Two Cattails (3.19475)
Date: 1940sCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustrations of two cattails with identifying text. Graphite sketches of the plants are visible at each image.
Drawings as depicted from left to right:
- cattail with pistils and stamens identified
- cattail with seeds identified
Extent: 1 sheet
Arboretum Landscape Teaching Aid Series: An Apple Tree was Planted on a Farm (3.19499)
Date: 1940 – 1960Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Primarily textual teaching aid depicting Arboretum landscape. This material describes the remains of the farm that later became the Arboretum, including an apple tree that still stood at the time.
[Illustration of a farmer with a shovel standing next to a sapling] Header: AN APPLE TREE was planted on a farm, many years ago / The farm later became a part of the Arboretum
Text and illustrations from top to bottom:
- [Depicted in stylized scroll] The Record:
- 1) The old apple tree still stands, at the corner of Spring Road and Oakwood Drive.
- 2) Across the road from the apple tree is a bit of the old well curb.
- 3) Nearby, along Spring Road, is a spring, with a bit of cemented wall that was probably the base of the farmer's spring house. [illustration of a tree]
Extent: 1 sheet
Arboretum Landscape Teaching Aid Series: Early Settlers Brought Roses (3.19507)
Date: 1940 – 1960Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Primarily textual teaching aid depicting Arboretum landscape. This material describes locations of sites where roses were obtained for the Old-Fashioned Rose Garden.
Header [framed by illustrations of rose bushes, one red and one pink]: Early Settlers Brought ROSES from the East often in covered wagons
Text and illustrations from top to bottom:
- [Depicted in stylized scroll] The Record is in our Old-Fashioned Rose Garden / When this garden was started plants were obtained from old settlers near the Arboretum.
- THREE OLD-TIMERS: [Illustration of three types of roses, from left to right]
- Harrison's Yellow
- moss rose
- Cabbage rose
- These three and other old-time roses were obtained from:
- 1. The Jones Homestead in Warrenville, to which the Jones family came from New York State in 1845 in a covered wagon.
- 2. The old Peaslee home in Naperville, to which the Peaslee family came, from West Virginia, 60 years ago.
- 3. The Blanchard home in Wheaton. The roses were moved from Cincinnati, Ohio, to Galseburg, Illinois; then from Galesburg to Wheaton.
- 4. The property given by President Jonathan Blanchard, first president of Wheaton College, in 1890, to his daughter.
- 5. The oldest house in Wheaton, (corner of Naperville Rd. and Roosevelt) built by Warren Wheaton, who came from Connecticut in 1837, and built the house in 1847.
- and others
Extent: 1 sheet
Cedar Apple Rust: Early Summer (3.19521)
Date: 1940sCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Panel 3 of 4 with illustrations and informational text about the fungal disease cedar apple rust cycle and its effect on Red cedar and Hawthorn trees. Focus of this panel is on the disease cycle in early summer, depicting spores on leaves. Drawings feature Hawthorn leaves, spores, and a Hawthorn tree.
Header: EARLY SUMMER
Drawings and text, clockwise from right:
- Hawthorn leaf: YOUNG LEAVES of HAWTHORNE
- Hawthorn leaf with spots: YELLOW SPOTS APPEAR ON LEAVES
- Hawthorn leaf with spots: SPOTS TURN ORANGE
- THORN (right half image of a full-sized Hawthorn)
Extent: 1 sheet
Four Types of Hawthorns (3.24607)
Date: 1946Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustrations of four hawthorn species, created to accompany "Hawthorn Traits" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information. Illustrations include full tree in winter, a leaf, and fruit for each species. Descriptive text accompanies each tree illustration.
Header: FOUR TYPES of HAWTHORNS
Trees and text depicted from left to right, top to bottom:
- Cockspur Hawthorn - Crus-galli Group - most persistent fruit, latest bloom, leathery foliage, short petioles -
- Dotted Hawthorn - Punctuate Group - flattest top, deepest veins, dotted red or yellow fruit
- Downy Hawthorn - Molles Group - largest leaves, first to bloom, first fruit to ripen, largest fruits
- Thicket Hawthorn - Pruinosae Group - thin small leaves, bronze when unfolding, twiggy growth -
Extent: 1 sheet
Forest Nature Trail Guide, page 9 illustrations and layout with preliminary sketches (3.24659)
Date: 1946Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Sheet One: Original illustrations and layout for page 9, 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 #18: Garter snake
Includes an illustration of a coiled garter snake to the right.
Tree stump #19: Bracken fern
Identifying characteristics for leaves illustrated to the right.
Tree stump #20: Gravel pit
Three illustrations of a gravel pit labeled "1," "2," and "3" showing stages of vegetation regrowth over time.
Tree stump #21: Slime flux
Name of chronic bleeding from the side of an Elm tree. Identifying characteristics for Elm leaf illustrated to the right.
Sheet Two: Preliminary sketch of green-colored illustrations.
Extent: 2 sheets
Evergreen Nature Trail Guide, page 7 illustrations and layout with preliminary sketches (3.24681)
Date: 1940sCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Sheet One: Original illustrations and layout for page 7, 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 #14: Broad-leaved Evergreens
Includes image of Leuchothoe Catesbi illustrated below.
Tree stump #15: Rododendron
Includes generalized identifying characteristics of flowers and leaves illustrated below - image of leaves in winter labeled "balmy," "drippy," "nippy," and "brrr!".
Sheet Two: Preliminary sketch of green-colored illustrations.
Extent: 2 sheets
Coprinus atramentarius I (3.29227)
Date: 1920 – 1950Creator: Beggs, Helene Warder, 1882-1970
Type: Painting
Extent: 1 painting : watercolor and graphite 26 x 18 cm.
Lepiota procera (3.29244)
Date: 1920 – 1950Creator: Beggs, Helene Warder, 1882-1970
Type: Painting
Extent: 1 painting : watercolor and graphite 26 x 18 cm.
Three Mushrooms (3.29261)
Date: 1920 – 1950Creator: Beggs, Helene Warder, 1882-1970
Type: Painting
Extent: 1 painting : watercolor and graphite 26 x 18 cm.
Botanical plates / M.E. Eaton.. [et al.]. (3.29624)
Date: 1916 – 1964Creator: Eaton, Mary Emily.
Type: Painting
Extent: 281 prints : art reproductions, color, b&w 27 x 18 cm.
Bulletin of Popular Information V. 21 No. 01 (3.32489)
Date: January 1946Creator: Kammerer, E. Lowell
Type: Serial
Description:
- Winter Protection For Plants In The Chicago Region
Extent: 4 pages
Overlook on Ridge Road (3.32767)
Date: 1930 – 1949Type: Photographic image
Description:Overlook on Ridge Road
Extent: 1 negative
Front Road through wooded area (3.33185)
Date: 1930 – 1949Type: Photographic image
Description:Front Road through wooded area
Extent: 1 negative
Forest Road, unpaved, curving to right in wooded area (3.33200)
Date: 1930 – 1949Type: Photographic image
Description:Forest Road, unpaved, curving to right in wooded area
200 feet east of lower end of Meadow Road intersection (near present parking #13)
Original Ed Puffer land
Extent: 1 negative
Forest Road with road signs at intersection on left (3.33208)
Date: 1930 – 1949Type: Photographic image
Description:Forest Road with road signs at intersection on left
Extent: 1 negative
Administration Building Library, stereograph (3.3355)
Date: 1940sType: Photographic image
Description:Administration Building Library, stereograph
Arboretum library prior to the Sterling Morton Library
Later location of Dick Wason's office, then Development office, northwest wing of Administration Building
Extent: 1 stereograph
Shortia Galacifolia, Oconee Bells (3.19476)
Date: 1940sCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustration of Oconee bells plant with identifying text, depicting leaves, five flowers, and one bud. Writing in graphite underneath includes identifying text.
Text: Shortia galacifolia - Oconee bells
Extent: 1 sheet
Pansy (3.24633)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustration of a large pansy flower and three detail views, including floral diagram, reverse of flower, and center, accompanied by descriptive text. Background sketches along the left side include a house, a heart, and a church, center bottom includes three women and two girls sitting in a circle drinking tea, and center right includes flowers and an elf. Sketches depict various pansy folklore.
Upper left text lists various names this flower goes by - herb trinity, pink of my John, heart's ease, step-mother, kit run in the street, kiss me at the garden gate, cuddle me to you, kiss me quick or PANSY
Top right floral diagram illustration identifies sepal, petal, stamen, pistil, nectar sac
Bottom left illustration (reverse of flower) identifies sepal, petal, nectar sac
Bottom right illustration identifies stigma, pistil and stamens, nectar sac
Extent: 1 sheet
Forest Nature Trail Guide, page 10 illustrations and layout with preliminary sketches (3.24660)
Date: 1946Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Sheet One: Original illustrations and layout for page 10, 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 #22: Ash
White Ash "twig," "leaf," and "fruit" as labeled and illustrated to the right.
Tree stump #23: A Woodchuck's Burrow
Illustration of a woodchuck and a cross-section of a woodchuck burrow to the right.
Tree stump #24: Moss on trees
Illustration of four generalized tree trunks with moss covering left side of each to the right.
Tree stump #25: Leaf veination
Identifying characteristics for "parallel-veined," "palmate-veined," and "pinnate-veined" leaves as labeled and illustrated to the right.
Sheet Two: Preliminary sketch of green-colored illustrations.
Extent: 2 sheets
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
Agaricus campestris (3.29207)
Date: 1920 – 1950Creator: Beggs, Helene Warder, 1882-1970
Type: Painting
Extent: 1 painting : watercolor and graphite 15 x 15 cm on sheet 26 x 21 cm.
Coprinus atramentarius II (3.29228)
Date: 1920 – 1950Creator: Beggs, Helene Warder, 1882-1970
Type: Painting
Extent: 1 painting : watercolor and graphite 25 x 21 cm.
Lumarith (3.29245)
Date: 1920 – 1950Creator: Beggs, Helene Warder, 1882-1970
Type: Painting
Extent: 1 painting : watercolor and graphite 31 x 21 cm.
Tricholoma personatum (3.29262)
Date: 1920 – 1950Creator: Beggs, Helene Warder, 1882-1970
Type: Painting
Extent: 1 painting : watercolor and graphite 27 x 19 cm.
Botanical plates / M.E. Eaton.. [et al.]. (3.29770)
Date: 1916 – 1964Creator: Eaton, Mary Emily.
Type: Painting
Extent: 281 prints : art reproductions, color, b&w 27 x 18 cm.
View from prairie remnant on Meadow Road looking northwest over Cutten land (3.3027)
Date: 1940sType: Photographic image
Description:View from prairie remnant on Meadow Road looking northwest over Cutten land
Extent: 1 photograph
Tree Portraits: Hill's Oak (3.31787)
Date: 1940 – 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Painting
Description:Color silhouette of a Hill's Oak tree, including a nature print outline of a leaf, drawings of a winter twig and fruit, and descriptive text.
Header: HILLS OAK
Drawings and text, from top to bottom, left to right:
- leaf: [arrow] shining surface
- tree
- twig
- fruit
Extent: 1 sheet
Bulletin of Popular Information V. 21 No. 02 (3.32490)
Date: February 1946Creator: Kammerer, E. Lowell
Type: Serial
Description:
- Horticultural Treasures - Introductions Of Ernest H. Wilson
Extent: 6 pages
Ridge Road in winter looking east (3.32758)
Date: 1922 – 1949Type: Photographic image
Description:Ridge Road in winter looking east
Extent: 1 negative
Meadow Road looking north (3.33186)
Date: 1930 – 1949Type: Photographic image
Description:Meadow Road looking north
Extent: 1 negative
Ridge Road intersection with Valley Road looking east (3.33209)
Date: 1925 – 1949Type: Photographic image
Description:Ridge Road intersection with Valley Road looking east
Extent: 1 negative
Winter woods with evergreens (3.33440)
Date: 1930 – 1949Type: Photographic image
Description:Winter woods with evergreens
Extent: 1 negative
Path through wooded area (3.33766)
Date: 1930 – 1949Type: Photographic image
Description:Path through wooded area
Extent: 1 negative
Lake Jopamaca and footbridge, looking east toward DuPage River (3.33982)
Date: 1930 – 1949Type: Photographic image
Description:Lake Jopamaca and footbridge, looking east toward DuPage River
Extent: 1 negative
Founder's Room in Thornhill Education Center (3.3413)
Date: 1940sType: Photographic image
Description:Founder's Room in Thornhill Education Center
View directed at fireplace and wall shelving
Extent: 1 photograph