Winter Buds, #1 (3.19511)
Date: 1940 – 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Large poster depicting 16 types of winter buds, bound in green tape.
Illustrations and text, from left to right, top to bottom:
- white ash
- black ash
- blue ash
- red ash
- sugar maple
- Norway maple
- silver maple
- box-elder
- horse-chestnut
- ohio buckeye
- flowering dogwood
- catalpa
- ironwood
- gray birch
- European white birch
- European alder
Extent: 1 sheet
Acer saccharum = [graphic] sugar maple / Nancy S. Hart. (3.24079)
Date: 1977Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 1 drawing : pen and ink, b&w image 30 x 45 cm., on board 46 x 69 cm. + 2 preliminary sketches (graphite, b&w 9 x 7 cm. and 35 x 28 cm.)
Acer saccharum = [graphic] sugar maple / Nancy S. Hart. (3.24080)
Date: 1977Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 1 drawing : pen and ink, b&w image 30 x 45 cm., on board 46 x 69 cm. + 2 preliminary sketches (graphite, b&w 9 x 7 cm. and 35 x 28 cm.)
Acer saccharum = [graphic] sugar maple / Nancy S. Hart. (3.24269)
Date: 1977Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 1 drawing : pen and ink, b&w image 30 x 45 cm., on board 46 x 69 cm. + 2 preliminary sketches (graphite, b&w 9 x 7 cm. and 35 x 28 cm.)
Sugar maple = [graphic] Acer saccharum / N. Stieber. (3.24425)
Date: 1996Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 1 drawing : pen and ink, b&w 44 x 36 cm.
Trees with Flowers Borne in Clusters (3.24608)
Date: 1944Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustrations depicting four groups of staminate and pistillate flowers with associated outline of six trees, created to accompany "The Flowers Nobody Knows" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information. Descriptive text identifies coloring, anatomy, and bloom time.
Header: Trees with Flowers Borne in Clusters
Illustrations are separated into four sections, from top to bottom:
Section 1: Pistillate and Staminate Flowers on Different Trees
(depicted from left to right)
- White ash -- Fraxinus americana
- Box-elder -- Acer negundo
(depicted from left to right)
- Sugar maple -- Acer saccharum
- Silver maple -- Acer saccharinum
- Sycamore -- Platanus occidentalis
- American elm -- Ulmus americana
Extent: 1 sheet
Our Native Maples (3.24611)
Date: 1944Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustrations of four species of maple, created to accompany "The Maples of The Morton Arboretum" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information. Drawings show tree shape, including top, twigs, branches, size, winged seeds, and leaves. Descriptive text gives details of tree structure (branching, bark, and trunk), habitat, seed ripening schedule, and leaf details including color and sinus structure. Red maple seeds illustration is a cut out piece glued in place.
Illustrations depicted from top to bottom, left to right:
- Sugar maple -- Acer saccharum
- tree - round top; dark smooth on young branches; right-angled branching; sap-sucker holes; stone-gray bark with thick plates loose along one edge; upland
- seeds - ripe in September-October
- leaf - smooth, thin, yellow in Fall
- Silver maple -- Acer saccharinum
- tree - broad top; smooth gray young branches; branches bend downward with tips turning upward; long loose scales on bark; trunk often divides near ground; lowland
- seeds - ripe in May
- leaf - silvery beneath; acute, deep sinuses
- Red maple -- Acer rubrum
- tree - pale gray upper branches; red twigs; dark gray bark; swamp, river-bottom, upland
- seeds - ripe in May-June
- leaf - silvery beneath, V-shaped sinuses, scarlet in Fall
- Box-elder -- Acer negundo
- tree - small tree; bushy spreading top, purplish twigs, bark with narrow shallow ridges; river bottoms
- seeds - ripe in summer; hangs on a winter
- leaf - prominent veins; 3 to 7 leaflets
Extent: 1 sheet
Winter Twigs, page 2 (3.24631)
Date: 1943Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Page 2 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 mostly missing.
Illustrations are divided into two sections, depicted from top to bottom, left to right:
1) [Original text] TREES WITH OPPOSITE BRANCHING
- White ash -- Fraxinus americana
- Black ash -- Fraxinus nigra
- Blue ash -- Fraxinus quadrangulata
- Red ash -- Fraxinus pennsylvanica
- Sugar maple -- Acer saccharum
- Norway maple -- Acer platanoides
- Red maple -- Acer rubrum
- Silver maple -- Acer saccharinum
- Box-elder -- Acer negundo
- Horse-chestnut -- Aesculus hippocastanum
- Ohio buckeye -- Aesculus glabra
- Flowering dogwood -- Cornus florida
- Catalpa -- Catalpa speciosa [and] Catalpa bignonioides
- Ironwood -- Ostrya virginiana
- Gray birch -- Betula populifolia
- [as a single illustration:]
- Yellow birch -- Betula lutea
- River birch -- Betula nigra
- Cherry birch -- Betula lenta
- Paper birch -- Betula papyrifera
- European white birch -- Betula pendula
- European alder -- Alnus glutinosa
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 12 illustrations and layout with preliminary sketches (3.24669)
Date: 1946Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Sheet One: Original illustrations and layout for page 12, 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 #29: Four Kinds of Acorns
Identifying characteristics for "red," "northern pin," "bur," and "white" acorns as labeled and illustrated to the right.
Tree stump #30: Hepatica Leaves
Identifying characteristics for leaves, flower, and berry including a cube shape illustrated to the right - appears to have been replaced with new illustration of leaves on separate card that has become unglued (see below).
Tree stump #31: Blackberries
Identifying characteristics for leaves illustrated to the right - appears to have been replaced with new illustration of leaves, flower, and berry on separate card that has become unglued (see below).
Tree stump #32: A White Oak Tradmark
Illustration of a White Oak trunk with a band of bark that has been formed due to fungus.
Tree stump #33: Young Sugar Maples
Identifying characteristics for leaves and seeds illustrated to the right.
A cutout illustration depicting leaf characteristics for the Hepatica and leaf, flower, and berry characteristics for blackberries originally adhered to board has detached and is housed with art.
Sheet Two: Preliminary sketch of green-colored illustrations.
Extent: 2 sheets
Forest Nature Trail Guide, page 14 illustrations and layout (3.24671)
Date: 1946Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Original illustrations and layout for page 14, excluding most 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 #39: A Mature Sugar Maple
Identifying characteristics of mature sugar maple bark illustrated to the right.
Tree stump #40: From a Bird's Viewpoint
Identifying characteristics of Hawthorn leaf, flower, and fruit illustrated to the right.
Tree stump #41: Wild Strawberry
Identifying characteristics of three leaflet leaf and flower and Five Finger or Cinquefoil five leaflet leaf and flower illustrated to the right.
Tree stump #42: A Girdling Experiment
Typewritten text describing ash tree girdling glued to center panel, and illustration of girdled trunk to the right.
Tree stump #43: OO-HOOSH-AB--"It Slips"
Illustration of a hand holding a Slippery Elm leaf and a small drawing of a man's face with stubble to illustrate the "unshaven" feel of the leaves and twigs.
Extent: 1 Sheet
Leaf Prints: Sugar Maple (3.27708)
Date: circa 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Print
Description:A white negative nature print of sugar maple, or hard maple, leaves, stems, and fruit on a dark background with identifying text at bottom right handwritten by May T. Watts.
Identifying text:
- Maple hard
- Acer saccharum
Extent: 1 sheet
Acer saccharum, an indigenous sugar maple specimen over 250 years old (3.2976)
Date: 1940sCreator: Webb, Ralph E.
Type: Photographic image
Description:One of the Arboretum's most highly valued trees, an indigenous Sugar Maple specimen over 250 years old
Extent: 1 photograph
Tree Portraits: Sugar Maple (3.31822)
Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Painting
Description:Color silhouette of a sugar maple tree, including a nature print outline of a leaf. Tape adhered to bottom left corner indicates assigned letter.
Descriptive text in bottom left:
- a
Extent: 1 sheet
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
Students in a Junior Forestry class, posing with a leaf chart (3.34126)
Type: Photographic image
Description:School children participate in a Junior Forestry class with May T. Watts at the Morton Arboretum. A girl and a boy hold a leaf chart that features oak, maple, and sumac leaves.
Extent: 1 slide
Education charts: Beech-Maple Climax (3.34226)
Type: Photographic image
Description:An educational chart created by May T. Watts for The Morton Arboretum, depicting a beech-maple climax forest association. A detailed illustration of a single tree leaf is positioned at the center of the chart, surrounded by four vingnettes showing additional flora and fauna found within the ecological community.
Header: BEECH-MAPLE CLIMAX
Labels from top to bottom, left to right:
- wood sorrel
- oven bird
- beech
- chipmunk
- hemlock / sugar maple
Extent: 1 slide
Education charts: Twigs, #2 (3.34234)
Type: Photographic image
Description:An educational chart created by May T. Watts for The Morton Arboretum, depicting 16 types of winter buds on twigs. The chart appears to be tacked to a display board in a classroom.
Illustrations and text, from left to right, top to bottom:
- white ash
- black ash
- blue ash
- red ash
- sugar maple
- Norway maple
- silver maple
- box-elder
- horse-chestnut
- ohio buckeye
- flowering dogwood
- catalpa
- ironwood
- gray birch
- European white birch
- European alder
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: Sugar Maple (3.34384)
Date: September 4 1974Creator: Stickney, William S.
Type: Photographic image
Description:A diorama from the Uses of Wood exhibit, depicting an example of how sugar maple wood is used in items such as flooring, interior finishes, and furniture.
Extent: 1 slide
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
Joy Morton near sugar maple at west end of Lake Marmo site (3.3463)
Date: November 26 1921Type: Photographic image
Description:Looking west, toward gravel pit
Joy Morton near sugar maple at west end of Lake Marmo site
Pine Hill now on hill to right of maple
Extent: 1 photograph
Acer x freemanii (Freeman’s maple) and Acer saccharum (sugar maple), along Lake Marmo showing fall color (3.37262)
Date: November 1999Creator: Mehaffey, Scott A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer x freemanii (Freeman’s maple) on left and Acer saccharum (sugar maple) on right, along Lake Marmo lakefront, showing fall color
Extent: 1 slide
Acer saccharum (sugar maple), fall color (3.37885)
Date: October 1995Creator: Shouba, Jack
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer saccharum (sugar maple), large tree situated on the bank of a body of water showing bright orange and golden fall foliage
Extent: 1 slide
Acer saccharum (sugar maple), Quercus rubra (red oak), Tilia americana (American basswood), seedlings (3.37919)
Date: May 18 1973Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer saccharum (sugar maple), Quercus rubra (red oak), Tilia americana (American basswood), overhead view of seedlings next to granite rock from glacier
Extent: 1 slide
Acer saccharum (sugar maple), fall color (3.37922)
Date: October 2000Creator: Boland, Tim
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer saccharum (sugar maple), detail of a branch with leaves that show bright red fall color
Extent: 1 slide
Acer saccharum (sugar maple), habit, fall (3.37923)
Date: October 1973Creator: Stickney, William S.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer saccharum (sugar maple), full view of large tree beginning to show some fall color, located new west end of Lake Marmo
Extent: 1 slide
Acer saccharum (sugar maple), spring (3.37924)
Date: April 1983Creator: Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer saccharum (sugar maple), partial view of mature habit in spring, branches have pale greenish yellow flowers blooming
Extent: 1 slide
Acer saccharum (sugar maple), habit, spring (3.37925)
Date: May 1974Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer saccharum (sugar maple), full view of habit, tree is typical egg-shape with dense slender twigs with pale yellow flowers emerging in spring
Extent: 1 slide
Acer saccharum (sugar maple), habit, spring (3.37926)
Date: April 1968Creator: Gall, Richard
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer saccharum (sugar maple), full view of habit, tree has typical egg-shape and bare branches in early spring, situated on grassy grounds near a paved path with more trees in the backgorund
Extent: 1 slide
Acer saccharum (sugar maple), winter (3.37927)
Date: April 1978Creator: Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer saccharum (sugar maple), partial view of habit of a tree with bare branches in winter, there is snow on the ground and a line of evergreens in the background
Extent: 1 slide
Acer saccharum (sugar maple), habit, spring (3.37928)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer saccharum (sugar maple), full view of habit, tree is typical egg-shape with dense slender twigs with pale yellow flowers emerging in spring
Extent: 1 slide
Acer saccharum (sugar maple), fall color (3.37929)
Date: October 1981Creator: Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer saccharum (sugar maple), partial view of large tree with two people standing beside it looking at the bright orange fall foliage
Extent: 1 slide
Acer saccharum (sugar maple), fall color (3.37930)
Date: November 1988Creator: Shouba, Jack
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer saccharum (sugar maple), branch with leaves that are bright greenish yellow in the fall
Extent: 1 slide
Acer saccharum (sugar maple), habit (3.37931)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer saccharum (sugar maple), full view of habit, tree has typical egg-shape and bare branches, situated on grassy grounds with trees in the background and some snow on ground
Extent: 1 slide
Acer saccharum (sugar maple), fall color (3.37932)
Date: October 1988Creator: Irving, Gary
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer saccharum (sugar maple), upward-looking view of multiple trees with pale green, yellow and orange fall color
Extent: 1 slide