View of Thornhill (3.31060)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustration of view up the hill to the Thornhill Education Center at The Morton Arboretum, with bare trees and mushrooms in foreground, clouds and trees behind building in background, and an ink border.
Illustration used as image for printed notecards.
Extent: 1 sheet
Tree Portraits: White Ash (3.31792)
Date: 1940 – 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Painting
Description:Color silhouette of a White Ash tree, including a nature print outline of a leaf, drawings of a twig and a seed, and descriptive text.
Header: WHITE ASH
Drawings and text, from top to bottom, left to right:
- leaves: opposite branching
- tree
- twig with close-up sketch of texture: diamond-shaped ridges
- seeds
Extent: 1 sheet
Bulletin of Popular Information V. 22 No. 06 (3.32505)
Date: June 1947Creator: Kammerer, E. Lowell
Type: Serial
Description:
- Spring Blossom - In Retrospect
Extent: 4 pages
Ridge Road in winter through bare trees looking east (3.32759)
Date: 1930 – 1949Type: Photographic image
Description:Ridge Road in winter through bare trees looking east
Extent: 1 negative
Trees in October alongside Ridge Road (3.32768)
Date: 1930 – 1949Type: Photographic image
Description:Trees in October alongside Ridge Road
Extent: 1 negative
Front Road curving right as viewed between two trees (3.33187)
Date: 1930 – 1949Type: Photographic image
Description:Front Road curving right as viewed between two trees
Extent: 1 negative
Forest Road in winter, footprints in the snow (3.33202)
Date: 1930 – 1949Type: Photographic image
Description:Forest Road in winter, footprints in the snow
Original Jake Mey land
Extent: 1 negative
Evergreen Trail covered in snow, first post sign from trail guide on right (3.33267)
Date: 1940sType: Photographic image
Description:Evergreen Trail covered in snow, first post sign from trail guide on right
Extent: 1 negative
Trail in summer near Thornhill residence, west side (3.33441)
Date: 1930 – 1949Type: Photographic image
Description:Trail in summer near Thornhill residence, west side
Grassy path through trees
Extent: 1 negative
Path on hill (3.33767)
Date: 1930 – 1949Type: Photographic image
Description:Path on hill
Extent: 1 negative
Thornhill Education Center, reception hall (3.3419)
Date: 1940sType: Photographic image
Description:Thornhill Education Center, reception hall
Extent: 1 photograph
Skunk Cabbage (3.19478)
Date: 1940 – 1960Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustration of the skunk cabbage plant with environment, including three detailed views of flowering parts. Background sketches include a willow tree, cattails, and skunk cabbage in and near water.
Header: SKUNK CABBAGE
Illustrations as depicted, from top to bottom, left to right:
- enlarged view of the spathe
- enlarge view of a single flower
- enlarged view of the spadix
Extent: 1 sheet
Evergreen Nature Trail Guide, front cover/page 1 illustrations and layout w/ preliminary sketch page (3.24675)
Date: 1940sCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Sheet 1: Original illustrations and layout for the front cover/page 1 of The Morton Arboretum Evergreen Nature Trail Guide booklet. Key lines included.
Illustrated map of trail area. Stylized evergreen trees below map.
Sheet 2: Preliminary sketch page (no sketches), "green" written in top right corner.
Extent: 2 sheets
Boletinus sphaerosporus II (3.29215)
Date: 1920 – 1950Creator: Beggs, Helene Warder, 1882-1970
Type: Painting
Extent: 1 painting : watercolor and graphite 27 x 21 cm.
Geaster triplex (3.29235)
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.
Panaeolus campanulatus / Beggs. (3.29251)
Date: 1920 – 1950Creator: Beggs, Helene Warder, 1882-1970
Type: Painting
Extent: 1 painting : watercolor and graphite 26 x 22 cm.
Botanical plates / M.E. Eaton.. [et al.]. (3.29681)
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. 22 No. 07 (3.32506)
Date: July 1947Creator: Kammerer, E. Lowell
Type: Serial
Description:
- What Will Grow In Oak Shade?
Extent: 6 pages
Morton residence in distance as viewed from Ridge Road (3.32760)
Date: 1930 – 1949Type: Photographic image
Description:View from Ridge Road through two large trees with Morton residence in distance
Extent: 1 negative
Evergreen Trail sign for post 21 from trail guide, Japanese White Pine (3.33268)
Date: 1940sType: Photographic image
Description:Evergreen Trail sign for post 21 from trail guide, Japanese White Pine
Extent: 1 negative
Thornhill Education Center, doors in reception hall (3.3437)
Date: 1940sCreator: Hedrich-Blessing
Type: Photographic image
Description:Thornhill Education Center, doors in reception hall
Extent: 1 photograph
[Guide Map of The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, Illinois, 1940s?] (3.6814)
Date: 1940sCreator: Godshalk, Clarence E.
Type: Map
Description:Map mounted on cardboard, labels pasted on, no title, "C. Godshalk" on reverse.
Extent: 1 sheet
Arboretum Landscape Teaching Aid Series: An Old Bridge (3.19501)
Date: 1940 – 1960Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Primarily textual teaching aid depicting Arboretum landscape. This material describes a bridge that was left on what are now the Arboretum grounds, as well as part of the story of the Morton Arboretum's origins.
[Illustration of the bridge] Header: AN OLD BRIDGE was left behind when the HIGHWAY cut through [illustration of the highway]
Text and illustrations from top to bottom:
- [Depicted in stylized scroll] The Record: The old bridge still bears a plate with the date. It rested for many years. Now the Arboretum uses it. (but No Buses, please)
- Interpreting the record: The old bridge must have served many a surrey, and hayrack, and cattle being driven to market, and horses going to the Saturday Horse Fair at Naperville. This was the bridge that Joy Morton crossed on the day of the event described here [to the right of this text is pasted material from the May 1952 "Service Bulletin," Vol. 21, No. 2, including the front cover illustration depicting an antique vehicle and two men putting out a brush fire and partial text describing how Joy Morton found the location where he had his home Thornhill built.]
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
Evergreen Nature Trail Guide, page 2 illustrations and layout with preliminary sketches (3.24676)
Date: 1940sCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Sheet One: Original illustrations and layout for page 2 (inside front cover), excluding text, for The Morton Arboretum Evergreen Nature Trail Guide booklet. Key lines included.
Introductory page to trail guide, including map of the trail's location on Arboretum grounds near parking lot 2. Map header text "LOCATION OF EVERGREEN NATURE TRAIL in the Arboretum" points arrow to Evergreen Nature Trail on map. Thornhill Building and Administration Building identified in map for reference to trail location on grounds.
Map also identifies 2 other trails in the Arboretum:
Thornhill Trail - identified by circles located near Thornhill Building
Forest Trail - identified by crosses in far right section of the map
Sheet Two: Preliminary sketch of green-colored map with page number and various ink lines.
Extent: 2 sheets
Boletus luridus (3.29217)
Date: 1920 – 1950Creator: Beggs, Helene Warder, 1882-1970
Type: Painting
Extent: 1 painting : watercolor and graphite 28 x 21 cm.
Glistening (3.29236)
Date: 1920 – 1950Creator: Beggs, Helene Warder, 1882-1970
Type: Painting
Extent: 1 painting : watercolor and graphite 32 x 23 cm.
Pleurotus sp. (3.29253)
Date: 1920 – 1950Creator: Beggs, Helene Warder, 1882-1970
Type: Painting
Extent: 1 painting : watercolor and graphite 27 x 20 cm.
Botanical plates / M.E. Eaton.. [et al.]. (3.29665)
Date: 1916 – 1964Creator: Eaton, Mary Emily.
Type: Painting
Extent: 281 prints : art reproductions, color, b&w 27 x 18 cm.
Botanical plates / M.E. Eaton.. [et al.]. (3.29698)
Date: 1916 – 1964Creator: Eaton, Mary Emily.
Type: Painting
Extent: 281 prints : art reproductions, color, b&w 27 x 18 cm.
Botanical plates / M.E. Eaton.. [et al.]. (3.29714)
Date: 1916 – 1964Creator: Eaton, Mary Emily.
Type: Painting
Extent: 281 prints : art reproductions, color, b&w 27 x 18 cm.
Hen turkey and young : a study in miniature of plate 6 of the Elephant folio reproduced from the original drawing. (3.31121)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Audubon, John James, 1785-1851.
Type: Painting
Extent: 1 print : commercial reproduction, color 30 x 21 cm.
Bulletin of Popular Information V. 22 No. 08 (3.32507)
Date: August 1947Creator: Kammerer, E. Lowell
Type: Serial
Description:
- Reconsidering Trees And Shrubs With Colored Foliage Part 1: Red, Purple And Bronze Foliage
Extent: 6 pages
Meadow Road in winter looking north with grove of trees in distance (3.32775)
Date: 1925 – 1949Type: Photographic image
Description:Meadow Road in winter looking north with grove of trees in distance
Extent: 1 negative
Drive through the oaks (3.33190)
Date: 1922 – 1949Type: Photographic image
Description:Drive through the oaks
Extent: 1 negative
Forest Road covered with snow in winter (3.33203)
Date: 1930 – 1949Type: Photographic image
Description:Forest Road covered with snow in winter
Original Jake Mey land
Extent: 1 negative