Canada jay = Corvus canadensis. Linn. (3.29155)
Date: 1950Creator: Audubon, John James, 1785-1851.
Type: Painting
Extent: 1 print : commercial reproduction, color image 44 x 33 cm., on sheet 50 x 41 cm.
1991/10/04: George Ware to Suzanne Malec (3.56304)
Date: October 4 1991Creator: Ware, George
Type: Document
Description:Facsimile of an abstract and research paper sent to Suzanne Malec of the Open Land Project. The paper, Trees for Restricted Spaces was written by George Ware and discusses the genetic, topographic, and edaphic factors to take into consideration when selecting urban trees.
Extent: 8 sheets
Whip-poor-will = Caprimulgus vociferus. (3.29194)
Date: 1950Creator: Audubon, John James, 1785-1851.
Type: Painting
Extent: 1 print : commercial reproduction, color image 45 x 30 cm., on sheet 50 x 41 cm.
Quercus (oak), fall leaves (3.38300)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Quercus (oak), detail of orange-brown leaves
Extent: 1 slide
Drive through the oaks (3.33190)
Date: 1922 – 1949Type: Photographic image
Description:Drive through the oaks
Extent: 1 negative
Winter Twigs, page 1 (3.24627)
Date: 1943Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Page 1 of 4, illustrations showing identifying characteristics of different types of winter twigs, created to accompany "Winter Twigs" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information. Illustrations include those with distinctive leaf scars, buds, and pith. Original identifying text has detached.
Illustrations are divided into three sections, depicted from top to bottom, left to right:
1) [Original text] SOME HAVE DISTINCTIVE LEAF SCARS
- Black walnut
- Butternut
- Catalpa
- Maple
- Sycamore
- Sumac
- Ash
- Flowering dogwood
- Beech
- Willow
- Oak
- Linden
- Alder
- Tulip [tree]
3) [Orignial text] SOME HAVE DISTINCTIVE PITH
- Black walnut
- Butternut
- Hackberry
- Tulip [tree]
- Kentucky coffee tree
- Oak
- Alder
Extent: 1 sheet
Forest Nature Trail Guide, page 15 illustrations and layout with preliminary sketches (3.24672)
Date: 1946Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Sheet One: Original illustrations and layout for page 15, including some text, for The Morton Arboretum Forest Nature Trail Guide booklet. Key lines included.
Illustrated stumps with numbers indicate points of interest along trail as seen on trail map.
Tree stump #44: Which oak is this one?
Text handwritten in center panel and identifying characteristics for four types of oak leaves outlined to the right - illustration in the first row is labeled "Are the lobes pointed - or - rounded," the middle row is lableled "deep - or -shallow," the bottom row is labeled "Is the surface leathery or dull".
Tree stump #45: Douglas Fir
Text handwritten in center panel and identifying characteristics for needles and cones illustrated to the right - label "long end bud" points arrow to top center of needles drawing, and label "bracts" points arrow to center left of cone drawing.
Tree stump #46: Honey Locust
Labels handwritten in center panel and identifying characteristics of leaves, thorns, and pods illustrated to the right.
Sheet Two: Preliminary sketch of green-colored illustrations.
Extent: 2 sheets
#GivingTuesday, 2017, social media (3.62968)
Date: November 16 2017Creator: The Morton Arboretum
Type: Video
Boat-tailed grackle = [graphic] Quiscalus major. Viell. / drawn from nature by J.J. Audubon Engraved, printed, & coloured by R. Havell. (3.24943)
Date: 1834Creator: Audubon, John James, 1785-1851.
Type: Print
Extent: 1 print : engraving, hand-colored plate mark 66 x 53 on sheet 98 x 65 cm.
The Morton Arboretum Quarterly V. 10 No. 04 (3.34470)
Date: December 21 1974 – March 20 1975Type: Serial
Description:
- Site Changes and Root Damage: Some Problems with Oaks (49-53)
- Diagnosing and Preventing Diebacks and Declines of Urban Trees: Lessons From Some Forest Counterparts (54-59)
- Redbud, Cercis canadensis: Pea Family (Leguminosae) (60-61)
- People & Projects/ Climatological Summary (62-63)
- Of the Infirmities of Trees, & c. (64)
Extent: 16 pages
Ferruginous thrush = [graphic] Turdus rufus Linn. / drawn from nature by J.J. Audubon chromolithy. by J. Bien. (3.24965)
Date: 1860Creator: Audubon, John James, 1785-1851.
Type: Print
Extent: 1 print : chromolithograph 100 x 68 cm.
The Morton Arboretum Quarterly V. 04 No. 03 (3.34564)
Date: September 21 – December 20 1968Type: Serial
Description:
- An Essay on Illinois Oaks (33-39)
- Climatological Summary (39)
- Ohio Buckeye, Aesculus glabra: Buckeye Family (Hippocastanaceae) (40-41)
- A Time To Transplant (42-46)
- Arboretum News and Notes (47-48)
Extent: 16 pages
#GivingTuesday, 2017, webpage (3.62969)
Date: November 17 2017Creator: The Morton Arboretum
Type: Video
Arboretum Landscape Teaching Aid Series: Cut-Over and Grazed Land (3.19502)
Date: 1940 – 1960Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Primarily textual teaching aid depicting Arboretum landscape. This material describes the grazed and cut-over land that was added to the Arboretum, including the effects of fencing out cattle.
[Illustration of a tree stump] Header: CUT-OVER AND GRAZED LAND was added to the Arboretum in 1910 [image of a cow's head with its tongue out]
Text and illustrations from top to bottom:
- [Depicted in stylized scroll] THE RECORD:
- 1. No big trees in this area [illustration of a tree with a large red "X" over it]
- 2. Many stump sprouts [sketch of stump sprouts]
- 3. Many aspens and big-toothed poplars [sketch of aspens and poplars]
- 4. Young oaks, many of the same age [sketch of oaks]
- INTERPRETATION of THE RECORD:
- 1. Aspens and big-toothed poplars grow in sunny places.
- 2. The even age oaks show by their annual rings that they started growing on the year that the Arboretum fenced cows from this area.
- 3. The wild flowers have returned steadily to this area. There was only thistles, milkweed, dandelions, and other tough ones, there when the cattle were fenced out. Now there are trilliums, spring beauties, blood-root, may-apple, and many, many, others.
Extent: 1 sheet
The Morton Arboretum Quarterly V. 06 No. 03 (3.34572)
Date: September 21 – December 20 1970Type: Serial
Description:
- Can Man Learn from Nature? (33-39)
- Prairie Crab Apple, Malus Ioensis: Rose Family (Rosaceae) (40-41)
- The Destructible Oak (42-47)
- Arboretum News and Notes (48)
- Climatological Summary (48)
Extent: 16 pages
Night hawk = [graphic] Caprimulgus virginianus Brifs. / drawn from nature by J.J. Audubon chromolithy. by J. Bien. (3.24986)
Date: 1860Creator: Audubon, John James, 1785-1851.
Type: Print
Extent: 1 print : chromolithograph 100 x 68 cm.
#Giving Tuesday, 2018, refresh (3.64099)
Date: October 30 2018Creator: The Morton Arboretum
Type: Video
1985/01/23: Herman Sievering to George Ware (3.40005)
Date: January 23 1985Creator: Sievering, Herman
Type: Document
Description:A letter from Herman Sievering of Governors State University to George Ware discussing plans and staffing to study highway impacts,needle-washing, canopy exchange, and throughfall measurements.
Enclosed with the letter is an article titled "Contributions of Acid Deposition and Natural Processes to Cation Leaching for Forest Soils" from the Journal of the Air Pollution Association dated November, 1983.
Extent: 8 sheets
Know Know Know Your Oaks, Music Video (3.65606)
Date: 2016Creator: The Morton Arboretum
Type: Video
Description:Music video created by Arboretum staff members in honor of Oaktober for a tree identification class, derived from a teaching aid created by May T. Watts.
Education charts: Pine-Oak Scrub Food Web (3.34242)
Type: Photographic image
Description:An educational chart created by May T. Watts for The Morton Arboretum, depicting various plants, insects, and animals that are part of a pine-oak scrub food web. The images in the chart are connected with arrows indicating the relationships between them in the web, labeled as follows:
- PRAIRIE WARBLER
- PITCH PINE
- FOWLER'S TOAD
- RED FOX
- SHARP-SHINNED HAWK
- CHICKADEE
- CATERPILLAR
- CENTIPEDE
- TOWHEE
- CHIPMUNK
- SCRUB OAK
- ORGANIC DEBRIS
- BEETLE GRUB
Extent: 1 slide
Exhibits: Beall Woods trees, various oaks (3.34251)
Type: Photographic image
Description:An exhibit board created by Elizabeth Zimmerman for The Morton Arboretum, depicting drawings of various leaves, trunks, and fruit from oak trees found in Beall Woods.
Labels:
- --- / Oak
- Chinquapin Oak
- Shingle Oak
- Overcup [Oak]
Extent: 1 slide
Oak research in France (3.36289)
Date: June 6 2014Creator: The Morton Arboretum
Type: Photographic image
Description:Group of oak researchers, including Andrew Hipp, senior scientist in plant systematics and herbarium curator at The Morton Arboretum, in front of 300-year-old oak tree in France
Researchers on a collecting trip in Durango, Mexico (3.36312)
Date: 2015Creator: The Morton Arboretum
Type: Photographic image
Description:A group of researchers from around the world rest under a tree during an oak collecting trip in Durango, Mexico
Kris Bachtell teaching a class on oaks on the grounds of The Morton Arboretum (3.36314)
Date: October 22 2013Creator: The Morton Arboretum
Type: Photographic image
Description:Kris Bachtell, vice president of collections and facilities at The Morton Arboretum, teaching a class on oaks on the grounds of The Morton Arboretum
Oak research in France (3.36319)
Date: May 7 2014Creator: The Morton Arboretum
Type: Photographic image
Description:Béatrice Chassé conducting research on seedlings at the Arboretum des Pouyouleix
Oak research in France (3.36320)
Date: May 7 2014Creator: The Morton Arboretum
Type: Photographic image
Description:Béatrice Chassé observing saplings through a fence at the Arboretum des Pouyouleix
STRENGTH bench in the oak (Quercus) collection at The Morton Arboretum (3.36328)
Date: April 24 2015Creator: The Morton Arboretum
Type: Photographic image
Description:Throughout history oaks have been associated with strength, power, endurance, and permanence; much of this is due to the physical properties of the oak's wood, its large size, and its longevity. The STRENGTH bench, located in the oak (Quercus) collection at The Morton Arboretum, is composed of large corten steel dimensional letters capped off by a simple wood plank top.
STRENGTH bench in the oak (Quercus) collection at The Morton Arboretum (3.36329)
Date: May 14 2014Creator: The Morton Arboretum
Type: Photographic image
Description:Throughout history oaks have been associated with strength, power, endurance, and permanence; much of this is due to the physical properties of the oak's wood, its large size, and its longevity. The STRENGTH bench, located in the oak (Quercus) collection at The Morton Arboretum, is composed of large corten steel dimensional letters capped off by a simple wood plank top.
Quercus (oak), woods with understory (3.38293)
Date: May 18 1973Type: Photographic image
Description:Quercus (oak), amongst hickory and basswood, view of woods with understory
Extent: 1 slide
Quercus (oak), habit, summer (3.38311)
Date: June 1994Creator: Nachel, Jim
Type: Photographic image
Description:Quercus (oak), habit, several tall trees amongst Arboretum Oak Collection with identification marker on short post in foreground
Extent: 1 slide
Quercus (oak), seedling (3.38330)
Date: October 1970Type: Photographic image
Description:Quercus (oak), seedling detail
Extent: 1 slide
Quercus (oak), fallen acorns detail (3.38358)
Date: October 1988Creator: Nachel, Jim
Type: Photographic image
Description:Quercus (oak), detail of fallen brown acorns mostly with stout nuts detached from shallow cups on ground amongst brown leaves and grass
Extent: 1 slide
Quercus (oak), diseased leaves (3.38359)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Quercus (oak), detail of leaves infected with anthracnose
Extent: 1 slide
Quercus (oak), acorn habitat (3.38360)
Date: June 1973Creator: Kohout, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Quercus (oak), acorn detail showing inside of cup and piece of nut amongst fallen twig, seedling and plant debris
Extent: 1 slide
Quercus (oak), fall (3.38361)
Date: October 1983Type: Photographic image
Description:Quercus (oak), several trees in the Arboretum's Oak Collection, view of trunks and lower branches with some orange-brown leaves in fall
Extent: 1 slide