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
1999/06/06: Rob Greenland to George Ware (3.38213)
Date: June 6 1999Creator: Greenland, Rob
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Rob Greenland of Brighton & Hove to George Ware announcing his pleasure at receiving seeds for a variety of Ulmus, requesting additional information as to how to properly propagate them, and offering to reciprocate in kind.
Extent: 1 sheet
Kirsten Spravka and Gary Watson in cherry picker near crown of tree doing research (3.4538)
Date: 1990sCreator: Irving, Gary
Type: Photographic image
Description:Kirsten Spravka and Gary Watson in cherry picker near crown of tree doing research
Extent: 1 photograph
1999/07/27: George Ware to Rob Greenland (3.55935)
Date: July 27 1999Creator: Ware, George
Type: Document
Description:Letter from George Ware to Rob Greenland of Environmental Services, Brighton and Hove Council, England explaining how best to germinate Ulmus seeds received from Peter Bourne.
Extent: 1 sheet
Kirsten Spravka and Gary Watson in cherry picker doing research near crown of tree (3.4539)
Date: 1990sType: Photographic image
Description:Kirsten Spravka and Gary Watson in cherry picker doing research near crown of tree
Extent: 1 photograph
Magnolia acuminata (cucumbertree), leaves and fruit (3.63711)
Date: August 1999Creator: Byrne, Anthony T.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Magnolia acuminata (cucumbertree), detail view of large, dark green leaves with a pointed tip and wavy edge. The underleaf is pale green. Also visible at the tip of the twig is the berry-like fruit of the cucumbertree, an upright aggregate cluster that is 2 to 3 inches long and pinkish-red in color.
Extent: 1 slide
John Hendricksen presenting check in Hedge Garden for Gary Watson's research into root damage caused by construction activities (3.4540)
Date: 1990sType: Photographic image
Description:John Hendricksen presenting check in Hedge Garden for Gary Watson's research into root damage caused by construction activities
(L to R): Gerry Donnelly, Gary Watson, Larry Hall, John Hendricksen, Christopher Dunn
Extent: 1 photograph
Acer griseum (paper-barked maple) (3.37521)
Date: July 1999Creator: Bachtell, Kris
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer griseum (paper-barked maple), tree on landscaped grounds at Swathmore College with buildings set in the background
Extent: 1 slide
Woody Plant Collections: Historic Views (3.41528)
Date: April 1999Creator: Walker, Catherine
Type: Map
Description:Tracing over Arboretum brochure (Woody Plant Collections of The Morton Arboretum) with notations from Catherine Walker. Numbers relate to photograph booklet.
Extent: 1 sheet
Core Area Master Plan The Morton Arboretum (3.39964)
Date: November 18 1999Creator: Marshall, Tyler, Rausch
Type: Plan
Description:A colored plan of the core area inside The Morton Arboretum. Shown places include: Children's Adventure Garden, Herb and Fragrance Garden, Visitor's Center, Meadow Lake, etc.
Existing Noise Contouring Map (3.47257)
Date: April 1999Creator: HDR Engineering, Inc.
Type: Map
Description:Topographical map of the Arboretum grounds in 1999 with noise contour lines and measurements of sound in dB(A).
Acer griseum (paper-barked maple), fall (3.37524)
Date: November 1999Creator: Bachtell, Kris
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer griseum (paper-barked maple), small tree with red leaves, larger conifers in background
Extent: 1 slide
Acer saccharum (sugar maple), fall color (3.37965)
Date: November 1999Creator: Mehaffey, Scott A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer saccharum (sugar maple), partial view of tree showing bright yellow and orange fall color in the Ground Cover Garden
Extent: 1 slide
The Morton Arboretum Annual Report, 1999 (3.67184)
Date: 1999Type: Serial
Description:This Annual Report reviews the achievements and progress of work at The Morton Arboretum during 1999.
This document can be viewed digitally or in-person. To make an in-person appointment or to request digital access, contact the Sterling Morton Library staff by following the link here.
Extent: 28 pages
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.
Quercus coccinea (scarlet oak), leaves (3.38413)
Date: September 1999Type: Photographic image
Description:Quercus coccinea (scarlet oak), detail of dark green leaves with deep sinuses and bristle-tipped lobes
Extent: 1 slide
Members' Cooperative Research Program, Alice Burkman assisting with plant pickup in Research basement (3.47551)
Date: 1990sType: Photographic image
Description:Members' Cooperative Research Program, Alice Burkman assisting with plant pickup in Research basement
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
Group of men and women around table in birding class. Tom Simpson, Arboretum staff member, seated at table. (3.44217)
Date: 1990sType: Photographic image
Description:Group of men and women around table in birding class
Extent: 1 photograph
1999/09/28: George H. Ware to Rob Greenland (3.47677)
Date: September 28 1999Creator: Ware, George
Type: Document
Description:Letter from George Ware to Rob Greenland, Aboriculturist for Environmental Services, Brighton, England, thanking him for his interest in his articles on elms, and in return, sending him more articles. Dr. Ware also requests information or published material on the elms of Brighton and Hove.
Extent: 1 sheet
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.
Meadow Lake Reconstruction (3.6723)
Date: 1990sCreator: Mehaffey, Scott A.
Type: Plan
Description:Sheet 1 - scope drawing; Sheet 2 - site context
Extent: 2 sheets
1999/05/16: Yiquin Xin to George Ware (3.44548)
Date: May 16 1999Creator: Xin, Yiqun
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Yiqun Xin of Shandong University in China to George Ware discussing sending Ulmus macrocarpa seeds from the city of Jinan and Ulmus glaucescens and Ulmus pumila seeds from the Shandong province.
Extent: 1 sheet
Acer ‘White Tigress’ (White Tigress maple), bark (3.38051)
Date: May 21 1999Creator: Bachtell, Kris
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer ‘White Tigress’ (White Tigress maple), fissured olive green bark on trunk with vertical bluish and silver striping
Extent: 1 slide
Lake Marmo Visitor Station Survey Worksheet (3.44608)
Date: May 5 1999Type: Map
Description:Topographic map of Lake Marmo and Visitor Station with elevation bench marks.
Extent: 1 Sheet
1999/12/17: George H. Ware to Dr. Bill Braker (3.55485)
Date: December 17 1999Creator: Ware, George
Type: Document
Description:Letter from George Ware to Dr. Bill Braker of the the Flossmor Country Club discussing his recommendations for various landscape issues and care of existing woody plants on and around the Flossmoor golf course.
Extent: 2 sheets
Meadow Lake Reconstruction [highlighted sections] (3.7095)
Date: 1990sCreator: Mehaffey, Scott A.
Type: Plan
Description:Sheet 1 - scope drawing; Sheet 2 - site context
Contains areas highlighted in marker.
Extent: 2 sheets
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
Research crew operating a hydropneumatic elutriation root washing system in laboratory (3.4497)
Date: 1990sCreator: Kohout, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Research crew operating a hydropneumatic elutriation root washing system in laboratory
L to R: Web Crowley, Tony Sanda (volunteer), Gary Watson, Jack Dieckmann (volunteer)
Extent: 1 photograph
Plant Health Care Report: Issue 99.14 (3.59276)
Date: July 1999Creator: Danielson, Donna, Jacobs, Karel, Miller, Fredric D.
Type: Serial
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
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
Acer triflorum (three-flowered maple), winter (3.38200)
Date: January 1999Creator: Mehaffey, Scott A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer triflorum (three-flowered maple), partial view of habit in winter, branches are mostly bare, revealing shaggy peeling bark typical of this tree.
Extent: 1 slide
The Care of Trees giving The Morton Arboretum a check for Dr. Gary Watson's research on roots (3.4060)
Date: 1990sType: Photographic image
Description:The Care of Trees giving The Morton Arboretum a check for Dr. Gary Watson's research on roots
(L to R): Larry Hall (Vice President, The Care of Trees), Gary Watson, Gerry Donnelly
Extent: 1 photograph
Elm hybridization, bags on trees, George Ware research project (3.4503)
Date: 1990sCreator: Nachel, Jim
Type: Photographic image
Description:Elm hybridization, bags on trees, George Ware research project
Extent: 1 photograph