The Edge of the Forest (3.24604)
Date: 1944Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustrations of thirteen different trees and plants of the forest edge, created to accompany "The Edge of the Forest" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information. Drawings show species-specific seeds, flowers, trees, leaves, twigs and stems for each plant in columns and rows across the page. Some identifying text exists. The remaining identifying text originally adhered to the board has detached and is no longer present.
Header: THE EDGE of the FOREST
- includes generalized sketch of trees and other plants across the top
- Bird-distributed seeds
- Bee-pollenated flowers
- Protection from Grazers
- Armor
- Bitter Taste
- Rosa setigera -- Prairie rose
- Prunus americana -- Wild plum
- Rosa carolina -- Pasture rose
- Malus ioensis -- Wild crab
- Crataegus punctata -- Dotted hawthorn
- Rubus alligheniensis -- Blackberry
- Rubus occidentalis -- Blackcap raspberry
- Rhus glabra -- Smooth sumac
- Ribes cynosbati -- Gooseberry
- Cornus racemosa -- Gray dogwood
- Prunus virginiana -- Choke cherry
- Sambucus canadensis -- Elderberry
- Prunus serotina -- Black cherry
Extent: 1 sheet
Forest Nature Trail Guide, page 5 illustrations and layout with preliminary sketches (3.24655)
Date: 1946Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Sheet One: Original illustrations and layout for page 5, 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 #6: Jewelweed
Identifying characteristics of leaves, flowers, and seeds illustrated to the right.
Tree stump #7: Elderberry
Identifying characteristics leaves and flowers illustrated to the right.
Tree stump #8: Joe Pye Weed
Identifying characteristics of leaves and flowers illustrated to the right.
Tree stump #9: Nettles
Identifying characteristics of leaves illustrated to the right.
Sheet Two: Preliminary sketch of green-colored illustrations.
Extent: 2 sheets
Leaf Prints: Common Elderberry (3.27688)
Date: circa 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Print
Description:A white negative nature print of common elderberry leaves, stems, flowers, and fruit on a dark background with identifying text at bottom right handwritten by May T. Watts.
Identifying text:
- Elder white
- Sambucus canadensis
Extent: 1 sheet
The Stylish House: 1856 to 1881 (3.34279)
Type: Photographic image
Description:A version of an illustration from Reading the Landscape, Chapter 13: "The Stylish House or Fashions as an Ecological Factor," depicting a home and its landscaped yard. This illustration shows the view of the house and yard during the mid- to late-19th century.
Text and images from top to bottom, left to right:
- Jonathan and Patience / and / David / John / Paul / Daniel / Ruth / Rachel / and / Rover / and / Dobbin
- 1856 / to / 1881
- [sketch of a hanging lamp]
- [drawing showing a bird's-eye view of the house and grounds surrounded by a fence, including the following plants and trees:]
- elderberry
- Richmond cherry
- box elder
- wild plum
- mint
- rhubarb
- maiden blush
- sweet bough
- russet apple
- Damson plums
- Ailanthus
- tawny day lily
- feverfew
- flags
- pinks
- bleeding heart
- red peony
- Johnny-jump-ups
- sweet shrub
- crimson rambler
- lily of the valley
- white pine
- Harison's yellow rose
- snowball bush
- white lilac
- cabbage rose
- [sketches of two vases with flowers to the right of the illustration]
Extent: 1 slide
Sambucus canadensis (common elderberry), form, branches, inflorescence, habit (3.69685)
Date: 2005 – 2012Creator: Hagstrom, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Sambucus canadensis (common elderberry), form, branches, inflorescence, habit
Sambucus canadensis (common elderberry), inflorescence (3.69686)
Date: 2005 – 2012Creator: Hagstrom, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Sambucus canadensis (common elderberry), inflorescence
Sambucus canadensis (common elderberry), inflorescence, habit (3.69687)
Date: 2005 – 2012Creator: Hagstrom, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Sambucus canadensis (common elderberry), inflorescence, habit
Sambucus canadensis (common elderberry), inflorescence (3.69688)
Date: 2005 – 2012Creator: Hagstrom, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Sambucus canadensis (common elderberry), inflorescence
Sambucus canadensis (common elderberry), inflorescence, pistils, stamens (3.69689)
Date: 2005 – 2012Creator: Hagstrom, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Sambucus canadensis (common elderberry), close-up of inflorescence, pistils, and stamens visible
Sambucus canadensis (common elderberry), inflorescence, pistils, stamens, tiny caterpillar on flower, leaves (3.69690)
Date: 2005 – 2012Creator: Hagstrom, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Sambucus canadensis (common elderberry), close-up of inflorescence, pistils and stamens visible, tiny caterpillar on flower, leaves
Sambucus canadensis (common elderberry), inflorescence, leaves, stems (3.69691)
Date: 2005 – 2012Creator: Hagstrom, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Sambucus canadensis (common elderberry), one inflorescence in full bloom, others past blooming, leaves, red stems
Sambucus canadensis (common elderberry), fruit cluster, drupes, stems (3.69692)
Date: 2005 – 2012Creator: Hagstrom, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Sambucus canadensis (common elderberry), fruit cluster, drupes, purple stems