Winter Buds, #2 (3.19512)
Date: 1940 – 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Large poster depicting 12 types of winter buds, bound in green tape.
Illustrations and text, from left to right, top to bottom:
- bitternut hickory
- witch-hazel
- shadbush
- beech
- black walnut
- butternut
- sassafras
- shagbark hickory
- linden
- mountain ash
- sour gum
- silver poplar
Extent: 1 sheet
Trees with Staminate Flowers, Only, in Catkins (3.24610)
Date: 1944Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustrations depicting pistillate and staminate flowers, staminate catkins, fruits, and associated outline of four 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 Staminate Flowers, Only, in Catkins
(depicted from left to right, top to bottom)
- Black walnut -- Juglans nigra
- Shagbark hickory -- Carya ovata
- White oak -- Quercus alba
- Ginkgo -- Ginkgo biloba
Extent: 1 sheet
Winter Twigs, page 1 (3.24627)
Date: 1943Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Page 1 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. Illustrations include those with distinctive leaf scars, buds, and pith. Original identifying text has detached.
Illustrations are divided into three sections, depicted from top to bottom, left to right:
1) [Original text] SOME HAVE DISTINCTIVE LEAF SCARS
- Black walnut
- Butternut
- Catalpa
- Maple
- Sycamore
- Sumac
- Ash
- Flowering dogwood
- Beech
- Willow
- Oak
- Linden
- Alder
- Tulip [tree]
3) [Orignial text] SOME HAVE DISTINCTIVE PITH
- Black walnut
- Butternut
- Hackberry
- Tulip [tree]
- Kentucky coffee tree
- Oak
- Alder
Extent: 1 sheet
Winter Twigs, page 4 (3.24636)
Date: 1943Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Page 4 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 no longer present.
Illustrations are divided into seven sections, depicted from top to bottom, left to right:
1) [Original text] TREES WITH FLATTENED YELLOWISH BUDS
- Bitternut hickory -- Carya cordiformis
- Witch-hazel -- Hamamelis virginiana
- Shadbush -- Amelanchier canadensis
- Beech -- Fagus grandifolia
- Black walnut -- Juglans nigra
- Butternut -- Juglans cinerea
- Sassafras -- Sassafras albidum
- Shagbark hickory -- Carya ovata
- Linden -- Tilia americana
- Mountain ash -- Sorbus
- Sour gum -- Nyssa sylvatica
- Silver poplar -- Populus alba
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 6 illustrations and layout with preliminary sketches (3.24656)
Date: 1946Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Sheet One: Original illustrations and layout for page 6, 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 #10: Black Walnut
Identifying characteristics for leaves, seeds, and nuts illustrated to the right.
Tree stump #11: Red Oak Bark
Identifying characteristics for bark and leaves illustrated to the right.
Tree stump #12: H-A-M
Mnemonic device for remembering which common trees bear leaves opposite each other: H = horse-chestnut, A= ash, and M = maple. Identifying characteristics for leaves illustrated to the right labeled "alternate" and "opposite".
Tree stump #13: Who Planted These 4 Trees in a Row?
Generalized illustration of four trees with identifying characteristics for seeds illustrated to the right labeled "oak," "maple," "ash," and "oak".
Sheet Two: Preliminary sketch of green-colored illustrations.
Extent: 2 sheets
American crow = [graphic] Corvus americanus / drawn from nature by J.J. Audubon Engraved, printed, & coloured by R. Havell. (3.24921)
Date: 1830sCreator: Audubon, John James, 1785-1851.
Type: Print
Extent: 1 print : engraving, hand-colored plate mark 89 x 61 on sheet 97 x 63 cm.
Leaf Prints: Black Walnut (3.27745)
Date: circa 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Print
Description:A white negative nature print of black walnut leaves, stems, flowers, and a twig with buds on a dark background with identifying text at bottom right handwritten by May T. Watts.
Identifying text:
- Walnut black
- Juglans nigra
Extent: 1 sheet
American crow = Corvus americana. (3.29137)
Date: 1950Creator: Audubon, John James, 1785-1851.
Type: Painting
Extent: 1 print : commercial reproduction, color image 45 x 30 cm., on sheet 50 x 41 cm.
Tree Portraits: Black walnut (3.31860)
Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Painting
Description:Color silhouette of a black walnut tree, including a nature print outline of a leaf and a drawing of its layered pith. Tab taped to bottom left corner includes descriptive text and a second illustration of its pith. Tape adhered to bottom right corner indicates assigned letter.
Descriptive text in bottom:
- [left corner]: layered pith / no milky juice
- [right corner]: T
Extent: 1 sheet
Education charts: Twigs, #1 (3.34235)
Type: Photographic image
Description:An educational chart created by May T. Watts for The Morton Arboretum, depicting 12 types of winter buds on twigs. The chart appears to be tacked to a classroom display board.
Illustrations and text, from left to right, top to bottom:
- bitternut hickory
- witch-hazel
- shadbush
- beech
- black walnut
- butternut
- sassafras
- shagbark hickory
- linden
- mountain ash
- sour gum
- silver poplar
Extent: 1 slide
Poster of botanical items (3.34290)
Type: Photographic image
Description:A poster composed of leaf and plant specimens, a feather, a braided belt, and leaf drawings. Labels are included, but most are illegible.
Legible text:
- WALNUT
- BLADDER NUT
- BLACK WALNUT
- SASSFRAS
- LINDEN ROPE
- WHITE OAK
- [BLACK ---]
- HEMLOCK
- HONEY LOC
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: Black Walnut (3.34370)
Date: September 4 1974Creator: Stickney, William S.
Type: Photographic image
Description:A diorama from the Uses of Wood exhibit, depicting how black walnut wood is used in furniture.
Extent: 1 slide
Juglans nigra (black walnut), bark in winter (3.37132)
Date: January 1970Creator: Stickney, William S.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Juglans nigra (black walnut), dark and roughly furrowed bark with identification tag in winter
Extent: 1 slide
Juglans nigra (black walnut), bark (3.37133)
Date: February 1970Type: Photographic image
Description:Juglans nigra (black walnut), dark and roughly furrowed bark detail
Extent: 1 slide
Juglans nigra (black walnut), bark (3.37134)
Date: April 25 1958Type: Photographic image
Description:Juglans nigra (black walnut), dark and roughly furrowed bark detail
Extent: 1 slide
Juglans nigra (black walnut), fall (3.37135)
Date: October 1973Creator: Stickney, William S.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Juglans nigra (black walnut), tree in foreground of open grassy area
Extent: 1 slide
Juglans nigra (black walnut), spring (3.37137)
Date: May 1983Creator: Kohout, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Juglans nigra (black walnut), nearly bare tree on sloping grounds
Extent: 1 slide
Juglans nigra (black walnut), winter (3.37138)
Date: March 1975Creator: Stickney, William S.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Juglans nigra (black walnut), bare tree in open clearing in winter
Living Collections Accession Number: 409-32
Location on grounds using The Morton Arboretum grid map: K-55/10-90 (Northern Illinois Collection)
Extent: 1 slide
Juglans nigra (black walnut), summer (3.37139)
Date: August 1967Type: Photographic image
Description:Juglans nigra (black walnut), tree with full green foliage set in the foreground of other trees
Extent: 1 slide
Juglans nigra (black walnut), bark (3.37140)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Juglans nigra (black walnut), dark and roughly furrowed bark detail
Extent: 1 slide
Juglans nigra (black walnut), bark in winter (3.37141)
Date: February 1964Type: Photographic image
Description:Juglans nigra (black walnut), dark and roughly furrowed bark in winter
Extent: 1 slide
Juglans nigra (black walnut), summer (3.37142)
Date: August 14 1973Creator: Stickney, William S.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Juglans nigra (black walnut), tree with full green foliage in summer
Extent: 1 slide
Juglans nigra (black walnut), spring (3.37143)
Date: April 1978Creator: Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:Juglans nigra (black walnut), nearly bare tree on sloping grounds in spring
Extent: 1 slide
Juglans nigra (black walnut), interpretation sign (3.37147)
Date: September 1981Creator: Kohout, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Juglans nigra (black walnut), interpretation sign
Extent: 1 slide
Juglans nigra (black walnut), bark and twig (3.37148)
Date: April 1978Creator: Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:Juglans nigra (black walnut), split image with bark detail from the trunk of tree and twig with notched leaf scars and small oval buds
Extent: 1 slide
Juglans nigra (black walnut), pith (3.37149)
Creator: Banghart, Robert
Type: Photographic image
Description:Juglans nigra (black walnut), twig cross-section showing chambered pith
Extent: 1 slide
Juglans nigra (black walnut), pith (3.37150)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Juglans nigra (black walnut), twig cross-section showing chambered pith
Extent: 1 slide
Juglans nigra (black walnut), nuts (3.37151)
Creator: Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:Juglans nigra (black walnut), fallen dark brown rounded nuts , one with irregular deep groves and jagged broken ridges, one cut open down center, one with smooth surface
Extent: 1 slide
Juglans nigra (black walnut), twig (3.37152)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Juglans nigra (black walnut), detail of the tip of twig with notched leaf scars and small oval buds
Extent: 1 slide
Juglans nigra (black walnut), flower (3.37153)
Date: May 29 1990Creator: Nachel, Jim
Type: Photographic image
Description:Juglans nigra (black walnut), male flowers in stout dangling catkins
Living Collections Accession Number: 1345-39*1
Location on grounds using The Morton Arboretum grid map: L-58/18-59 (Northern Illinois Collection)
Extent: 1 slide
Juglans nigra (black walnut), flower (3.37154)
Date: May 29 1990Creator: Nachel, Jim
Type: Photographic image
Description:Juglans nigra (black walnut), male flowers in stout dangling catkins
Living Collections Accession Number: 1345-39*1
Location on grounds using The Morton Arboretum grid map: L-58/18-59 (Northern Illinois Collection)
Extent: 1 slide
Juglans nigra (black walnut), leaves (3.37155)
Date: July 1973Creator: Lamp, Herbert F.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Juglans nigra (black walnut), pinnate compund leaves on central stalk, green in summer
Extent: 1 slide
Juglans nigra (black walnut), twig (3.37156)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Juglans nigra (black walnut), detail of the tip of twig with notched leaf scars and small oval buds
Extent: 1 slide
Juglans nigra (black walnut), flower (3.37157)
Date: June 1972Creator: Kohout, John, Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:Juglans nigra (black walnut), emerging leaves and male flower in stout dangling catkin
Extent: 1 slide