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Manuscript

Increase Lapham Botanical Diary

Date: 1838
Description: Page from Increase Lapham's 1838 botanical diary in which he listed plants he observed in flower stage.
Manuscript

First Page of Lapham's Gazetteer

Date: 1844
Description: Handwritten first page of Increase Lapham's unpublished gazetteer of Wisconsin.
Drawing

Seneca Lapham

Date: 1825
Description: Portrait of Seneca Lapham.
Drawing

Dry Run Culvert

Date: 
Description: Three schematic drawings of a dry run culvert.
Photograph

Increase Lapham at Wisconsin Dells

Date: 1869
Description: Increase A. Lapham in the foreground of a rock formation in Taylor's Glen, with A. Holly sitting on a rock in the background.
Photograph

Increase Lapham Examining a Meteorite

Date: 1871
Description: Stereograph portrait of Increase Allen Lapham (1811-1875) examining the sixth fragment of a 33 lb. meteorite found in Trenton, Washington County, Wisconsin...
Drawing

Louisville and Portland Railroad

Date: 02 15 1830
Description: Increase Lapham's drawing of a railroad tunnel and railroad tracks.
Drawing

Increase Lapham Plant Drawings

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

Increase A. Lapham Home

Date: 1900
Description: Exterior view of the home of Increase A. Lapham at 321-325 Poplar Street, which was built by J.A. Messenger in 1848.
Photograph

Increase Lapham

Date: 
Description: Sixth plate daguerreotype of Increase A. Lapham, facing forward, holding a child (possibly Seneca G. Lapham) with his right arm. The child is leaning his h...
Drawing

Carex Varia

Date: 
Description: Drawing by Increase Lapham of Carex Varia. It is a genus of plants in the family Cyperaceae, commonly known as sedges. Other members of the Cyperaceae fami...
Manuscript

Plants Drawings

Date: 1876
Description: Four drawings showing embryonic development in plants.
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

Drawings of Species of Carex Cyperaceae

Date: 
Description: Drawing by Increase Lapham of Carex Cyperaceae. Memebers of this family of plants are also called sedges, however those of genus Carex may be called "true"...
Photograph

Examining the Wisconsin Meteorite

Date: 1868
Description: Stereograph of Increase Lapham examining a fragment of a meteorite.
Drawing

Oryzopsis Asperifolia

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

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