Watts, May Theilgaard
Arboretum Landscape Teaching Aid Series: Know, Know, Know Your Oaks, This Is How They Grow
Identifier
3.19509Format
black ink on heavy paperDigitization Status
DigitizedReproduction:
OriginalDimensions
29.2 cm W x 11.5 cm H (Item)Extent
1 sheetType
DrawingDate created
mid 20th centuryDescription
Primarily textual teaching aid depicting Arboretum landscape. This material describes the growth direction of five types of oak tree branches. Illustrations depict small human-shaped figures that indicate tree branch growth with arms and run diagonally down the center of the image with descriptive text on either side.Header: Know, know, know your oaks, / This is how they grow:
Text and illustrations from top to bottom:
- Red Oak, [illustration of figure with arms raised overhead] (arms held to indicate acute-angled branching)
- White Oak, [illustration of figure with arms raised to shoulders] (arms indicate right-angled branching)
- Bur Oak, [illustration of figure with arms raised to shoulder and elbows bent down] (elbows indicated gnarled branching)
- Pin Oak, [illustration of figure with arms extended at sides] (deflected lower branches)
- and Hill's, untidy below. [illustration of figure with arms raised to shoulder, elbows bent down, and fingers splayed] (fingers indicate deflected, dead, lower branches)
Subject - keywords and LC headings
Trees--IdentificationDrawings -- United States -- 20th century
Pen works -- United States -- 20th century
Quercus macrocarpa Michx. (bur oak)
Quercus ellipsoidalis E.J.Hill (Hill's oak)
Quercus palustris Münchh. (pin oak)
Quercus rubra L. (northern red oak)
Quercus alba L. (white oak)
