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
White oak = [graphic] Quercus alba / Trudy Nicholson. (3.31673)
Creator: Nicholson, Trudy H.
Type: Drawing
Extent: 24 reproductions : photocopy and photostat, b&w 61 x 51 cm. (largest).
Deer Mouse Footprints (3.31849)
Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:3 sets of color silhouette deer mouse footprints and tail mark between.
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
Chipmunk Footprints (3.31850)
Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:2 sets of color silhouette chipmunk footprints.
Extent: 1 sheet
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
Twigs - Dogwood, Buckeye, Magnolia, American Beech, W hite or Bur Oak (3.19452)
Creator: Tyznik, Anthony
Type: Drawing
Abrotanum rotundifolium [graphic] Marrubium album. (3.24836)
Date: 1690 – circa 1714Type: Drawing
Extent: 2 drawings in one frame : graphite and sepia ink Abrotanum image 12 x 8 cm. and Marrubium image 13 x 8 cm.