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 8 illustrations and layout with preliminary sketches (3.24682)
Date: 1940sCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Sheet One: Original illustrations and layout for page 8, excluding text, for The Morton Arboretum Evergreen Nature Trail Guide booklet. Key lines included.
Illustrated stump with number indicates point of interest along trail as seen on trail map.
Tree stump #16: The Junipers
Includes identifying characteristics of needles and fruit for three Juniper variations illustrated below.
16-A: Waukegan Juniper
16-B: Red Cedar
16-C: Common Juniper
Cedar-apple-rust cycle illustrated in circle-shaped diagram with clockwise arrows and leaves labeled "First year," "Second winter," "Second spring," "Spores carried by wind to young hawthorn leaves," "Fall," and "Spores carried by wind".
Sheet Two: Preliminary sketch of green-colored illustrations.
Extent: 2 sheets
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
Leaf Prints: Red Pine (3.27727)
Date: circa 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Print
Description:A white negative nature print of red pne needle-like leaves and stems on a dark background with identifying text at bottom right handwritten by May T. Watts.
Identifying text:
- Pine red
- Pinus resinosa
Extent: 1 sheet
Trees Native To North America But Not To This Region That Can Be Grown Here (3.33821)
Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:A large illustration depicting a bird's-eye view of three sets of houses and yards with different types of trees growing in each. The trees are drawn in silhouette.
Header:
- TREES NATIVE TO NORTH AMERICAN BUT NOT TO THIS REGION / THAT CAN BE GROWN HERE
arborvitae -- Osage-orange -- black locust -- hemlock -- gray birch -- Jeffrey pine -- flowering dogwood -- redbud -- tulip-tree -- pitch pine -- mountain-ash -- persimmon -- pawpaw -- red mulberry -- douglas-fir -- white spruce -- red-cedar -- [concolor] white fir -- balsam fir -- [Colorado] blue spruce -- jack pine -- paper birch -- magnolia -- white pine -- red pine -- beech -- limber pine -- ponderosa pine -- sycamore -- catalpa -- Ohio buckeye -- Pin oak
Extent: 1 sheet
Education charts: The Northwoods (3.34179)
Type: Photographic image
Description:An educational chart created by May T. Watts for The Morton Arboretum, depicting a Northwoods 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: THE NORTHWOODS
Labels from top to bottom, left to right:
- bunchberry
- hermit thrush
- red pine
- white-tailed deer
- white pine / hemlock
Extent: 1 slide
Landscape with small red pines in background, planted in 1941, west of Hemlock or Hawthorn Collection (3.38281)
Date: 1930sType: Photographic image
Description:Landscape with small red pines in background, planted in 1941, west of [Hem (Hemlock) or Haw (Hawthorn) -- illegible] Collection
Extent: 1 negative
Pinus resinosa (Red Pine), bark, branch (3.61316)
Date: July 30 2007Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Pinus resinosa (Red Pine), bark, branch
Pinus resinosa (Red Pine), bark, branch (3.61317)
Date: November 25 2008Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Pinus resinosa (Red Pine), bark, branch
Pinus resinosa (Red Pine), bark, mature (3.61318)
Date: June 3 2017Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Pinus resinosa (Red Pine), bark, mature
Pinus resinosa (Red Pine), bark, mature (3.61319)
Date: April 16 1998Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Pinus resinosa (Red Pine), bark, mature
Pinus resinosa (Red Pine), bark, trunk (3.61320)
Date: June 18 2008Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Pinus resinosa (Red Pine), bark, trunk
Pinus resinosa (Red Pine), bark, twig (3.61321)
Date: November 25 2008Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Pinus resinosa (Red Pine), bark, twig
Pinus resinosa (Red Pine), bud, terminal (3.61322)
Date: April 24 2010Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Pinus resinosa (Red Pine), bud, terminal
Pinus resinosa (Red Pine), cone, immature (3.61323)
Date: July 29 2008Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Pinus resinosa (Red Pine), cone, immature
Pinus resinosa (Red Pine), cone, immature (3.61324)
Date: July 29 2008Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Pinus resinosa (Red Pine), cone, immature
Pinus resinosa (Red Pine), cone, immature (3.61325)
Date: July 9 2012Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Pinus resinosa (Red Pine), cone, immature
Pinus resinosa (Red Pine), cone, immature (3.61326)
Date: July 9 2012Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Pinus resinosa (Red Pine), cone, immature
Pinus resinosa (Red Pine), cone, mature (3.61327)
Date: September 27 2007Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Pinus resinosa (Red Pine), cone, mature
Pinus resinosa (Red Pine), cone, mature (3.61328)
Date: July 30 2007Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Pinus resinosa (Red Pine), cone, mature
Pinus resinosa (Red Pine), cone, mature (3.61329)
Date: July 30 2007Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Pinus resinosa (Red Pine), cone, mature
Pinus resinosa (Red Pine), cone, mature (3.61330)
Date: June 16 2008Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Pinus resinosa (Red Pine), cone, mature
Pinus resinosa (Red Pine), cone, mature (3.61331)
Date: May 17 2008Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Pinus resinosa (Red Pine), cone, mature
Pinus resinosa (Red Pine), cone, mature (3.61332)
Date: May 17 2008Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Pinus resinosa (Red Pine), cone, mature
Pinus resinosa (Red Pine), cone, mature (3.61333)
Date: June 18 2008Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Pinus resinosa (Red Pine), cone, mature
Pinus resinosa (Red Pine), cone, mature (3.61334)
Date: June 1 2012Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Pinus resinosa (Red Pine), cone, mature
Pinus resinosa (Red Pine), cone, mature (3.61335)
Date: November 3 2016Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Pinus resinosa (Red Pine), cone, mature
Pinus resinosa (Red Pine), cone, mature (3.61336)
Date: November 3 2016Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Pinus resinosa (Red Pine), cone, mature
Pinus resinosa (Red Pine), cone, mature (3.61337)
Date: August 23 2017Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Pinus resinosa (Red Pine), cone, mature
Pinus resinosa (Red Pine), cone, mature (3.61338)
Date: November 25 2008Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Pinus resinosa (Red Pine), cone, mature
Pinus resinosa (Red Pine), cone, mature, leaf, mature (3.61339)
Date: August 1 2007Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Pinus resinosa (Red Pine), cone, mature, leaf, mature
Pinus resinosa (Red Pine), cone, pollen (3.61340)
Date: May 17 2008Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Pinus resinosa (Red Pine), cone, pollen
Pinus resinosa (Red Pine), cone, pollen (3.61341)
Date: June 3 2017Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Pinus resinosa (Red Pine), cone, pollen
Pinus resinosa (Red Pine), cone, pollen (3.61342)
Date: June 3 2017Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Pinus resinosa (Red Pine), cone, pollen
Pinus resinosa (Red Pine), cone, pollen (3.61343)
Date: June 3 2017Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Pinus resinosa (Red Pine), cone, pollen