[East Woods?] (3.6285)
Date: March 21 – June 20 1953Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Plan
Description:Possibly created by May Watts
Note on back: "Entire Map of Plot in Maintained Forest Area, original count, 1953 spring". Includes note that red pencil circles indicate trees "cut out winter 1954"
Identifies trees in plot, including sugar maple, ironwood, ash, linden, red oak, white oak, bitternut hickory, cherry, slippery elm
Extent: 1 sheet
Yellow Pond Lily (3.19469)
Date: 1940sCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Two illustrations of a yellow pond lily, depicting leaves and flowers with identifying text below each image. Image "A" shows the flower about to open on the first day, and image "B" shows the second day with flower fully open.
Header: yellow pond lily
Plants and text as depicted from left to right:
- A - For one day the opening flower offers insects a small entrance, filled with the stigma reader for pollen from a flower like B [arrow pointing right to next column of text]
- B - On the second day the flower opens wide, and its stamens burst with pollen, ready to be carried by insects to a flower like A [arrow pointing left back to text in the first column]
Extent: 1 sheet
Yard at the Nieto pottery studio, San Bartolo Coyotepec, Mexico (3.37071)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Animals grazing in the yard at the Nieto pottery studio in San Bartolo Coyotepec, Mexico.
This image is part of a group of slides that belonged to May T. Watts, related to her book Reading the Landscape.
Extent: 1 slide
Workshop participants in a meadow with May T. Watts (3.34141)
Type: Photographic image
Description:A group of workshop participants listen to May T. Watts give a presentation in a meadow at The Morton Arboretum.
Extent: 1 slide
Workshop participants creating nature crafts with various art materials and leaves (3.34139)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Participants at a Morton Arboretum workshop with May T. Watts create nature crafts with art materials and leaves.
Extent: 1 slide
Workshop participants creating nature crafts with leaves (3.34137)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Participants in a Morton Arboretum workshop with May T. Watts, including a nun, create nature crafts with leaves.
Extent: 1 slide
Workshop luncheon with May T. Watts (3.34134)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Workshop participants have lunch with May T. Watts in the dining room of a Morton Arboretum building.
Extent: 1 slide
Workshop lunch preparation (3.34133)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Food being prepared and served for a workshop lunch at The Morton Arboretum.
Extent: 1 slide
Wood frame house (3.36487)
Type: Photographic image
Description:A white wood frame house with a front porch, viewed from the side. Some landscaped foliage is also visible growing along the side of the house.
This image is part of a group of slides that belonged to May T. Watts, related to her book Reading the Landscape.
Extent: 1 slide
Women's History Month: May T. Watts (3.92714)
Date: March 2020Creator: The Morton Arboretum
Type: Video
Description:A video celebrating the accomplishments of May Theilgaard Watts.
Woman on a patio (3.36634)
Type: Photographic image
Description:A woman, possibly May T. Watts, appears to be drying her hair on an outdoor patio.
This image is part of a group of slides that belonged to May T. Watts, related to her book Reading the Landscape.
Extent: 1 slide
Winter Twigs, page 4 (3.24636)
Date: 1943Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Page 4 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. Original identifying text has detached and is no longer present.
Illustrations are divided into seven sections, depicted from top to bottom, left to right:
1) [Original text] TREES WITH FLATTENED YELLOWISH BUDS
- Bitternut hickory -- Carya cordiformis
- Witch-hazel -- Hamamelis virginiana
- Shadbush -- Amelanchier canadensis
- Beech -- Fagus grandifolia
- Black walnut -- Juglans nigra
- Butternut -- Juglans cinerea
- Sassafras -- Sassafras albidum
- Shagbark hickory -- Carya ovata
- Linden -- Tilia americana
- Mountain ash -- Sorbus
- Sour gum -- Nyssa sylvatica
- Silver poplar -- Populus alba
Extent: 1 sheet
Winter Twigs, page 3 (3.24632)
Date: 1943Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Page 3 of 4, illustrations showing identifying characteristics of different types of winter twigs with identifying labels and text above each, created to accompany "Winter Twigs" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information. Some original identifying text has detached and is no longer present.
Illustrations are divided into seven sections, depicted from top to bottom, left to right:
1) TREES WITH THORNS
- Honey locust -- Gleditsia triacanthos
- Black locust -- Robinia pseudo-acacia
- Osage orange -- Maclura pomifera
- Hawthorn -- Crataegus
- Wild crab -- Malus ioensis [and] Malus coronaria
- Wild plum : Prunus americana [and] Prunus nigra
- European larch -- Larix decidua
- Tamarack -- Larix laricina
- Ginkgo -- Ginkgo biloba
- Black Oak Group
- Red oak -- Quercus borealis maxima
- Northern pin oak -- Quercus ellipsoidalis
- Pin oak -- Quercus palustris
- White Oak Group
- Bur Oak -- Quercus macrocarpa
- White oak -- Quercus alba
- Swamp white oak -- Quercus bicolor
- Tulip [tree] -- Liriodendron tulipifera
- Sycamore -- Platanus occidentalis
- Kentucky coffee tree -- Gymnocladus dioicus
- Tree of heaven -- Ailanthus altissima
- Staghorn sumac -- Rhus typhina
- Smooth sumac -- Rhus glabra
- Willow -- Salix
Extent: 1 sheet
Winter Twigs, page 2 (3.24631)
Date: 1943Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Page 2 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. Original identifying text has detached and is mostly missing.
Illustrations are divided into two sections, depicted from top to bottom, left to right:
1) [Original text] TREES WITH OPPOSITE BRANCHING
- White ash -- Fraxinus americana
- Black ash -- Fraxinus nigra
- Blue ash -- Fraxinus quadrangulata
- Red ash -- Fraxinus pennsylvanica
- Sugar maple -- Acer saccharum
- Norway maple -- Acer platanoides
- Red maple -- Acer rubrum
- Silver maple -- Acer saccharinum
- Box-elder -- Acer negundo
- Horse-chestnut -- Aesculus hippocastanum
- Ohio buckeye -- Aesculus glabra
- Flowering dogwood -- Cornus florida
- Catalpa -- Catalpa speciosa [and] Catalpa bignonioides
- Ironwood -- Ostrya virginiana
- Gray birch -- Betula populifolia
- [as a single illustration:]
- Yellow birch -- Betula lutea
- River birch -- Betula nigra
- Cherry birch -- Betula lenta
- Paper birch -- Betula papyrifera
- European white birch -- Betula pendula
- European alder -- Alnus glutinosa
Extent: 1 sheet
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
Winter Buds, #3 (3.19513)
Date: 1940 – 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Large poster depicting 16 types of winter buds, bound in green tape.
Illustrations and text, from left to right, top to bottom:
- honey locust
- black locust
- Osage orange
- hawthorn
- wild crab
- wild plum
- European larch
- ginkgo
- red oak
- white oak
- tulip tree
- sycamore
- Kentucky coffeetree
- tree of heaven
- staghorn sumac
- willow
Extent: 1 sheet
Winter Buds, #2 (3.19512)
Date: 1940 – 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Large poster depicting 12 types of winter buds, bound in green tape.
Illustrations and text, from left to right, top to bottom:
- bitternut hickory
- witch-hazel
- shadbush
- beech
- black walnut
- butternut
- sassafras
- shagbark hickory
- linden
- mountain ash
- sour gum
- silver poplar
Extent: 1 sheet
Winter Buds, #1 (3.19511)
Date: 1940 – 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Large poster depicting 16 types of winter buds, bound in green tape.
Illustrations and text, from left to right, top to bottom:
- white ash
- black ash
- blue ash
- red ash
- sugar maple
- Norway maple
- silver maple
- box-elder
- horse-chestnut
- ohio buckeye
- flowering dogwood
- catalpa
- ironwood
- gray birch
- European white birch
- European alder
Extent: 1 sheet
Wildflowers in a prairie cemetery (3.36241)
Type: Photographic image
Description:White prairie flowers growing in a prairie cemetery.
This image is part of a group of slides that belonged to May T. Watts, related to her book Reading the Landscape.
Extent: 1 slide
Wildflowers (3.36493)
Type: Photographic image
Description:A patch of wildflowers growing on the roadside. A gravel drive way is visible on the left, which leads to a white wood frame stucture surrounded by trees in the background.
This image is part of a group of slides that belonged to May T. Watts, related to her book Reading the Landscape.
Extent: 1 slide
Wild crabapple flowers (3.36526)
Date: May 9 1964Type: Photographic image
Description:A close-up view of several wild crabapple flowers growing along the Illinois Prairie Path.
This image is part of a group of slides that belonged to May T. Watts, related to her book Reading the Landscape.
Extent: 1 slide
Wild crabapple (3.36527)
Date: May 9 1964Type: Photographic image
Description:Several wild crabapple flowers growing on trees along the Illinois Prairie Path.
This image is part of a group of slides that belonged to May T. Watts, related to her book Reading the Landscape.
Extent: 1 slide
Wheatland Plowing Match, spectators viewing airplanes in a field (3.36248)
Type: Photographic image
Description:A group of spectators are gathered around a small red and white airplane that sits in a field at the Wheatland Plowing Match in Wheatland Township, Illinois. Another plane is visible behind the first plane.
This image is part of a group of slides that belonged to May T. Watts, related to her book Reading the Landscape.
Extent: 1 slide
Wheatland Plowing Match, spectators viewing a plowing contest (3.36249)
Date: 1950sType: Photographic image
Description:Groups of spectators are gathered in a field that is being plowed for the Wheatland Plowing Match in Wheatland Township, Illinois. A yellow sign to the left reads: NO CARS / [o]n / CONTEST / FIELD
This image is part of a group of slides that belonged to May T. Watts, related to her book Reading the Landscape.
Extent: 1 slide
Wheatland Plowing Match, spectators viewing a newly plowed field (3.36246)
Date: 1950sType: Photographic image
Description:Groups of spectators view a newly plowed field created during the Wheatland Plowing Match in Wheatland Township, Illinois. A barbed wire fence and prairie grasses appear in the foreground.
This image is part of a group of slides that belonged to May T. Watts, related to her book Reading the Landscape.
Extent: 1 slide
Wheatland Plowing Match, spectators observing furrows (3.36244)
Date: 1950sType: Photographic image
Description:Spectators observe a newly plowed field created during the Wheatland Plowing Match in Wheatland Township, Illinois. A barbed wire fence and prairie grasses appear in the foreground.
This image is part of a group of slides that belonged to May T. Watts, related to her book Reading the Landscape.
Extent: 1 slide
Wheatland Plowing Match, spectators near a large tree (3.36251)
Date: 1950sType: Photographic image
Description:Spectators walk past a large tree at the Wheatland Plowing Match in Wheatland Township, Illinois.
This image is part of a group of slides that belonged to May T. Watts, related to her book Reading the Landscape.
Extent: 1 slide
Wheatland Plowing Match, pony rides (3.36250)
Date: 1950sType: Photographic image
Description:Children enjoy pony rides at the Wheatland Plowing Match in Wheatland Township, Illinois. Several vehicles are parked to the right of the activity.
This image is part of a group of slides that belonged to May T. Watts, related to her book Reading the Landscape.
Extent: 1 slide
Wheatland Plowing Match, contestant plowing furrows (3.36259)
Date: 1950sType: Photographic image
Description:A participant in the Wheatland Plowing Match plows furrows in a field in Wheatland Township, Illinois. Other particpants and spectators are visible in the background.
This image is part of a group of slides that belonged to May T. Watts, related to her book Reading the Landscape.
Extent: 1 slide
Wheatland Plowing Match, airplanes in a field (3.36247)
Date: 1950sType: Photographic image
Description:A red airplane sits in a field, while spectators walk past during the Wheatland Plowing Match in Wheatland Township, Illinois. Another plane is visible behind the first plane.
This image is part of a group of slides that belonged to May T. Watts, related to her book Reading the Landscape.
Extent: 1 slide
Wheatland Plowing Match, a newly plowed field (3.36245)
Date: 1950sType: Photographic image
Description:A newly plowed field created during the Wheatland Plowing Match in Wheatland Township, Illinois. A barbed wire fence and prairie grasses appear in the foreground.
This image is part of a group of slides that belonged to May T. Watts, related to her book Reading the Landscape.
Extent: 1 slide
Wheatland Plowing Match marker (3.36273)
Type: Photographic image
Description:A portion of an historical marker dedicated to early settlers of Wheatland Township, Illinois, next to a mugo pine.
This image is part of a group of slides that belonged to May T. Watts, related to her book Reading the Landscape. A drawing of a similar marker can be found in Chapter 2 of the book: "Prairie Plowing Match or The Making and Breaking of the Tall Grass Sod."
Extent: 1 slide
Wheatland Cemetery, headstones, bluestem, and corn (3.36277)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Prairie plants, including bluestem, grow alongside headstones in the Wheatland Cemetery in Illinois. Rows of cornstalks grow beyond the cemetery in the background.
This image is part of a group of slides that belonged to May T. Watts, related to her book Reading the Landscape.
Extent: 1 slide
Wheatland Cemetery (3.36270)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Prairie plants grow near several tombstones at the Wheatland Cemetery. Cornstalks appear in the background.
This image is part of a group of slides that belonged to May T. Watts, related to her book Reading the Landscape.
Extent: 1 slide
Wheatland Cemetery (3.36271)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Prairie plants grow near several tombstones at the Wheatland Cemetery. Cornstalks appear in the background. The name on the stone closest to the forground appears to read: REBECCA
This image is part of a group of slides that belonged to May T. Watts, related to her book Reading the Landscape.
Extent: 1 slide
Wheatland Cemetery (3.36272)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Prairie plants grow near several tombstones at the Wheatland Cemetery. The name on the stone closest to the forground appears to read "REBECCA" and has a chisled outline of hands at the top. A broken off top of another stone is propped next to it.
This image is part of a group of slides that belonged to May T. Watts, related to her book Reading the Landscape.
Extent: 1 slide