Joy Morton Orchards Apple Crate Piece (3.106088)
Date: 1920 – 1934Type: Artifact
Description:A single board from an apple crate with "Morton's Fine Nebraska Apples" painted in red. The apple crate was used by Joy Morton Orchards Co. in Nebraska City, Nebraska, which later became Porter Orchards and Farm, followed by Arbor Day Farm.
Joy Morton Orchards Apple Crate Label (3.106089)
Date: 1920 – 1934Type: Artifact
Description:A label that would have been adhered to an apple crate from Joy Morton Orchards Co in Nebraska City, Nebraska. The label reads, "Morton Apples/Grown and Packed by/Joy Morton Orchards Co./Nebraska City, Nebraska". Two red apples hang from a branch against a dark blue background. A green boarder with a yellow line edges the label.
Trema mollis Bl. (3.1067)
Date: May 1 1920Creator: Rehder, Alfred
Type: Photographic image
Description:Tree 18' trunk, 3 1/2 " in diam.
Extent: 1 photograph
A Revised Plan Showing Evergreen Planting for the Home Grounds of Mr. Edsel Ford (3.113767)
Date: December 1920Creator: Jensen, Jens
Type: Plan
Extent: 1 sheet
The bridge between the geographical part and the Arboretum (3.1179)
Date: 1920Creator: Teuscher, Henry
Type: Photographic image
Extent: 1 photograph
Copy of letter from Jens Jensen to Genevieve Gillette (3.1664)
Date: October 28 1920Creator: Jensen, Jens
Type: Document
Description:Copy of letter from Jens Jensen to Genevieve Gillette
Clematis mo tana (3.223)
Date: 1920Creator: Teuscher, Henry
Type: Photographic image
Extent: 1 photograph
Cocos flexuosa (3.229)
Date: May 1 1920Creator: Rehder, Alfred
Type: Photographic image
Description:H. Nehrling's place
Extent: 1 photograph
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.
Cornus kousa (3.245)
Date: 1920Creator: Teuscher, Henry
Type: Photographic image
Description:In the Japanese group
Extent: 1 photograph
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.
Diospyros floridana (3.277)
Date: April 24 1920Creator: Rehder, Alfred
Type: Photographic image
Description:Tree 30'tall. Trunk 7'' diam.
Extent: 1 photograph
Diospyros floridana Small (3.278)
Date: April 1 1920Creator: Rehder, Alfred
Type: Photographic image
Description:Tree 30' trunk . 9'' diam.
Extent: 1 photograph
Dr. David Fairchild [graphic]. (3.27843)
Date: 20th centuryType: Print
Extent: 1 photograph : b&w visible image 25 x 20 cm.