Evergreen Nature Trail Guide, cover art (3.19462)
Date: 1940sCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Proof for cover/page 1 including more detailed illustrations and layout with title for the The Morton Arboretum Evergreen Nature Trail Guide booklet. Key lines included.
Depicts illustrated map of trail through Spruces and Firs, Arbor Vitae, Larch, Pines, Junipers, Yew, and Hemlock Collections. Below map, stylized trees and two figures illustrated, standing next to sign "Evergreen Nature Trail".
Text at bottom of illustration: "Trail Begins Here - Parking Number Two - Trail Ends Here"
Extent: 1 sheet
January Calendar (3.19467)
Date: 1940sCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Calendar for the month of January consisting of five rows and seven columns depicting days and dates from Sunday through Saturday, the 1st through the 31st. Each square has a date plus illustration and text, some of which anticipates the coming Spring and some which show reminders of the past year.
Header: January
Text and illustrations, from top to bottom, left to right:
- (Friday, 1) [image of dogwood stems and buds] flowering dogwood is ready for Spring
- (Saturday, 2) [image of hemlock needles and cones] small cones drip from the hemlock tips -
- (Sunday, 3) [image of unidentified stems and fruit]
- (Monday, 4) [image of one chickadee and a birdhouse]
- (Tuesday, 5) [image of two chickadees and a birdhouse] chikca-dees stay to crack their seeds
- (Wednesday, 6) [image of evergreen needles and star magnolia stems and buds] star mag-nolia buds are pale against evergreens
- (Thursday, 7) [image of long-eared owl on branch of Norway spruce] long-eared owls look down from Norway spruce trees
- (Friday, 8) [image of 2 pellets on ground beneath evergreen branch] 2 pellets under an owl roost contain skeletons of 2 deer mice
- (Saturday, 9) [image of small animal bones on ground] when an owl pellet is pulled apart, evidence of sudden death is re-vealed
- (Sunday, 10) [image of euonymus stems and fruit] Euonymus still holds some of the "little hearts bursting with love"
- (Monday, 11) [image of birch stems, cones, and catkins] wind and birds have shattered birch cones but catkins are ready for Spring
- (Tuesday, 12) [image of zumi crabapple stems and fruit] Zumi crabs still hold their fruit
- (Wednesday, 13) [image of one cardinal and a birdhouse] the cardinal is back now that we have sunflower seeds again
- (Thursday, 14) [images of canker-worms on a dogwood twig] on a dogwood twig, canker worms are ready for Spring
- (Friday, 15) [images of evergreens and a hawthorn] hoar frost is on the hawthorns ---
- (Saturday, 16) [image of redbud stems, buds, and fruit] on red-bud, flower buds are ready for next Spring, and pods recall last Spring's flowers
- (Sunday, 17) [image of a bird on a tree branch]
- (Monday, 18) [image of sycamore trunks and branches] sycamore bark
- (Tuesday, 19) [image of trees and a trail] evergreen trail
- (Wednesday, 20) [image of rhododendron stems and leaves] Rhododendron leaves pointing down say it's COLD!
- (Thursday, 21) [image of a white Oak] white oaks hold last summer's leaves on lower branches
- (Friday, 22) [image of a Norway spruce] Norway spruce holds long cones
- (Saturday, 23) [image of pixie-cup lichens through a magnifying glass] there are Pixie-cup lichens in the spruce plot
- (Sunday, 24) [image of two ostrich ferns] the fertile fronds of ostrich fern stand stiff and dark
- (Monday, 25) [image of American cranberry-bush stems and fruit] high-bush cranberry wears puffs of snow
- (Tuesday, 26) [image of winter wren in brush] the winter wren weaves through low brush
- (Wednesday, 27) [image of hazel stems and catkins] hazel catkins feel softer
- (Thursday, 28) [image of vernal witch-hazel and close-up of flower] vernal witch hazel is in bloom
- (Friday, 29) [image of one set of raccoon tracks] raccoon tracks are plentiful after a mild night
- (Saturday, 30) [image of two sets of deer mouse tracks with trail mark between] white-footed deer mouse hops past
- (Sunday, 31) [image of three sets of Junco bird tracks] juncoes hop too
Extent: 1 sheet
Evergreen Nature Trail Guide (3.24009)
Date: 1940sCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Book
Description:The Morton Arboretum Evergreen Nature Trail Guide booklet: commercial reproduction of the original art with additional descriptive text.
The booklet contains 16 pages of information about the Evergreen Nature Trail and includes maps on front cover and second page, key to the trees in the woods on back cover, and other pages with illustrations and text descriptions of trail features.
Two versions of the commercially printed booklet have been identified with a difference in the front cover (page 1) as to where the trail begins: Parking Number Two and Parking Number Thirteen.
Extent: 1 booklet (3 copies)
Evergreen Nature Trail Guide: details of evergreens along evergreen trail map and worksheet (3.24010)
Date: 1940sCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Document
Description:Commercial reproduction of the Details of Evergreens Along Evergreen Trail map and work sheet planned to accompany The Morton Arboretum Evergreen Trail Guide booklet.
The illustrated map includes names of plants along the trail as well as numbers referring to explanations in the Guide booklet. Features an inset map of the Arboretum labeled "Detail of Arboretum Map" in bottom left and a work sheet section at top right titled "DETAILS of EVERGREENS along EVERGREEN TRAIL (about half-size)." To the right of the title, instuctions read: "The numbers refer to marked specimens. The spaces are for you to fill with names." Below are illustrations of various Evergreen needle types that replicate the illustrations found in "A KEY TO THE EVERGREENS ALONG THIS TRAIL" on the back cover of the trail guide booklet, separated into four categories: 1) Deciduous 2) Scale-like needles, or awl-shaped needles, or both 3) Separate needles 4) Needles in bundles
Extent: 1 sheet
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, front cover/page 1 illustrations and layout w/ preliminary sketch page (3.24675)
Date: 1940sCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Sheet 1: Original illustrations and layout for the front cover/page 1 of The Morton Arboretum Evergreen Nature Trail Guide booklet. Key lines included.
Illustrated map of trail area. Stylized evergreen trees below map.
Sheet 2: Preliminary sketch page (no sketches), "green" written in top right corner.
Extent: 2 sheets
Evergreen Nature Trail Guide, page 2 illustrations and layout with preliminary sketches (3.24676)
Date: 1940sCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Sheet One: Original illustrations and layout for page 2 (inside front cover), excluding text, for The Morton Arboretum Evergreen Nature Trail Guide booklet. Key lines included.
Introductory page to trail guide, including map of the trail's location on Arboretum grounds near parking lot 2. Map header text "LOCATION OF EVERGREEN NATURE TRAIL in the Arboretum" points arrow to Evergreen Nature Trail on map. Thornhill Building and Administration Building identified in map for reference to trail location on grounds.
Map also identifies 2 other trails in the Arboretum:
Thornhill Trail - identified by circles located near Thornhill Building
Forest Trail - identified by crosses in far right section of the map
Sheet Two: Preliminary sketch of green-colored map with page number and various ink lines.
Extent: 2 sheets
Evergreen Nature Trail Guide, page 3 illustrations and layout (3.24677)
Date: 1940sCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Original illustrations and layout for page 3, 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 #1: The Ancestry of Evergreens
Tree stump #2: Firs and Spruces
Identifying characteristics for needles and cones illustrated in columns below.
No preliminary sketches available for page 3.
Extent: 1 sheet
Evergreen Nature Trail Guide, page 4 illustrations and layout with preliminary sketches (3.24678)
Date: 1940sCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Sheet One: Original illustrations and layout for page 4, 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 #3: Colorado Green Spruce
Includes generalized identifying characteristics of tree illustrated below.
Tree stump #4: Norway Spruce
Includes generalized identifying characteristics of tree illustrated below.
Tree stump #5: Colorado Blue Spruce
Tree stump #6: White Spruce
Includes generalized identifying characteristics of tree illustrated below.
Several cutout illustrations depicting needle/cone characteristics originally adhered to board have detached and are no longer present. One detached cutout illustration of Colorado Green Spruce needles housed with art.
Sheet Two: Preliminary sketch of green-colored illustrations.
Extent: 2 sheets, 1 cutout
Evergreen Nature Trail Guide, page 5 illustrations and layout with preliminary sketches (3.24679)
Date: 1940sCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Sheet One: Original illustrations and layout for page 5, 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 #7: White Fir
Includes generalized identifying characteristics of tree illustrated below with glued-on cutout of detailed needle illustration.
Tree stump #8: Douglas Fir
Includes generalized identifying characteristics of tree illustrated below.
Tree stump #9: Japanese Yew
Includes generalized identifying characteristics of tree with detailed needle and fruit images illustrated below.
Tree stump #10: False Cypress
Includes generalized identifying characteristics of tree with detailed needle and cone images illustrated below.
Several cutout illustrations depicting needle/cone characteristics originally adhered to board have detached and are no longer present. One detached cutout illustration of Douglas Fir needles housed with art.
Sheet Two: Preliminary sketch of green-colored illustrations.
Extent: 2 sheets, 1 cutout
Evergreen Nature Trail Guide, page 6 illustrations and layout with preliminary sketches (3.24680)
Date: 1940sCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Sheet One: Original illustrations and layout for page 6, 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 #11: Eastern Hemlock
Includes identifying characteristics of tree leaf, needles, and cone illustrated below.
Tree stump #12: Carolina Hemlock
Includes generalized identifying characteristics of needles and cone illustrated below.
Tree stump #13: Family Tree of Evergreens
Includes a detailed tree-shaped diagram of evergreen tree relationships with illustrations of needles, cones, fruit, and leaves for various evergreens including yew, bald cypress, juniper, arbor vitae, Douglas fir, hemlock, larch, firs, spruces, and pines.
Sheet Two: Preliminary sketch of green-colored illustrations.
Extent: 2 sheets
Evergreen Nature Trail Guide, page 7 illustrations and layout with preliminary sketches (3.24681)
Date: 1940sCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Sheet One: Original illustrations and layout for page 7, 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 #14: Broad-leaved Evergreens
Includes image of Leuchothoe Catesbi illustrated below.
Tree stump #15: Rododendron
Includes generalized identifying characteristics of flowers and leaves illustrated below - image of leaves in winter labeled "balmy," "drippy," "nippy," and "brrr!".
Sheet Two: Preliminary sketch of green-colored illustrations.
Extent: 2 sheets
Evergreen Nature Trail Guide, page 8 illustrations and layout with preliminary sketches (3.24682)
Date: 1940sCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Sheet One: Original illustrations and layout for page 8, excluding text, for The Morton Arboretum Evergreen Nature Trail Guide booklet. Key lines included.
Illustrated stump with number indicates point of interest along trail as seen on trail map.
Tree stump #16: The Junipers
Includes identifying characteristics of needles and fruit for three Juniper variations illustrated below.
16-A: Waukegan Juniper
16-B: Red Cedar
16-C: Common Juniper
Cedar-apple-rust cycle illustrated in circle-shaped diagram with clockwise arrows and leaves labeled "First year," "Second winter," "Second spring," "Spores carried by wind to young hawthorn leaves," "Fall," and "Spores carried by wind".
Sheet Two: Preliminary sketch of green-colored illustrations.
Extent: 2 sheets
Evergreen Nature Trail Guide, page 9 illustrations and layout with preliminary sketches (3.24683)
Date: 1940sCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Sheet One: Original illustrations and layout for page 9, excluding text, for The Morton Arboretum Evergreen Nature Trail Guide booklet. Key lines included.
Pine Hill section begins with text "Pines have - needles in bundles (illustration of 3 types of bundles), tips of cone scales thickened (illustration of cone)."
Illustrated stumps with numbers indicate points of interest along trail as seen on trail map.
Tree stump #17: Jack Pine
Includes illustrated identifying characteristics of needles.
Tree stump #18: Jeffery Pine
Includes illustrated identifying characteristics of needles.
Tree stump #19: Limber Pine
Includes illustrated identifying characteristics of needles.
Tree stump #20: Ponderosa Pine
Includes illustrated identifying characteristics of needles.
Tree stump #21: Japanese White Pine
Includes illustrated identifying characteristics of needles and an illustrated image of Bonsai tree in pot on bottom right.
Several 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
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
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
Evergreen Nature Trail Guide, page 12 illustrations and layout with preliminary sketches (3.24686)
Date: 1940sCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Sheet One: Original illustrations and layout for page 12, 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 #27:Pitch Pine
Includes illustrated identifying characteristics of needles.
Tree stump #28: Japanese Table Pine
Includes illustrated identifying characteristics of needles and of tree below.
Tree stump #29: Austrian Pine
Includes illustrated identifying characteristics of needles.
Tree stump #30: Mountain Pine
Includes illustrated identifying characteristics of needles and cone.
Several cutout illustrations depicting cone characteristics originally adhered to board have detached and are no longer present. One detached cutout illustration of Japanese Table Pine cone housed with art.
Sheet Two: Preliminary sketch of green-colored illustrations.
Extent: 2 sheets, 1 cutout
Evergreen Nature Trail Guide, page 13 illustrations and layout with preliminary sketches (3.24687)
Date: 1940sCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Sheet One: Original illustrations and layout for page 13, 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 #31: 'Evergreens' that are not Evergreen
Tree stump #32: European Larch
Includes illustrated identifying characteristics of needles below.
Tree stump #33: Arbor Vitae
Includes illustrated identifying characteristics of needles and cone below.
Tree stump #34: Bald Cypress
Includes illustrated identifying characteristics of leaves and cone below.
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
Evergreen Nature Trail Guide, page 14 illustrations and layout with preliminary sketches (3.24688)
Date: 1940sCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Sheet One: Original illustrations and layout for page 14, excluding text, for The Morton Arboretum Evergreen Nature Trail Guide booklet. Key lines included.
Illustrated stump with number indicates point of interest along trail as seen on trail map.
Tree stump #35: Where Do Evergreens Grow?
Includes identifying characteristics of growth locations and cycles illustrated below in bogs, canyons, sand dunes, bare rock, wind-swept shores, mountains.
Sheet Two: Preliminary sketch of green-colored illustrations.
Extent: 2 sheets
Evergreen Nature Trail Guide, page 15 illustrations and layout with preliminary sketches (3.24689)
Date: 1940sCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Sheet One: Original illustrations and layout for page 15, 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 #36: Balsam Fir
Illustration of cone cutout detached - see note below
Tree stump #37: We All Depend on Evergreens
Includes generalized illustrated identifying characteristics of various trees below, labeled as follows: Oak, Gum, Maple, Other hardwoods, Yellow Pines, Douglas Fir, Ponderosa pine, White pine, Hemlock, Redwood, Spruce, Cypress, Other softwoods.
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, 1 cutout
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
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
Evergreen Trail sign for post 21 from trail guide, Japanese White Pine (3.33268)
Date: 1940sType: Photographic image
Description:Evergreen Trail sign for post 21 from trail guide, Japanese White Pine
Extent: 1 negative
Evergreen Nature Trail entrance sign (3.33269)
Date: 1940sType: Photographic image
Description:Evergreen Nature Trail entrance sign in winter
Extent: 1 negative
Evergreen Nature Trail entrance sign, close view (3.33270)
Date: 1940sType: Photographic image
Description:Evergreen Nature Trail entrance sign, close view
Extent: 1 negative
General Information and Guide Map of The Morton Arboretum (3.34268)
Date: 1942Type: Map
Description:Doublesided brochure with general information and a guide map of The Morton Arboretum.
Guide map details Arboretum roads, trails, parking, plant collections, buildings and points of interest. Vegetation illustrated throughout map. Three stylized trees under compass showing directions north, south, east, west as well as scale indicator above top center of map.
Reverse side provides general information about the Arboretum, rules and regulations, outstanding features, buildings, Arboretum publications, and location.
Extent: 1 sheet
Map & Visitor Guide, The Morton Arboretum (3.34271)
Date: 1982 – 1986Type: Map
Description:Double-sided brochure, Map & Visitor Guide for The Morton Arboretum
Map details Arboretum roads, trails, plant collections, buildings and boundaries. Includes photographs of various Arboretum buildings with descriptive information.
Reverse side provides general information about the Arboretum, trails for walking and hiking, driving through the Arboretum, areas and collections of special interest, native plant communities, wildlife at the Arboretum, regulations, facilities and services, and information on membership. A section of the map is enlarged to identify landmarks around the Visitor Center, Administration Building, and Thornhill Education Center.
Extent: 1 sheet