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
Botanical plates / M.E. Eaton.. [et al.]. (3.29681)
Date: 1916 – 1964Creator: Eaton, Mary Emily.
Type: Painting
Extent: 281 prints : art reproductions, color, b&w 27 x 18 cm.
Arbor Lodge, exterior view from lawn (3.3239)
Date: 1906 – 1923Type: Photographic image
Description:Arbor Lodge, exterior view from lawn
Extent: 1 photograph
Arbor Lodge gardens and surrounding landscape, unpaved road through wooded area (3.3255)
Date: 1906 – 1923Type: Photographic image
Description:Arbor Lodge gardens and surrounding landscape, unpaved road through wooded area
Extent: 1 photograph
Man sitting with dog in front of Morton residence construction at Thornhill (3.38577)
Date: 1909 – 1910Type: Photographic image
Description:Man sitting with dog in front of Morton residence construction at Thornhill
Extent: 1 negative
Botanical plates / M.E. Eaton.. [et al.]. (3.29665)
Date: 1916 – 1964Creator: Eaton, Mary Emily.
Type: Painting
Extent: 281 prints : art reproductions, color, b&w 27 x 18 cm.
Botanical plates / M.E. Eaton.. [et al.]. (3.29698)
Date: 1916 – 1964Creator: Eaton, Mary Emily.
Type: Painting
Extent: 281 prints : art reproductions, color, b&w 27 x 18 cm.
Botanical plates / M.E. Eaton.. [et al.]. (3.29714)
Date: 1916 – 1964Creator: Eaton, Mary Emily.
Type: Painting
Extent: 281 prints : art reproductions, color, b&w 27 x 18 cm.
Arbor Lodge, exterior view from lawn (3.3240)
Date: 1906 – 1923Type: Photographic image
Description:Arbor Lodge, exterior view from lawn
Extent: 1 photograph
Map of Thornhill Farm, Joy Morton Owner, DuPage County, Illinois (3.5282)
Date: September 1 1915Creator: Webster, Arthur L.
Type: Map
Description:Shows boundary lines, fence lines, and location of drainage tiles on the farm which extended northward from Warrenville Road over and beyond Butterfield Road. Acreages of individually numbered fields and pasture areas are given. Dated, as well as undated issues of this map are represented in the collections.
Blueprint negative.
Extent: 1 sheet
Botanical plates / M.E. Eaton.. [et al.]. (3.29764)
Date: 1916 – 1964Creator: Eaton, Mary Emily.
Type: Painting
Extent: 281 prints : art reproductions, color, b&w 27 x 18 cm.
Arbor Lodge, rotunda portico leading out to garden (3.3241)
Date: 1906 – 1923Type: Photographic image
Description:Arbor Lodge, rotunda portico leading out to garden
Extent: 1 photograph
Thornhill Farm [owned by] Joy Morton, Esq., drawn [and] traced by R.K.Warren (3.5283)
Date: January 1 – 14 1917Creator: Warren, R. K.
Type: Map
Description:Shows fields and other areas comprising Thornhill Farm and adjoining properties.This copy's margins have been cropped and has ms. note: "Crop rotations from records available. Prepared Jan. 14th 1917. Joy Morton." Crops grown on 38 numbered fields variously between 1912-1920 are noted in ms.
Extent: 1 sheet
Botanical plates / M.E. Eaton.. [et al.]. (3.29765)
Date: 1916 – 1964Creator: Eaton, Mary Emily.
Type: Painting
Extent: 281 prints : art reproductions, color, b&w 27 x 18 cm.
Arbor Lodge gardens and surrounding landscape, intersecting walking paths (3.3242)
Date: 1906 – 1923Type: Photographic image
Description:Arbor Lodge gardens and surrounding landscape, intersecting walking paths
Extent: 1 photograph
Aerial view of Arbor Lodge (3.3290)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Savage, John S.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Aerial view of Arbor Lodge
Extent: 1 photograph
Jane Morton with two dogs in front of Morton residence construction at Thornhill (3.38578)
Date: 1909 – 1910Type: Photographic image
Description:Jane Morton, daughter of Mark Morton, with two dogs in front of Morton residence construction at Thornhill
Extent: 1 negative
Thornhill Farm [owned by] Joy Morton, Esq., drawn [and] traced by R.K.Warren (3.5284)
Date: January 1917Creator: Warren, R. K.
Type: Map
Description:Shows fields and other areas comprising Thornhill Farm and adjoining properties. This copy has numerous ms. annotations by C.E.Godshalk regarding tillage and land rentals.
Extent: 1 sheet
Let Nature Be Your Teacher (3.67180)
Date: 1912Creator: Jensen, Jens
Type: Article
Description:This article can be made available at the Sterling Morton Library. To make an appointment, contact the Sterling Morton Library staff by following the link here.
Extent: 1 page
Arbor Lodge gardens and surrounding landscape, walking path toward garden arbor (3.3243)
Date: 1906 – 1923Type: Photographic image
Description:Arbor Lodge gardens and surrounding landscape, walking path toward garden arbor
Extent: 1 photograph
Thornhill Farm [owned by] Joy Morton, Esq., drawn [and] traced by R.K.Warren (3.5285)
Date: January 1917Creator: Warren, R. K.
Type: Map
Description:Shows fields and other areas comprising Thornhill Farm and adjoining properties. Ms. annotations on this copy gives acreage of various fields and plots.
Extent: 1 sheet
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.
Botanical plates / M.E. Eaton.. [et al.]. (3.29686)
Date: 1916 – 1964Creator: Eaton, Mary Emily.
Type: Painting
Extent: 281 prints : art reproductions, color, b&w 27 x 18 cm.
Arbor Lodge gardens and surrounding landscape, walking path along pruned hedges (3.3244)
Date: 1906 – 1923Type: Photographic image
Description:Arbor Lodge gardens and surrounding landscape, walking path along pruned hedges
Extent: 1 photograph
Thornhill Farm [owned by] Joy Morton, Esq., drawn [and] traced by R.K.Warren (3.5286)
Date: January 1917Creator: Warren, R. K.
Type: Map
Description:Shows fields and other areas comprising Thornhill Farm and adjoining properties. Ms. annotations on this copy gives acreage of various fields and plots.
Extent: 1 sheet
Looking east from archway of Thornhill residence toward main entrance on Park Blvd. (3.3001)
Date: 1916Creator: Henry Fuermann and Sons
Type: Photographic image
Description:Looking east from archway of Thornhill residence toward main entrance on Park Blvd.
Extent: 1 photograph
Joy Morton, poised with shotgun (3.3173)
Date: 1918Type: Photographic image
Description:Joy Morton, poised with shotgun
Extent: 1 photograph
Arbor Lodge gardens and surrounding landscape, J. Sterling Morton memorial area (3.3245)
Date: 1906 – 1923Type: Photographic image
Description:Arbor Lodge gardens and surrounding landscape, J. Sterling Morton memorial area
Extent: 1 photograph
Arbor Lodge gardens and surrounding landscape, garden area (3.3246)
Date: 1906 – 1923Type: Photographic image
Description:Arbor Lodge gardens and surrounding landscape, garden area
Extent: 1 photograph
Morton Residence at Thornhill, exterior, view from west (3.3378)
Date: 1910 – 1922Type: Photographic image
Description:Morton Residence at Thornhill, exterior, view from west, before library wing was added in 1922-1923
Extent: 1 photograph
Survey of Part Sec. 25 and 6, T39N, R10E, 3rd p.m. for Joy Morton (3.6373)
Date: September 1917Creator: Webster, Arthur L.
Type: Map
Description:Includes handwritten "Work complete Aug. 21, 1919 shown in red" - plus various measurements in black.
Joy Morton land holding north of Butterfield Road, not a part of Morton Arboretum.
Extent: 1 sheet
Botanical plates / M.E. Eaton.. [et al.]. (3.29559)
Date: 1916 – 1964Creator: Eaton, Mary Emily.
Type: Painting
Extent: 281 prints : art reproductions, color, b&w 27 x 18 cm.
Botanical plates / M.E. Eaton.. [et al.]. (3.29770)
Date: 1916 – 1964Creator: Eaton, Mary Emily.
Type: Painting
Extent: 281 prints : art reproductions, color, b&w 27 x 18 cm.
Looking north toward Thornhill residence, view from lower pond (3.3002)
Date: 1916Creator: Henry Fuermann and Sons
Type: Photographic image
Description:Looking north toward Thornhill residence, view from lower pond
Extent: 1 photograph
Arbor Lodge gardens and surrounding landscape, garden path (3.3247)
Date: 1906 – 1923Type: Photographic image
Description:Arbor Lodge gardens and surrounding landscape, garden path
Extent: 1 photograph
Survey of Part Sec. 25 and 6, T39N, R10E, 3rd p.m. for Joy Morton (3.6374)
Date: September 1917Creator: Webster, Arthur L.
Type: Map
Description:"Tile system for Joy Morton (Thoman Farm) May 24, 1919" handwritten - tiling marked in yellow and red, plus measurements in black. Joy Morton land holding north of Butterfield Road, not a part of Morton Arboretum.
Extent: 1 sheet