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
Acer japonicum (Fullmoon maple), spring (3.37532)
Date: May 11 1980Creator: Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer japonicum (Fullmoon maple), small tree-like shrub among tall grass and other trees in spring
Extent: 1 slide
Soil core sample on left, roots revealed after washing (3.4543)
Date: 1980sType: Photographic image
Description:Soil core sample on left, roots revealed after washing
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.
Acer rubrum (red maple), leaves and fruit (3.38135)
Date: November 1980Creator: Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer rubrum (red maple), closeup detail of bright green leaves with three triangular lobes and toothed edges and two-winged pink and green samara fruit clusters hanging from twig
Extent: 1 slide
Populus deltoides (eastern cottonwood), bare tree crown (3.37716)
Date: June 1980Creator: Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:Populus deltoides (eastern cottonwood), bare tree crown
Extent: 1 slide
Fish Boil: group shot of workers indoors (3.4100)
Date: 1980sCreator: Bartuch, Jym
Type: Photographic image
Description:Fish Boil: group shot of workers indoors
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
Platanus occidentalis (sycamore), seeds (3.37418)
Date: 1980sCreator: Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:Platanus occidentalis (sycamore), detail of seeds on ground
Extent: 1 slide
Fish boil: large pot on flame with setup (3.4105)
Date: 1980sCreator: Larkin, Joe
Type: Photographic image
Description:Fish boil: large pot on flame with setup
Extent: 1 photograph
Platanus occidentalis (sycamore), bare tree along river bank (3.37437)
Date: May 1980Creator: Kohout, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Platanus occidentalis (sycamore), bare tree with nearly white top and branches along river bank, man standing at river's edge
Extent: 1 slide
Populus deltoides (eastern cottonwood), bark detail (3.37730)
Date: June 1980Creator: Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:Populus deltoides (eastern cottonwood), detail of greenish bark with deep furrows and ridges
Extent: 1 slide
Helenium autumnale (3.55869)
Date: November 1980Creator: Schulenberg, Ray
Type: Document
Description:A note card containing handwritten notes (presumably written by Ray Schulenberg) with propagation information on prairie plants.
Extent: 1 Card
[Arboretum Property Conveyance] (3.7089)
Date: 1980sType: Map
Description:Plat map with property conveyed by Arboretum to others marked in ink, with document numbers.
Extent: 1 sheet
1980/07/02: John Armstrong to George Ware (3.37489)
Date: July 2 1980Creator: Armstrong, John
Type: Document
Description:Letter from John Armstrong of Layfayette Redevelopment Commission to George Ware requesting information on street tree selection for the City of Lafayette's urban forestry program. Interest in data from the Arboretum's Street Tree Demonstration Plot.
Extent: 1 sheet
[Arboretum Property Conveyance] (3.7090)
Date: 1980sType: Map
Description:Plat map with property conveyed by Arboretum to others marked in ink, with document numbers. Various areas outlined in red.
Extent: 1 sheet
Propagation of woody plants in greenhouse , table of plants in pots (3.4493)
Date: 1980Creator: Kohout, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Propagation of woody plants in greenhouse , table of plants in pots
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.
Acer griseum (paper-barked maple), flowers (3.37517)
Date: May 14 1980Creator: Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer griseum (paper-barked maple), detail of flowers and leaves coming out at the tips of twigs
Living Collections Accession Number: 836-58*1
Location on grounds using The Morton Arboretum grid map: M-51/90-60 (near Meadow Lake)
Extent: 1 slide
A Construction Drawing for the Woody Herb Garden Fence, the Morton Arboretum (3.6150)
Date: 1980sCreator: Tyznik, Anthony
Type: Plan
Description:Shows elevation and plan view
Extent: 1 sheet
Abutilon theophrasti (velvetleaf), flowers, bud, stem (3.81648)
Date: April 1980Type: Photographic image
Description:Abutilon theophrasti (velvetleaf), pubescent stems, leaves, flower bud, seed pods.
Several employees participating in controlled burn in forested area (3.4508)
Date: 1980sType: Photographic image
Description:Several employees participating in controlled burn in forested area
Extent: 1 photograph
Plan of May T. Watts Reading Garden, Morton Arboretum, Lisle, Illinois [planting plan, worksheet, spring] (3.6726)
Date: 1980sCreator: Bloom, John and Sally
Type: Plan
Description:Landscape and planting plan for May T. Watts Reading Garden labeled "Work Sheet - Spring", includes plant names and the following note in pencil: Maintenance Requests - John Swisher. Changing Plants - Add - Plants - Charles Lewis.
Extent: 1 sheet
Acer griseum (paper-barked maple), bark (3.37522)
Date: May 14 1980Creator: Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer griseum (paper-barked maple), detail of distinctive orange-brown bark peeling and curling
Living Collections Accession Number: 592-58*1
Location on grounds using The Morton Arboretum grid map: N-51/50-40 (near Meadow Lake)
Extent: 1 slide
Employee in forested area participating in controlled burn, smoke to the left (3.4509)
Date: 1980sType: Photographic image
Description:Employee in forested area participating in controlled burn, smoke to the left
Extent: 1 photograph
Plan of May T. Watts Reading Garden, Morton Arboretum, Lisle, Illinois [planting plan, annuals] (3.6727)
Date: 1980 – 1982Creator: Bloom, John and Sally
Type: Plan
Description:Landscape and planting plan for annuals in the May T. Watts Reading Garden. Trace overlay labeled "Annuals 1980" and includes plant names written in pencil. Sheet under trace overlay labeled " Annuals 1982" and includes very few pencil notations.
Extent: 2 sheets
The Morton Arboretum Quarterly V. 15 No. 04 (3.34491)
Date: December 21 1979 – March 20 1980Type: Serial
Extent: 16 pages
Acer saccharum ‘Temple’s Upright’ (Temple’s Upright sugar maple), habit, fall (3.38034)
Date: October 22 1980Creator: Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer saccharum ‘Temple’s Upright’ (Temple’s Upright sugar maple), two Temple’s Upright sugar maples planted near one another, both with yellow, orange and red fall foliage, situated on grassy grounds with other trees in the immediate background
Living Collections Accession Number: 655-56*3
Location on grounds using The Morton Arboretum grid map: G-64 / 65-83 (Frost Hill)
Extent: 1 slide
Arbor Day, two men and three children planting tree with surrounding crowd (3.3937)
Date: 1980sType: Photographic image
Description:Arbor Day, two men and three children planting tree with surrounding crowd
Extent: 1 photograph
Pat Kelsey (left) and Rick Hootman using the Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer to test for heavy metal and salt contaminants in the lab (3.4518)
Date: 1980sCreator: Kohout, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Pat Kelsey (left) and Rick Hootman using the Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer to test for heavy metal and salt contaminants in the lab
Extent: 1 photograph
Tony Tyznik studying plant outside (3.5183)
Date: 1980sType: Photographic image
Description:Tony Tyznik studying plant outside
Extent: 1 photograph
A Landscape Development Plan for the Administration Building, the Morton Arboretum [Cotoneaster, Euonymus, Prunus, Hydrangea, Rhodotypos, Hypericum, Viburnum, Microbiota, Hamamelis, Stylophorum, Waldsteinia, Astilbe, Ribes, Juniperus, Lonicera] (3.5952)
Date: 1980sCreator: Tyznik, Anthony
Type: Plan
Description:Including various species from Cotoneaster, Euonymus, Prunus, Hydrangea, Rhodotypos, Hypericum, Viburnum, Microbiota, Hamamelis, Stylophorum, Waldsteinia, Astilbe, Ribes, Juniperus, Lonicera
Extent: 1 sheet