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Uses of Wood Exhibit (3.34367)
Date: September 4 1974Creator: Stickney, William S.
Type: Photographic image
Description:An exhibit featuring wood from 18 different trees and its uses. The display is configured in four concentric circles centered around a spinning cross: the inner circle depicts tree silhouettes, the next circle depicts detailed images of leaves, the third consists of square panels of processed wood, and the outer circle consists of dioramas depicting how each type of wood is used.
The cross is labeled as follows:
- TREE SHAPE
- LEAF [red arrow]
- WOOD
- USES
- TURN THE RED ARROW TO A LEAF / THE OTHER ARMS WILL POINT TO: / the shape of the tree / a piece of wood from the tree / some uses for the wood
- WHITE ASH
- ARBOR VITAE
- WHITE SPRUCE
- SWEET GUM
- SUGAR MAPLE
- AMERICAN LINDEN
- CHERRY
- TULIP TREE
- BALD CYPRESS
- IRONWOOD
- WHITE PINE
- BLACK WALNUT
- AMERICAN ELM
- SHAGBARK HICKORY
- WHITE OAK
- RED OAK
- EASTERN HEMLOCK
- PONDEROSA PINE
Extent: 1 slide
Uses of Wood Exhibit: Sugar Maple (3.34384)
Date: September 4 1974Creator: Stickney, William S.
Type: Photographic image
Description:A diorama from the Uses of Wood exhibit, depicting an example of how sugar maple wood is used in items such as flooring, interior finishes, and furniture.
Extent: 1 slide
Acer saccharum (sugar maple), habit, fall (3.37923)
Date: October 1973Creator: Stickney, William S.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer saccharum (sugar maple), full view of large tree beginning to show some fall color, located new west end of Lake Marmo
Extent: 1 slide
Acer saccharum (sugar maple), bark (3.37991)
Date: January 1970Creator: Stickney, William S.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer saccharum (sugar maple), part of the trunk of a tree with identification tag that reads "Sugar Maple; Acer saccharum Spontaneous"; bark of trunk is furrowed and plated, indicative of an older tree
Extent: 1 slide