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
Uses of Wood Exhibit: Ironwood (3.34368)
Date: September 4 1974Creator: Stickney, William S.
Type: Photographic image
Description:A diorama from the Uses of Wood exhibit, depicting how ironwood is used with a tool bench.
Extent: 1 slide
Platanus occidentalis (sycamore), bark and exposed trunk (3.37427)
Date: January 1974Creator: Skupien, L.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Platanus occidentalis (sycamore), detail of flaky gray-brown scales and exposed smooth white patches on trunk
Extent: 1 slide
Acer saccharum (sugar maple), leaves and bark (3.37993)
Date: September 5 1974Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer saccharum (sugar maple), partial view of the trunk of the tree with bark that is slightly furrowed and becoming plated; a few twigs with typical 5-lobed leaves are also visible
Extent: 1 slide
Nature Printing Class instructed by Nancy Hart in the Greenhouse, Polly Cosgrove and participant holding up nature print (3.48055)
Date: January 1974Creator: Stickney, William S.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Nature Printing Class instructed by Nancy Hart in the Greenhouse, Polly Cosgrove and participant holding up nature print
Extent: 1 negative filmstrip
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
Nature Printing Class instructed by Nancy Hart in the Greenhouse, Nancy Hart and participants working at table (3.48056)
Date: January 1974Creator: Stickney, William S.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Nature Printing Class instructed by Nancy Hart in the Greenhouse, Nancy Hart and participants working at table
Extent: 1 negative filmstrip
The Morton Arboretum Quarterly V. 01-12 Index (3.34466)
Date: 1965 – 1976Type: Serial
Description:
- Twelve-Year Index, Volumes 1-12 1965-1976
- The Plant Information Bulletin (A Supplement to the Quarterly) Three-Year Index, 1974-1976 (Numbers 1-11)
Extent: 8 pages
Quercus bicolor (swamp white oak), bark detail with plant label (3.38402)
Date: October 6 1974Type: Photographic image
Description:Quercus bicolor (swamp white oak), detail of brown bark with furrowed vertical ridges and plant label
Extent: 1 slide
Nature Printing Class instructed by Nancy Hart in the Greenhouse, arranging specimens on paper (3.48057)
Date: January 1974Creator: Stickney, William S.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Nature Printing Class instructed by Nancy Hart in the Greenhouse, arranging specimens on paper
Extent: 1 negative filmstrip
small ceramic container with brown under glazed and windblown tree design (3.19833)
Date: 1970sCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Ceramic
Description:small ceramic container with brown under glazed and windblown tree design
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.
The Morton Arboretum Quarterly V. 10 No. 01 (3.34467)
Date: March 21 – June 20 1974Type: Serial
Description:
- Argument for an Old Bog (1-7)
- “Fantasy in a Wood-Block” (8-9)
- Arbor Day Thoughts (10-11)
- Maidenhair Tree, Ginkgo biloba: Ginkgo Family (Ginkgoaceae) (12-13)
- News & c: Research Notes/ People & Projects/ Climatological Summary (14-15)
- The Lookout (16)
Extent: 16 pages
Populus deltoides (eastern cottonwood), fruit and seeds (3.37700)
Date: June 1974Creator: Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:Populus deltoides (eastern cottonwood), seeds with white cottony fluff (coma) released from fruit capsules dangling from twigs with green leaves
Extent: 1 slide
Acer saccharum (sugar maple) (3.38015)
Date: September 5 1974Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer saccharum (sugar maple), partial upward-looking view of tree with green foliage in late summer
Extent: 1 slide
Nature Printing Class instructed by Nancy Hart in the Greenhouse, participants working at table (3.48058)
Date: January 1974Creator: Stickney, William S.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Nature Printing Class instructed by Nancy Hart in the Greenhouse, participants working at table
Extent: 1 negative filmstrip
small ceramic gray vase with brown under glaze with row of pansies around vase, bulb-shaped with narrow rim (3.19851)
Date: 1970sCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Ceramic
Description:small ceramic gray vase with brown under glaze with row of pansies around vase, bulb-shaped with narrow rim
The Morton Arboretum Quarterly V. 10 No. 02 (3.34468)
Date: June 21 – September 20 1974Type: Serial
Description:
- Living Footnotes in a Garden (17-26)
- Research Notes/ Climatological Summary (27-29)
- Bur Oak, Quercus macrocarpa: Beech Family (Fagaceae) (30-31)
- The Unexpected Drop-In (32)
(links to these articles can be found below under RELATED OBJECTS)
Extent: 16 pages
1974/07/17: Jim Dolittle [?] to George Ware (3.37834)
Date: July 17 1974Creator: Doolittle, Jim
Type: Document
Description:Note to Dr. Ware from Jim Dolittle [?] thanking him for research material. In addition to sending a copy of his report, he also enclosed two articles [report and articles not included with note].
Extent: 1 sheet
Nature Printing Class instructed by Nancy Hart in the Greenhouse, participant placing paper under glass (3.48059)
Date: January 1974Creator: Stickney, William S.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Nature Printing Class instructed by Nancy Hart in the Greenhouse, participant placing paper under glass
Extent: 1 negative filmstrip
small ceramic brown vase with narrow rim - jug shaped (3.19852)
Date: 1970sCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Ceramic
Description:small ceramic brown vase with narrow rim - jug shaped
The Morton Arboretum Quarterly V. 10 No. 03 (3.34469)
Date: September 21 – December 20 1974Type: Serial
Description:
- Immigrant Plants (33-39)
- Norway Maple, Acer platanoides: Maple Family (Aceraceae) (40-41)
- Impressions of Wolf Road Prairie (42-44)
- Research Notes/ People & Projects/ Climatological Summary (45-47)
- Acorns Large & Small (48)
Extent: 16 pages
Tony Tyznik, outdoor portrait (3.5180)
Date: 1970sType: Photographic image
Description:Tony Tyznik, outdoor portrait
Extent: 1 photograph
Stage 4 of 7 of Seed Maturation: Abies fraseri Poir. (Fraser’s fir), pine cone seed development (3.81587)
Date: October 1974Type: Photographic image
Description:Abies fraseri Poir. (Fraser’s fir), stage 4 of 7, pine cone seed development, close up view of cone stalk being denuded
Extent: 1 slide
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.
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
Acer saccharum (sugar maple), habit, spring (3.38018)
Date: May 1974Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer saccharum (sugar maple), from a distance, full view of tree with typical evenly-proportioned egg-shape and pale yellow flowers beginning to emerge in spring; tree is situated on open grassy grounds with trees in the background
Extent: 1 slide
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.
The Morton Arboretum Quarterly V. 09 No. 04 (3.34584)
Date: December 21 1973 – March 20 1974Type: Serial
Extent: 16 pages
Acer saccharum (sugar maple), habit, spring (3.37925)
Date: May 1974Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer saccharum (sugar maple), full view of habit, tree is typical egg-shape with dense slender twigs with pale yellow flowers emerging in spring
Extent: 1 slide
Morton Arboretum TEA Guides (Teaching Environmental Awareness) outside in the snow (3.4133)
Date: 1970sType: Photographic image
Description:Morton Arboretum TEA Guides (Teaching Environmental Awareness) outside in the snow
(Seated L to R): Laurie Skrzenta, Jennie Jendrzejczyk, Vicki Kohlman, Pat Armstrong
(Standing L to R): Carol Irvin, Carol Way, Ann Carlson, Emily Fleishman, Lois Myerholtz, Ester Shaw, Gloria Dobry, Jan McLaughlin, Sally Grunsfeld, Alice Burkman, Sybil Kellogg, Mildred Rahn, Marlene Ralston, Barbara Rutherford, Helen Pierce
Extent: 1 photograph
Viola Sobolik in the Sterling Morton Library Main Reading Room (3.4255)
Date: 1970sType: Photographic image
Description:Viola Sobolik in the Sterling Morton Library Main Reading Room
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
Acer palmatum ‘Atropurpureum’ (Purple-leaved Japanese maple), foliage (3.38041)
Date: October 25 1974Creator: Stickney, William S.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer palmatum ‘Atropurpureum’ (Purple-leaved Japanese maple), closeup detail showing typical leaves that are deeply divided into 7 lobes with bright red fall color
Extent: 1 slide
Acer saccharum (sugar maple), flowers (3.37951)
Date: April 1974Creator: Schrattenholzer, Friedrich
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer saccharum (sugar maple), against a black backdrop, pale yellow flowers on dangling long stalks beginning to emerge from buds on the tip of a twig
Extent: 1 slide