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
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.
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
Summer or wood duck = Anas sponsa. L. (3.29192)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Audubon, John James, 1785-1851.
Type: Painting
Extent: 1 print : commercial reproduction, color image 74 x 49 cm., on sheet 82 x 56 cm.
Morton Salt Company Newspaper Clippings Scrapbook (3.44172)
Date: 1900sType: Book
Description:This scrapbook contains clippings from various newspapers from 1900 through 1909. The clippings are related to the Morton Salt Company.
Extent: 1 scrapbook
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
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
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
Hen turkey and young : a study in miniature of plate 6 of the Elephant folio reproduced from the original drawing. (3.31121)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Audubon, John James, 1785-1851.
Type: Painting
Extent: 1 print : commercial reproduction, color 30 x 21 cm.
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
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
A Woman, a Man, and a Flower (3.31055)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Print
Description:A linoleum block print of a woman and a man pointing to a flower. The woman is on the left of the flower holding a broom, and the man is on the right holding a pitchfork. The Sun, which has a smiling face, appears in the sky between them.
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
Abies amabilis (3.3)
Date: 1904Creator: Rehder, Alfred
Type: Photographic image
Description:trunk 7 1/2 ft. in girth
Extent: 1 photograph
Abies concolor var. lowiana (3.6)
Date: 1904Creator: Rehder, Alfred
Type: Photographic image
Description:150 ft. tall
Extent: 1 photograph
Abies lasiocarpa (3.12)
Date: August 1904Creator: Rehder, Alfred
Type: Photographic image
Extent: 1 photograph
Abies lasiocarpa (3.13)
Date: August 20 1904Creator: Rehder, Alfred
Type: Photographic image
Description:And one small Abies amabilis at right. Prof. Jack standing before it. Trunk 5 1/2 ft. in girth
Extent: 1 photograph
Abies lasiocarpa (3.14)
Date: August 1904Creator: Rehder, Alfred
Type: Photographic image
Description:Trunk 5 ft. 4 in. in girth
Extent: 1 photograph
Abies nobilis (3.17)
Date: 1904Creator: Rehder, Alfred
Type: Photographic image
Description:Trunk 10 ft. 7 in. in girth
Extent: 1 photograph
Abies subalpina (3.20)
Date: 1904Creator: Rehder, Alfred
Type: Photographic image
Description:Picea Engelmannis, Tsuga Mertensiana
Extent: 1 photograph
Acer macrophyllum (3.24)
Date: 1904Creator: Rehder, Alfred
Type: Photographic image
Extent: 1 photograph
Alnus rubra (3.78)
Date: 1904Creator: Rehder, Alfred
Type: Photographic image
Description:Trunk 2 ft. 5 in. in girth
Extent: 1 photograph
Carya cordiformis (3.135)
Date: 1904Creator: Rehder, Alfred
Type: Photographic image
Extent: 1 photograph
Carya Laciniosa (3.136)
Date: 1904Creator: Rehder, Alfred
Type: Photographic image
Extent: 1 photograph
Carya ovata (3.152)
Date: 1904Creator: Rehder, Alfred
Type: Photographic image
Description:On Arborway near Jamaica Plain entrance to Arnold Arboretum
Extent: 1 photograph
Ginkgo biloba f. fastigiata (3.326)
Date: 1904Creator: Rehder, Alfred
Type: Photographic image
Extent: 1 photograph
Larix Lyallii Parl. (3.425)
Date: 1904Creator: Rehder, Alfred
Type: Photographic image
Extent: 1 photograph
Larix Lyallii (3.426)
Date: August 11 1904Creator: Rehder, Alfred
Type: Photographic image
Extent: 1 photograph
Larix Lyallii Parl. (3.427)
Date: August 1 1904Creator: Rehder, Alfred
Type: Photographic image
Extent: 1 photograph
Libocedons decurrens (3.431)
Date: 1904Creator: Rehder, Alfred
Type: Photographic image
Description:Trunk 10 1/2 girth.
Extent: 1 photograph