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Drawing

Oryzopsis Asperifolia

Date: 1854
Description: Increase Lapham's drawing of Oryzopsis asperifolia or Mountain Rice (Rough-Leaved Rice Grass).
Map or Atlas

Parcel Map of Columbus, Ohio

Date: 1834
Description: Parcel map of Columbus, Ohio.
Manuscript

Lapham Gazetteer Page

Date: 1844
Description: Handwritten page from Increase Lapham's unpublished gazetteer of Wisconsin. The page includes entries for Choaking Creek, Cincinnati, City of the Four Lak...
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

Geological Profile from the Sandusky Plains to Portsmouth

Date: 12 22 1830
Description: Increase Lapham's drawing of the geological profile between the Sandusky plains and Portsmouth, Ohio.
Drawing

Zizania aquatica

Date: 1854
Description: Increase Lapham's drawing of Zizania aquatica. The plant's common name is Northern Wild Rice.
Manuscript

Ranunculaceae

Date: 1849
Description: Handwritten list of plants in the Ranunculaceae or crowfoot family.
Manuscript

Sillman Letter To Lapham

Date: 07 22 1827
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 ...
Manuscript

Title Page of Lapham's A catalog of Plants Found in the Viciinity of Milwaukee, Wisconsin Territory

Date: 1838
Description: Title page of Increase Lapham's Catalog of Plants Found in the vicinity of Milwaukee, Wisconsin Territory.
Manuscript

Lapham Index Page, Canals of Ohio

Date: 1832
Description: Page from the handwritten index to Lapham's Notes and accounts of canals, particularly the Ohio Canal near Portsmouth, 1830-1832.
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...
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.
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...
Map or Atlas

Sections of the Blue Mounds: Section E and W from the Mounds

Date: 1864
Description: This map is pen and pencil on paper and shows a profile of the Blue Mound and East Blue Mound.
Map or Atlas

Sections of the Blue Mounds: Section N and S from the Blue Mound

Date: 1864
Description: This map is pen and pencil on paper and shows a profile of the Blue Mound and East Blue Mound.
Map or Atlas

Profile [of Blue Mounds]

Date: 1864
Description: This map is pen and watercolor on paper and shows a profile and the geological formation of Blue Mound. Also shown is the location of Arnold's Hotel and Br...
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...
Manuscript

Washington Ball Invitation

Date: 02 1831
Description: Printed invitation addressed to Mr. I.A. Lapham for a ball at C. McCoy's hotel to be held on February 17, 1831.
Drawing

The Dells — Wisconsin River

Date: 1849
Description: Pencil sketch of a cross-section of the Dells of the Wisconsin River. People are in a row boat in the center. Caption at bottom: "The Dells — Wisconsin Riv...

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