Emergent Plant Series: #5, Lowland Forest Stage (3.19489)
Date: 1950sCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Part of a series of numbered illustrations about the stages of pond growth. This material includes an aerial view of a pond showing trees and plants at its edges and bays with additional forest trees and hills in the background, and illustrations of trees and a cross-section view of aquatic plants attached to pond bottom.
Header: LOWLAND FOREST STAGE / TREES THAT TOLERATE WET FEET
Drawings and text from top to bottom, left to right:
- pond and surrounding landscape
- cross-section [divided into 9 sections]:
- LOWLAND FOREST ZONE
- elm
- ash
- hackberry
- linden
- PIONEER TREE ZONE
- EMERGENT-PLANT ZONE
- FLOATING-LEAF ZONE
- SUBMERGED PLANT ZONE
- FLOATING-LEAF ZONE
- EMERGENT-PLANT ZONE
- PIONEER TREE ZONE
- LOWLAND FOREST ZONE
- LOWLAND FOREST ZONE
Extent: 1 sheet
Emergent Plant Series: #6, Climax Forest Stage (3.19490)
Date: 1950sCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Part of a series of numbered illustrations about the stages of pond growth. This material includes a view of a pond in the center with forest trees and hills in the background, and a cross-section of illustrations of forest trees, and trees and emergent plants of the water's edge.
Header: CLIMAX FOREST STAGE / THE PERMAMENT FOREST of the REGION
Drawings and text from top to bottom, left to right:
- pond and surrounding landscape
- cross-section [divided into 7 sections]:
- CLIMAX FOREST
- red oak
- white oak
- hickory
- LOWLAND FOREST ZONE
- elm
- ash
- hackberry
- linden
- PIONEER TREE ZONE
- willow
- silver maple
- EMERGENT ZONE
- cat-tails
- arrowhead
- bur reed
- pickerel weed
- bull-rush
- PIONEER TREE ZONE
- LOWLAND FOREST ZONE
- CLIMAX FOREST
- CLIMAX FOREST
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
Tree of the month art reproductions [graphic] / Nancy H. Stieber. (3.24012)
Date: 1997Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 15 prints : art reproductions, b&w 59 x 45 cm. 28 x 22 cm. 22 x 28 cm.
Tree of the month art reproductions [graphic] / Nancy H. Stieber. (3.24013)
Date: 1997Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 15 prints : art reproductions, b&w 59 x 45 cm. 28 x 22 cm. 22 x 28 cm.
Tree of the month art reproductions [graphic] / Nancy H. Stieber. (3.24014)
Date: 1997Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 15 prints : art reproductions, b&w 59 x 45 cm. 28 x 22 cm. 22 x 28 cm.
Tree of the month art reproductions [graphic] / Nancy H. Stieber. (3.24015)
Date: 1997Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 15 prints : art reproductions, b&w 59 x 45 cm. 28 x 22 cm. 22 x 28 cm.
Tree of the month art reproductions [graphic] / Nancy H. Stieber. (3.24016)
Date: 1997Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 15 prints : art reproductions, b&w 59 x 45 cm. 28 x 22 cm. 22 x 28 cm.
Tree of the month art reproductions [graphic] / Nancy H. Stieber. (3.24017)
Date: 1997Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 15 prints : art reproductions, b&w 59 x 45 cm. 28 x 22 cm. 22 x 28 cm.
Tree of the month art reproductions [graphic] / Nancy H. Stieber. (3.24023)
Date: 1997Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 15 prints : art reproductions, b&w 59 x 45 cm. 28 x 22 cm. 22 x 28 cm.
Tree of the month art reproductions [graphic] / Nancy H. Stieber. (3.24024)
Date: 1997Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 15 prints : art reproductions, b&w 59 x 45 cm. 28 x 22 cm. 22 x 28 cm.
Tree of the month art reproductions [graphic] / Nancy H. Stieber. (3.24025)
Date: 1997Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 15 prints : art reproductions, b&w 59 x 45 cm. 28 x 22 cm. 22 x 28 cm.
Tree of the month art reproductions [graphic] / Nancy H. Stieber. (3.24026)
Date: 1997Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 15 prints : art reproductions, b&w 59 x 45 cm. 28 x 22 cm. 22 x 28 cm.
Tree of the month art reproductions [graphic] / Nancy H. Stieber. (3.24027)
Date: 1997Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 15 prints : art reproductions, b&w 59 x 45 cm. 28 x 22 cm. 22 x 28 cm.
Tree of the month art reproductions [graphic] / Nancy H. Stieber. (3.24028)
Date: 1997Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 15 prints : art reproductions, b&w 59 x 45 cm. 28 x 22 cm. 22 x 28 cm.
Tree of the month art reproductions [graphic] / Nancy H. Stieber. (3.24029)
Date: 1997Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 15 prints : art reproductions, b&w 59 x 45 cm. 28 x 22 cm. 22 x 28 cm.
Tree of the month art reproductions [graphic] / Nancy H. Stieber. (3.24030)
Date: 1997Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 15 prints : art reproductions, b&w 59 x 45 cm. 28 x 22 cm. 22 x 28 cm.
Tree of the month art reproductions [graphic] / Nancy H. Stieber. (3.24031)
Date: 1997Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 15 prints : art reproductions, b&w 59 x 45 cm. 28 x 22 cm. 22 x 28 cm.
Tilia americana = [graphic] American linden / Hart. (3.24108)
Date: 1978Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 1 drawing : pen and ink, b&w image 29 x 45 cm., on sheet 40 x 57 cm. + 1 preliminary sketch (graphite, b&w 30 x 23 cm.)
Tilia americana = [graphic] American linden / Hart. (3.24264)
Date: 1978Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 1 drawing : pen and ink, b&w image 29 x 45 cm., on sheet 40 x 57 cm. + 1 preliminary sketch (graphite, b&w 30 x 23 cm.)
Linden = [graphic] Tilia / N. Stieber. (3.24399)
Date: 1996Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 1 drawing : pen and ink, b&w 34 x 25 cm.
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 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
Landscape with Houses and Trees (3.24647)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustration of a hilly landscape with five houses, pasture, fences, farm land, a lake, a stream, a bridge, roads, a water wheel, and many trees. Trees are drawn to indicate general shape and each tree is identified. NATURE STUDY GUILD is stamped in purple on piece of board and glued at top right.
Trees depicted:
White pine -- Spruce -- Austrian pine -- Pear -- Sassafras -- Sumac -- Black willows -- Box elder --
Apple -- Red cedar -- Norway pine -- Yellow birch -- Black walnut -- Sour gum -- White cedar -- Poison sumac -- Tamarack -- White ash -- Chestnut oak -- Blue ash -- Red oak -- Beech -- Shagbark hickory -- Mockernut hickory -- Red maple -- Pignut hickory -- Wafer ash -- River birch -- Buckeye --
Shingle oak -- Bur oak -- Linden -- Cherry birch -- Shadbush -- Hill's oak -- White oak -- Sugar maple -- Black locust -- Black cherry -- Large-toothed poplar -- Cottonwood -- Waahoo -- Trembling aspen -- Witch-hazel -- Flowering dogwood -- Ironwood -- Chestnut -- Pin cherry -- Choke cherry -- Wild crab -- Wild plum -- Redbud -- Water beech -- Balm of Gilead -- Red mulberry -- Tulip tree -- Sycamore -- Bitternut hickory -- Slippery elm -- Butternut -- Swamp white -- Kentucky coffee tree -- Red ash -- Honey locust -- Hawthorne -- Lombardy poplars -- European alder -- Black ash -- Osage orange hedge -- Ailanthus -- Paw-paw -- Hackberry -- White birch -- American elm -- Catalpa -- Norway maple -- Weeping willow -- White wilow -- Pin oak -- Horse chestnut -- Mountian ash -- Pussy willow -- Fir -- Ginkgo -- Silver maple -- Scotch pine -- Silver poplar
Extent: 1 sheet
Forest Nature Trail Guide, page 11 illustrations and layout with preliminary sketches (3.24668)
Date: 1946Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Sheet One: Original illustrations and layout for page 11, excluding text, for The Morton Arboretum Forest Nature Trail Guide booklet. Key lines included.
Illustrated stumps with numbers indicate points of interest along trail as seen on trail map.
Tree stump #26: Linden or Basswood
Identifying characteristics for leaves, seeds, blossoms, and buds illustrated to the right.
Tree stump #27: Footprints of wild animals
Identifying characteristics for animal footprints in mud or snow illustrated to the right, including "rabbit," "raccoon," "skunk," "fox," "opossum," "squirrel," and "woodcuck" as labeled.
Tree stump #28: What Good are Fallen Leaves?
Illustration of several types of fallen leaves layered on top of each other.
Sheet Two: Preliminary sketch of green-colored illustrations.
Extent: 2 sheets
Linden with moths [graphic] / Moses Harris. (3.25989)
Date: 18th centuryCreator: Harris, Moses, 1731?-1785?
Type: Print
Extent: 1 print : etching and engraving, hand-colored plate mark 31 x 24 cm., on sheet 44 x 29 cm.
Trees of Britain and Northern Europe : Broad-leaved trees (2) / Ian Garrard. (3.30232)
Creator: Garrard, Ian.
Type: Painting
Extent: 1 print : commerical reproduction, color 77 x 51 cm.
DuPage River looking west near Tilia Collection (3.33586)
Type: Photographic image
Description:DuPage River looking west near Tilia Collection
Extent: 1 negative
Trees Native To This Region (3.33823)
Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:A large illustration depicting a cross-section of hill with several types of trees growing down its slope. The trees are drawn in silhouette and are grouped into four categories based on location. Each tree is also accompanied by a line of color across the top indicating the color of its leaves in Fall as well as an outline of its leaf below.
Header:
- TREES NATIVE TO THIS REGION
- THE COLOR LINE OVER EACH TREE / INDICATES ITS CHARACTERISTIC / FALL COLORING. NATIVE TREES / GIVE US THE BEST COLOR
- TREES OF OUR UPLANDS
- witch-hazel -- white oak -- red oak -- Hill's oak -- sugar maple -- ironwood -- shadbush -- shagbark hickory -- black cherry -- blue ash -- bur oak -- white ash -- linden
- TREES of the EDGE of the FOREST
- aspen -- sumac -- choke cherry -- wild crabapple -- hawthorn -- wild plum
- TREES of our LOWLANDS
- black ash -- slippery elm -- American elm -- walnut -- hackberry -- cottonwood -- black willow -- silver maple
- TREES of our SWAMPS
- [sour gum] tupelo -- yellow birch -- tamarack -- red maple -- poison sumac
Extent: 1 sheet
Education charts: Twigs, #1 (3.34235)
Type: Photographic image
Description:An educational chart created by May T. Watts for The Morton Arboretum, depicting 12 types of winter buds on twigs. The chart appears to be tacked to a classroom display board.
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 slide
Poster of botanical items (3.34290)
Type: Photographic image
Description:A poster composed of leaf and plant specimens, a feather, a braided belt, and leaf drawings. Labels are included, but most are illegible.
Legible text:
- WALNUT
- BLADDER NUT
- BLACK WALNUT
- SASSFRAS
- LINDEN ROPE
- WHITE OAK
- [BLACK ---]
- HEMLOCK
- HONEY LOC
Extent: 1 slide
Tree Portrait: Linden (3.34291)
Type: Photographic image
Description:An airbrushed color silhouette of a linden tree on drawing board, including a nature print outline of a leaf and a drawing of its fruit. The board is cut up in three sections, each featuring a single item: tree, leaf, fruit.
Extent: 1 slide
Stone tool (3.34338)
Type: Photographic image
Description:A stone tool based on Native American design for a Cub Scouts talk. It was made using linden tree bark.
Extent: 1 slide
Uses of Wood Exhibit (3.34367)
Date: September 4 1974Creator: Stickney, William S.
Type: Photographic image
Description:An exhibit featuring wood from 18 different trees and its uses. The display is configured in four concentric circles centered around a spinning cross: the inner circle depicts tree silhouettes, the next circle depicts detailed images of leaves, the third consists of square panels of processed wood, and the outer circle consists of dioramas depicting how each type of wood is used.
The cross is labeled as follows:
- TREE SHAPE
- LEAF [red arrow]
- WOOD
- USES
- TURN THE RED ARROW TO A LEAF / THE OTHER ARMS WILL POINT TO: / the shape of the tree / a piece of wood from the tree / some uses for the wood
- WHITE ASH
- ARBOR VITAE
- WHITE SPRUCE
- SWEET GUM
- SUGAR MAPLE
- AMERICAN LINDEN
- CHERRY
- TULIP TREE
- BALD CYPRESS
- IRONWOOD
- WHITE PINE
- BLACK WALNUT
- AMERICAN ELM
- SHAGBARK HICKORY
- WHITE OAK
- RED OAK
- EASTERN HEMLOCK
- PONDEROSA PINE
Extent: 1 slide
Uses of Wood Exhibit: Linden (3.34385)
Date: September 4 1974Creator: Stickney, William S.
Type: Photographic image
Description:A diorama from the Uses of Wood exhibit, depicting an example of how linden wood is used in items such as kitchen cabinetry.
Extent: 1 slide
[Planting Map for Elm, Tilia, Rubia, Celtis, Deutzia, and other shrubs on Valley Road] (3.5659)
Date: circa 1926Creator: Teuscher, Henry
Type: Plan
Description:The plan shows planting for a shoreline area between the DuPage River and the future Meadow Lake. The plan is signed by the landscaper, but it is untitled and not dated.
Extent: 1 sheet