Education charts: Florida (3.34230)
Type: Photographic image
Description:An educational chart created by May T. Watts for The Morton Arboretum, depicting a Florida 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: FLORIDA
Labels and image from top to bottom, left to right:
- water hyacinth
- American egret
- bald cypress
- alligator
- cabage palm / red maple
Extent: 1 slide
Acer rubrum (Red Maple), habit, fall (3.41266)
Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer rubrum (Red Maple), habit, fall
Acer rubrum (red maple), habit (3.38150)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer rubrum (red maple), full view of large tree with bare branches situated near a paved road with line of trees in the background near Thornhill Education Center
Extent: 1 slide
Tree Portraits: Red Maple 2 (3.31872)
Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Painting
Description:Color silhouette of a red maple tree, including a nature print outline of a leaf.
Extent: 1 sheet
Acer rubrum (red maple), flowers (3.38169)
Creator: Blaha, G. W.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer rubrum (red maple), against a black backdrop, closeup detail of a cluster of male flowers, slightly yellowish in color, budding from twig
Extent: 1 slide
Acer rubrum (red maple), flower and fruit (3.38166)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer rubrum (red maple), closeup detail of a single reddish-pink female flower with the characteristic wings of samara fruit emerging
Extent: 1 slide
Acer rubrum (Red Maple), habit, fall (3.41267)
Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer rubrum (Red Maple), habit, fall
Acer rubrum (red maple), staminate flowers (3.38159)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer rubrum (red maple), against black backdrop, closeup detail of slightly yellowish staminate (male) flowers with anthers shriveling
Extent: 1 slide
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
Acer (maple), bud and twig comparison (3.38063)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Buds on twigs of four different species of maple, from left to right: Acer negundo (boxelder), Acer rubrum (red maple), Acer platanoides (Norway maple), Acer saccharum (sugar maple)
Extent: 1 slide
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
Acer rubrum (red maple), staminate buds (3.38156)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer rubrum (red maple), staminate buds against black backdrop, closeup detail of early male flowers with slightly yellowish color budding from twig
Extent: 1 slide
Red-winged starling or marsh blackbird = [graphic] Icterus phoeniceus. Daud. / drawn from nature by J.J. Audubon chromolithy. by J. Bien. (3.25002)
Date: 1860Creator: Audubon, John James, 1785-1851.
Type: Print
Extent: 1 print : chromolithograph 100 x 68 cm.
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
Tree Portraits: Red Maple (3.31791)
Date: 1940 – 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Painting
Description:Color silhouette of a Red Maple tree, including a nature print outline of a leaf, drawings of a twig with buds, seeds, and descriptive text.
Header: RED MAPLE
Drawings and text, from top to bottom, left to right:
- leaf
- tree
- twig with buds: opposite-branching
- seeds: ripe in May-June; found in lowlands but also on uplands
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
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
Leaf Prints: Red Maple (3.27710)
Date: circa 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Print
Description:A white negative nature print of red maple leaves, stems, and flowers on a dark background with identifying text at bottom right handwritten by May T. Watts.
Identifying text:
- Maple red
- Acer rubrum
Extent: 1 sheet
Acer rubrum (red maple), habit (3.38175)
Date: September 1952Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer rubrum (red maple), full view of large tree with full green foliage situated near a paved road with more trees in the background near Thornhill Education Center in early fall
Extent: 1 slide
Acer rubrum (red maple), habit, fall (3.38143)
Date: October 1952Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer rubrum (red maple), full view of large tree with bright red fall foliage situated near paved path near Thornhill Education Center
Extent: 1 slide
Acer rubrum (red maple), habit, fall color (3.38180)
Date: October 1957Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer rubrum (red maple), full view of tree with irregular crown shape and bright orange fall foliage, situated on grassy grounds near other trees.
Extent: 1 slide
Acer rubrum (red maple), flowers (3.38172)
Date: May 1961Creator: Scott, Marion
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer rubrum (red maple), against dark blue backdrop, closeup detail of reddish female flowers budding from twig
Extent: 1 slide
Acer rubrum (red maple), fruit, spring (3.38118)
Date: May 1961Creator: Scott, Marion
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer rubrum (red maple), closeup detail of two-winged pink and green samara fruit hanging from twig staged against a blue backdrop
Extent: 1 slide
Acer rubrum (red maple), flowers, spring (3.38155)
Date: May 1961Creator: Scott, Marion
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer rubrum (red maple), set against a blue dackdrop, closeup detail of small developing red clusters of flowers emerging from buds on twig
Extent: 1 slide
Acer rubrum (red maple), habit (3.38174)
Date: May 1961Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer rubrum (red maple), full view of a silhouette of a large tree against a cloudy blue sky with bare branches and a broadly oval-shaped crown
Extent: 1 slide
Acer rubrum (red maple), habit, fall (3.38176)
Date: November 1961Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer rubrum (red maple), full view of large tree with broadly oval crown and bright gold and red fall foliage.
Extent: 1 slide
Acer rubrum (red maple), flowers (3.38163)
Date: April 1962Creator: Scott, Marion
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer rubrum (red maple), against blue backdrop, closeup detail of reddish female flowers budding from twig
Extent: 1 slide
Acer rubrum (red maple), fruit, spring (3.38154)
Date: May 1962Creator: Scott, Marion
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer rubrum (red maple), closeup detail showing many two-winged pink and green samara fruit clusters hanging from twig set against a dark blue backdrop
Extent: 1 slide
Acer rubrum (red maple), fruit, spring (3.38134)
Date: May 1962Creator: Scott, Marion
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer rubrum (red maple), closeup detail showing two-winged pink and green samara fruit clusters hanging from the tip of a twig in spring
Extent: 1 slide
Acer rubrum (red maple), flowers (3.38160)
Date: March 1966Creator: Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer rubrum (red maple), closeup detail of early female flowers with reddish color budding from twig
Extent: 1 slide
Acer rubrum (red maple), fruit (3.38117)
Date: June 1966Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer rubrum (red maple), closeup detail of two-winged pink and green samara fruit hanging from twig
Extent: 1 slide
Acer rubrum (red maple), twig and flowers (3.38158)
Date: April 1967Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer rubrum (red maple), against black backdrop, detail of one section of a branch with male flowers showing slightly yellowish color budding from twigs
Extent: 1 slide
Acer rubrum (red maple), flowers (3.38161)
Date: April 1968Creator: Jirak, Jana R.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer rubrum (red maple), against black backdrop, closeup detail of early female flowers with reddish color budding from twig
Extent: 1 slide
Acer rubrum (red maple), habit, early spring (3.38128)
Date: April 1968Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer rubrum (red maple), full view of tree in early spring with mostly bare branches except for bright red developing flowers
Extent: 1 slide
Acer rubrum (red maple), habit, spring (3.38144)
Date: April 1968Creator: Gall, Richard
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer rubrum (red maple), full view of tree in early spring with mostly bare branches except for bright red developing flowers situated on sloping terrain with other small trees and shrubs nearby
Extent: 1 slide
Acer rubrum (red maple), habit, fall (3.38179)
Date: October 1968Creator: Ware, George
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer rubrum (red maple), full view of small sapling with mostly green foliage with some yellow leaves, situated on open grounds with other small trees planted in rows in the background.
Extent: 1 slide