Two Cattails (3.19475)
Date: 1940sCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustrations of two cattails with identifying text. Graphite sketches of the plants are visible at each image.
Drawings as depicted from left to right:
- cattail with pistils and stamens identified
- cattail with seeds identified
Extent: 1 sheet
Education charts: Filling Lake (3.34229)
Type: Photographic image
Description:An educational chart created by May T. Watts for The Morton Arboretum, depicting a filling lake 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: FILLING LAKE
Labels and image from top to bottom, left to right:
- dragon fly
- kingfishe[r]
- willow
- cat-tail
- muskrat
Extent: 1 slide
Illinois Prairie Path, first trip: dry cattails and marsh marigolds (3.35277)
Date: October 19 1963Creator: Sobolik, A. A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Dry cattails and marsh marigolds along the former Chicago, Aurora and Elgin railway, on land that would become part of the Illinois Prairie Path.
Extent: 1 slide