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Young Increase A. Lapham

Date: 1859
Description: Studio portrait of Increase A. Lapham in suit and tie.
Drawing

Ann Lapham

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Description: Drawn portrait of Ann Lapham, wife of Increase A. Lapham.
Manuscript

Plant Classification Lecture

Date: 09 1870
Description: The first page of a handwritten lecture titled "On the Classification of Plants" by Increase Lapham.
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...
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...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Dr. Lapham at the Age of 38 Years

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Description: Newspaper photograph of a daguerreotype portrait of Increase Lapham taken in 1849.
Photograph

Public Service Commission Meeting

Date: 03 16 1954
Description: Public Service Commission members are sitting around a long table before papers, taking up a proposal for a rate increase for the Madison Bus Company. A fe...
Photograph

Saving Energy with Insulation

Date: 1979
Description: During an energy tour of his district Congressman Obey visited various sites to observe projects to increase energy efficiency. Here a workman is preparing...
Photograph

Professor W.W. Daniels, Geologist

Date: 1872
Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of Professor W.W. Daniels, University of Wisconsin geologist. Daniels worked as one of Increase Lapham's assistants during the Wis...
Photograph

William H. Pratt

Date: 1864
Description: Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of William H. Pratt of Davenport, Iowa. Handwritten inscription at bottom reads, "Pratt, 1864."
Photograph

Wright Airplane

Date: 1910
Description: A Wright airplane flying over a grandstand in Indianapolis, with a second unidentified plane in the foreground. This exhibition at the recently-constructed...
Photograph

Rosa Bonheur, Artist

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Description: Carte-de-visite portrait, reproduced from a painting by Louis-Edouard Debufe, depicting French Artist Rosa Bonheur (1822-1899). This painting depicts the a...
Photograph

Colonel Samuel Stone

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Description: Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Colonel Samuel Stone (1798-1876), Massachusetts-born Union Colonel. Before his army service, Stone's various occupati...
Photograph

Asa Gray, Botanist

Date: 1864
Description: Full-length carte-de-visite portrait of Asa Gray (1810-1888), American botanist. His most popular botanical publication, "Gray's Manual," remains a standar...
Photograph

Albert H. Hoy, M.D.

Date: 1868
Description: Vignetted carte-de-visite of Dr. Albert H. Hoy, Racine physician.
Photograph

Dr. John Lang Cassells, Chemist

Date: 1866
Description: Reproduction of a carte-de-visite portrait of Johnathan Lang Cassells (1808-1866), Scottish-born chemist. Worked as a physician and a Professor of chemistr...
Photograph

John Torrey, Botanist

Date: 1865
Description: Vignetted carte-de-visite quarter-length portrait of John Torrey (1796-1863), American botanist. Worked as New York state botanist from 1836. Handwritten i...
Photograph

Leo Lesquereux, Paleobotanist

Date: 1864
Description: Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Leo Lesquereux, American paleobotanist. Also worked as assistant to L. Aggasiz.
Photograph

Kate Newell Doggett, Reformer

Date: 1867
Description: Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Kate N. Doggett (1828-1884), American reformer. Took charge of the Academy of Science herbarium in 1869. She was a de...
Photograph

Richard Owen, Paleontologist

Date: 1869
Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of Richard Owen (1804-1892), English comparative anatomist, and paleontologist. A controversial figure, Owen is credited for coini...

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