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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
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
Plan of Tile System in Thoman Farm, Joy Morton (3.5596)
Date: circa 1919Creator: Webster, Arthur L.
Type: Map
Extent: 1 sheet
[Morton Property Purchase Map for Section 34, T.39N., R.10E. And N1/2 Section 3, T.39N., R.10E, of the 3rd P.M.] (3.5989)
Date: 1910sType: Map
Extent: 1 sheet
Thornhill, Estate of Joy Morton, Esq., Lisle, Illinois (3.6026)
Date: 1910sCreator: Perkins, F. W.
Type: Map
Description:Includes ms. notes by Carol Doty regarding various building modifications, dates.
Extent: 6 sheets in binder
Joy Morton Commencement Address to Blackburn College (3.62333)
Date: 1919Type: Document
Description:Transcript of the commencement address Joy Morton gave to Blackburn College in Carlinville, Illinois on June 4, 1919. In addition to the transcript, the graduation program is also included.
Joy Morton Address to the Illinois Chamber of Commerce (3.62335)
Date: 1915 – 1930Type: Document
Description:Transcript of a speech given by Joy Morton to the Illinois Chamber of Commerce for their Waterway Trip, June 16 and 17. The exact year the speech was given is unknown, but it is estimated it occurred between 1915 and 1930.
A Planting Plan for the Swimming Pool and Garden Area Estate of Mr. Joy Morton (3.7256)
Date: October 1919Creator: Jensen, Jens
Type: Plan
Extent: 1 sheet