Echinacea and monarch butterfly [graphic] / Brender à Brandis. (3.25287)
Date: 2000Creator: Brender à Brandis, Gerard William
Type: Print
Extent: 1 print : wood engraving, b&w image 13 x 11 cm., on sheet 22 x 17.
The Morton Arboretum Quarterly V. 03 No. 02 (3.34551)
Date: June 21 – September 20 1967Type: Serial
Description:
- Prairie in a Post-Prairie Era (17-27)
- The Lookout (27)
- Notes on Prairie Plant Cultivation (28-31)
- Arboretum News and Notes/ Climatological Summary (32)
Extent: 16 pages
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
Gravestones in a prairie cemetery (3.36230)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Two tombstones in a prairie cemetery are surrounded by prairie flowers and plants. One of the stones is barely visible in the grass.
This image is part of a group of slides that belonged to May T. Watts, related to her book Reading the Landscape.
Extent: 1 slide
Gravestones in a prairie cemetery (3.36231)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Two tombstones in a prairie cemetery are surrounded by prairie flowers and plants. One of the stones is barely visible in the grass.
This image is part of a group of slides that belonged to May T. Watts, related to her book Reading the Landscape.
Extent: 1 slide
Gravestone and flowers in a prairie cemetery (3.36232)
Type: Photographic image
Description:A tombstone surrounded by prairie flowers and plants.
The inscription on the stone reads, in part:
--- / BIRDIE / ---
This image is part of a group of slides that belonged to May T. Watts, related to her book Reading the Landscape.
Extent: 1 slide
Gravestone in a prairie cemetery (3.36233)
Type: Photographic image
Description:A tombstone surrounded by prairie plants.
The inscription on the stone reads, in part:
JERUSHA / wife of / ---
This image is part of a group of slides that belonged to May T. Watts, related to her book Reading the Landscape.
Extent: 1 slide
Plants in a prairie cemetery (3.36234)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Goldenrod grows in a prairie cemetery among other prairie plants. A white headstone is also visible, as well as farm buildings and cropland in the background.
This image is part of a group of slides that belonged to May T. Watts, related to her book Reading the Landscape.
Extent: 1 slide
Gravestone surrounded by needlegrass (3.36235)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Needlegrass surrounds a tombstone in a prairie cemetery.
This image is part of a group of slides that belonged to May T. Watts, related to her book Reading the Landscape.
Extent: 1 slide
Gravestones in a prairie cemetery (3.36236)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Tombstones in a prairie cemetery surrounded by prairie plants. The stone on the left is barely visible through the grass.
This image is part of a group of slides that belonged to May T. Watts, related to her book Reading the Landscape.
Extent: 1 slide
Blazing star and bluestem (3.36237)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Blazing star and bluestem grow in a prairie cemetery. Farmland appears in the background.
This image is part of a group of slides that belonged to May T. Watts, related to her book Reading the Landscape.
Extent: 1 slide
Gentian in a prairie cemetery (3.36239)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Gentian growing in a prairie cemetery.
This image is part of a group of slides that belonged to May T. Watts, related to her book Reading the Landscape.
Extent: 1 slide
Gentian growing in a prairie cemetery (3.36240)
Type: Photographic image
Description:A close-up view of gentian growing in a prairie cemetery.
This image is part of a group of slides that belonged to May T. Watts, related to her book Reading the Landscape.
Extent: 1 slide
Wildflowers in a prairie cemetery (3.36241)
Type: Photographic image
Description:White prairie flowers growing in a prairie cemetery.
This image is part of a group of slides that belonged to May T. Watts, related to her book Reading the Landscape.
Extent: 1 slide
Purple and white wildflowers in a prairie cemetery (3.36243)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Purple and white prairie flowers growing in a prairie cemetery.
This image is part of a group of slides that belonged to May T. Watts, related to her book Reading the Landscape.
Extent: 1 slide
Wheatland Plowing Match, spectators observing furrows (3.36244)
Date: 1950sType: Photographic image
Description:Spectators observe a newly plowed field created during the Wheatland Plowing Match in Wheatland Township, Illinois. A barbed wire fence and prairie grasses appear in the foreground.
This image is part of a group of slides that belonged to May T. Watts, related to her book Reading the Landscape.
Extent: 1 slide
Wheatland Plowing Match, a newly plowed field (3.36245)
Date: 1950sType: Photographic image
Description:A newly plowed field created during the Wheatland Plowing Match in Wheatland Township, Illinois. A barbed wire fence and prairie grasses appear in the foreground.
This image is part of a group of slides that belonged to May T. Watts, related to her book Reading the Landscape.
Extent: 1 slide
Wheatland Plowing Match, spectators viewing a newly plowed field (3.36246)
Date: 1950sType: Photographic image
Description:Groups of spectators view a newly plowed field created during the Wheatland Plowing Match in Wheatland Township, Illinois. A barbed wire fence and prairie grasses appear in the foreground.
This image is part of a group of slides that belonged to May T. Watts, related to her book Reading the Landscape.
Extent: 1 slide
Big bluestem and blazing star (3.36260)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Big bluestem and blazing star growing near plowed fields.
This image is part of a group of slides that belonged to May T. Watts, related to her book Reading the Landscape.
Extent: 1 slide
Prairie plants and cornstalks (3.36261)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Prairie grasses and flowers growing in front of a barbed wire fence, behind which is growing a field of cornstalks.
This image is part of a group of slides that belonged to May T. Watts, related to her book Reading the Landscape.
Extent: 1 slide
Rosinweed (3.36262)
Type: Photographic image
Description:A rosinweed plant grows among other prairie plants in front of a barbed wire fence. In the background is a road, behind which rows of corn are growing.
This image is part of a group of slides that belonged to May T. Watts, related to her book Reading the Landscape.
Extent: 1 slide
Prairie flowers (3.36263)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Wildflowers growing among prairie plants.
This image is part of a group of slides that belonged to May T. Watts, related to her book Reading the Landscape.
Extent: 1 slide
Tiger lilies (3.36264)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Tiger lily flowers growing among prairie plants.
This image is part of a group of slides that belonged to May T. Watts, related to her book Reading the Landscape.
Extent: 1 slide
Tiger lilies and other prairie plants (3.36265)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Tiger lily flowers growing among prairie plants.
This image is part of a group of slides that belonged to May T. Watts, related to her book Reading the Landscape.
Extent: 1 slide
Tiger lily flowers and buds (3.36266)
Type: Photographic image
Description:A close-up view of tiger lily flowers growing among prairie plants.
This image is part of a group of slides that belonged to May T. Watts, related to her book Reading the Landscape.
Extent: 1 slide
Prairie flowers (3.36267)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Pink and white flowers growing among prairie plants.
This image is part of a group of slides that belonged to May T. Watts, related to her book Reading the Landscape.
Extent: 1 slide
Big bluestem on a grave (3.36268)
Type: Photographic image
Description:A cluster of big bluestem grows next to a tombstone.
This image is part of a group of slides that belonged to May T. Watts, related to her book Reading the Landscape.
Extent: 1 slide
Rosinweed and fence (3.36269)
Type: Photographic image
Description:A tall rosinweed plant grows next to a barbed wire fence near a prairie cemetery. A road, train tracks, a telephone pole, and a farm are visible in the background.
This image is part of a group of slides that belonged to May T. Watts, related to her book Reading the Landscape.
Extent: 1 slide
Wheatland Cemetery (3.36270)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Prairie plants grow near several tombstones at the Wheatland Cemetery. Cornstalks appear in the background.
This image is part of a group of slides that belonged to May T. Watts, related to her book Reading the Landscape.
Extent: 1 slide
Wheatland Cemetery (3.36271)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Prairie plants grow near several tombstones at the Wheatland Cemetery. Cornstalks appear in the background. The name on the stone closest to the forground appears to read: REBECCA
This image is part of a group of slides that belonged to May T. Watts, related to her book Reading the Landscape.
Extent: 1 slide
Wheatland Cemetery (3.36272)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Prairie plants grow near several tombstones at the Wheatland Cemetery. The name on the stone closest to the forground appears to read "REBECCA" and has a chisled outline of hands at the top. A broken off top of another stone is propped next to it.
This image is part of a group of slides that belonged to May T. Watts, related to her book Reading the Landscape.
Extent: 1 slide
Prairie plants near power lines (3.36276)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Prairie plants grow alongside telephone poles and power lines.
This image is part of a group of slides that belonged to May T. Watts, related to her book Reading the Landscape.
Extent: 1 slide
Wheatland Cemetery, headstones, bluestem, and corn (3.36277)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Prairie plants, including bluestem, grow alongside headstones in the Wheatland Cemetery in Illinois. Rows of cornstalks grow beyond the cemetery in the background.
This image is part of a group of slides that belonged to May T. Watts, related to her book Reading the Landscape.
Extent: 1 slide
Rows of corn (3.36338)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Several rows of cornstalks along a road. Prairie plants are visible along a barbed wire fence in the foreground, and a few farms buildings are visible in the background.
This image is part of a group of slides that belonged to May T. Watts, related to her book Reading the Landscape.
Extent: 1 slide
Herd of buffalo (3.36339)
Type: Photographic image
Description:A herd of buffalo walking near a dirt path.
This image is part of a group of slides that belonged to May T. Watts, related to her book Reading the Landscape.
Extent: 1 slide
Herd of buffalo (3.36340)
Type: Photographic image
Description:A herd of buffalo walking near a dirt path.
This image is part of a group of slides that belonged to May T. Watts, related to her book Reading the Landscape.
Extent: 1 slide