Winter Buds, #3 (3.19513)
Date: 1940 – 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Large poster depicting 16 types of winter buds, bound in green tape.
Illustrations and text, from left to right, top to bottom:
- honey locust
- black locust
- Osage orange
- hawthorn
- wild crab
- wild plum
- European larch
- ginkgo
- red oak
- white oak
- tulip tree
- sycamore
- Kentucky coffeetree
- tree of heaven
- staghorn sumac
- willow
Extent: 1 sheet
Winter Twigs, page 3 (3.24632)
Date: 1943Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Page 3 of 4, illustrations showing identifying characteristics of different types of winter twigs with identifying labels and text above each, created to accompany "Winter Twigs" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information. Some 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) TREES WITH THORNS
- Honey locust -- Gleditsia triacanthos
- Black locust -- Robinia pseudo-acacia
- Osage orange -- Maclura pomifera
- Hawthorn -- Crataegus
- Wild crab -- Malus ioensis [and] Malus coronaria
- Wild plum : Prunus americana [and] Prunus nigra
- European larch -- Larix decidua
- Tamarack -- Larix laricina
- Ginkgo -- Ginkgo biloba
- Black Oak Group
- Red oak -- Quercus borealis maxima
- Northern pin oak -- Quercus ellipsoidalis
- Pin oak -- Quercus palustris
- White Oak Group
- Bur Oak -- Quercus macrocarpa
- White oak -- Quercus alba
- Swamp white oak -- Quercus bicolor
- Tulip [tree] -- Liriodendron tulipifera
- Sycamore -- Platanus occidentalis
- Kentucky coffee tree -- Gymnocladus dioicus
- Tree of heaven -- Ailanthus altissima
- Staghorn sumac -- Rhus typhina
- Smooth sumac -- Rhus glabra
- Willow -- Salix
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 15 illustrations and layout with preliminary sketches (3.24672)
Date: 1946Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Sheet One: Original illustrations and layout for page 15, including some 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 #44: Which oak is this one?
Text handwritten in center panel and identifying characteristics for four types of oak leaves outlined to the right - illustration in the first row is labeled "Are the lobes pointed - or - rounded," the middle row is lableled "deep - or -shallow," the bottom row is labeled "Is the surface leathery or dull".
Tree stump #45: Douglas Fir
Text handwritten in center panel and identifying characteristics for needles and cones illustrated to the right - label "long end bud" points arrow to top center of needles drawing, and label "bracts" points arrow to center left of cone drawing.
Tree stump #46: Honey Locust
Labels handwritten in center panel and identifying characteristics of leaves, thorns, and pods illustrated to the right.
Sheet Two: Preliminary sketch of green-colored illustrations.
Extent: 2 sheets
Fish crow = [graphic] Corvus ossifragus, Wils. / drawn from nature by J. J. Audubon Engraved, printed, & coloured by R. Havell. (3.24967)
Date: 1832Creator: Audubon, John James, 1785-1851.
Type: Print
Description:Two birds in a honey locust (Gleditschia [Gleditsia] triacanthos). The bird on the lower branch is grasping a crab.
Extent: 1 print : engraving, hand-colored 98 x 65 cm.
White-eyed flycatcher or, vireo = [graphic] = Vireo noveboracensis. Ch. Bonap. Red-eyed vireo = Vireo olivaceus. Bonap. / drawn from nature by J.J. Audubon chromolithy. by J. Bien. (3.25023)
Date: 1860Creator: Audubon, John James, 1785-1851.
Type: Print
Extent: 1 print : chromolithograph 68 x 100 cm.
Leaf Prints: Honey-locust (3.27706)
Date: circa 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Print
Description:A white negative nature print of honey-locust leaves, stems, and a thorn on a dark background with identifying text at bottom right handwritten by May T. Watts.
Identifying text:
- Locust honey
- Gleditsia triacanthos
Extent: 1 sheet
Orchard oriole = Icterus spurius/ drawn from nature by John J. Audubon engraved by R. Havell, Jun[io]r printed and coloured by R. Havell Sen[io]r. (3.29172)
Date: 1950Creator: Audubon, John James, 1785-1851.
Type: Painting
Extent: 1 print : commercial reproduction, color image 44 x 38 cm., on sheet 50 x 41 cm.
Orchard oriole = Icterus spurius/ drawn from nature by John J. Audubon engraved by R. Havell, Jun[io]r printed and coloured by R. Havell Sen[io]r. (3.29173)
Date: 1950Creator: Audubon, John James, 1785-1851.
Type: Painting
Extent: 1 print : commercial reproduction, color image 44 x 38 cm., on sheet 50 x 41 cm.
Orchard oriole = Icterus spurius/ drawn from nature by John J. Audubon engraved by R. Havell, Jun[io]r printed and coloured by R. Havell Sen[io]r. (3.29174)
Date: 1950Creator: Audubon, John James, 1785-1851.
Type: Painting
Extent: 1 print : commercial reproduction, color image 44 x 38 cm., on sheet 50 x 41 cm.
Orchard oriole = Icterus spurius/ drawn from nature by John J. Audubon engraved by R. Havell, Jun[io]r printed and coloured by R. Havell Sen[io]r. (3.29175)
Date: 1950Creator: Audubon, John James, 1785-1851.
Type: Painting
Extent: 1 print : commercial reproduction, color image 44 x 38 cm., on sheet 50 x 41 cm.; Mat 71x57
Tree Portraits: Honey-locust (3.31824)
Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Painting
Description:Color silhouette of a honey-locust tree, including a nature print outline of a single leaflet and a drawing of a seed pod. Tape adhered to bottom left corner indicates assigned letter.
Descriptive text in bottom left:
- c
Extent: 1 sheet
Education charts: Twigs, #3 (3.34236)
Type: Photographic image
Description:An educational chart created by May T. Watts for The Morton Arboretum, depicting 16 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:
- honey locust
- black locust
- Osage orange
- hawthorn
- wild crab
- wild plum
- European larch
- ginkgo
- red oak
- white oak
- tulip tree
- sycamore
- Kentucky coffeetree
- tree of heaven
- staghorn sumac
- willow
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
The Morton Arboretum Quarterly V. 12 No. 02 (3.34476)
Date: June 21 – September 20 1976Type: Serial
Description:
- A Day with Aldo Leopold (17-21)
- Honey Locust, Gleditsia triacanthos: Legume Family (Leguminosae) (22-23)
- Early America in Plant Names (Part I) (24-29)
- People & Projects/ Climatological Summary (30-31)
- The Lookout (32)
Extent: 16 pages
1991/10/04: George Ware to Suzanne Malec (3.56304)
Date: October 4 1991Creator: Ware, George
Type: Document
Description:Facsimile of an abstract and research paper sent to Suzanne Malec of the Open Land Project. The paper, Trees for Restricted Spaces was written by George Ware and discusses the genetic, topographic, and edaphic factors to take into consideration when selecting urban trees.
Extent: 8 sheets