Brief biography on May Theilgaard Watts (1.4232)
Type: Document
Description:Brief biography on May Theilgaard Watts (Mrs. Raymond Watts)
Naturalist, Teacher, Author, Artist, Poet
Includes personal background, educational background, professional roles and accomplishments, honors received, a bibliography of published work by May Watts and articles about May Watts.
Extent: 4 sheets
May T. Watts teaching an art class at The Morton Arboretum (3.34045)
Date: 1940 – 1950Type: Photographic image
Description:May T. Watts teaching an outdoor art class to a group of students at The Morton Arboretum.
Extent: 1 photograph
The Morton Arboretum Quarterly V. 11 No. 03 (3.34473)
Date: September 21 – December 20 1975Type: Serial
Description:
- The Rose: Plant and Symbol (33-37)
- Reading May Watts (38-41)
- Wild Plum, Prunus americana: Rose Family (Rosaceae) (42-43)
- The Origin of Halloween (44-45)
- People & Projects/ Climatological Summary (46-47)
- Autumn (48)
Extent: 16 pages
Oikos II Conference, proof sheet #1 (3.36025)
Date: March 4 1967Type: Photographic image
Description:A proof sheet of 12 images from the 2nd annual Oikos Conference on ecology. The conference, themed "Planning for People: Landscape and Cityscape," was held in the Thornhill Building at The Morton Arboretum. The images on the proof sheet depict conference presentations, exhibits, and participants, including several of speaker Dr. Hugh H. Iltis, botony professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Extent: 1 sheet
May T. Watts examining foliage (3.36625)
Type: Photographic image
Description:May T. Watts examins tall plants in Kentucky. She holds a stalk of one of the plants in her hand.
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
Arbor Day Centennial, tree planting, Alfred Etter at microphone speaking to crowd (3.38510)
Date: April 22 1972Creator: Beasley, Michael
Type: Photographic image
Description:Arbor Day Centennial, tree planting, Alfred Etter at microphone speaking to crowd
Extent: 1 negative
Arbor Day Centennial, tree planting, Alfred Etter at microphone speaking to crowd (3.38527)
Date: April 22 1972Creator: Beasley, Michael
Type: Photographic image
Description:Arbor Day Centennial, tree planting, Alfred Etter at microphone speaking to crowd
Extent: 1 negative
Arbor Day Centennial, afternoon program, Marion Hall at podium speaking to guests seated in tent (3.38561)
Date: April 22 1972Creator: Beasley, Michael
Type: Photographic image
Description:Arbor Day Centennial, afternoon program, Marion Hall at podium speaking to guests seated in tent
Extent: 1 negative
American Association of Botanical Gardens and Arboreta (AABGA) group at The Morton Arboretum (3.3865)
Date: May 21 1953Type: Photographic image
Description:American Association of Botanical Gardens and Arboreta (AABGA) group at The Morton Arboretum
Extent: 1 photograph
Presentation of check for $125,000 to The Morton Arboretum by ARCO (3.4057)
Date: August 3 1984Type: Photographic image
Description:Presentation of check for $125,000 to The Morton Arboretum by ARCO
(L to R): Carlton Norris (ARCO), Byron Turnquest (ARCO), George Ware, and Marion Hall standing outside
Extent: 1 photograph
Ed Hedborn reviewing images of plants in book with woman at Plant Clinic desk (3.4465)
Date: October 1994Creator: Nachel, Jim
Type: Photographic image
Description:Ed Hedborn reviewing images of plants in book with woman at Plant Clinic desk in the Visitor Center
Extent: 1 photograph
Several employees participating in controlled burn in forested area (3.4508)
Date: 1980sType: Photographic image
Description:Several employees participating in controlled burn in forested area
Extent: 1 photograph
George Ware holding elm tree given to National Park Service for Lincoln Home site, Springfield, IL (3.4526)
Date: April 1994Creator: Nachel, Jim
Type: Photographic image
Description:George Ware holding elm tree given to National Park Service for Lincoln Home site, Springfield, IL, standing next to man and truck for pickup near Research Building
Extent: 1 photograph
Salt study, Rick Hootman placing plastic buckets on berm along freeway (3.4560)
Date: February 1993Creator: Nachel, Jim
Type: Photographic image
Description:Salt study, Rick Hootman placing plastic buckets on berm along freeway
Extent: 1 photograph
Dr. Tom Green and Karla Patterson in cart leading line of people across lawn near Research building for tree planting at Arborfest (3.55500)
Date: April 1986Creator: Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:Dr. Tom Green and Karla Patterson in cart leading line of people across lawn near Research building for tree planting at Arborfest
Extent: 1 slide
Gerry Donnelly, Doug Monroe, and Rick Hootman with shovels digging hole for Arbor Day tree planting (3.55573)
Date: April 1993Creator: Nachel, Jim
Type: Photographic image
Description:Gerry Donnelly (center), Doug Monroe (L), and Rick Hootman (R) with shovels digging hole for Arbor Day tree planting
Extent: 1 slide
Bill Bergmann at wheelbarrow with shovel near planting holes, preparing rose beds (3.61929)
Date: April 1982Creator: Kohout, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Bill Bergmann at wheelbarrow with shovel near planting holes, preparing rose beds
Extent: 1 slide
Dr. Marion Hall with two employees planting young tree near Crabapple Lake (3.61964)
Date: May 1990Creator: Nachel, Jim
Type: Photographic image
Description:Dr. Marion Hall (left) with two employees planting young tree near Crabapple Lake
Extent: 1 slide
Chili Cook-Off 2000 (3.83030)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Chili Cook-Off 2000 staff event. Two men and a woman are holding bowls of chili, posed for the camera. The woman is taking a bite of the chili.
This document is available at the Sterling Morton Library. To make an appointment, contact the Sterling Morton Library staff by following the link here.
The Morton Arboretum Quarterly V. 08 No. 02 (3.34578)
Date: June 21 – September 20 1972Type: Serial
Description:
- Ropes on the Fox (17-22)
- In Memoriam: Mary K. Moulton 1913-1972 (23-24)
- Hortus Botanicus: the Botanic Garden & the Book (24)
- Adventures Afield: A Brief History (25-26)
- Field Course in the Rocky Mountains (27-29, 32)
- Sugar Maple, Acer saccharum: Maple Family (Aceraceae) (30-31)
- Climatological Summary (32)
Extent: 16 pages
Oikos II Conference, proof sheet #2 (3.36026)
Date: March 4 1967Type: Photographic image
Description:A proof sheet of 12 images from the 2nd annual Oikos Conference on ecology. The conference, themed "Planning for People: Landscape and Cityscape," was held in the Thornhill Building at The Morton Arboretum. The images on the proof sheet depict conference presentations, exhibits, and participants, including speaker Dr. Hugh H. Iltis, botony professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and May T. Watts.
Extent: 1 sheet
May T. Watts with Tony Tyznik (3.36045)
Date: July 25 1975Type: Photographic image
Description:May T. Watts appears to be speaking to Tony Tyznik, who is pictured on the right.
Extent: 1 photograph
May T. Watts taking a closer look at foliage (3.36626)
Type: Photographic image
Description:May T. Watts observes tall plants in Kentucky. A structure with a green roof is visible to the left and rocky cliff face is visible to the right.
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
Arbor Day Centennial, tree planting, Alfred Etter at microphone speaking to crowd (3.38511)
Date: April 22 1972Creator: Beasley, Michael
Type: Photographic image
Description:Arbor Day Centennial, tree planting, Alfred Etter at microphone speaking to crowd
Extent: 1 negative
Arbor Day Centennial, afternoon program, Clarence Godshalk at podium speaking to guests seated in tent (3.38562)
Date: April 22 1972Creator: Beasley, Michael
Type: Photographic image
Description:Arbor Day Centennial, afternoon program, Clarence Godshalk at podium speaking to guests seated in tent
Extent: 1 negative
American Association of Botanical Gardens and Arboreta (AABGA) group meeting at The Morton Arboretum Herbarium Conference Room (3.3866)
Date: November 1990Type: Photographic image
Description:American Association of Botanical Gardens and Arboreta (AABGA) group meeting at The Morton Arboretum Herbarium Conference Room, discussion at table, Peter Raven speaking to group
L to R: Peter Raven (Director, Missouri Botanical Garden), Roy Taylor (Director, Chicago Botanic Garden), Harold Pellett (Landscape Horticulturist, University of Minnesota Landscape Arboretum), Gerry Donnelly (President & CEO, The Morton Arboretum), Eliot Paine (Director, Holden Arboretum)
Extent: 1 photograph
Arbor Day activities at The Morton Arboretum. Tom Simpson (left) and Heidi Tamanaha, volunteer, helping two girls and woman at Seedling Planting station (3.3924)
Date: April 1995Type: Photographic image
Description:Arbor Day activities at The Morton Arboretum, woman helping two girls and woman at Seedling Planting station
Extent: 1 negative filmstrip
Presentation of check for $125,000 to The Morton Arboretum by ARCO (3.4058)
Date: August 3 1984Type: Photographic image
Description:Presentation of check for $125,000 to The Morton Arboretum by ARCO
(L to R): Carlton Norris (ARCO), Byron Turnquest (ARCO), George Ware, and Marion Hall standing outside
Extent: 1 photograph
Horticultural crew feeding the chipper (3.4156)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Horticultural crew feeding the chipper
(L to R) Ann Teeling, John Swisher, John Sosnowski
Extent: 1 photograph
Ed Hedborn assisting visitors at Plant Clinic desk (3.4466)
Date: 1987Type: Photographic image
Description:Ed Hedborn assisting visitors at Plant Clinic desk in Administration Building.
Extent: 1 photograph
Employee in forested area participating in controlled burn, smoke to the left (3.4509)
Date: 1980sType: Photographic image
Description:Employee in forested area participating in controlled burn, smoke to the left
Extent: 1 photograph
Salt study, Rose Reid and Rick Hootman carrying plastic buckets on berm (3.4561)
Date: February 1993Creator: Nachel, Jim
Type: Photographic image
Description:Salt study, Rose Reid and Rick Hootman carrying plastic buckets on berm
Extent: 1 photograph
Dr. Christopher Whelan in the Sterling Morton Library (3.5207)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Dr. Christopher Whelan in the Sterling Morton Library
Extent: 1 photograph
Gerry Donnelly, Doug Monroe, and Rick Hootman with shovels digging hole for Arbor Day tree planting (3.55574)
Date: April 1993Creator: Nachel, Jim
Type: Photographic image
Description:Gerry Donnelly (center), Doug Monroe (L), and Rick Hootman (R) with shovels digging hole for Arbor Day tree planting
Extent: 1 slide
Dr. Marion Hall with two employees adding soil to newly planted young tree near Crabapple Lake (3.61965)
Date: May 1990Creator: Nachel, Jim
Type: Photographic image
Description:Dr. Marion Hall (left) with two employees adding soil to newly planted young tree near Crabapple Lake
Extent: 1 slide