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
Frank Rogers and Tony Drendel Hauling Cordwood During Snow Storm (3.3071)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Frank Rogers and Tony Drendel Hauling Cordwood During Snow Storm
Extent: 1 photograph
Suzette Morton Davidson with Board of Trustees (3.3138)
Date: 1960sType: Photographic image
Description:Suzette Morton with Board of Trustees standing outside on patio at Suzette's Arboretum residence
L to R: Daniel Peterkin Jr., Garfield King, Fred Pullman, Suzette Morton, Laurence Carton, Ed Baker, Clayton Adams
Extent: 1 photograph
Lunching & Learning with Clarence Godshalk: Evolution of the Arboretum - From Farm to Arboretum (3.31582)
Date: January 25 1978Type: Audio
Description:Lunching and Learning program presented by Clarence Godshalk as he describes the evolution of the Arboretum, from farm land to Arboretum.
Extent: 1 audio cassette
Ray Brown, seated portrait (3.31864)
Date: 1989Type: Photographic image
Description:Ray Brown, seated portrait
Extent: 1 photograph
Curtis Berland standing in gravel parking lot (3.31866)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Curtis Berland standing in gravel parking lot
Extent: 1 photograph
Dilip Das teaching youth outdoors (3.32240)
Date: 1991Creator: Nachel, Jim
Type: Photographic image
Description:Dilip Das teaching youth outdoors
Extent: 1 photograph
Dilip Das teaching S.T.A.R.T. class in Schulenberg Prairie (3.32241)
Date: August 1992Creator: Nachel, Jim
Type: Photographic image
Description:Dilip Das teaching S.T.A.R.T. class in Schulenberg Prairie
Extent: 1 photograph
Richard Fitzgerald presenting artwork to Dr. Marion Hall (3.33183)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Richard Fitzgerald, assistant vice president at the Bank of Lisle, left, presents the framed original drawings of the Morton Arboretum to Dr. Marion T. Hall, director of the Arboretum
Extent: 1 photograph
Dr. Marion Hall and Charles Haffner III shaking hands at party in Library (3.33184)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Dr. Marion Hall and Charles Haffner III shaking hands at party in Library
Extent: 1 photograph
Sabina Hondorter bagging pruned specimen (3.33436)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Sabina Hondorter bagging pruned specimen
Extent: 1 photograph
Twilight Tree Walk, Craig Johnson dressed as Joy Morton standing next to Morton Salt canister on stand (3.33817)
Date: 1994Creator: Nachel, Jim
Type: Photographic image
Description:Twilight Tree Walk, Craig Johnson dressed as Joy Morton standing next to Morton Salt canister on stand
Extent: 1 photograph
Twilight Tree Walk , Craig Johnson dressed as Joy Morton standing in front of crowd (3.33818)
Date: 1994Creator: Nachel, Jim
Type: Photographic image
Description:Twilight Tree Walk , Craig Johnson dressed as Joy Morton standing in front of crowd
Extent: 1 photograph
Nature School for Teachers, May T. Watts addressing a group of teachers (3.33869)
Date: October 1939Type: Photographic image
Description:May T. Watts speaks to a large group of teachers attending her accredited 14-week course at The Morton Arboretum. The teachers are sitting and standing on a grassy area, taking notes as they listen. An approaching vehicle appears on the roadway through the trees in the background.
Extent: 1 photograph
Nature School for Teachers, May T. Watts speaking to teachers (3.33877)
Date: October 1939Type: Photographic image
Description:May T. Watts speaks to a large group of teachers attending her accredited 14-week course at The Morton Arboretum. The teachers are sitting and standing on a grassy area, taking notes as they listen. A departing vehicle appears on the roadway through the trees in the background.
Extent: 1 photograph
Nature School for Teachers, group listening to May T. Watts (3.33878)
Date: October 1939Type: Photographic image
Description:May T. Watts speaks to a large group of teachers attending her accredited 14-week course at The Morton Arboretum. The teachers are sitting and standing on a grassy area, taking notes as they listen.
Extent: 1 photograph
Nature School for Teachers, May T. Watts with large group in a clearing (3.33879)
Date: October 1939Type: Photographic image
Description:May T. Watts speaking to a large group of teachers attending her accredited 14-week course at The Morton Arboretum. The group of teachers sit and stand on a grassy area in a circle as they listen and take notes.
Extent: 1 photograph
May T. Watts conducting a class at The Morton Arboretum (3.33923)
Date: February 1960Type: Photographic image
Description:May T. Watts conducts a class at The Morton Arboretum Outpost as she holds a large-format piece of artwork depicting outlines of leaf shapes. Helen Turner is seated beside her. The class is being held in a room that appears to have a large brick fireplace with a chalkboard on its mantel.
Extent: 1 photograph
May T. Watts having a picnic lunch with her class (3.33924)
Date: March 1960Type: Photographic image
Description:May T. Watts is seated at a picnic table with a group of people taking one of her classes at The Morton Arboretum.
Extent: 1 photograph
May T. Watts and class at the Arboretum, riding in an open-air tram (3.33925)
Type: Photographic image
Description:May T. Watts sits next to the driver of an open-air tram with a group taking her class at The Morton Arboretum.
Extent: 1 photograph
May T. Watts and class at the Arboretum, riding in an open-air tram (3.33926)
Type: Photographic image
Description:May T. Watts and Helen Turner sit next to the driver of an open-air tram with a group taking her class at The Morton Arboretum.
Extent: 1 photograph
May T. Watts and class at the Arboretum, luncheon (3.33927)
Type: Photographic image
Description:May T. Watts and Helen Turner attend a luncheon at The Morton Arboretum Outpost with a large brick fireplace.
Extent: 1 photograph
May T. Watts and class at the Arboretum, sitting on a bench (3.33928)
Type: Photographic image
Description:May T. Watts and Helen Turner sit on a bench at The Morton Arborteum with three other people, including two unidentified men and one unidentified women who may be attending one of her classes.
Extent: 1 photograph
Susan Klatt, headshot (3.33956)
Date: April 1980Type: Photographic image
Description:Susan Klatt, headshot
Extent: 1 photograph
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
May T. Watts, Mary Moulton, Helen Turner, Alice Goodrich, and Edna Jones with a class in the Redwood Building (3.34051)
Date: circa 1948 – 1959Type: Photographic image
Description:May T. Watts with a class in the Redwood Building at The Morton Arboretum. Helen Turner and Mary Moulton appear in the back row on the left, Alice Goodrich is in the front row wearing a hat, and Edna Jones is on the far right.
Extent: 1 slide
May T. Watts conducting a class on The Morton Arboretum grounds (3.34063)
Date: circa 1958Type: Photographic image
Description:May T. Watts surrounded by a group participating in a class on the grounds of The Morton Arboretum.
Extent: 1 slide
May T. Watts lecturing at a Lunching and Learning class (3.34067)
Type: Photographic image
Description:May T. Watts giving a presentation for a Lunching and Learning class at The Morton Arboretum.
Extent: 1 slide
May T. Watts speaking with participants during a Lunching and Learning class (3.34080)
Type: Photographic image
Description:May T. Watts speaking with participants during a Lunching and Learning class.
Extent: 1 slide
May T. Watts with a Wednesday morning class in a meadow (3.34081)
Type: Photographic image
Description:May T. Watts speaking with participants at a Wednesday morning class in a meadow at The Morton Arboretum.
Extent: 1 slide
May T. Watts with a Wednesday morning class, observing trees (3.34082)
Date: 1952Type: Photographic image
Description:May T. Watts with participants in a Wednesday morning class observing trees at The Morton Arboretum.
Extent: 1 slide
May T. Watts with a Wednesday morning class, observing more trees (3.34083)
Type: Photographic image
Description:May T. Watts with participants in a Wednesday morning class observing trees at The Morton Arboretum.
Extent: 1 slide
Helen and Marge digging to a trout lily bulb (3.34084)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Helen Turner and Marge Shawvan dig for a trout lily bulb at The Morton Arboretum in a class with May T. Watts.
Extent: 1 slide
Helen measuring a trout lily bulb root (3.34085)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Helen Turner measures the root of a trout lily bulb during a class with May T. Watts at The Morton Arboretum.
Extent: 1 slide