An Example of Parallel Species (3.19471)
Date: 1940sCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustrations comparing two parallel species of trees, one in America and one in Europe. Illustrations depict a branch with leaves and fruit.
Header: An example of parallel species
Illustrations from left to right:
- one in southeastern America
- ironwood -- Ostrya virginiana
- one in Europe
- European hornbeam -- Ostrya carpinifolia
Extent: 1 sheet
Arboretum Landscape Teaching Aid Series: Affirmation from Memories of Old Settlers, Part I (3.19503)
Date: 1940 – 1960Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Primarily textual teaching aid depicting Arboretum landscape. This material is depicted in the shape of a head, including sketches of eyes, a nose, and mouth. It describes the childhood memories of an early settler who recalls that a teepee may have been constructed in the area at one time.
Header: Affirmation from memories of old settlers
Text from top to bottom:
- One early settler tells us that, when he was a boy, his father pointed out to him a circular depression that had been made for drainage around a tepee.
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
Spring Wild Flowers of the Forest Floor At The Morton Arboretum: A Key To Identification, page 4 (3.24618)
Date: 1944Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustrations of wild flowers with identification text, key on left and habitat border of leaves on right, created to accompany "Spring Wild Flowers Of The Forest Floor At The Morton Arboretum" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information.
Illustrations and identifying text depicted, from top to bottom:
- White baneberry -- Actaea alba
- Bloodroot -- Sanguinaria canadensis
- May-apple -- Podophyllum peltatum
- Wild columbine -- Aquilegia canadensis
- Wild strawberry -- Fragaria virginiana
- Cinquefoil -- Potentilla canadensis
- Small-flowered crowfoot -- Ranunculus abortivus
- Swamp buttercup -- Ranunculus septentrionalis
- Blue cohosh -- Caulophyllum thalictroides
- Toothwort -- Dentaria laciniata
- Spring cress -- Cardamine bulbosa
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
Forest Nature Trail Guide, page 6 illustrations and layout with preliminary sketches (3.24656)
Date: 1946Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Sheet One: Original illustrations and layout for page 6, 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 #10: Black Walnut
Identifying characteristics for leaves, seeds, and nuts illustrated to the right.
Tree stump #11: Red Oak Bark
Identifying characteristics for bark and leaves illustrated to the right.
Tree stump #12: H-A-M
Mnemonic device for remembering which common trees bear leaves opposite each other: H = horse-chestnut, A= ash, and M = maple. Identifying characteristics for leaves illustrated to the right labeled "alternate" and "opposite".
Tree stump #13: Who Planted These 4 Trees in a Row?
Generalized illustration of four trees with identifying characteristics for seeds illustrated to the right labeled "oak," "maple," "ash," and "oak".
Sheet Two: Preliminary sketch of green-colored illustrations.
Extent: 2 sheets
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
Evergreen Nature Trail Guide, back cover/page 16 illustrations and layout with preliminary sketches (3.24690)
Date: 1940sCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Sheet One: Original illustrations and layout for back cover/page 16, for The Morton Arboretum Evergreen Nature Trail Guide booklet. Key lines included.
Includes a key to evergreen needle characteristics. Header text "A KEY TO THE EVERGREENS ALONG THIS TRAIL"
(first section) Needles in Bundles
Includes illustrated identifying characteristics of Evergreen needles in 2's, in 3's and in 5's.
(second section) NEEDLES OVERLAPPING
Includes illustrated identifying characteristics of Evergreen needles, including those with 2 kinds of needles and with 1 kind of needle.
(third section) NEEDLES DECIDUOUS
Includes illustrated identifying characteristics of Evergreen needles, including tufts and 2-ranked.
(fourth section) NEEDLES NOT IN BUNDLES; NOT OVERLAPPING; NOT DECIDUOUS
Includes illustrated identifying characteristics of Evergreen needles, including categories "Needles flat, twigs smooth" and "Needles 4-sided, twigs rough."
Sheet Two: Preliminary sketch of green-colored illustrations.
Extent: 2 sheets
La toile imprimée et les indiennes de traïte [PL. 149: Acteon] (3.28947)
Date: 1942Creator: Allemagne, Henry René d', 1863-1950.
Type: Print
Description:Photographic reproductions on cream paper of toile fabric designs from the 18th and 19th century, originally produced from copper engravings. Many examples of toile de Jouy and calico.
Description of image, place of manufacture and collection where the original example was held is bottom center of each plate. Plate number is the top vertical right corner of each plate.
Du deuxieme volume, table des planches. Sujets a dêcor floral (1-26) -- Fleurs et oiseax (27-38) -- Bandes florales (39-65) -- Scènes pastorales et villageoises (66-83) -- Monuments (84-96) -- Sujets religieux (97-100) -- Sujets antiques et mythologiques (101-125) Sujets historiques (126-147) -- Sujets de chasse (148-156) -- Scènes poétiques et dramatiques (157-172) -- Scènes chinoises (173-182) -- Jeux et sports (183-191) -- Époque Napoléonienne (192-206) -- Toiles de l'inde et voiles de gênes (207-236)
Extent: 1 print
La toile imprimée et les indiennes de traïte [PL. 185: Le Jeu De Raquette, d'apres Bosio] (3.28961)
Date: 1942Creator: Allemagne, Henry René d', 1863-1950.
Type: Print
Description:Photographic reproductions on cream paper of toile fabric designs from the 18th and 19th century, originally produced from copper engravings. Many examples of toile de Jouy and calico.
Description of image, place of manufacture and collection where the original example was held is bottom center of each plate. Plate number is the top vertical right corner of each plate.
Du deuxieme volume, table des planches. Sujets a dêcor floral (1-26) -- Fleurs et oiseax (27-38) -- Bandes florales (39-65) -- Scènes pastorales et villageoises (66-83) -- Monuments (84-96) -- Sujets religieux (97-100) -- Sujets antiques et mythologiques (101-125) Sujets historiques (126-147) -- Sujets de chasse (148-156) -- Scènes poétiques et dramatiques (157-172) -- Scènes chinoises (173-182) -- Jeux et sports (183-191) -- Époque Napoléonienne (192-206) -- Toiles de l'inde et voiles de gênes (207-236)
Extent: 1 print
La toile imprimée et les indiennes de traïte [PL. 187: La Route De Poissy, D'apres Carle Vernet] (3.28976)
Date: 1942Creator: Allemagne, Henry René d', 1863-1950.
Type: Print
Description:Photographic reproductions on cream paper of toile fabric designs from the 18th and 19th century, originally produced from copper engravings. Many examples of toile de Jouy and calico.
Description of image, place of manufacture and collection where the original example was held is bottom center of each plate. Plate number is the top vertical right corner of each plate.
Du deuxieme volume, table des planches. Sujets a dêcor floral (1-26) -- Fleurs et oiseax (27-38) -- Bandes florales (39-65) -- Scènes pastorales et villageoises (66-83) -- Monuments (84-96) -- Sujets religieux (97-100) -- Sujets antiques et mythologiques (101-125) Sujets historiques (126-147) -- Sujets de chasse (148-156) -- Scènes poétiques et dramatiques (157-172) -- Scènes chinoises (173-182) -- Jeux et sports (183-191) -- Époque Napoléonienne (192-206) -- Toiles de l'inde et voiles de gênes (207-236)
Extent: 1 print
La toile imprimée et les indiennes de traïte [PL. 202: Le Tombeau De Napoleon Ier] (3.28990)
Date: 1942Creator: Allemagne, Henry René d', 1863-1950.
Type: Print
Description:Photographic reproductions on cream paper of toile fabric designs from the 18th and 19th century, originally produced from copper engravings. Many examples of toile de Jouy and calico.
Description of image, place of manufacture and collection where the original example was held is bottom center of each plate. Plate number is the top vertical right corner of each plate.
Du deuxieme volume, table des planches. Sujets a dêcor floral (1-26) -- Fleurs et oiseax (27-38) -- Bandes florales (39-65) -- Scènes pastorales et villageoises (66-83) -- Monuments (84-96) -- Sujets religieux (97-100) -- Sujets antiques et mythologiques (101-125) Sujets historiques (126-147) -- Sujets de chasse (148-156) -- Scènes poétiques et dramatiques (157-172) -- Scènes chinoises (173-182) -- Jeux et sports (183-191) -- Époque Napoléonienne (192-206) -- Toiles de l'inde et voiles de gênes (207-236)
Extent: 1 print
La toile imprimée et les indiennes de traïte [PL. 18: Fruits Exotiques] (3.29005)
Date: 1942Creator: Allemagne, Henry René d', 1863-1950.
Type: Print
Description:Photographic reproductions on cream paper of toile fabric designs from the 18th and 19th century, originally produced from copper engravings. Many examples of toile de Jouy and calico.
Description of image, place of manufacture and collection where the original example was held is bottom center of each plate. Plate number is the top vertical right corner of each plate.
Du deuxieme volume, table des planches. Sujets a dêcor floral (1-26) -- Fleurs et oiseax (27-38) -- Bandes florales (39-65) -- Scènes pastorales et villageoises (66-83) -- Monuments (84-96) -- Sujets religieux (97-100) -- Sujets antiques et mythologiques (101-125) Sujets historiques (126-147) -- Sujets de chasse (148-156) -- Scènes poétiques et dramatiques (157-172) -- Scènes chinoises (173-182) -- Jeux et sports (183-191) -- Époque Napoléonienne (192-206) -- Toiles de l'inde et voiles de gênes (207-236)
Extent: 1 print
La toile imprimée et les indiennes de traïte [PL. 75: Les Occupations Villageoises] (3.29034)
Date: 1942Creator: Allemagne, Henry René d', 1863-1950.
Type: Print
Description:Photographic reproductions on cream paper of toile fabric designs from the 18th and 19th century, originally produced from copper engravings. Many examples of toile de Jouy and calico.
Description of image, place of manufacture and collection where the original example was held is bottom center of each plate. Plate number is the top vertical right corner of each plate.
Du deuxieme volume, table des planches. Sujets a dêcor floral (1-26) -- Fleurs et oiseax (27-38) -- Bandes florales (39-65) -- Scènes pastorales et villageoises (66-83) -- Monuments (84-96) -- Sujets religieux (97-100) -- Sujets antiques et mythologiques (101-125) Sujets historiques (126-147) -- Sujets de chasse (148-156) -- Scènes poétiques et dramatiques (157-172) -- Scènes chinoises (173-182) -- Jeux et sports (183-191) -- Époque Napoléonienne (192-206) -- Toiles de l'inde et voiles de gênes (207-236)
Extent: 1 print
La toile imprimée et les indiennes de traïte [PL. 92: L'Exposition Universelle De 1889] (3.29049)
Date: 1942Creator: Allemagne, Henry René d', 1863-1950.
Type: Print
Description:Photographic reproductions on cream paper of toile fabric designs from the 18th and 19th century, originally produced from copper engravings. Many examples of toile de Jouy and calico.
Description of image, place of manufacture and collection where the original example was held is bottom center of each plate. Plate number is the top vertical right corner of each plate.
Du deuxieme volume, table des planches. Sujets a dêcor floral (1-26) -- Fleurs et oiseax (27-38) -- Bandes florales (39-65) -- Scènes pastorales et villageoises (66-83) -- Monuments (84-96) -- Sujets religieux (97-100) -- Sujets antiques et mythologiques (101-125) Sujets historiques (126-147) -- Sujets de chasse (148-156) -- Scènes poétiques et dramatiques (157-172) -- Scènes chinoises (173-182) -- Jeux et sports (183-191) -- Époque Napoléonienne (192-206) -- Toiles de l'inde et voiles de gênes (207-236)
Extent: 1 print
La toile imprimée et les indiennes de traïte [PL. 111: Les Sciences Et Les Arts} (3.29065)
Date: 1942Creator: Allemagne, Henry René d', 1863-1950.
Type: Print
Description:Photographic reproductions on cream paper of toile fabric designs from the 18th and 19th century, originally produced from copper engravings. Many examples of toile de Jouy and calico.
Description of image, place of manufacture and collection where the original example was held is bottom center of each plate. Plate number is the top vertical right corner of each plate.
Du deuxieme volume, table des planches. Sujets a dêcor floral (1-26) -- Fleurs et oiseax (27-38) -- Bandes florales (39-65) -- Scènes pastorales et villageoises (66-83) -- Monuments (84-96) -- Sujets religieux (97-100) -- Sujets antiques et mythologiques (101-125) Sujets historiques (126-147) -- Sujets de chasse (148-156) -- Scènes poétiques et dramatiques (157-172) -- Scènes chinoises (173-182) -- Jeux et sports (183-191) -- Époque Napoléonienne (192-206) -- Toiles de l'inde et voiles de gênes (207-236)
Extent: 1 print
La toile imprimée et les indiennes de traïte [PL. 128: Hommage De Deputes De Nantes A Louis XVI] (3.29081)
Date: 1942Creator: Allemagne, Henry René d', 1863-1950.
Type: Print
Description:Photographic reproductions on cream paper of toile fabric designs from the 18th and 19th century, originally produced from copper engravings. Many examples of toile de Jouy and calico.
Description of image, place of manufacture and collection where the original example was held is bottom center of each plate. Plate number is the top vertical right corner of each plate.
Du deuxieme volume, table des planches. Sujets a dêcor floral (1-26) -- Fleurs et oiseax (27-38) -- Bandes florales (39-65) -- Scènes pastorales et villageoises (66-83) -- Monuments (84-96) -- Sujets religieux (97-100) -- Sujets antiques et mythologiques (101-125) Sujets historiques (126-147) -- Sujets de chasse (148-156) -- Scènes poétiques et dramatiques (157-172) -- Scènes chinoises (173-182) -- Jeux et sports (183-191) -- Époque Napoléonienne (192-206) -- Toiles de l'inde et voiles de gênes (207-236)
Extent: 1 print
La toile imprimée et les indiennes de traïte [PL. 144: L'Hommage De L'Amerique A La France] (3.29097)
Date: 1942Creator: Allemagne, Henry René d', 1863-1950.
Type: Print
Description:Photographic reproductions on cream paper of toile fabric designs from the 18th and 19th century, originally produced from copper engravings. Many examples of toile de Jouy and calico.
Description of image, place of manufacture and collection where the original example was held is bottom center of each plate. Plate number is the top vertical right corner of each plate.
Du deuxieme volume, table des planches. Sujets a dêcor floral (1-26) -- Fleurs et oiseax (27-38) -- Bandes florales (39-65) -- Scènes pastorales et villageoises (66-83) -- Monuments (84-96) -- Sujets religieux (97-100) -- Sujets antiques et mythologiques (101-125) Sujets historiques (126-147) -- Sujets de chasse (148-156) -- Scènes poétiques et dramatiques (157-172) -- Scènes chinoises (173-182) -- Jeux et sports (183-191) -- Époque Napoléonienne (192-206) -- Toiles de l'inde et voiles de gênes (207-236)
Extent: 1 print
La toile imprimée et les indiennes de traïte [PL. 215: Panneau En Toile De L'Inde A Decor Central Rayonnant] (3.29113)
Date: 1942Creator: Allemagne, Henry René d', 1863-1950.
Type: Print
Description:Photographic reproductions on cream paper of toile fabric designs from the 18th and 19th century, originally produced from copper engravings. Many examples of toile de Jouy and calico.
Description of image, place of manufacture and collection where the original example was held is bottom center of each plate. Plate number is the top vertical right corner of each plate.
Du deuxieme volume, table des planches. Sujets a dêcor floral (1-26) -- Fleurs et oiseax (27-38) -- Bandes florales (39-65) -- Scènes pastorales et villageoises (66-83) -- Monuments (84-96) -- Sujets religieux (97-100) -- Sujets antiques et mythologiques (101-125) Sujets historiques (126-147) -- Sujets de chasse (148-156) -- Scènes poétiques et dramatiques (157-172) -- Scènes chinoises (173-182) -- Jeux et sports (183-191) -- Époque Napoléonienne (192-206) -- Toiles de l'inde et voiles de gênes (207-236)
Extent: 1 print
La toile imprimée et les indiennes de traïte [PL. 231: Della Nave] (3.29129)
Date: 1942Creator: Allemagne, Henry René d', 1863-1950.
Type: Print
Description:Photographic reproductions on cream paper of toile fabric designs from the 18th and 19th century, originally produced from copper engravings. Many examples of toile de Jouy and calico.
Description of image, place of manufacture and collection where the original example was held is bottom center of each plate. Plate number is the top vertical right corner of each plate.
Du deuxieme volume, table des planches. Sujets a dêcor floral (1-26) -- Fleurs et oiseax (27-38) -- Bandes florales (39-65) -- Scènes pastorales et villageoises (66-83) -- Monuments (84-96) -- Sujets religieux (97-100) -- Sujets antiques et mythologiques (101-125) Sujets historiques (126-147) -- Sujets de chasse (148-156) -- Scènes poétiques et dramatiques (157-172) -- Scènes chinoises (173-182) -- Jeux et sports (183-191) -- Époque Napoléonienne (192-206) -- Toiles de l'inde et voiles de gênes (207-236)
Extent: 1 print
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.
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
Bulletin of Popular Information V. 15 No. 04 (3.32422)
Date: April 1940Creator: Kammerer, E. Lowell
Type: Serial
Description:
- Spring Plant Accessions
Extent: 6 pages
Bulletin of Popular Information V. 16 No. 07 (3.32438)
Date: July 1941Creator: Kammerer, E. Lowell
Type: Serial
Description:
- Old Roses
Extent: 6 pages
Bulletin of Popular Information V. 17 No. 11 (3.32454)
Date: November 1942Creator: Kammerer, E. Lowell
Type: Serial
Description:
- Persimmon, Pawpaw And Sourwood
Extent: 4 pages
Bulletin of Popular Information V. 19 No. 03 (3.32470)
Date: March 1944Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Serial
Description:
- The Flowers Nobody Knows
Extent: 4 pages
Bulletin of Popular Information V. 20 No. 11-12 (3.32486)
Date: November – December 1945Creator: Kammerer, E. Lowell
Type: Serial
Description:
- Planting Interest Need Not Wane In Winter
Extent: 8 pages
Bulletin of Popular Information V. 22 No. 04 (3.32503)
Date: April 1947Creator: Kammerer, E. Lowell
Type: Serial
Description:
- Hints On Establishing Finicky Plants
Extent: 6 pages
Bulletin of Popular Information V. 23 No. 08 (3.32519)
Date: August 1948Creator: Kammerer, E. Lowell
Type: Serial
Description:
- Woody Plants Of Distinction - Some Old, Some New
Extent: 4 pages
Bulletin of Popular Information V. 24 No. 12 (3.32535)
Date: December 1949Creator: Kammerer, E. Lowell
Type: Serial
Description:
- Woody Plants Tolerant Of City Conditions 2
Extent: 6 pages
Lookout along Ridge Road above Geographic Groups (3.32762)
Date: 1922 – 1949Type: Photographic image
Description:Lookout along Ridge Road above Geographic Groups, Rogers Farm in the distance
Extent: 1 negative
Meadow Road along wooded area (3.32777)
Date: 1930 – 1949Type: Photographic image
Description:Meadow Road along wooded area
Extent: 1 negative
Forest Road with snow-covered trees (3.33205)
Date: 1930 – 1949Type: Photographic image
Description:Forest Road with snow-covered trees
Near original Jake Mey land
Extent: 1 negative
Trail through woods, east side (3.33484)
Date: 1930 – 1949Type: Photographic image
Description:Trail through woods, east side
Dense shade along path
Extent: 1 negative