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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
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
American elm on Lake Marmo (3.2938)
Date: 1920sType: Photographic image
Description:American elm on Lake Marmo after 1922 relocation with lengthy handwritten commentary on board. Describes moving tree under direction of O.C. Simonds. Note adds tree helped C.E.Godshalk become Arboretum superintendent in May 1922. Drawn illustration of move on back of board.
Written on front of board
"This tree was most important tree of all trees in CEG's mind. It helped him more than anything else to become Arb Sup't in May 1922."
"This tree died of Dutch Elm Disease years later 1950's."
Written on back of board
"In spring of 1922 when Mr. Senn was sup't, the road around Lake Marmo was to be made and a 6-8" diam Amer. Elm #1 was in the roadway. Mr. O. C. Simonds, who was in charge assigned the job of moving the elm to location #2 (above drawing) which meant it had to be dug with a ball about 6' in diameter and about 2' deep. It then had to be loaded onto a stone boat or flat skid, and moved upright through the hawthornes that were zig-zag opposite each other. It could not be moved lying down because it would break the then, wide ball and roots. A team of horses was his only power to move the tree.
He loaded it toward the front of the stone boat so the weight made the stone boat dig in the ground & the horses couldn't pull it. Secondly he had no guy ropes to the tree top to guide it between the hawthornes. About that..."
Extent: 1 photograph
Residence Drive near Thornhill Residence (3.3000)
Date: 1920sCreator: Henry Fuermann and Sons
Type: Photographic image
Description:Residence Drive near Thornhill Residence
Extent: 1 photograph
Lake Marmo dam & bridge as originally designed by O.C. Simonds (3.3032)
Date: 1922Type: Photographic image
Description:Lake Marmo dam & bridge as originally designed by O.C. Simonds
Extent: 1 photograph
Concrete bridge over DuPage River, looking north (3.3050)
Date: 1920sCreator: Melton, W.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Concrete bridge over DuPage River, looking north, before metal railings were installed
Extent: 1 photograph
Ozarks first planting alongside nearly constructed Lake Jopamaca, DuPage River to the right (3.3070)
Date: March 21 – June 20 1922Type: Photographic image
Description:Looking north at Ozarks first planting alongside nearly constructed Lake Jopamaca, DuPage River to the right
Extent: 1 photograph
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
Joy Morton, formal portrait (3.31648)
Date: circa 1920 – 1939Creator: Moffett Russell
Type: Photographic image
Description:Formal portrait of Joy Morton in his later years.
Extent: 1 photograph
Joy Morton's registered Holstein cow with handler as calf feeds at Lisle Farms (3.31729)
Date: 1920sType: Photographic image
Description:Joy Morton's registered Holstein cow with handler as calf feeds at Lisle Farms.
Joy Morton had a world's record milk producing cow. He once bid $105,000.00 on a bull calf at an auction.
Extent: 1 negative
Joy Morton's registered Holstein cow with 2 handlers as calf feeds at Lisle Farms (3.31730)
Date: 1920sType: Photographic image
Description:Joy Morton's registered Holstein cow with 2 handlers as calf feeds at Lisle Farms
Joy Morton had a world's record milk producing cow. He once bid $105,000.00 on a bull calf at an auction.
Extent: 1 negative
Joy Morton's registered Holstein black and white bull at Lisle Farms, side view (3.31731)
Date: 1920sType: Photographic image
Description:Joy Morton's registered Holstein black and white bull at Lisle Farms, side view.
Joy Morton had a world's record milk producing cow. He once bid $105,000.00 on a bull calf at an auction.
Extent: 1 negative
Joy Morton's registered Holstein white bull at Lisle Farms, side view (3.31732)
Date: 1920sType: Photographic image
Description:Joy Morton's registered Holstein white bull at Lisle Farms, side view.
Joy Morton had a world's record milk producing cow. He once bid $105,000.00 on a bull calf at an auction.
Extent: 1 negative
Lisle Farms registered Holstein bull looking to the right at Schroeder Farm (3.31733)
Date: 1920 – 1939Type: Photographic image
Description:Lisle Farms registered Holstein bull looking to the right at Schroeder Farm
Side view, closeup of head
Extent: 1 negative
Lisle Farms registered Holstein bull looking to the left at Schroeder Farm (3.31734)
Date: 1920 – 1939Type: Photographic image
Description:Lisle Farms registered Holstein bull looking to the left at Schroeder Farm
Side view, closeup of head
Extent: 1 negative
Lisle Farms registered Holstein cow at Schroeder Farm (3.31735)
Date: 1920 – 1939Type: Photographic image
Description:Lisle Farms registered Holstein cow at Schroeder Farm
Extent: 1 negative
Lisle Farms registered Holstein bull at Schroeder Farm (3.31736)
Date: 1920 – 1939Type: Photographic image
Description:Lisle Farms registered Holstein bull at Schroeder Farm
Extent: 1 negative
Lisle Farms registered Holstein cattle grazing in field, mostly facing left (3.31738)
Date: 1920 – 1939Type: Photographic image
Description:Lisle Farms registered Holstein cattle grazing in field, mostly facing left
Part of Joy Morton's herd operated under name of Lisle Farms
Extent: 1 negative
Lisle Farms registered Holstein cattle grazing in field, mostly facing right (3.31739)
Date: 1920 – 1939Type: Photographic image
Description:Lisle Farms registered Holstein cattle grazing in field, mostly facing right.
Part of Joy Morton's herd operated under name of Lisle Farms.
Extent: 1 negative
Lisle Farms registered Holstein cattle in and around a section of the DuPage River after it was straightened in 1921 (3.31740)
Date: 1920 – 1939Type: Photographic image
Description:Lisle Farms registered Holstein cattle in and around a section of the DuPage River after it was straightened in 1921
Extent: 1 negative
Lisle Farms cattle grazing in field with browsed hawthorn tree (3.31741)
Date: 1920sType: Photographic image
Description:Lisle Farms cattle grazing in field with browsed hawthorn tree
Extent: 1 negative
Lisle Farms cattle grazing in field with browsed hawthorn tree in foreground (3.31742)
Date: 1920sType: Photographic image
Description:Lisle Farms cattle grazing in field with browsed hawthorn tree in foreground
Extent: 1 negative
Puffer Lake looking north (3.31783)
Date: 1920sType: Photographic image
Description:Puffer Lake looking north
Extent: 1 negative
Mortons at J. Sterling Morton Monument in Nebraska City (3.3186)
Date: 1920sType: Photographic image
Description:Mortons at J. Sterling Morton Monument in Nebraska City
L to R: Joy Morton II (son of Mark), Mark Morton, Betty Morton (daughter of Joy II), Margaret Gray Morton, Joy Morton, Sterling Morton (son of Joy).
Extent: 1 photograph
Lake Road looking east from Cedar Point (3.32168)
Date: 1922Type: Photographic image
Description:Lake Road looking east from Cedar Point
Extent: 1 negative film
Ridge Road overlooking pond by Japanese Island (3.32169)
Date: 1920sType: Photographic image
Description:Ridge Road overlooking pond by Japanese Island
Extent: 1 negative
Morton residence entrance drive curving right, east of Redwood (Outpost) building site (3.32172)
Date: 1920sType: Photographic image
Description:Morton residence entrance drive curving right, east of Redwood (Outpost) building site
Extent: 1 negative
Muddy Arboretum dirt road curving to the left (3.32173)
Date: 1920sType: Photographic image
Description:Muddy Arboretum dirt road curving to the left
Dirt roads as they used to be until 1935 when Mrs. Jean Morton Cudahy became chairman. Muddy when wet, dusty when dry.
Extent: 1 negative
Arboretum dirt road curving to left (3.32174)
Date: 1920sType: Photographic image
Description:Arboretum dirt road curving to left
Dirt road as they used to be until 1935 when Mrs. Cudahy (Jean Morton) became chairman. Muddy when wet, dusty when dry.
Extent: 1 negative
Arboretum dirt road through trees (3.32175)
Date: 1920sType: Photographic image
Description:Arboretum dirt road through trees
Arboretum dirt road as they used to be until 1935 when Mrs. Cudahy (Jean Morton) became chairman. Muddy when wet, dusty when dry.
Extent: 1 negative
Arboretum road through trees (3.32176)
Date: 1920sType: Photographic image
Description:Arboretum road through trees
Extent: 1 negative
Arboretum unpaved road in forest curving to right (3.32178)
Date: 1920sType: Photographic image
Description:Arboretum unpaved road in forest curving to right
Early roads - muddy when wet, dusty when dry
Extent: 1 negative