Once Upon a House
Once Upon a House

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The Antiquities of Wisconsin (I. A. Lapham, 1855)

Lapham, I. A. The Antiquities of Wisconsin, as Surveyed and Described. Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge, vol. 7, Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1855. University of Pittsburgh copy via the Internet Archive, archive.org/details/antiquitiesofwis00laph.

What the corpus of Lapham's Antiquities of Wisconsin holds, how it was built, and the two plates of Beloit's mounds.

Transcribed page by page: 48,616 words. Each page keeps its printed page number, so every quotation on the site can be checked against it.

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Front matter — Lapham, Antiquities of Wisconsin (1855)10 pages, to PDF p. 181,656 For subscribers
Introduction — Lapham, Antiquities of Wisconsin (1855)4 pages, to PDF p. 21 / book p. 41,239 For subscribers
Chapter I. Ancient works in the vicinity of Lake Michigan — Lapham, Antiquities of Wisconsin (1855)19 pages, to PDF p. 40 / book p. 229,696 For subscribers
Chapter II. Ancient works in the basin of the Pishtaka (Fox) River — Lapham, Antiquities of Wisconsin (1855)10 pages, to PDF p. 49 / book p. 314,974 For subscribers
Chapter III. Ancient works in the basin of Rock River and its branches — Lapham, Antiquities of Wisconsin (1855)29 pages, to PDF p. 77 / book p. 5914,504 For subscribers
Chapter IV. Ancient works in the basin of the Neenah, or Fox River of Green Bay — Lapham, Antiquities of Wisconsin (1855)7 pages, to PDF p. 83 / book p. 652,696 For subscribers
Chapter V. Ancient works in the basin of the Wisconsin River — Lapham, Antiquities of Wisconsin (1855)9 pages, to PDF p. 91 / book p. 734,455 For subscribers
Chapter VI. Ancient works and ancient mining at Lake Superior, and miscellaneous localities — Lapham, Antiquities of Wisconsin (1855)7 pages, to PDF p. 97 / book p. 792,439 For subscribers
Chapter VII. Contents of the mounds; remains of ancient workmanship — Lapham, Antiquities of Wisconsin (1855)10 pages, to PDF p. 106 / book p. 883,123 For subscribers
Chapter VIII. Concluding remarks; index; errata — Lapham, Antiquities of Wisconsin (1855)9 pages, to PDF p. 115 / book p. 972,855 For subscribers
The plates (I–LV) — Lapham, Antiquities of Wisconsin (1855)56 pages, to PDF p. 225979 For subscribers