Pine Cones (3.24629)
Date: 1943Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustration of nine pine cones, created to accompany "The Cones Of The Arboretum" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information. Identifying text originally adhered to board have detached and are no longer present.
[Original header (not included with art): PINE CONES have scales with thickened tips; mature in 2 years]
Pine cones depicted, from left to right, top to bottom:
- Eastern white pine -- Pinus strobus
- Limber pine -- Pinus flexilis
- Red pine -- Pinus resinosa
- Scotch pine -- Pinus sylvestris
- Ponderosa pine -- Pinus ponderosa
- Austrian pine -- Pinus nigra
- Jack pine -- Pinus banksiana
- Japanese red pine -- Pinus densiflora
- Pitch pine -- Pinus rigida
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
Evergreen Nature Trail Guide, page 10 illustrations and layout with preliminary sketches (3.24684)
Date: 1940sCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Sheet One: Original illustrations and layout for page 10, excluding text, for The Morton Arboretum Evergreen Nature Trail Guide booklet. Key lines included.
Illustrated stumps with numbers indicate points of interest along trail as seen on trail map.
Tree stump #22: Scotch Pine
Includes illustrated identifying characteristics of needles.
Tree stump #23: Red Pine
Includes illustrated identifying characteristics of needles.
Tree stump #24: How Fast Do Pines Grow?
Includes illustrated graph showing growth record of a Red (Norway) Pine from 1922 to 1940. Numbers on left side indicate feet from 1 to 26. Graph includes illustrations of trees and stylized image of a person for scale. Text in graph states "Planted Spring 1922" and "No fertilizer, No cultivating, No extra water, Mulched during first year."
Two cutout illustrations depicting cone characteristics originally adhered to board have detached and are no longer present.
Sheet Two: Preliminary sketch of green-colored illustrations.
Extent: 2 sheets
Trees of the Eastern Hemisphere That Can Be Grown Here (3.33822)
Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:A large illustration depicting a cross-section of a hilly landscape with several types of trees. The trees are drawn in silhouette and a few houses are scattered in-between them. 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 OF THE EASTERN HEMIPSHERE / THAT CAN BE GROWN HERE
- THESE FOREIGN TREES LACK THE DISPLAY / OF BRILLIANT FALL COLORING, THAT CHARACTER- / IZES OUR NATIVE SPECIES -------
- The color line about each of these trees indicates its / characteristic fall coloring -------
russian-olive -- [wych] Scots elm -- Norway spruce -- Scots pine -- Lombardy poplar -- [silver] white poplar -- European larch -- Japanese larch -- weeping willow -- European black alder -- camperdown elm -- European white birch -- English oak -- European linden (lime) -- Amur cherry -- Amur maple -- oriental crab -- oriental pear -- sycamore maple -- Serbian spruce -- Chinese juniper -- [Irish] common juniper -- horse-chestnut -- mountain-ash -- Nordmann's fir -- ginkgo -- [ailanthus] tree of heaven -- English ash
Extent: 1 sheet
1996/08/06: William E. Curran Sr. to George Ware (3.37613)
Date: August 6 1996Creator: Curran Sr., William E.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from William E. Curran Sr. of Lindren RF Enclosures Inc. to George Ware thanking Mr. Ware for his visit and examination of Ornamental Scotch Pines.
Extent: 1 sheet
Scotch pine on Pine Hill in winter (3.37873)
Date: 1930Type: Photographic image
Description:Scotch pine on Pine Hill in winter
Extent: 1 negative
Pine Hill, pine plantings on Thornhill residence grounds (3.37878)
Date: 1930sType: Photographic image
Description:Pine Hill, pine plantings on residence grounds
White pine in foreground, White oak and Scotch pine in background
Extent: 1 negative
Pine Hill, Scotch pine plantings on Thornhill residence grounds in winter (3.37881)
Date: 1930sType: Photographic image
Description:Pine Hill, Scotch pine plantings on Thornhill residence grounds in winter
Extent: 1 negative
Pinus sylvestris (Scots Pine), bark, branch (3.61508)
Date: August 10 2016Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Pinus sylvestris (Scots Pine), bark, branch
Pinus sylvestris (Scots Pine), bark, trunk (3.61509)
Date: August 10 2016Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Pinus sylvestris (Scots Pine), bark, trunk
Pinus sylvestris (Scots Pine), bark, twig (3.61510)
Date: August 10 2016Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Pinus sylvestris (Scots Pine), bark, twig
Pinus sylvestris (Scots Pine), bud, terminal (3.61511)
Date: May 17 2009Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Pinus sylvestris (Scots Pine), bud, terminal
Pinus sylvestris (Scots Pine), bud, terminal (3.61512)
Date: May 17 2009Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Pinus sylvestris (Scots Pine), bud, terminal
Pinus sylvestris (Scots Pine), bud, terminal (3.61513)
Date: May 17 2009Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Pinus sylvestris (Scots Pine), bud, terminal
Pinus sylvestris (Scots Pine), bud, terminal (3.61514)
Date: May 17 2009Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Pinus sylvestris (Scots Pine), bud, terminal
Pinus sylvestris (Scots Pine), bud, terminal (3.61515)
Date: January 31 2009Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Pinus sylvestris (Scots Pine), bud, terminal
Pinus sylvestris (Scots Pine), cone, mature (3.61516)
Date: May 17 2009Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Pinus sylvestris (Scots Pine), cone, mature
Pinus sylvestris (Scots Pine), cone, mature (3.61517)
Date: May 17 2009Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Pinus sylvestris (Scots Pine), cone, mature
Pinus sylvestris (Scots Pine), cone, mature (3.61518)
Date: May 17 2009Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Pinus sylvestris (Scots Pine), cone, mature
Pinus sylvestris (Scots Pine), cone, mature (3.61519)
Date: January 31 2009Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Pinus sylvestris (Scots Pine), cone, mature
Pinus sylvestris (Scots Pine), cone, mature (3.61520)
Date: January 31 2009Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Pinus sylvestris (Scots Pine), cone, mature
Pinus sylvestris (Scots Pine), cone, mature (3.61521)
Date: January 31 2009Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Pinus sylvestris (Scots Pine), cone, mature
Pinus sylvestris (Scots Pine), cone, mature (3.61522)
Date: January 31 2009Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Pinus sylvestris (Scots Pine), cone, mature
Pinus sylvestris (Scots Pine), cone, mature (3.61523)
Date: January 31 2009Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Pinus sylvestris (Scots Pine), cone, mature
Pinus sylvestris (Scots Pine), habit, fall (3.61524)
Date: November 24 2008Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Pinus sylvestris (Scots Pine), habit, fall
Pinus sylvestris (Scots Pine), habit, fall (3.61525)
Date: November 24 2008Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Pinus sylvestris (Scots Pine), habit, fall
Pinus sylvestris (Scots Pine), habit, spring (3.61526)
Date: May 17 2009Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Pinus sylvestris (Scots Pine), habit, spring
Pinus sylvestris (Scots Pine), habit, spring (3.61527)
Date: May 17 2009Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Pinus sylvestris (Scots Pine), habit, spring
Pinus sylvestris (Scots Pine), habit, spring (3.61528)
Date: May 17 2009Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Pinus sylvestris (Scots Pine), habit, spring
Pinus sylvestris (Scots Pine), habit, spring (3.61529)
Date: May 2015Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Pinus sylvestris (Scots Pine), habit, spring
Pinus sylvestris (Scots Pine), habit, winter (3.61530)
Date: January 31 2009Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Pinus sylvestris (Scots Pine), habit, winter
Pinus sylvestris (Scots Pine), habit, winter (3.61531)
Date: January 31 2009Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Pinus sylvestris (Scots Pine), habit, winter
Pinus sylvestris (Scots Pine), habit, winter (3.61532)
Date: January 31 2009Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Pinus sylvestris (Scots Pine), habit, winter
Pinus sylvestris (Scots Pine), habit, winter (3.61533)
Date: January 31 2009Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Pinus sylvestris (Scots Pine), habit, winter
Pinus sylvestris (Scots Pine), habitat (3.61534)
Date: May 17 2009Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Pinus sylvestris (Scots Pine), habitat
Pinus sylvestris (Scots Pine), leaf, spring (3.61535)
Date: May 2015Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Pinus sylvestris (Scots Pine), leaf, spring