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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: White Oak (3.34373)
Date: September 4 1974Creator: Stickney, William S.
Type: Photographic image
Description:A diorama from the Uses of Wood exhibit, depicting an example of how white oak wood is used in decorative interior finishes, such as fireplace mantels and wall panels.
Extent: 1 slide
Quercus alba (white oak), diseased leaves (3.38325)
Date: August 1973Creator: Stickney, William S.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Quercus alba (white oak), detail of leaves infected with anthracnose and powdery grayish galls on underside
Extent: 1 slide
Quercus alba (white oak), trunk and branches (3.38333)
Date: August 15 1973Creator: Stickney, William S.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Quercus alba (white oak), detail of mature trunk with deeply furrowed gray bark and view toward wide spreading and thickly branched top
Extent: 1 slide
Quercus alba (white oak), habit, summer (3.38338)
Date: August 1973Creator: Stickney, William S.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Quercus alba (white oak), habit, tall tree showing pyramidal-shaped crown and wide-spreading branches densely covered with green leaves amongst collection
Extent: 1 slide
Quercus alba (white oak), galls on trunk (3.38339)
Date: June 1975Creator: Stickney, William S.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Quercus alba (white oak), section of trunk detail with three small different-sized rounded woody outgrowths
Extent: 1 slide
Quercus alba (white oak), gall near trunk base detail (3.38341)
Date: June 1975Creator: Stickney, William S.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Quercus alba (white oak), detail of large light tan and gray gall near trunk base in foreground amongst grasses and trees
Extent: 1 slide
Quercus alba (white oak), galls near trunk base (3.38371)
Date: June 1975Creator: Stickney, William S.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Quercus alba (white oak), three small, medium and large galls located at upper, middle, and lower section of mature gray trunk base amongst grass and trees
Extent: 1 slide