Forest Margin (3.34292)
Type: Photographic image
Description:A poster of the forest margin, created by May T. Watts for The Morton Arboretum, featuring locations with the highest bird populations. The poster depicts airbrushed color silhouettes of a row of trees with various birds perched in them, and spring flowers depicted in a row beneath.
Extent: 1 slide
Twig model, partly opened (3.34365)
Type: Photographic image
Description:A display featuring a model of a twig which is partly opened, showing the interior of the bud.
Extent: 1 slide
Floyd Swink instructing class in a classroom (3.4089)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Floyd Swink instructing class in a classroom
Extent: 1 photograph
Participants in a geology workshop, standing near evergreen trees (3.34144)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Participants in a geology workshop with May T. Watts at The Morton Arboretum stand by the side of a road next to an open-air tram. Evergreen trees are visible in the background.
Extent: 1 slide
Education charts: Salt Bay Food Web (3.34241)
Type: Photographic image
Description:An educational chart created by May T. Watts for The Morton Arboretum, depicting various plants, insects, and animals that are part of a salt bay food web. The images in the chart are connected with arrows indicating the relationships between them in the web, labeled as follows:
- PEREGRINE FALCON
- SANDPIPER
- BLUECLAW CRAB
- SANDWORM
- SURF SCOTER
- BLUE MUSSEL
- OSPREY
- BLUEFISH
- EEL GRASS
- BRANT
- PERIWINKLE
- TERN
- SILVERSIDE
Extent: 1 slide
Leaf casts (3.34284)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Three decorative plaster casts of leaves created by May T. Watts for The Morton Arboretum. The casts on the left and right are unidentified, while the cast in the center depicts a leaf from a tulip tree, labeled as follows:
- TULIP TREE
- LIRIODENDRON TULIPIFERA
Extent: 1 slide
Vegetable dyes: table runner and handbag (3.34412)
Type: Photographic image
Description:A table runner and handbag made with vegetable-dyed thread, displayed on a table near a ceramic pitcher.
Extent: 1 slide
Floyd Swink with birding class in the woods (3.4082)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Floyd Swink with birding class in the woods
Extent: 1 photograph
Seeds For Teachers Program, Mike Spravka and volunteers sorting seeds (3.47552)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Seeds For Teachers Program, Mike Spravka and volunteers sorting seeds
Extent: 1 photograph
Workshop participants creating nature crafts with leaves (3.34137)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Participants in a Morton Arboretum workshop with May T. Watts, including a nun, create nature crafts with leaves.
Extent: 1 slide
Education charts: Arum Family (3.34233)
Type: Photographic image
Description:An educational chart created by May T. Watts for The Morton Arboretum, depicting members of the Arum Family of flowers. A center illustration shows the general parts of the flower, which is surrounded by examples of additional family members. Aside from the header, most of the text and and labels are illegible,and the images are blurry.
Header: ARUM FAMILY / flowers on a fleshy spike / spike surrounded by showy bract / shady, damp places
Extent: 1 slide
Stick figure sketch: student naturalists (3.34263)
Type: Photographic image
Description:A stick figure sketch created by May T. Watts for The Morton Arboretum, depicting two students. One student is shown peering though binoculars, while the other student refers to a guidebook or pamphlet in one hand while holding binoculars in the other.
Extent: 1 slide
Farm Diorama: Good farmer #2 (3.34351)
Type: Photographic image
Description:A diorama depicting a barn, a windmill, a farmhouse, and crops planted on a hill in the background.
Extent: 1 slide
Vegetable dyes: Osage-orange root (3.34405)
Type: Photographic image
Description:A loosely woven swatch of threads dyed with osage-orange roots for a class taught by May T. Watts at The Morton Arboretum.
Label: Osage orange root
Extent: 1 slide
Ray Schulenberg instructing to group in prairie (3.5140)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Ray Schulenberg instructing to group in prairie
Extent: 1 photograph
Education charts: Canyon (3.34224)
Type: Photographic image
Description:An educational chart created by May T. Watts for The Morton Arboretum, depicting a rock canyon association. A detailed illustration of a single tree leaf is positioned at the center of the chart, surrounded by four vingnettes showing additional flora and fauna found within the ecological community.
Header: CANYON
Labels from top to bottom, left to right:
- mud-dauber wasp
- phoe[be]
- arbor- / vitae
- columbine
- garter snak[e]
Extent: 1 slide
Stick figure sketch: painter (3.34255)
Type: Photographic image
Description:A stick figure sketch created by May T. Watts for The Morton Arboretum, depicting a figure sitting at an easel with a paintbrush in one hand and a painter's palette in the other while observing a tree.
Extent: 1 slide
Mothers and Children's course: Participation headband (3.34344)
Type: Photographic image
Description:A headband with six feathers, which was used in the Mother and Children's course taught by May T. Watts at The Morton Arboretum. Feathers were awarded to participants for each job accomplished during the course.
Extent: 1 slide
Vegetable dyes: Hemlock bark (3.34398)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Two loosely woven swatches of threads dyed with hemlock bark for a class taught by May T. Watts at The Morton Arboretum.
Label: Hemlock bark
Extent: 1 slide
Dick Wason and Nancy Hart teaching mushroom drawing art class (3.3955)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Dick Wason and Nancy Hart teaching mushroom drawing art class, group walking outside
Extent: 1 photograph
Nancy Hart lecturing for a Lunching and Learning class (3.4344)
Creator: Stickney, William S.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Nancy Hart lecturing for a Lunching and Learning class
Extent: 1 photograph
Man holding two raccoons during May T. Watts class (3.33930)
Type: Photographic image
Description:A man wearing a tie holds two small raccoons at a May T. Watts class.
Extent: 1 photograph
Education charts: Plants and animals in white (3.34178)
Type: Photographic image
Description:An educational chart depicting various plants and animals in shades of white.
Extent: 1 slide
Constellation figures: Cygnus and Lyra (3.34336)
Type: Photographic image
Description:A poster depicting drawings of the constellation figures Cygnus the swan and Lyra the harp, including some of the stars within each constellation pattern. The image is slightly cut-off on the right side.
Extent: 1 slide
Bird lotto game board (3.34391)
Type: Photographic image
Description:A game board depicting images of 25 types of birds for "bird lotto".
Extent: 1 slide
Morton Arboretum Guide, Marjorie Walls, with children in the prairie (3.4136)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Morton Arboretum Guide, Marjorie Walls, with children in the prairie
Extent: 1 photograph
Participants in a geology workshop, taking a closer look at plants (3.34148)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Participants in a geology workshop with May T. Watts inspect plants in a wooded area at The Morton Arboretum .
Extent: 1 slide
Educational charts: Tree Lotto (3.34245)
Type: Photographic image
Description:A chart created by May T. Watts for The Morton Arboretum, depicting 16 unlabeled leaf silhouettes in 4 columns of 4. The chart may have been used for game of "tree lotto."
Extent: 1 slide
Poster: Leaves (3.34289)
Type: Photographic image
Description:A poster composed of various types of leaves.
Extent: 1 slide
Seed model (3.34362)
Type: Photographic image
Description:A model featuring a cross-section of 2 halves of a seed. The model appears to be made of wood.
Extent: 1 slide
Mary Toohey and class examining turtle outdoors at a table (3.4086)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Mary Toohey holding up turtle to class of young children at table in covered picnic area outside
Extent: 1 photograph
Workshop participants in a meadow with May T. Watts (3.34141)
Type: Photographic image
Description:A group of workshop participants listen to May T. Watts give a presentation in a meadow at The Morton Arboretum.
Extent: 1 slide
Education charts: Field Food Web (3.34238)
Type: Photographic image
Description:An educational chart created by May T. Watts for The Morton Arboretum, depicting various plants, insects, and animals that are part of a field food web. The images in the chart are connected with arrows indicating the relationships between them in the web, labeled as follows:
- RED-TAILED HAWK
- GRASSHOPPER
- BLUEBIRD
- WILD STRAWBERRY
- BOX TORTISE
- WHITE FRINGED BEETLE
- PAINTED LADY
- GARTER SNAKE
- SHORT-TAILED SHREW
Extent: 1 slide
Heath flower model (3.34280)
Type: Photographic image
Description:A model of a heath flower created by May T. Watts for The Morton Arboretum, which appears to be made from polystyrene foam.
Extent: 1 slide
Farm Diorama: Poor farmer #3 (3.34355)
Type: Photographic image
Description:A diorama depicting a barn, a farmhouse, and crops planted on a hill, and crops mixed with large patches of dirt on hills in the background.
Extent: 1 slide
Vegetable dyes: White birch bark (3.34409)
Type: Photographic image
Description:A loosely woven swatch of threads and a bow of yarn dyed with white birch bark for a class taught by May T. Watts at The Morton Arboretum.
Label: White birch bark
Extent: 1 slide