Education charts: Flood Plain (3.34227)
Type: Photographic image
Description:An educational chart created by May T. Watts for The Morton Arboretum, depicting a flood plain 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: FLOOD PLAIN
Labels from top to bottom, left to right:
- mourining cloak butt[erfly]
- great blue heron
- Ameri- / can / elm
- wild ginger
- raccoon
Extent: 1 slide
Education charts: Forest Margin and Fence Row (3.34182)
Type: Photographic image
Description:An educational chart created by May T. Watts for The Morton Arboretum, depicting a forest margin and fence row 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: FOREST MARGIN and FENCE-ROW
Labels from top to bottom, left to right:
- bumble-bee
- gold-finch
- hawthorn
- wild strawberry
- deer-mouse
Extent: 1 slide
Exhibits: Beall Woods trees, Shellbark Hickory and Pecan (3.34253)
Type: Photographic image
Description:An exhibit board created by Elizabeth Zimmerman for The Morton Arboretum, depicting detailed drawings of the trunks, leaves, stems, and fruit found on trees in Beall Woods.
Labels:
- Shellbark / Hickory -
- Pecan
Extent: 1 slide
Exhibits: Animal Homes (3.34246)
Type: Photographic image
Description:An exhibit board created by May T. Watts for The Morton Arboretum, depicting a landscape of various trees as well as a view underground. There are several openings cut into the board which presumably depict various animal homes among the trees and below the ground.
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
Education charts: Pacific Northwest (3.34231)
Type: Photographic image
Description:An educational chart created by May T. Watts for The Morton Arboretum, depicting a Pacific Northwest 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: PACIFIC NORTHWEST
Labels and image from top to bottom, left to right:
- salal
- Canadian Jay
- Douglas Fir
- black-tailed deer
- redwood / western red cedar
Extent: 1 slide
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
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
Exhibits: Beall Woods trees (3.34250)
Type: Photographic image
Description:An exhibit board created by Elizabeth Zimmerman for The Morton Arboretum, depicting drawings of various leaves, stems, flowers, and fruit from trees found in Beall Woods.
Labels:
- Sycamore
- [M]agnolia
- [S]assafrass
- Persimmon
- Beech
- Hackberry
Extent: 1 slide
Education charts: Pine-Oak Scrub Food Web (3.34242)
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 pine-oak scrub food web. The images in the chart are connected with arrows indicating the relationships between them in the web, labeled as follows:
- PRAIRIE WARBLER
- PITCH PINE
- FOWLER'S TOAD
- RED FOX
- SHARP-SHINNED HAWK
- CHICKADEE
- CATERPILLAR
- CENTIPEDE
- TOWHEE
- CHIPMUNK
- SCRUB OAK
- ORGANIC DEBRIS
- BEETLE GRUB
Extent: 1 slide
Education charts: Twigs, #1 (3.34235)
Type: Photographic image
Description:An educational chart created by May T. Watts for The Morton Arboretum, depicting 12 types of winter buds on twigs. The chart appears to be tacked to a classroom display board.
Illustrations and text, from left to right, top to bottom:
- bitternut hickory
- witch-hazel
- shadbush
- beech
- black walnut
- butternut
- sassafras
- shagbark hickory
- linden
- mountain ash
- sour gum
- silver poplar
Extent: 1 slide
Education charts: Beach-Dune (3.34228)
Type: Photographic image
Description:An educational chart created by May T. Watts for The Morton Arboretum, depicting a beach-dune 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: BEACH-DUNE
Labels from top to bottom, left to right:
- white tiger beetle
- spotted sandpiper
- cottonwood
- butterfly weed
- common toad
Extent: 1 slide
Education charts: Rocky Mountains (3.34201)
Type: Photographic image
Description:An educational chart created by May T. Watts for The Morton Arboretum, depicting a Rocky Mountain 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: ROCKY MOUNTAINS
Labels from top to bottom, left to right:
- Colorado columbine
- mountain bluebird
- --- ---
- cony
- alpine fir / Engelmann spruce
Extent: 1 slide
Exhibits: Animal Homes, red fox den (3.34247)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Closeup view of an exhibit board depicting animals homes created by May T. Watts for The Morton Arboretum, featuring three red foxes in a den.
Text in label, from top to bottom, left to right:
- APRIL
- RED FOXES / den up before the / young are born and / cubs spend their first / --- in the den.
Extent: 1 slide
Education charts: Great Lakes Food Web (3.34239)
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 Great Lakes food web. The images in the chart are connected with arrows indicating the relationships between them in the web, labeled as follows:
- LAKE TROUT
- HERON
- BALD EAGLE
- OSPREY
- SUNFISH
- ALEWIFE
- BULLFROG
- COHO SALMON
- DIVING BEETLE
- TADPOLE
- DRAGONFLY NYMPH
- SNAPPING TURTLE
- SCAUP
- MAYFLY NYMPH
- CRUSTACEANS
- BACTERIA
- ORGANIC DEBRIS
- TUBIFEX WORMS
Extent: 1 slide
Education charts: The Deep South (3.34232)
Type: Photographic image
Description:An educational chart created by May T. Watts for The Morton Arboretum, depicting a deep South 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: THE DEEP SOUTH
Labels and image from top to bottom, left to right:
- azalea
- mocking bird
- sweet / gum
- opossum
- magnolia / live oak
Extent: 1 slide
Education charts: Desert (3.34225)
Type: Photographic image
Description:An educational chart created by May T. Watts for The Morton Arboretum, depicting a desert 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: DESERT
Labels from top to bottom, left to right:
- cactus
- catus wren
- yucca
- horned toad
- sage / saguaro
Extent: 1 slide
Education charts: Town and Suburb (3.34180)
Type: Photographic image
Description:An educational chart created by May T. Watts for The Morton Arboretum, depicting a town and suburb 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: TOWN AND SUBURB
Labels from top to bottom, left to right:
- clear-wing moth
- robin
- Norway maple
- petunia
- rabbit
Extent: 1 slide
Exhibits: Beall Woods trees, various oaks (3.34251)
Type: Photographic image
Description:An exhibit board created by Elizabeth Zimmerman for The Morton Arboretum, depicting drawings of various leaves, trunks, and fruit from oak trees found in Beall Woods.
Labels:
- --- / Oak
- Chinquapin Oak
- Shingle Oak
- Overcup [Oak]
Extent: 1 slide
Education charts: Salt Marsh Food Web (3.34243)
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 marsh food web. The images in the chart are connected with arrows indicating the relationships between them in the web, labeled as follows:
- CLAPPER RAIL
- [CRAB]
- TURTLE
- RIBBED MUSSEL
- MEADOWLARK
- GRASSHOPPER
- MARSH PLANTS
- YELLOWLEGS
- REDWING / BLACKBIRD
- MUSKRAT
- BLACK DUCK
- VOLE
- SHORT-EARED OWL
- MARSH HAW[K]
- DRAGON FLY
- RACCOON
- MOSQUITO
- SAND SHRIMP
- GREEN HERON
Extent: 1 slide
Education charts: Twigs, #3 (3.34236)
Type: Photographic image
Description:An educational chart created by May T. Watts for The Morton Arboretum, depicting 16 types of winter buds on twigs. The chart appears to be tacked to a classroom display board.
Illustrations and text, from left to right, top to bottom:
- honey locust
- black locust
- Osage orange
- hawthorn
- wild crab
- wild plum
- European larch
- ginkgo
- red oak
- white oak
- tulip tree
- sycamore
- Kentucky coffeetree
- tree of heaven
- staghorn sumac
- willow
Extent: 1 slide
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
Education charts: The Bog (3.34222)
Type: Photographic image
Description:An educational chart created by May T. Watts for The Morton Arboretum, depicting a bog 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: THE BOG
Labels from top to bottom, left to right:
- luna moth
- red-eyed ---
- tamarack / or / American / larch
- showy lady's slipper
- spring ---
Extent: 1 slide
Exhibits: Old Tree Flannelgraph (3.34248)
Type: Photographic image
Description:A flannelgraph exhibit board created by May T. Watts for The Morton Arboretum, depicting a landscape of old trees, barbed wire fence, and a pond.
Extent: 1 slide
Education charts: Developed Area Food Web (3.34240)
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 development area food web. The images in the chart are connected with arrows indicating the relationships between them in the web, labeled as follows:
Header: DEVELOPED AREA
- TREE SWALLOW
- ROBIN
- EARTHWORM
- HOUSE MOSQUITO
- CHIPPING SPARROW
- CATERPILLAR
- RABBIT
- SCREECH OWL
- ORGANIC DEBRIS
- ELM
- GARDEN PLANT
- HOUSE MOUSE
Note: Three of the organisms depicted at the top edge of the chart are slightly cut off, although the labels are still visible.
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
Education charts: Beech-Maple Climax (3.34226)
Type: Photographic image
Description:An educational chart created by May T. Watts for The Morton Arboretum, depicting a beech-maple climax forest 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: BEECH-MAPLE CLIMAX
Labels from top to bottom, left to right:
- wood sorrel
- oven bird
- beech
- chipmunk
- hemlock / sugar maple
Extent: 1 slide
Education charts: New England (3.34181)
Type: Photographic image
Description:An educational chart created by May T. Watts for The Morton Arboretum, depicting a New England 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: NEW ENGLAND
Labels from top to bottom, left to right:
- Indian pipe
- purple finch
- white pine
- porcupine
- balsam fir / --- spruce
Extent: 1 slide
Exhibits: Beall Woods trees, detailed bark and leaves (3.34252)
Type: Photographic image
Description:An exhibit board created by Elizabeth Zimmerman for The Morton Arboretum, depicting detailed drawings of the leaves, bark, and a flower found on trees in Beall Woods.
Labels:
- Hackberry
- Tulip - / "Yellow Poplar"
- Sugarberry
- Dogwood
- Sour Gum -
- Sweet / Gum -
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
Education charts: Nighttime Objects (3.34237)
Type: Photographic image
Description:An educational chart created by May T. Watts for The Morton Arboretum, depicting what appear to be various types of plants, insects, and other objects at night. The chart appears to be tacked to a classroom display board.
Extent: 1 slide
Education charts: Florida (3.34230)
Type: Photographic image
Description:An educational chart created by May T. Watts for The Morton Arboretum, depicting a Florida 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: FLORIDA
Labels and image from top to bottom, left to right:
- water hyacinth
- American egret
- bald cypress
- alligator
- cabage palm / red maple
Extent: 1 slide
Education charts: Washington, D.C. (3.34223)
Type: Photographic image
Description:An educational chart created by May T. Watts for The Morton Arboretum, depicting a Washington, D.C. 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: WASHINGTON D.C.
Labels from top to bottom, left to right:
- moutain laurel
- purple mountain
- holly
- flying squirrel
- flowering dogwood / red-bud
Extent: 1 slide
Education charts: Plants, insects, and animals in brown (3.34176)
Type: Photographic image
Description:An educational chart depicting various plants, insects, and animals in shades of brown and white.
Extent: 1 slide
Exhibits: Beall Woods trees and vines (3.34249)
Type: Photographic image
Description:An exhibit board created by Elizabeth Zimmerman for The Morton Arboretum, depicting drawings of various leaves, stems, and flowers from trees and vines found in Beall Woods.
Labels:
- Redbud
- Paw-paw
- Cross Vine
- Catalpa
- Dutchman's / Pipe / Vine
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