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Arboretum Landscape Teaching Aid Series: A Fence Long Gone Marked A Boundary (3.19498)
Date: 1940 – 1960Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Primarily textual teaching aid depicting Arboretum landscape. This material shows how a fence once marked a boundary through a forest.
Header: A fence (long gone) marked a boundary through a forest (long gone)
Text and illustrations from top to bottom:
- [Depicted in stylized scroll] The Record:
- 1. A long row of trees: red oaks, white oaks, and ironwood [an illustration of a row of trees]
- 2. the soil profile on both sides of this row [arrow pointing right to illustration of a cross-section of soil]
- Interpreting the record:
- 1) Because red oaks and ironwoods belong in rich (mesophytic) woods, and
- 2) because a thin layer of black soil on top of clay is typical of forests in this area (but not of prairies) and
- 3) because there would have been forest-margin trees, like hawthorn, if this fence had edged a forest - We read the record as above [arrow extending upward to header]
Extent: 1 sheet
Arboretum Landscape Teaching Aid Series: Know, Know, Know Your Oaks, This Is How They Grow (3.19509)
Date: 1940 – 1960Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Primarily textual teaching aid depicting Arboretum landscape. This material describes the growth direction of five types of oak tree branches. Illustrations depict small human-shaped figures that indicate tree branch growth with arms and run diagonally down the center of the image with descriptive text on either side.
Header: Know, know, know your oaks, / This is how they grow:
Text and illustrations from top to bottom:
- Red Oak, [illustration of figure with arms raised overhead] (arms held to indicate acute-angled branching)
- White Oak, [illustration of figure with arms raised to shoulders] (arms indicate right-angled branching)
- Bur Oak, [illustration of figure with arms raised to shoulder and elbows bent down] (elbows indicated gnarled branching)
- Pin Oak, [illustration of figure with arms extended at sides] (deflected lower branches)
- and Hill's, untidy below. [illustration of figure with arms raised to shoulder, elbows bent down, and fingers splayed] (fingers indicate deflected, dead, lower branches)
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
Notecards: Views of the Arboretum (3.27751)
Date: 1940 – 1960Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Print
Description:Nine notecards showing 5 different views of The Morton Arboretum. Notecards are black ink etchings on cream paper, folded, with a deckle edge, accompanied by nine matching cream envelopes with a deckle edge and housed in a two-sided, gray leatherette portfolio with an orange paper tie. All notecards are blank with the exception of one which has a letter written inside.
Text in blue on front of the portfolio: THE MORTON ARBORETUM LISLE, ILLINOIS
Title on the bottom left and The Morton Arboretum on the bottom right of each notecard:
- From the hedge collection [1 card]
- Illustration depicts stone steps leading up to hedge collection and evergreen trees
- Along a small stream [3 cards]
- Illustration depicts a stream, bridge, tress, and shrubbery in winter
- Thornhill Building [2 cards]
- Illustration depicts view up the hill to the Thornhill building, with bare trees and mushrooms in foreground, clouds and trees behind building in background
- Along walk to Thornhill Building [2 cards, one containing correspondence regarding plans for a field trip]
- Illustration depicts trees and flowers in forest
- White oak [1 card]
- Illustration depicts a winter white oak in forest with shrubbery
Extent: 9 notecards with envelopes
The Morton Arboretum Quarterly V. 02 No. 03 (3.34510)
Date: September 21 – December 20 1966Type: Serial
Description:
- On Clarence Godshalk’s Retirement (33-35)
- A Colleague’s Appreciation (36-37)
- Looking Back (38-40)
- A New Director for the Arboretum (41)
- Climatological Summary (41)
- In Memoriam: E. Lowell Kammerer 1906-1966 (42-43)
- Sour Gum, Black Gum, Tupelo, Papperidge. Nyssa sylvatica: Sour Gum Family (Nyssaceae) (44-45)
- Seed Exchange (46-48)
Extent: 16 pages
Quercus alba (white oak), leaves and catkins (3.38323)
Date: November 1968Creator: Coulter, Ronald M.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Quercus alba (white oak), detail of leaves and catkins hanging from twigs
Extent: 1 slide
Quercus alba (white oak), acorn, leaves and bark detail (3.38332)
Date: August 1964Type: Photographic image
Description:Quercus alba (white oak), detail of stalk with single green acorn and four young green leaves atop section of ridged gray bark
Extent: 1 slide
Quercus alba (white oak), galls near trunk base (3.38342)
Date: November 1968Type: Photographic image
Description:Quercus alba (white oak), section of older trunk showing furrowed gray bark with a small gall above a larger gall near base in foreground amongst brown leaves on almost bare trees and ground
Extent: 1 slide
Quercus alba (white oak), leaf cluster detail (3.38347)
Date: October 1968Creator: Coulter, Ronald M.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Quercus alba (white oak), detail of leaf cluster near tip of twig showing brown spots and singular galls on mature shiny dark green leaves with early fall color, short stalks, moderate to deep, rounded lobes
Extent: 1 slide
Quercus alba (white oak), mature trunk base (3.38370)
Date: November 1968Creator: Coulter, Ronald M.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Quercus alba (white oak), base of mature trunk showing bark with long, peeling ridges and fallen brown leaves on ground amongst collection
Extent: 1 slide