Vernal Witch-hazel (3.19477)
Date: 1940 – 1960Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustration of the Vernal witch-hazel plant, including three detailed views and some descriptive text. Background sketches include trees at top and center, and shrubs at center and bottom.
Header: VERNAL WITCH-HAZEL, HAMAMELIS vernalis
Illustrations as depicted, from top to bottom, left to right:
- a single pistil, labeled PISTIL
- two stamens, front view and side view, labeled STAMEN
- a single twig in bloom
- a flower
Extent: 1 sheet
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
Fern and Ginkgo Leaves (3.19554)
Date: 1940sCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Painting
Description:Airbrushed nature print outlines of layered fern and ginkgo leaves.
Extent: 1 sheet
Drawings of British plants : being illustrations of the species of flowering plants growing naturally in the British Isles / by Stella Ross-Craig with a foreword by Sir Edward Salisbury. (3.22689)
Date: 1948 – 1974Creator: Ross-Craig, Stella.
Type: Book
Extent: 31 v. : ill. 25 cm.
Crataegus phaenopyrum [graphic] / N. S. Hart. (3.24121)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 1 drawing : graphite, b&w 36 x 28 cm.
Evergreen Nature Trail Guide: evergreen trail map and work sheet (3.24663)
Date: 1940sCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Document
Description:Original illustrations and layout for the Evergreen Trail Map and Work Sheet planned to accompany The Morton Arboretum Evergreen Trail Guide booklet. Signed "by M. T. Watts" in bottom right corner.
Work sheet in top right corner included to test your conifer knowledge. Bottom left list of plants along the trail used in conjunction with worksheet in top right corner.
Illustrated map includes names of plants along the trail as well as numbers referring to explanations in the Guide booklet.
Extent: 1 sheet
Evergreen Nature Trail Guide, back cover/page 16 illustrations and layout with preliminary sketches (3.24690)
Date: 1940sCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Sheet One: Original illustrations and layout for back cover/page 16, for The Morton Arboretum Evergreen Nature Trail Guide booklet. Key lines included.
Includes a key to evergreen needle characteristics. Header text "A KEY TO THE EVERGREENS ALONG THIS TRAIL"
(first section) Needles in Bundles
Includes illustrated identifying characteristics of Evergreen needles in 2's, in 3's and in 5's.
(second section) NEEDLES OVERLAPPING
Includes illustrated identifying characteristics of Evergreen needles, including those with 2 kinds of needles and with 1 kind of needle.
(third section) NEEDLES DECIDUOUS
Includes illustrated identifying characteristics of Evergreen needles, including tufts and 2-ranked.
(fourth section) NEEDLES NOT IN BUNDLES; NOT OVERLAPPING; NOT DECIDUOUS
Includes illustrated identifying characteristics of Evergreen needles, including categories "Needles flat, twigs smooth" and "Needles 4-sided, twigs rough."
Sheet Two: Preliminary sketch of green-colored illustrations.
Extent: 2 sheets
Leaf prints Box 1 [No.1: Abelia chinensis] (3.26843)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Vitale, Alice Thoms.
Type: Print
Description:;
Extent: 107 prints : nature print, b&w, some hand-colored 31 x 23 cm.
Leaf prints Box 1 [No. 17: Acer palmatum dissectum] (3.26859)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Vitale, Alice Thoms.
Type: Print
Extent: 107 prints : nature print, b&w, some hand-colored 31 x 23 cm.
Leaf prints Box 1 [No. 33: Akebia quinata] (3.26875)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Vitale, Alice Thoms.
Type: Print
Extent: 107 prints : nature print, b&w, some hand-colored 31 x 23 cm.
Leaf prints Box 1 [No. 49: Annona cherimola] (3.26891)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Vitale, Alice Thoms.
Type: Print
Extent: 107 prints : nature print, b&w, some hand-colored 31 x 23 cm.
Leaf prints Box 1 [No. 65:Arundinaria humilis?] (3.26907)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Vitale, Alice Thoms.
Type: Print
Extent: 107 prints : nature print, b&w, some hand-colored 31 x 23 cm.
Leaf prints Box 1 [No. 81: Bauhinia variegata] (3.26923)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Vitale, Alice Thoms.
Type: Print
Extent: 107 prints : nature print, b&w, some hand-colored 31 x 23 cm.
Leaf prints Box 1 [No. 97: Brachychiton bidwillii] (3.26939)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Vitale, Alice Thoms.
Type: Print
Extent: 107 prints : nature print, b&w, some hand-colored 31 x 23 cm.
Leaf prints Box 2 [No. 6: Callistemon citrinus] (3.26955)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Vitale, Alice Thoms.
Type: Print
Extent: 165 prints : nature print, b&w, some hand-colored 31 x 23 cm.
Leaf prints Box 2 [No. 22: Carpinus caroliniana] (3.26971)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Vitale, Alice Thoms.
Type: Print
Extent: 165 prints : nature print, b&w, some hand-colored 31 x 23 cm.
Leaf prints Box 2 [No. 38: Catalpa bignonioides] (3.26987)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Vitale, Alice Thoms.
Type: Print
Extent: 165 prints : nature print, b&w, some hand-colored 31 x 23 cm.
Leaf prints Box 2 [No. 54: Cercidiphyllum japonicum] (3.27003)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Vitale, Alice Thoms.
Type: Print
Extent: 165 prints : nature print, b&w, some hand-colored 31 x 23 cm.
Leaf prints Box 2 [No. 70: Cissus rhombifolia] (3.27019)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Vitale, Alice Thoms.
Type: Print
Extent: 165 prints : nature print, b&w, some hand-colored 31 x 23 cm.
Leaf prints Box 2 [No. 86: Coccoloba uvifera] (3.27035)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Vitale, Alice Thoms.
Type: Print
Description:;
Extent: 165 prints : nature print, b&w, some hand-colored 31 x 23 cm.
Leaf prints Box 2 [No. 102: Cornus amomum] (3.27051)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Vitale, Alice Thoms.
Type: Print
Extent: 165 prints : nature print, b&w, some hand-colored 31 x 23 cm.
Leaf prints Box 2 [No. 118: Cryptomeria japonica] (3.27067)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Vitale, Alice Thoms.
Type: Print
Extent: 165 prints : nature print, b&w, some hand-colored 31 x 23 cm.
Leaf prints Box 2 [No.134: Dombeya cayeuxii] (3.27083)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Vitale, Alice Thoms.
Type: Print
Extent: 165 prints : nature print, b&w, some hand-colored 31 x 23 cm.
Leaf prints Box 2 [No. 150: Erythrina herbacea] (3.27099)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Vitale, Alice Thoms.
Type: Print
Extent: 165 prints : nature print, b&w, some hand-colored 31 x 23 cm.
Leaf prints, Box 3 [No. 1: Fagus grandifolia] (3.27115)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Vitale, Alice Thoms.
Type: Print
Extent: 72 prints : nature print, b&w, some hand-colored 31 x 23 cm., 1 23 x 16 cm.
Leaf prints, Box 3 [No. 17: Ficus lyrata] (3.27131)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Vitale, Alice Thoms.
Type: Print
Description:;
Extent: 72 prints : nature print, b&w, some hand-colored 31 x 23 cm., 1 23 x 16 cm.
Leaf prints, Box 3 [No. 33: Gaultheria shallon] (3.27147)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Vitale, Alice Thoms.
Type: Print
Extent: 72 prints : nature print, b&w, some hand-colored 31 x 23 cm., 1 23 x 16 cm.
Leaf prints, Box 3 [No. 49: Gymnocladus dioica] (3.27163)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Vitale, Alice Thoms.
Type: Print
Extent: 72 prints : nature print, b&w, some hand-colored 31 x 23 cm., 1 23 x 16 cm.
Leaf prints, Box 3 [No. 65: Hydrangea sp.] (3.27179)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Vitale, Alice Thoms.
Type: Print
Extent: 72 prints : nature print, b&w, some hand-colored 31 x 23 cm., 1 23 x 16 cm.
Leaf prints [graphic]. Box 4. (3.27195)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Vitale, Alice Thoms.
Type: Print
Extent: 113 prints : nature print, b&w, some hand-colored 31 x 23 cm.
Leaf prints [graphic]. Box 4. (3.27211)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Vitale, Alice Thoms.
Type: Print
Extent: 113 prints : nature print, b&w, some hand-colored 31 x 23 cm.