The Cedars (3.24624)
Date: 1945Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustrations of two cedars, created to accompany "The Evergreen Trees" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information. Illustrations include two full trees with illustrations of needles and fruit underneath. Identifying text originally adhered to the board has detached and is no longer present.
[Original header (not included with art): "THE CEDARS"]
Trees, needles, and fruit depicted, from left to right, top to bottom:
- Red cedar -- Juniperus virginiana (with 2 kinds of needles)
- scale-like needles with blue-gray berries
- awl-shaped needles
- Arbor Vitae or White cedar -- Thuja occidentalis (1 kind of needle)
- scale-like needles, small cones
Extent: 1 sheet
Spruce Cones (3.24628)
Date: 1943Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustration of 3 spruce cones, 2 false cypress cones, 3 fir cones, and 4 larch cones, created to accompany "The Cones of The Arboretum" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information. Identifying text originally adhered to board has detached and is no longer present.
Pine cones depicted, from left to right, top to bottom:
[Original header (not included with art): SPRUCE CONES are pendent, thin scaled]
- Norway spruce -- Picea abies
- Colorado spruce -- Picea pungens
- White spruce -- Picea glauca
- White cedar false cypress -- Chamaecyparis thyoides
- Sawara false cypress -- Chamaecyparis pisifera
- Douglas fir -- Pseudotsuga taxifolia
- Balsam fir -- Abies balsamea
- White fir -- Abies concolor
- European larch -- Larix decidua
- Tamarack -- Larix laricina
- Arbor vitae -- Thuja occidentalis
- Canada hemlock -- Tsuga canadensis
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
Leaf Prints: Eastern Arborvitae (3.27675)
Date: circa 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Print
Description:A white negative nature print of eastern arborvitae, or white cedar, leaves, stems, and buds on a dark background with identifying text at bottom right handwritten by May T. Watts.
Identifying text:
- Cedar white
- Thuja occidentalis
Extent: 1 sheet
1983/12/20 Ray Keen to George Ware (3.39924)
Date: December 20 1983Creator: Keen, Dr. Ray
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Dr. Ray Keen of Kansas State University to George Ware discussing the status of various trees in and around the campus at Kansas State University.
Extent: 2 sheets
Thuja occidentalis (Eastern Arborvitae), bark, mature (3.59855)
Date: October 21 2015Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Thuja occidentalis (Eastern Arborvitae), bark, mature
Thuja occidentalis (Eastern Arborvitae), bark, mature (3.59856)
Date: April 21 2012Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Thuja occidentalis (Eastern Arborvitae), bark, mature
Thuja occidentalis (Eastern Arborvitae), bark, mature (3.59857)
Date: April 21 2012Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Thuja occidentalis (Eastern Arborvitae), bark, mature
Thuja occidentalis (Eastern Arborvitae), bark, trunk (3.59858)
Date: October 21 2015Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Thuja occidentalis (Eastern Arborvitae), bark, trunk
Thuja occidentalis (Eastern Arborvitae), cone, immature (3.59859)
Date: June 16 2008Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Thuja occidentalis (Eastern Arborvitae), cone, immature
Thuja occidentalis (Eastern Arborvitae), cone, immature (3.59860)
Date: July 28 2008Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Thuja occidentalis (Eastern Arborvitae), cone, immature
Thuja occidentalis (Eastern Arborvitae), cone, immature (3.59861)
Date: May 21 2011Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Thuja occidentalis (Eastern Arborvitae), cone, immature
Thuja occidentalis (Eastern Arborvitae), cone, immature (3.59862)
Date: May 21 2011Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Thuja occidentalis (Eastern Arborvitae), cone, immature
Thuja occidentalis (Eastern Arborvitae), cone, immature (3.59863)
Date: July 12 2010Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Thuja occidentalis (Eastern Arborvitae), cone, immature
Thuja occidentalis (Eastern Arborvitae), cone, immature (3.59864)
Date: July 12 2010Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Thuja occidentalis (Eastern Arborvitae), cone, immature
Thuja occidentalis (Eastern Arborvitae), cone, immature (3.59865)
Date: June 2 2012Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Thuja occidentalis (Eastern Arborvitae), cone, immature
Thuja occidentalis (Eastern Arborvitae), cone, immature, cone, mature (3.59866)
Date: June 2 2012Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Thuja occidentalis (Eastern Arborvitae), cone, immature, cone, mature
Thuja occidentalis (Eastern Arborvitae), cone, mature (3.59867)
Date: April 21 2008Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Thuja occidentalis (Eastern Arborvitae), cone, mature
Thuja occidentalis (Eastern Arborvitae), cone, mature (3.59868)
Date: April 21 2008Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Thuja occidentalis (Eastern Arborvitae), cone, mature
Thuja occidentalis (Eastern Arborvitae), cone, mature (3.59869)
Date: July 31 2007Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Thuja occidentalis (Eastern Arborvitae), cone, mature
Thuja occidentalis (Eastern Arborvitae), cone, mature (3.59870)
Date: May 21 2011Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Thuja occidentalis (Eastern Arborvitae), cone, mature
Thuja occidentalis (Eastern Arborvitae), cone, mature (3.59871)
Date: July 12 2010Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Thuja occidentalis (Eastern Arborvitae), cone, mature
Thuja occidentalis (Eastern Arborvitae), cone, mature (3.59872)
Date: October 21 2015Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Thuja occidentalis (Eastern Arborvitae), cone, mature
Thuja occidentalis (Eastern Arborvitae), cone, mature (3.59873)
Date: October 21 2015Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Thuja occidentalis (Eastern Arborvitae), cone, mature
Thuja occidentalis (Eastern Arborvitae), cone, mature (3.59874)
Date: April 21 2012Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Thuja occidentalis (Eastern Arborvitae), cone, mature
Thuja occidentalis (Eastern Arborvitae), cone, mature (3.59875)
Date: April 21 2012Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Thuja occidentalis (Eastern Arborvitae), cone, mature
Thuja occidentalis (Eastern Arborvitae), cone, mature (3.59876)
Date: April 21 2012Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Thuja occidentalis (Eastern Arborvitae), cone, mature
Thuja occidentalis (Eastern Arborvitae), cone, pollen (3.59877)
Date: November 8 2017Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Thuja occidentalis (Eastern Arborvitae), cone, pollen
Thuja occidentalis (Eastern Arborvitae), habit, fall (3.59878)
Date: November 8 2017Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Thuja occidentalis (Eastern Arborvitae), habit, fall
Thuja occidentalis (Eastern Arborvitae), habit, fall (3.59879)
Date: November 8 2017Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Thuja occidentalis (Eastern Arborvitae), habit, fall
Thuja occidentalis (Eastern Arborvitae), habit, spring (3.59880)
Date: April 21 2012Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Thuja occidentalis (Eastern Arborvitae), habit, spring
Thuja occidentalis (Eastern Arborvitae), habit, spring (3.59881)
Date: April 19 2012Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Thuja occidentalis (Eastern Arborvitae), habit, spring
Thuja occidentalis (Eastern Arborvitae), habit, summer (3.59882)
Date: July 21 2007Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Thuja occidentalis (Eastern Arborvitae), habit, summer
Thuja occidentalis (Eastern Arborvitae), habit, winter (3.59883)
Date: February 4 2012Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Thuja occidentalis (Eastern Arborvitae), habit, winter
Thuja occidentalis (Eastern Arborvitae), leaf, summer (3.59884)
Date: July 10 2006Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Thuja occidentalis (Eastern Arborvitae), leaf, summer
Thuja occidentalis (Eastern Arborvitae), leaf, fall (3.59885)
Date: November 8 2017Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Thuja occidentalis (Eastern Arborvitae), leaf, fall