Arboretum Landscape Teaching Aid Series: Trees Keep Records (3.19505)
Date: 1940 – 1960Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Primarily textual teaching aid depicting Arboretum landscape. This material describes the biography of a red oak tree with illustrations and text.
Header: TREES KEEP RECORDS [Illustration of a tree writing in a book with a quill pen, saying "it's nothing, really!"]
Text and illustrations from top to bottom, left to right:
- This red oak was planted, probably by a squirrel, the year that Mr. Joy Morton was 14. [Illustration of a squirrel planting an acorn with a shovel and a sketch of a high wheel bike and cyclist in the background, followed by the year 1869]
- It was this large (red ring) in the year that Sterling Morton inaugurated ARBOR DAY. [Illustration of men in top hats and suits planting trees, followed by the year 1872]
- It was this larger (green ring) in the year the Morton Arboretum was founded. [Illustration of a path with trees, followed by the year 1921]
- It grew vigorously in its youth and then slowed down.
Extent: 1 sheet
Cedar Apple Rust: Destroy, Inspect, and Spray (3.19517)
Date: 1940sCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Informational text listing preventative measures to stop the spread of the fungal disease known as cedar apple rust. Text also includes information regarding steps taken at the Arboretum to protect Hawthorns.
Text as depicted, from top to bottom:
1. DESTROY EITHER ONE OF THE TWO HOSTS TO A DISTANCE OF 1 1/2 TO 2 MILES. (One pathologist collected spores in an airplane one-half mile off the ground.)
HERE AT THE ARBORETUM 3000 RED CEDARS WERE DESTROYED TO PROTECT THE HAWTHORNS.
2. INSPECT EACH RED CEDAR FROM GROUND TO TOP EVERY WINTER OR EARLY SPRING. CUT OFF AND BURN ALL CEDAR APPLES.............
3. SPRAY. FOR THE RECOMMENDED SPRAYS FOR BOTH CEDARS AND APPLES SEE CONTROL MEASURES BOOKLET IN THIS ROOM.
Extent: 1 sheet
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
Evergreen Nature Trail Guide, page 10 illustrations and layout with preliminary sketches (3.24684)
Date: 1940sCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Sheet One: Original illustrations and layout for page 10, excluding text, for The Morton Arboretum Evergreen Nature Trail Guide booklet. Key lines included.
Illustrated stumps with numbers indicate points of interest along trail as seen on trail map.
Tree stump #22: Scotch Pine
Includes illustrated identifying characteristics of needles.
Tree stump #23: Red Pine
Includes illustrated identifying characteristics of needles.
Tree stump #24: How Fast Do Pines Grow?
Includes illustrated graph showing growth record of a Red (Norway) Pine from 1922 to 1940. Numbers on left side indicate feet from 1 to 26. Graph includes illustrations of trees and stylized image of a person for scale. Text in graph states "Planted Spring 1922" and "No fertilizer, No cultivating, No extra water, Mulched during first year."
Two cutout illustrations depicting cone characteristics originally adhered to board have detached and are no longer present.
Sheet Two: Preliminary sketch of green-colored illustrations.
Extent: 2 sheets
Coprinus comatus (3.29229)
Date: 1920 – 1950Creator: Beggs, Helene Warder, 1882-1970
Type: Painting
Extent: 1 painting : watercolor and graphite 28 x 20 cm.
Lycoperdon cyathiforme (3.29246)
Date: 1920 – 1950Creator: Beggs, Helene Warder, 1882-1970
Type: Painting
Extent: 1 painting : watercolor and graphite 26 x 21 cm.
Two mushrooms (3.29263)
Date: 1920 – 1950Creator: Beggs, Helene Warder, 1882-1970
Type: Painting
Extent: 1 painting : watercolor and graphite 26 x 18 cm.
Tree Portraits: Willow (3.31790)
Date: 1940 – 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Painting
Description:Color silhouette of a Willow tree, including a nature print outline of a leaf, a drawing of a twig with buds, and descriptive text.
Header: WILLOW
Drawings and text, from top to bottom, left to right:
- leaf
- twig and buds: single scale on each bud
- tree: twigs slender, yellow in Spring; along a river bank
Extent: 1 sheet
Bulletin of Popular Information V. 23 No. 05 (3.32516)
Date: May 1948Creator: Kammerer, E. Lowell
Type: Serial
Description:
- Hardy Azaleas
Extent: 4 pages
Ridge Road in winter through bare trees looking east (3.32759)
Date: 1930 – 1949Type: Photographic image
Description:Ridge Road in winter through bare trees looking east
Extent: 1 negative
Trees in October alongside Ridge Road (3.32768)
Date: 1930 – 1949Type: Photographic image
Description:Trees in October alongside Ridge Road
Extent: 1 negative
Meadow Road looking north (3.33186)
Date: 1930 – 1949Type: Photographic image
Description:Meadow Road looking north
Extent: 1 negative
Forest Road, unpaved, in dappled sunlight (3.33201)
Date: 1922 – 1949Type: Photographic image
Description:Forest Road, unpaved, in dappled sunlight
Original Ed Puffer land
Extent: 1 negative
Ridge Road intersection with Valley Road looking east (3.33209)
Date: 1925 – 1949Type: Photographic image
Description:Ridge Road intersection with Valley Road looking east
Extent: 1 negative
Administration Building Library, stereograph (3.3355)
Date: 1940sType: Photographic image
Description:Administration Building Library, stereograph
Arboretum library prior to the Sterling Morton Library
Later location of Dick Wason's office, then Development office, northwest wing of Administration Building
Extent: 1 stereograph
May T. Watts, Mary Moulton, Helen Turner, Alice Goodrich, and Edna Jones with a class in the Redwood Building (3.34051)
Date: circa 1948 – 1959Type: Photographic image
Description:May T. Watts with a class in the Redwood Building at The Morton Arboretum. Helen Turner and Mary Moulton appear in the back row on the left, Alice Goodrich is in the front row wearing a hat, and Edna Jones is on the far right.
Extent: 1 slide
An Example of Parallel Species (3.19471)
Date: 1940sCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustrations comparing two parallel species of trees, one in America and one in Europe. Illustrations depict a branch with leaves and fruit.
Header: An example of parallel species
Illustrations from left to right:
- one in southeastern America
- ironwood -- Ostrya virginiana
- one in Europe
- European hornbeam -- Ostrya carpinifolia
Extent: 1 sheet
Arboretum Landscape Teaching Aid Series: A River Emerged From Under A Glacier (3.19497)
Date: 1940 – 1960Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Primarily textual teaching aid depicting Arboretum landscape. This material shows the origin of gravel pits at the Arboretum.
Header: A RIVER EMERGED FROM UNDER A GLACIER
Text and illustrations from top to bottom:
- [Depicted in stylized scroll with illustration of a steam shovel in gravel pit] The Record: There are several old gravel pits in the Arboretum.
- Interpreting the record:
- 1) A river running under a glacier is confined to a narrow channel, and is, therefore swift. Because of its swiftness it can carry gravel.
- 2) When such a river comes out from under the ice it spreads out and slows down. Slow moving water can carry only fine material. Therefore the river dropped its heavy material.
- 3) When men found these places they dug the gravel out.
Extent: 1 sheet
Cedar Apple Rust: First Year and Second Winter (3.19518)
Date: 1940sCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Panel 1 of 4 with illustrations and informational text about the fungal disease cedar apple rust cycle and its effect on Red cedar and Hawthorn trees. Focus of this panel is on the first year and second winter of the disease cycle, featuring drawings of Juniper twigs, galls, and a Red cedar tree.
Header: FIRST YEAR and SECOND WINTER
Drawings and text, clockwise from left:
- FIRST YEAR
- Juniper twig: WINTER; NO EFFECT EVIDENT
- Twig and gall: SUMMER; PURPLISH-BROWNISH GALL DEVELOPS
- GALL GROWS
- Twig with gall: SECOND WINTER; FUNGUS REMAINS DORMANT WITHIN SWOLLEN TISSUE
- RED (left half image of a full-sized Red cedar)
Extent: 1 sheet
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
Evergreen Nature Trail Guide, page 11 illustrations and layout with preliminary sketches (3.24685)
Date: 1940sCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Sheet One: Original illustrations and layout for page 11, excluding text, for The Morton Arboretum Evergreen Nature Trail Guide booklet. Key lines included.
Illustrated stumps with numbers indicate points of interest along trail as seen on trail map.
Tree stump #25: White Pine
Includes illustrated identifying characteristics of needles.
Tree stump #26: The Flowering of Evergreens
Includes 4 illustrations identifying the flowering cycle.
Single cutout illustration depicting cone characteristics originally adhered to board has detached and is no longer present.
Sheet Two: Preliminary sketch of green-colored illustrations.
Extent: 2 sheets
Amanita muscari (3.29209)
Date: 1920 – 1950Creator: Beggs, Helene Warder, 1882-1970
Type: Painting
Extent: 1 painting : watercolor and graphite 29 x 23 cm.
Coprinus micaceus (3.29230)
Date: 1920 – 1950Creator: Beggs, Helene Warder, 1882-1970
Type: Painting
Extent: 1 painting : watercolor and graphite 26 x 21 cm.
Lycoperdon gemmatum (3.29247)
Date: 1920 – 1950Creator: Beggs, Helene Warder, 1882-1970
Type: Painting
Extent: 1 painting : watercolor and graphite 26 x 18 cm.
Volvaria bombycina (3.29264)
Date: 1920 – 1950Creator: Beggs, Helene Warder, 1882-1970
Type: Painting
Extent: 1 painting : watercolor and graphite 26 x 18 cm.
Botanical plates / M.E. Eaton.. [et al.]. (3.29579)
Date: 1916 – 1964Creator: Eaton, Mary Emily.
Type: Painting
Extent: 281 prints : art reproductions, color, b&w 27 x 18 cm.
Lake Marmo looking north (3.3056)
Date: 1940sType: Photographic image
Description:Lake Marmo looking north
Extent: 1 negative
Tree Portraits: Red Maple (3.31791)
Date: 1940 – 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Painting
Description:Color silhouette of a Red Maple tree, including a nature print outline of a leaf, drawings of a twig with buds, seeds, and descriptive text.
Header: RED MAPLE
Drawings and text, from top to bottom, left to right:
- leaf
- tree
- twig with buds: opposite-branching
- seeds: ripe in May-June; found in lowlands but also on uplands
Extent: 1 sheet
Tree Portraits: Sycamore Maple (3.31808)
Date: 1940 – 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Painting
Description:Color silhouette of a Sycamore Maple tree, including a nature print outline of a leaf, drawings of a twig, seeds, and descriptive text.
Header: SYCAMORE MAPLE
Drawings and text from top to bottom, left to right:
- leaf
- tree: dark heavy green; no Autumn coloring; no milk
- twig with buds
- seeds: ripe in Fall; European
Extent: 1 sheet
Bulletin of Popular Information V. 23 No. 06 (3.32517)
Date: June 1948Creator: Kammerer, E. Lowell
Type: Serial
Description:
- Ground Covers
Extent: 6 pages
Front Road curving right as viewed between two trees (3.33187)
Date: 1930 – 1949Type: Photographic image
Description:Front Road curving right as viewed between two trees
Extent: 1 negative
Forest Road in winter, footprints in the snow (3.33202)
Date: 1930 – 1949Type: Photographic image
Description:Forest Road in winter, footprints in the snow
Original Jake Mey land
Extent: 1 negative
Evergreen Trail covered in snow, first post sign from trail guide on right (3.33267)
Date: 1940sType: Photographic image
Description:Evergreen Trail covered in snow, first post sign from trail guide on right
Extent: 1 negative
Trail in summer near Thornhill residence, west side (3.33441)
Date: 1930 – 1949Type: Photographic image
Description:Trail in summer near Thornhill residence, west side
Grassy path through trees
Extent: 1 negative
Path through wooded area (3.33766)
Date: 1930 – 1949Type: Photographic image
Description:Path through wooded area
Extent: 1 negative
Lake Jopamaca and footbridge, looking east toward DuPage River (3.33982)
Date: 1930 – 1949Type: Photographic image
Description:Lake Jopamaca and footbridge, looking east toward DuPage River
Extent: 1 negative