Oriental printing, fantasy and art papers / imported and stocked by Andrews/Nelson/Whitehead, Inc. (3.23401)
Date: 20th centuryType: Book
Extent: [1] leaf, [4] p., [120] leaves : samples, some color 10 x 21 cm.
Fothergilla major [graphic] / N.S. Hart. (3.24067)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 1 drawing : graphite, b&w image 31 x 23 cm. + 1 sheet (28 x 22 cm.).
Fothergilla major [graphic] / N.S. Hart. (3.24097)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 1 drawing : graphite, b&w image 31 x 23 cm. + 1 sheet (28 x 22 cm.).
Crataegus phaenopyrum [graphic] / N. S. Hart. (3.24121)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 1 drawing : graphite, b&w 36 x 28 cm.
Connect the dots place mat and children's menu [graphic] : the Ginkgo Restaurant. (3.24251)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Fairbanks, Elaine Griffin
Type: Drawing
Extent: 1 photomechanical print : art reproduction, b&w 22 x 36 cm.
Tilia americana wreath [graphic] / N.S. Hart. (3.24351)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 1 drawing : pen and ink, b&w image 32 x 25 cm., on board 35 x 28 cm.
Hand lens [graphic] / N.S. Hart. (3.24356)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 1 drawing : pen and ink, b&w image 5 x 5 cm., on sheet 17 x 16 cm.
Willow branches [graphic]. (3.24543)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Hassall, Joan.
Type: Drawing
Extent: 1 drawing : brush and pen, one color 25 x 21 cm.
Pansy (3.24633)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustration of a large pansy flower and three detail views, including floral diagram, reverse of flower, and center, accompanied by descriptive text. Background sketches along the left side include a house, a heart, and a church, center bottom includes three women and two girls sitting in a circle drinking tea, and center right includes flowers and an elf. Sketches depict various pansy folklore.
Upper left text lists various names this flower goes by - herb trinity, pink of my John, heart's ease, step-mother, kit run in the street, kiss me at the garden gate, cuddle me to you, kiss me quick or PANSY
Top right floral diagram illustration identifies sepal, petal, stamen, pistil, nectar sac
Bottom left illustration (reverse of flower) identifies sepal, petal, nectar sac
Bottom right illustration identifies stigma, pistil and stamens, nectar sac
Extent: 1 sheet
Jeffersonia Diphylla (3.24637)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Large illustration of a Twinleaf plant with detailed views of seed pods, seed, stamen, and pistil details with identifying text. Background images include Monticello at center left, and silhouettes of two small scenes at top right, the top showing a man giving a lecture or speech with the word "Poter" or "Peter" partially erased, the bottom showing a man and a women planting or gardening.
Illustrations as depicted from left to right:
- 2 stamens, one closed, one opened
- 1 pistil
- 1 large illustration of Twinleaf with three sets of leaves and 1 flower
- 1 seed-pod closed
- 1 seed-pod open
- 1 seed
Extent: 1 sheet
Owl Pellets Galore (3.24640)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Document
Description:Four pages of type-written text for Owl Pellets Galore by May Theilgaard Watts, an account detailing the process of searching for and examining long-eared owl pellets with Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts.
Accompanied by artwork titled Under the Roost of the Long-Eared Owls.
Extent: 4 sheets
Under the Roost of the Long-Eared Owls (3.24641)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Four illustrations depicting long-eared owls and their pellets. Captions accompany each individual illustration. The drawings illustrate the story OWL PELLETS GALORE by May Theilgaard Watts, Naturalist at The Morton Arboretum.
Upper left text: UNDER the ROOST of the LONG-EARED OWLS
Illustrations with captions, from left to right, top to bottom:
- Drawing of an owl pellet
- Caption: An owl pellet
- Drawing of forest floor, including rhododendron
- Caption: When rhododendron leaves uncurl we find pellets.
- Drawing of rodent bone findings
- Caption: Each pellet reveals parts of a small rodent.
- Drawing of two owls in a tree
- Caption: They seem to grow taller as we approach.
Extent: 1 sheet
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
Landscape with Houses and Trees (3.24647)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustration of a hilly landscape with five houses, pasture, fences, farm land, a lake, a stream, a bridge, roads, a water wheel, and many trees. Trees are drawn to indicate general shape and each tree is identified. NATURE STUDY GUILD is stamped in purple on piece of board and glued at top right.
Trees depicted:
White pine -- Spruce -- Austrian pine -- Pear -- Sassafras -- Sumac -- Black willows -- Box elder --
Apple -- Red cedar -- Norway pine -- Yellow birch -- Black walnut -- Sour gum -- White cedar -- Poison sumac -- Tamarack -- White ash -- Chestnut oak -- Blue ash -- Red oak -- Beech -- Shagbark hickory -- Mockernut hickory -- Red maple -- Pignut hickory -- Wafer ash -- River birch -- Buckeye --
Shingle oak -- Bur oak -- Linden -- Cherry birch -- Shadbush -- Hill's oak -- White oak -- Sugar maple -- Black locust -- Black cherry -- Large-toothed poplar -- Cottonwood -- Waahoo -- Trembling aspen -- Witch-hazel -- Flowering dogwood -- Ironwood -- Chestnut -- Pin cherry -- Choke cherry -- Wild crab -- Wild plum -- Redbud -- Water beech -- Balm of Gilead -- Red mulberry -- Tulip tree -- Sycamore -- Bitternut hickory -- Slippery elm -- Butternut -- Swamp white -- Kentucky coffee tree -- Red ash -- Honey locust -- Hawthorne -- Lombardy poplars -- European alder -- Black ash -- Osage orange hedge -- Ailanthus -- Paw-paw -- Hackberry -- White birch -- American elm -- Catalpa -- Norway maple -- Weeping willow -- White wilow -- Pin oak -- Horse chestnut -- Mountian ash -- Pussy willow -- Fir -- Ginkgo -- Silver maple -- Scotch pine -- Silver poplar
Extent: 1 sheet
Plan showing changes in drive, north part of Humboldt Park [cartographic material] / Jens Jensen. (3.24886)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Jensen, Jens
Type: Plan
Extent: 1 plan 86 x 54 cm.
Planting plan for portion of Humboldt Park [cartographic material] / [Jens Jensen]. (3.24888)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Jensen, Jens
Type: Plan
Extent: 1 plan 52 x 55 cm.
Union Park, [Chicago [cartographic material] : planting plan] / Jens Jensen. (3.24899)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Jensen, Jens
Type: Plan
Extent: 1 plan 51 x 55 cm.
Maps of the Parks under the Jurisdiction of West Chicago Park Commissioners (3.24902)
Date: 1912Creator: Chicago (Ill.). West Chicago Park Commissioners.
Type: Plan
Description:Garfield Park, Douglas Park, Humboldt Park, Union Park, Wicker Park, Jefferson Park, Vernon Park, Holstein Park, Park No. 1, [Eckhardt Park], Shedd's Park, Park No. 2, [Stanford Park], Park No. 3, [Dvorak Park], Plat of park site no. 5, showing location and character of buildings, [Pulaski Park]
Extent: 1 atlas (6 leaves)
Preliminary Sketch for Play Ground - Harrison Park (3.24908)
Date: September 1912Creator: Jensen, Jens
Type: Plan
Extent: 1 sheet
Dr. David Fairchild [graphic]. (3.27843)
Date: 20th centuryType: Print
Extent: 1 photograph : b&w visible image 25 x 20 cm.
Summer or wood duck = Anas sponsa. L. (3.29192)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Audubon, John James, 1785-1851.
Type: Painting
Extent: 1 print : commercial reproduction, color image 74 x 49 cm., on sheet 82 x 56 cm.
Peony stem from two sides (3.29550)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Dürer, Albrecht, 1471-1528.
Type: Painting
Extent: 1 photomechanical print : collotype, color image 38 x 31 cm., on sheet 45 x 37 cm.
Bouquet of flowers (3.29835)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Enders.
Type: Painting
Extent: 1 print : photomechanical reproduction, colored sheet 30 x 42 cm. folded to 30 x 21 cm.
Daisies and zinnias (3.29836)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Enders.
Type: Painting
Extent: 1 print : photomechanical reproduction, colored sheet 30 x 42 cm., folded to 30 x 21 cm.
A Woman, a Man, and a Flower (3.31055)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Print
Description:A linoleum block print of a woman and a man pointing to a flower. The woman is on the left of the flower holding a broom, and the man is on the right holding a pitchfork. The Sun, which has a smiling face, appears in the sky between them.
Extent: 1 sheet
View of Thornhill (3.31060)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustration of view up the hill to the Thornhill Education Center at The Morton Arboretum, with bare trees and mushrooms in foreground, clouds and trees behind building in background, and an ink border.
Illustration used as image for printed notecards.
Extent: 1 sheet
Hen turkey and young : a study in miniature of plate 6 of the Elephant folio reproduced from the original drawing. (3.31121)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Audubon, John James, 1785-1851.
Type: Painting
Extent: 1 print : commercial reproduction, color 30 x 21 cm.
Daffodil sketches for demonstration [graphic] / N. S. Hart. (3.31658)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 4 drawings : graphite, b&w 18 x 17 cm., 19 x 16 cm., 20 x 14 cm., and 30 x 51 cm.
Daffodil sketches for demonstration [graphic] / N. S. Hart. (3.31659)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 4 drawings : graphite, b&w 18 x 17 cm., 19 x 16 cm., 20 x 14 cm., and 30 x 51 cm.
Daffodil sketches for demonstration [graphic] / N. S. Hart. (3.31660)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 4 drawings : graphite, b&w 18 x 17 cm., 19 x 16 cm., 20 x 14 cm., and 30 x 51 cm.