January Calendar (3.19467)
Date: 1940sCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Calendar for the month of January consisting of five rows and seven columns depicting days and dates from Sunday through Saturday, the 1st through the 31st. Each square has a date plus illustration and text, some of which anticipates the coming Spring and some which show reminders of the past year.
Header: January
Text and illustrations, from top to bottom, left to right:
- (Friday, 1) [image of dogwood stems and buds] flowering dogwood is ready for Spring
- (Saturday, 2) [image of hemlock needles and cones] small cones drip from the hemlock tips -
- (Sunday, 3) [image of unidentified stems and fruit]
- (Monday, 4) [image of one chickadee and a birdhouse]
- (Tuesday, 5) [image of two chickadees and a birdhouse] chikca-dees stay to crack their seeds
- (Wednesday, 6) [image of evergreen needles and star magnolia stems and buds] star mag-nolia buds are pale against evergreens
- (Thursday, 7) [image of long-eared owl on branch of Norway spruce] long-eared owls look down from Norway spruce trees
- (Friday, 8) [image of 2 pellets on ground beneath evergreen branch] 2 pellets under an owl roost contain skeletons of 2 deer mice
- (Saturday, 9) [image of small animal bones on ground] when an owl pellet is pulled apart, evidence of sudden death is re-vealed
- (Sunday, 10) [image of euonymus stems and fruit] Euonymus still holds some of the "little hearts bursting with love"
- (Monday, 11) [image of birch stems, cones, and catkins] wind and birds have shattered birch cones but catkins are ready for Spring
- (Tuesday, 12) [image of zumi crabapple stems and fruit] Zumi crabs still hold their fruit
- (Wednesday, 13) [image of one cardinal and a birdhouse] the cardinal is back now that we have sunflower seeds again
- (Thursday, 14) [images of canker-worms on a dogwood twig] on a dogwood twig, canker worms are ready for Spring
- (Friday, 15) [images of evergreens and a hawthorn] hoar frost is on the hawthorns ---
- (Saturday, 16) [image of redbud stems, buds, and fruit] on red-bud, flower buds are ready for next Spring, and pods recall last Spring's flowers
- (Sunday, 17) [image of a bird on a tree branch]
- (Monday, 18) [image of sycamore trunks and branches] sycamore bark
- (Tuesday, 19) [image of trees and a trail] evergreen trail
- (Wednesday, 20) [image of rhododendron stems and leaves] Rhododendron leaves pointing down say it's COLD!
- (Thursday, 21) [image of a white Oak] white oaks hold last summer's leaves on lower branches
- (Friday, 22) [image of a Norway spruce] Norway spruce holds long cones
- (Saturday, 23) [image of pixie-cup lichens through a magnifying glass] there are Pixie-cup lichens in the spruce plot
- (Sunday, 24) [image of two ostrich ferns] the fertile fronds of ostrich fern stand stiff and dark
- (Monday, 25) [image of American cranberry-bush stems and fruit] high-bush cranberry wears puffs of snow
- (Tuesday, 26) [image of winter wren in brush] the winter wren weaves through low brush
- (Wednesday, 27) [image of hazel stems and catkins] hazel catkins feel softer
- (Thursday, 28) [image of vernal witch-hazel and close-up of flower] vernal witch hazel is in bloom
- (Friday, 29) [image of one set of raccoon tracks] raccoon tracks are plentiful after a mild night
- (Saturday, 30) [image of two sets of deer mouse tracks with trail mark between] white-footed deer mouse hops past
- (Sunday, 31) [image of three sets of Junco bird tracks] juncoes hop too
Extent: 1 sheet
Four Oaks (3.19491)
Date: 1940 – 1959Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustrations of four oaks: Chinkapin oak, Swamp white oak, White oak and Bur oak. Each tree is illustrated by silhouette, and is accompanied by an outline of its leaf and drawings of its twig with a winter bud and its acorn.
upper left: Quercus muehlenbergii, Chinkapin oak
upper right: Quercus bicolor, Swamp white oak
lower left: Quercus alba, White oak
lower right Quercus macrocarpa, Bur oak
Extent: 1 sheet
Winter Buds, #1 (3.19511)
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:
- white ash
- black ash
- blue ash
- red ash
- sugar maple
- Norway maple
- silver maple
- box-elder
- horse-chestnut
- ohio buckeye
- flowering dogwood
- catalpa
- ironwood
- gray birch
- European white birch
- European alder
Extent: 1 sheet
Winter Buds, #2 (3.19512)
Date: 1940 – 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Large poster depicting 12 types of winter buds, bound in green tape.
Illustrations and text, from left to right, top to bottom:
- bitternut hickory
- witch-hazel
- shadbush
- beech
- black walnut
- butternut
- sassafras
- shagbark hickory
- linden
- mountain ash
- sour gum
- silver poplar
Extent: 1 sheet
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
Twelve Oaks (3.24795)
Date: 1944Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustration of leaf, acorn, and twigs with buds for twelve different types of oak, created to accompany "The Oaks Of The Morton Arboretum" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information. Drawings are divided into two categories and depicted in columns with descriptive text.
Header: TWELVE OAKS
Leaves, acorns, and twigs as depicted in two categories, from left to right, top to bottom:
Category 1: The Black Oak Group
- Eastern Red Oak - Quercus borealis
- leaf - dull above, glabrous beneath, lobes narrowing toward margin, sinuses about half-way to mid-rib.
- acorn - shallow cup, saucer-shaped, with glossy tight scales, white kernel
- twig with buds - buds red brown, not angled; twigs red-brown, smooth
- Northern Pin - Quercus ellipsoidalis
- leaf - lustrous, deeply lobed, lobes widening toward margin, base truncate or broad-cunate, 5 to 7 lobed
- acorn - top-shaped cup, enclosing half of nut, yellow kernel
- twig with buds - buds red-brown, obtuse at tip; twigs red-brown
- Black - Quercus velutina
- leaf - leathery, thick, petioles yellow, sinuses varying from shallow to deep
- acorn - bowl-like cup, scales form fringe at margin, yellow kernel
- twig with bids - buds pale woolly, strongly 5-sided; twigs red-brown, lenticels conspicuous
- Pin - Quercus palustris
- leaf - thin, lustrous, 5 to 7 lobed, few-toothed, slender petioles, base cuneate
- acorn - saucer-shaped cup, scales with free tips, nut often striped
- twigs with buds - side buds at wide angle; twigs red-brown, smooth
- Shingle - Quercus imbricaria
- leaf - lustrous above, pubescent below, persistent in Winter
- acorn - stalked cup, bowl-like, thin
- twig with buds - buds brown smooth; twigs smooth, gray-brown
- Willow - Quercus phellos
- leaf - lustrous, nearly sessile, acute at both ends
- acorn - talked cup, shallow, thin
- twig with buds - buds brown; twigs fine
- White - Quercus alba
- leaf - glabrous, with deep sinuses, often persistent in winter
- acorn - bowl-like cup, with thickened warty scales, nut edible
- twig with buds - buds red-brown, smooth; twigs red-brown, later ashy-gray; lenticels pale, conspicuous
- Bur - Quercus macrocarpa
- leaf - usually with "wasp-waist" - thick, smooth above, pale-pubescent beneath
- acorn - cup fringed, covering half or more of nut, larger in South
- twig with buds - buds pale-woolly, gray-tan; twigs gray, later corky-ridged
- English - Quercus robur
- leaf - auricled base, nearly sessile
- acorn - cup enclosing 1/4 to 1/3 of nut, long-stemmed
- twig with buds - buds, brown; side buds divergent; twigs brown
- Chinquapin - Quercus muehlenbergii
- leaf - thick, shiny above, pubescent beneath, somewhat sharply-toothed, rounded base, slender petiole
- acorn - cup bowl-shaped, thin, scales indistinct
- twig with buds - buds chestnut-brown; twigs orange-brown
- Basket - Quercus michauxii
- leaf - crenate margin, pale-pubescent beneath, cunate base, 10 to 14 pairs of teeth
- acorn - cup bowl-shaped, thickened, scales wedge-shaped
- twig with buds - buds chestnut-brown, twigs orange-brown
- Swamp White - Quercus bicolor
- leaf - thick, firm, coarsely-toothed, shining above, pale-fomentose beneath, 6 to 10 pairs of teeth, often persistent in winter
- acorn - usually paired, cup bowl-shaped, slightly-fringed, long-stalked
- twigs with buds - buds brown; twigs yellow-brown, with pale, raised lenticels
Extent: 1 sheet
Leaf Prints: European Black Alder (3.27657)
Date: circa 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Print
Description:A white negative nature print of European Black Alder leaves, stems, buds, and fruit on a dark background with identifying text at bottom center handwritten by May T. Watts.
Identifying text:
- Alder
- Alnus glutinosa
Extent: 1 sheet
Leaf Prints: Apple (3.27658)
Date: circa 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Print
Description:A white negative nature print of Apple tree leaves, stems, buds, and flowers on a dark background with identifying text at bottom right handwritten by May T. Watts.
Identifying text:
- Apple
Extent: 1 sheet
Leaf Prints: White Ash (3.27661)
Date: circa 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Print
Description:A white negative nature print of White Ash leaves, stems, twig, and buds on a dark background with identifying text at bottom right handwritten by May T. Watts.
Identifying text:
- Ash white
- Fraxinus americana
Extent: 1 sheet
Leaf Prints: American Beech (3.27664)
Date: circa 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Print
Description:A white negative nature print of American beech leaves, stems, and a twig with buds on a dark background with identifying text at bottom right handwritten by May T. Watts.
Identifying text:
- Beech American
- Fagus Americana
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
Leaf Prints: Horse-chestnut (3.27679)
Date: circa 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Print
Description:A white negative nature print of horse-chestnut leaves, stems, and a bud on a dark background with identifying text at bottom right handwritten by May T. Watts.
Identifying text:
- Chestnut Horse
- Aesculus hippocastanum
Extent: 1 sheet
Leaf Prints: Ginkgo (3.27692)
Date: circa 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Print
Description:A white negative nature print of ginkgo leaves, stems, and buds on a dark background with identifying text at bottom right handwritten by May T. Watts.
Identifying text:
- Ginkgo
- Ginkgo biloba
Extent: 1 sheet
Leaf Prints: American Hazelnut (3.27696)
Date: circa 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Print
Description:A white negative nature print of American hazelnut leaves, stems, and buds on a dark background with identifying text at bottom right handwritten by May T. Watts.
Identifying text:
- Hazelnut beaked
- Corylus Americana
Extent: 1 sheet
Leaf Prints: Bitternut Hickory (3.27699)
Date: circa 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Print
Description:A white negative nature print of bitternut hickory leaves, stems, twigs, buds, and flowers on a dark background with identifying text at bottom right handwritten by May T. Watts.
Identifying text:
- Hickory bitternut
- Hicoria minima
Extent: 1 sheet
Leaf Prints: Shagbark Hickory (3.27700)
Date: circa 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Print
Description:A white negative nature print of shagbark hickory leaves, stems, twigs, buds, and flowers on a dark background with identifying text at bottom right handwritten by May T. Watts.
Identifying text:
- Hickory shellbark
- Hicoria ovata
Extent: 1 sheet
Leaf Prints: Ironwood (3.27701)
Date: circa 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Print
Description:A white negative nature print of ironwood, or hop-hornbeam, leaves, stems, twigs, buds, and flowers on a dark background with identifying text at bottom right handwritten by May T. Watts.
Identifying text:
- Hop-hornbeam
- Ostrya virginiana
Extent: 1 sheet
Leaf Prints: Swamp Laurel Oak (3.27719)
Date: circa 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Print
Description:A white negative nature print of swamp laurel oak leaves, stems, and buds on a dark background with identifying text at bottom right handwritten by May T. Watts.
Identifying text:
- Oak shingle
- Quercus laurifolia
Extent: 1 sheet
Leaf Prints: Balsam Poplar (3.27730)
Date: circa 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Print
Description:A white negative nature print of balsam poplar leaves, stems, and a twig with a bud on a dark background with identifying text at bottom right handwritten by May T. Watts.
Identifying text:
- Poplar balsam
- Populus balsamifera caudicans
Extent: 1 sheet
Leaf Prints: Redbud (3.27734)
Date: circa 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Print
Description:A white negative nature print of redbud leaves, stems, buds, flowers, and fruit on a dark background with identifying text at bottom right handwritten by May T. Watts.
Identifying text:
- Redbud
- Cercis canadensis
Extent: 1 sheet
Leaf Prints: Rose (3.27735)
Date: circa 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Print
Description:A white negative nature print of rose leaves, stems, buds, flowers, and fruit on a dark background with identifying text at bottom right handwritten by May T. Watts.
Identifying text:
- Rose
Extent: 1 sheet
Leaf Prints: Fragrant Sumac (3.27739)
Date: circa 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Print
Description:A white negative nature print of fragrant sumac leaves, stems, and buds on a dark background with identifying text at bottom right handwritten by May T. Watts.
Identifying text:
- Sumach fragrant
- Rhus canadensis
Extent: 1 sheet
Leaf Prints: Sycamore (3.27741)
Date: circa 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Print
Description:A white negative nature print of sycamore leaves, stems, and a twig with a bud on a dark background with identifying text at bottom right handwritten by May T. Watts.
Identifying text:
- Sycamore
- Platanus occidentalis
Extent: 1 sheet
Leaf Prints: Maple-leaved Viburnum (3.27744)
Date: circa 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Print
Description:A white negative nature print of maple-leaved viburnum leaves, stems, buds, and flowers on a dark background with identifying text at bottom right handwritten by May T. Watts.
Identifying text:
- Viburnum
- Viburnum acerifolium
Extent: 1 sheet
Leaf Prints: Butternut (3.27746)
Date: circa 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Print
Description:A white negative nature print of butternut, or white walnut, leaves, stems, fruit, and a twig with buds on a dark background with identifying text at bottom right handwritten by May T. Watts.
Identifying text:
- Walnut white
- Juglans cinerea
Extent: 1 sheet
Leaf Prints: Black Willow (3.27747)
Date: circa 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Print
Description:A white negative nature print of black willow leaves, stems, and buds on a dark background with identifying text at bottom right handwritten by May T. Watts.
Identifying text:
- Willow black
- Salix nigra
Extent: 1 sheet
Tree Portraits: Willow (3.31790)
Date: 1940 – 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Painting
Description:Color silhouette of a Willow tree, including a nature print outline of a leaf, a drawing of a twig with buds, and descriptive text.
Header: WILLOW
Drawings and text, from top to bottom, left to right:
- leaf
- twig and buds: single scale on each bud
- tree: twigs slender, yellow in Spring; along a river bank
Extent: 1 sheet
Tree Portraits: Red Maple (3.31791)
Date: 1940 – 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Painting
Description:Color silhouette of a Red Maple tree, including a nature print outline of a leaf, drawings of a twig with buds, seeds, and descriptive text.
Header: RED MAPLE
Drawings and text, from top to bottom, left to right:
- leaf
- tree
- twig with buds: opposite-branching
- seeds: ripe in May-June; found in lowlands but also on uplands
Extent: 1 sheet
Tree Portraits: Witch Hazel (3.31797)
Date: 1940 – 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Painting
Description:Color silhouette of a Witch Hazel tree, including a nature print outline of a leaf, drawings of flower and seed, a winter bud, and descriptive text.
Header: WITCH HAZEL
Drawings and text from top to bottom, left to right:
- leaf
- flower and seed
- bud: winter bud stalked, naked
- tree: yellow flowers in October
Extent: 1 sheet
Tree Portraits: English Oak (3.31801)
Date: 1940 – 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Painting
Description:Color silhouette of an English Oak tree, including a nature print outline of a leaf, a drawing of a fruit, a twig, and descriptive text.
Header: ENGLISH OAK
Drawings and text from top to bottom, left to right:
- leaf: alternate
- fruit: not native
- tree: European
- twig with buds
Extent: 1 sheet
Tree Portraits: Chestnut Oak (3.31806)
Date: 1940 – 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Painting
Description:Color silhouette of a Chestnut Oak tree, including a nature print outline of a leaf, drawings of a twig, a fruit, flowers, and descriptive text.
Header: CHESTNUT OAK
Drawings and text from top to bottom, left to right:
- leaf
- tree
- twig with buds: native just south of Arboretum
- fruit: matures in one year; kernel sweet
- flowers
Extent: 1 sheet
Tree Portraits: Sycamore Maple (3.31808)
Date: 1940 – 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Painting
Description:Color silhouette of a Sycamore Maple tree, including a nature print outline of a leaf, drawings of a twig, seeds, and descriptive text.
Header: SYCAMORE MAPLE
Drawings and text from top to bottom, left to right:
- leaf
- tree: dark heavy green; no Autumn coloring; no milk
- twig with buds
- seeds: ripe in Fall; European
Extent: 1 sheet
Tree Portraits: Shagbark Hickory (3.31818)
Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Painting
Description:Color silhouette of a shagbark hickory tree, including a nature print outline of a leaf, and drawings of a nut and a twig with buds. Tab taped to bottom left corner includes assigned number.
Descriptive text in bottom left tab:
- 19
Extent: 1 sheet
Tree Portraits: Peach-Leaved Willow (3.31869)
Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Painting
Description:Color silhouette of a peach-leaved willow tree, including a nature print outline of a leaf and drawing of a twig with buds.
Extent: 1 sheet
Tree Portraits: Chinkapin Oak (3.31899)
Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Painting
Description:Color silhouette of a chinkapin oak tree, including a nature print outline of a leaf, with drawings of a twig with buds and an acorn.
Extent: 1 sheet
Education charts: Twigs, #2 (3.34234)
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 display board in a classroom.
Illustrations and text, from left to right, top to bottom:
- white ash
- black ash
- blue ash
- red ash
- sugar maple
- Norway maple
- silver maple
- box-elder
- horse-chestnut
- ohio buckeye
- flowering dogwood
- catalpa
- ironwood
- gray birch
- European white birch
- European alder
Extent: 1 slide