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Plan of the Canal Termination on Portsmouth Point
1833
Increase Lapham's plan for the canal terminus on Portsmouth Point at the confluence of the Scioto and Ohio Rivers.
Geological Profile from the Sandusky Plains to Portsmouth
December 22, 1830
Increase Lapham's drawing of the geological profile between the Sandusky plains and Portsmouth, Ohio.
Lapham Shell Drawings
1828
Increase Lapham's drawings of Unio plicatus and Unio radiatum (?) from the Scioto River, Cypraea tigris (Tiger cowry), and an Atlantic Ocean shell. The page also contains a color wheel.
Lapham Index Page, Canals of Ohio
1832
Page from the handwritten index to Lapham's Notes and accounts of canals, particularly the Ohio Canal near Portsmouth, 1830-1832.
Unio mondonta
1828
Increase Lapham's drawing of a Union mondonta (or Unio soleniformis) shell. There are also two views of another shell drawn below and a drawing of Unio scalenius pasted on at the bottom of the page.
Mr. Dibble's Machine
1827
Increase Lapham's drawing of a rig designed by Mr. Orange Dibble for removing rocks and other large debris from deep canal cuts.
