea tigris (Tiger cowry), and an Atlantic... |
| Date: | 1828 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1828 |
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| Description: | Increase Lapham drawings of Poa pratensis, Festuca duriuscula, Lolium prenne, Alopecurus pratensis, Anthoxanthum odoratum |
| Date: | 1868 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of Increase Lapham examining a fragment of a meteorite. |
| Wisconsin Historical Museum Object – Feature Story |
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| Babcock butterfat tester set used in Adams County, Wisconsin, c. 1895. (Museum Object #1948.589; donated to WHS by Elsie Schieber Patrick) |
| Wisconsin Historical Museum Object – Feature Story |
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| Sholes & Glidden typewriter developed by Christopher Latham Sholes of Milwaukee, Wisconsin and marketed c. 1874. (Museum object #1964.31) |
| Wisconsin Historical Museum Object – Feature Story |
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| Solar Compass used to survey lands in Wisconsin and surrounding areas during the 1840s and 1850s. (Museum object #1962.60.2,A) |
| Increase Lapham's Cartes-de-visite Collection |
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| View this magnificent collection of 19th century famous scientists collected by Wisconsin naturalist Increase Lapham. |
| Date: | 1835 |
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| Description: | Page from Increase Lapham's 1935 botanical diary in which he listed plants he observed in flower stage. |
| Date: | 1838 |
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| Description: | Page from Increase Lapham's 1838 botanical diary in which he listed plants he observed in flower stage. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Page from a diary kept by Increase Lapham in California between April 11 and May 19, 1870. The page shows a portion of a list of minerals of California. |
| Date: | 07 22 1827 |
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| Description: | Letter from Benjamin Sillman to Increase Lapham requesting information about the canal around the rapids of the Ohio River for inclusion in The Journal ... |
| Date: | 12 1860 |
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| Description: | Graph showing the profile of a semi-diurnal spring tidal curve deduced from 5452 half hourly ordinates obtained from the records of self registering tide g... |
| Date: | 1849 |
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| Description: | Handwritten list of plants in the Ranunculaceae or crowfoot family. |
| Date: | 1845 |
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| Description: | Page from Increase Lapham's 1845 list of plants of Wisconsin including Oxalidaceae, Zanthoxylaceae, and Anacardiaceae and notations of where and when indiv... |
| Date: | 1844 |
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| Description: | Increase Lapham's handwritten title page for A Geographical and Topographical Description of Wisconsin |
| Date: | 1836 |
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| Description: | Title page of Increase Lapham's A catalog of Plants & Shells, Found in the vicinity of Milwaukee on the West Side of Lake Michigan, |
| Date: | 07 22 1837 |
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| Description: | Table printed in Milwaukee Advertiser indicating the time of flowering of several wild plants at Milwaukee and near the head of the Pishtaka River. |
| Date: | 1838 |
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| Description: | Title page of Increase Lapham's Catalog of Plants Found in the vicinity of Milwaukee, Wisconsin Territory. |
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