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A Bur Oak Twig (3.19473)
Date: 1940sCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Detailed illustration of a single bur oak twig with identifying text.
Text: a bur oak twig
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
Cedar Apple Rust: Late Summer To Fall (3.19520)
Date: 1940sCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Panel 4 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 from late summer to fall describing spore on leaves and wind carried spores. Drawings feature an infected Hawthorn leaf, a Juniper twig, and a Hawthorn tree.
Header: LATE SUMMER TO FALL
Drawings and text, clockwise from right:
- Hawthorn leaf with spores: ON UNDER-SIDE of LEAF WHITE TUBES DISCHARGE YELLOW SPORES
- yellow arrow: SPORES CARRIED BY WIND TO RED CEDAR
- Juniper twig
- HAW (left half image of a full-sized Hawthorn)
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
Winter Twigs, page 4 (3.24636)
Date: 1943Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Page 4 of 4, illustrations showing identifying characteristics of different types of winter twigs, created to accompany "Winter Twigs" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information. 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) [Original text] TREES WITH FLATTENED YELLOWISH BUDS
- Bitternut hickory -- Carya cordiformis
- Witch-hazel -- Hamamelis virginiana
- Shadbush -- Amelanchier canadensis
- Beech -- Fagus grandifolia
- Black walnut -- Juglans nigra
- Butternut -- Juglans cinerea
- Sassafras -- Sassafras albidum
- Shagbark hickory -- Carya ovata
- Linden -- Tilia americana
- Mountain ash -- Sorbus
- Sour gum -- Nyssa sylvatica
- Silver poplar -- Populus alba
Extent: 1 sheet
Forest Nature Trail Guide, page 13 illustrations and layout (3.24670)
Date: 1946Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Original illustrations and layout for page 13, 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 #34: Ironwood or Hop Hornbeam
Identifying characteristics for leaves, seeds, and fruits illustrated to the right.
Tree stump #35: Are you as Smart as a Yellow-bellied Sapsucker?
Illustration of a red oak trunk and sugar maple trunk to the right - sugar maple includes drawing of yellow-bellied sapsucker pecking rings of holes in the maple's trunk for sap.
Tree stump #36: Where Does the Water in These Streams Go?
Map of DuPage River, including West Branch and East Branch at Arboretum near top right, the Des Plaines River center right, the Kankakee River center bottom, and the Illinois River center left with arrow pointing left labeled "to Mississippi".
Tree stump #37: The Thickness of Twigs
Identifying characteristics of ironwood and sumac twigs illustrated to the right.
Tree stump #38: Blue Ash
Identifying characteristics for leaves and twig illustrated to the right.
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: 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: 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: 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: Black Walnut (3.27745)
Date: circa 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Print
Description:A white negative nature print of black walnut leaves, stems, flowers, and a twig with buds on a dark background with identifying text at bottom right handwritten by May T. Watts.
Identifying text:
- Walnut black
- Juglans nigra
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
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: 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
Tree Portraits: Swamp White Oak (3.31796)
Date: 1940 – 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Painting
Description:Color silhouette of a Swamp White Oak tree, including a nature print outline of a leaf, drawings of a twig, a fruit, and descriptive text.
Header: SWAMP WHITE OAK
Drawings and text from top to bottom, left to right:
- leaf
- fruit
- tree: on low ground
- twig
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: Kentucky Coffeetree (3.31802)
Date: 1940 – 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Painting
Description:A nature print outline of a Kentucky Coffeetree leaf, drawings of its seeds, a twig, and descriptive text.
Header: KENTUCKY COFFEE TREE
Drawings and text from top to bottom, left to right:
- leaf
- seeds
- twig: salmon-colored pith
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