Prairie plants [graphic] : Christmas card / Nancy Hart. (3.24008)
Date: 1970sCreator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 1 card : art reproduction, color 18 x 38 cm., folded in thirds to 18 x 13 cm. + 1 photocopy b&w, 28 x 44 cm.
Prairie landscape [graphic] : winter. (3.24565)
Date: 1996Creator: Olson, George.
Type: Drawing
Extent: 1 drawing : brush and stick, b&w image 37 x 28 cm., on sheet 42 x 31 cm.
Three Seasons of Bloom in the Prairie (3.24642)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustration of 23 prairie plants shown in a chart formation categorized by Fall, Summer, and Spring from top to bottom, and from high prairie to low prairie from left to right. Identifying text appears beneath each illustration, some of which is on strip of board attached to the bottom with tape.
Header: THREE SEASONS of BLOOM in the PRAIRIE
Text, top right: the individual plants represent colonies of varying sizes
Plants as depicted from top to bottom, left to right:
- Fall
- big bluestem
- blazing star
- Indian grass
- wild rye
- switch grass
- saw-toothed sunflower
- prairie dock
- cord grass
- Summer
- lead plant
- New Jersey tea
- flowering spurge
- stiff goldenrod
- black-eyed Susan
- Culver's root
- tall meadow rue
- Sullivant's milkweed
- Spring:
- bird's-foot violet
- blue-eyed grass
- puccoon
- downy phlox
- wild strawberry
- Canada anemone
- yellow star grass
Extent: 1 sheet
Echinacea and monarch butterfly [graphic] / Brender à Brandis. (3.25287)
Date: 2000Creator: Brender à Brandis, Gerard William
Type: Print
Extent: 1 print : wood engraving, b&w image 13 x 11 cm., on sheet 22 x 17.
Root systems of prairie plants [graphic] / Heidi Natura. (3.26633)
Date: 1995Creator: Natura, Heidi.
Type: Print
Extent: 1 sheet : commercial reproduction, b&w 46 x 61 cm.
Prairie plants : Christmas card / Nancy Hart. (3.30400)
Date: 1970sCreator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Painting
Extent: 1 card : art reproduction, color 18 x 38 cm., folded in thirds to 18 x 13 cm. + 1 photocopy b&w, 28 x 44 cm.
Illinois tallgrass prairie underground / Carol Lerner. (3.30508)
Date: 2001Creator: Lerner, Carol
Type: Painting
Extent: 1 print : commerical halftone reproduction, color 64 x 98 cm.
Illinois tallgrass prairie underground / Carol Lerner. (3.30509)
Date: 2001Creator: Lerner, Carol
Type: Painting
Extent: 1 print : commerical halftone reproduction, color 64 x 98 cm.
Lecture by Ray Schulenberg: The Story of The Morton Arboretum Prairie Restoration (3.31580)
Date: September 11 1987Type: Audio
Description:Lecture titled "The Story of The Morton Arboretum Prairie Restoration" given by Ray Schulenberg as part of the 25th Anniversary Celebration of The Morton Arboretum Prairie.
Extent: 1 audio cassette
Prairie Sequence (3.32110)
Date: 1993Creator: Halliday, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Description:Pen and ink drawing of prairie plants from dry to wet prairie. Each plant is identified by number with a key on the back of the mat.
Extent: 1 pen and ink drawing
Savanna: West Chicago Prairie (3.32111)
Date: 1993Creator: Halliday, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Description:An understory view through the trees of the West Chicago Prairie.
Extent: 1 scratchboard drawing
The Morton Arboretum Quarterly V. 03 No. 02 (3.34551)
Date: June 21 – September 20 1967Type: Serial
Description:
- Prairie in a Post-Prairie Era (17-27)
- The Lookout (27)
- Notes on Prairie Plant Cultivation (28-31)
- Arboretum News and Notes/ Climatological Summary (32)
Extent: 16 pages
Big bluestem and prairie dock (3.3559)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Prairie bluestem and prairie dock
Extent: 1 photograph
Ray Schulenberg in fall prairie with big bluestem (3.3584)
Date: 1970sType: Photographic image
Description:Ray Schulenberg in fall prairie with big bluestem
Extent: 1 photograph
Gravestones in a prairie cemetery (3.36230)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Two tombstones in a prairie cemetery are surrounded by prairie flowers and plants. One of the stones is barely visible in the grass.
This image is part of a group of slides that belonged to May T. Watts, related to her book Reading the Landscape.
Extent: 1 slide
Gravestones in a prairie cemetery (3.36231)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Two tombstones in a prairie cemetery are surrounded by prairie flowers and plants. One of the stones is barely visible in the grass.
This image is part of a group of slides that belonged to May T. Watts, related to her book Reading the Landscape.
Extent: 1 slide
Gravestone and flowers in a prairie cemetery (3.36232)
Type: Photographic image
Description:A tombstone surrounded by prairie flowers and plants.
The inscription on the stone reads, in part:
--- / BIRDIE / ---
This image is part of a group of slides that belonged to May T. Watts, related to her book Reading the Landscape.
Extent: 1 slide
Gravestone in a prairie cemetery (3.36233)
Type: Photographic image
Description:A tombstone surrounded by prairie plants.
The inscription on the stone reads, in part:
JERUSHA / wife of / ---
This image is part of a group of slides that belonged to May T. Watts, related to her book Reading the Landscape.
Extent: 1 slide
Plants in a prairie cemetery (3.36234)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Goldenrod grows in a prairie cemetery among other prairie plants. A white headstone is also visible, as well as farm buildings and cropland in the background.
This image is part of a group of slides that belonged to May T. Watts, related to her book Reading the Landscape.
Extent: 1 slide
Gravestone surrounded by needlegrass (3.36235)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Needlegrass surrounds a tombstone in a prairie cemetery.
This image is part of a group of slides that belonged to May T. Watts, related to her book Reading the Landscape.
Extent: 1 slide
Gravestones in a prairie cemetery (3.36236)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Tombstones in a prairie cemetery surrounded by prairie plants. The stone on the left is barely visible through the grass.
This image is part of a group of slides that belonged to May T. Watts, related to her book Reading the Landscape.
Extent: 1 slide
Blazing star and bluestem (3.36237)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Blazing star and bluestem grow in a prairie cemetery. Farmland appears in the background.
This image is part of a group of slides that belonged to May T. Watts, related to her book Reading the Landscape.
Extent: 1 slide
Gentian in a prairie cemetery (3.36239)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Gentian growing in a prairie cemetery.
This image is part of a group of slides that belonged to May T. Watts, related to her book Reading the Landscape.
Extent: 1 slide
Gentian growing in a prairie cemetery (3.36240)
Type: Photographic image
Description:A close-up view of gentian growing in a prairie cemetery.
This image is part of a group of slides that belonged to May T. Watts, related to her book Reading the Landscape.
Extent: 1 slide
Wildflowers in a prairie cemetery (3.36241)
Type: Photographic image
Description:White prairie flowers growing in a prairie cemetery.
This image is part of a group of slides that belonged to May T. Watts, related to her book Reading the Landscape.
Extent: 1 slide
Purple and white wildflowers in a prairie cemetery (3.36242)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Purple and white prairie flowers growing in a prairie cemetery.
This image is part of a group of slides that belonged to May T. Watts, related to her book Reading the Landscape.
Extent: 1 slide
Purple and white wildflowers in a prairie cemetery (3.36243)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Purple and white prairie flowers growing in a prairie cemetery.
This image is part of a group of slides that belonged to May T. Watts, related to her book Reading the Landscape.
Extent: 1 slide
Wheatland Plowing Match, spectators observing furrows (3.36244)
Date: 1950sType: Photographic image
Description:Spectators observe a newly plowed field created during the Wheatland Plowing Match in Wheatland Township, Illinois. A barbed wire fence and prairie grasses appear in the foreground.
This image is part of a group of slides that belonged to May T. Watts, related to her book Reading the Landscape.
Extent: 1 slide
Wheatland Plowing Match, a newly plowed field (3.36245)
Date: 1950sType: Photographic image
Description:A newly plowed field created during the Wheatland Plowing Match in Wheatland Township, Illinois. A barbed wire fence and prairie grasses appear in the foreground.
This image is part of a group of slides that belonged to May T. Watts, related to her book Reading the Landscape.
Extent: 1 slide
Wheatland Plowing Match, spectators viewing a newly plowed field (3.36246)
Date: 1950sType: Photographic image
Description:Groups of spectators view a newly plowed field created during the Wheatland Plowing Match in Wheatland Township, Illinois. A barbed wire fence and prairie grasses appear in the foreground.
This image is part of a group of slides that belonged to May T. Watts, related to her book Reading the Landscape.
Extent: 1 slide
Big bluestem and blazing star (3.36260)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Big bluestem and blazing star growing near plowed fields.
This image is part of a group of slides that belonged to May T. Watts, related to her book Reading the Landscape.
Extent: 1 slide
Prairie plants and cornstalks (3.36261)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Prairie grasses and flowers growing in front of a barbed wire fence, behind which is growing a field of cornstalks.
This image is part of a group of slides that belonged to May T. Watts, related to her book Reading the Landscape.
Extent: 1 slide
Rosinweed (3.36262)
Type: Photographic image
Description:A rosinweed plant grows among other prairie plants in front of a barbed wire fence. In the background is a road, behind which rows of corn are growing.
This image is part of a group of slides that belonged to May T. Watts, related to her book Reading the Landscape.
Extent: 1 slide
Prairie flowers (3.36263)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Wildflowers growing among prairie plants.
This image is part of a group of slides that belonged to May T. Watts, related to her book Reading the Landscape.
Extent: 1 slide
Tiger lilies (3.36264)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Tiger lily flowers growing among prairie plants.
This image is part of a group of slides that belonged to May T. Watts, related to her book Reading the Landscape.
Extent: 1 slide
Tiger lilies and other prairie plants (3.36265)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Tiger lily flowers growing among prairie plants.
This image is part of a group of slides that belonged to May T. Watts, related to her book Reading the Landscape.
Extent: 1 slide