Four Plants Whose Relatives Are In Eastern Asia (3.19474)

Date: 1940s
Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustrations of leaves of four types of plants, including two with flowers.

Upper left text: Four plants whose relatives are in eastern Asia

Plants depicted, from left to right:

• tulip tree
• sweet gum
• Jeffersonia
• May apple

Extent: 1 sheet

Winter Buds, #3 (3.19513)

Date: 1940 – 1950
Creator: 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

Tree of the month art reproductions [graphic] / Nancy H. Stieber. (3.24012)

Date: 1997
Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 15 prints : art reproductions, b&w 59 x 45 cm. 28 x 22 cm. 22 x 28 cm.

Tree of the month art reproductions [graphic] / Nancy H. Stieber. (3.24013)

Date: 1997
Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 15 prints : art reproductions, b&w 59 x 45 cm. 28 x 22 cm. 22 x 28 cm.

Tree of the month art reproductions [graphic] / Nancy H. Stieber. (3.24014)

Date: 1997
Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 15 prints : art reproductions, b&w 59 x 45 cm. 28 x 22 cm. 22 x 28 cm.

Tree of the month art reproductions [graphic] / Nancy H. Stieber. (3.24015)

Date: 1997
Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 15 prints : art reproductions, b&w 59 x 45 cm. 28 x 22 cm. 22 x 28 cm.

Tree of the month art reproductions [graphic] / Nancy H. Stieber. (3.24016)

Date: 1997
Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 15 prints : art reproductions, b&w 59 x 45 cm. 28 x 22 cm. 22 x 28 cm.

Tree of the month art reproductions [graphic] / Nancy H. Stieber. (3.24017)

Date: 1997
Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 15 prints : art reproductions, b&w 59 x 45 cm. 28 x 22 cm. 22 x 28 cm.

Tree of the month art reproductions [graphic] / Nancy H. Stieber. (3.24023)

Date: 1997
Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 15 prints : art reproductions, b&w 59 x 45 cm. 28 x 22 cm. 22 x 28 cm.

Tree of the month art reproductions [graphic] / Nancy H. Stieber. (3.24024)

Date: 1997
Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 15 prints : art reproductions, b&w 59 x 45 cm. 28 x 22 cm. 22 x 28 cm.

Tree of the month art reproductions [graphic] / Nancy H. Stieber. (3.24025)

Date: 1997
Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 15 prints : art reproductions, b&w 59 x 45 cm. 28 x 22 cm. 22 x 28 cm.

Tree of the month art reproductions [graphic] / Nancy H. Stieber. (3.24026)

Date: 1997
Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 15 prints : art reproductions, b&w 59 x 45 cm. 28 x 22 cm. 22 x 28 cm.

Tree of the month art reproductions [graphic] / Nancy H. Stieber. (3.24027)

Date: 1997
Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 15 prints : art reproductions, b&w 59 x 45 cm. 28 x 22 cm. 22 x 28 cm.

Tree of the month art reproductions [graphic] / Nancy H. Stieber. (3.24028)

Date: 1997
Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 15 prints : art reproductions, b&w 59 x 45 cm. 28 x 22 cm. 22 x 28 cm.

Tree of the month art reproductions [graphic] / Nancy H. Stieber. (3.24029)

Date: 1997
Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 15 prints : art reproductions, b&w 59 x 45 cm. 28 x 22 cm. 22 x 28 cm.

Tree of the month art reproductions [graphic] / Nancy H. Stieber. (3.24030)

Date: 1997
Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 15 prints : art reproductions, b&w 59 x 45 cm. 28 x 22 cm. 22 x 28 cm.

Tree of the month art reproductions [graphic] / Nancy H. Stieber. (3.24031)

Date: 1997
Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 15 prints : art reproductions, b&w 59 x 45 cm. 28 x 22 cm. 22 x 28 cm.

Liriodendron tulipifera = [graphic] tulip tree / Nancy S. Hart. (3.24289)

Date: 1989
Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 1 drawing : pen and ink, b&w image 30 x 45 cm., on board 48 x 65 cm.

Tulip tree = [graphic] Liriodendron tulipifera / NSH Stieber. (3.24414)

Date: 1997
Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 1 drawing : pen and ink, b&w image 29 x 28 cm., on board 44 x 30 cm.

Liriodendron tulipifera [graphic] / A. Tyznik. (3.24583)

Date: 1970
Creator: Tyznik, Anthony
Type: Drawing
Extent: 1 drawing : pen and ink, b&w 39 x 31 cm.

Winter Twigs, page 1 (3.24627)

Date: 1943
Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Page 1 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.  Illustrations include those with distinctive leaf scars, buds, and pith. Original identifying text has detached.

Illustrations are divided into three sections, depicted from top to bottom, left to right:

1) [Original text] SOME HAVE DISTINCTIVE LEAF SCARS

• Black walnut
• Butternut
• Catalpa
• Maple
• Sycamore
• Sumac
• Ash

2) [Orignial text] SOME HAVE DISTINCTIVE BUDS

• Flowering dogwood
• Beech
• Willow
• Oak
• Linden
• Alder
• Tulip [tree] 

3) [Orignial text] SOME HAVE DISTINCTIVE PITH

• Black walnut
• Butternut
• Hackberry
• Tulip [tree]
• Kentucky coffee tree
• Oak
• Alder

Extent: 1 sheet

Winter Twigs, page 3 (3.24632)

Date: 1943
Creator: 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 

2) TREES WITH THORN-LIKE TWIGS

• Wild crab -- Malus ioensis [and] Malus coronaria
• Wild plum : Prunus americana [and] Prunus nigra

3) TREES WITH KNOB-LIKE TWIGS

• European larch -- Larix decidua
• Tamarack -- Larix laricina 
• Ginkgo -- Ginkgo biloba 

4) TREES WITH CLUSTERED TERMINAL BUDS

• 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

5) TREES WITH LINE (Stipule Scar) ENCIRCLING TWIG AT EACH NODE

• Tulip [tree] -- Liriodendron tulipifera
• Sycamore -- Platanus occidentalis

6) THICK TWIGS WITH THICK PITH 

• Kentucky coffee tree -- Gymnocladus dioicus
• Tree of heaven -- Ailanthus altissima
• Staghorn sumac -- Rhus typhina  
• Smooth sumac -- Rhus glabra

7) BUDS WITH A SINGLE SCALE 

• Willow -- Salix

Extent: 1 sheet

Landscape with Houses and Trees (3.24647)

Date: 20th century
Creator: 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

Baltimore oriole = [graphic] Icterus baltimore. Daud. / drawn from nature by J.J. Audubon chromolithy. by J. Bien. (3.24927)

Date: 1860
Creator: Audubon, John James, 1785-1851.
Type: Print
Extent: 1 print : chromolithograph 100 x 68 cm.

Baltimore oriole = [graphic] Icterus baltimore. Daud. / drawn from nature by J.J. Audubon Engraved, printed, & coloured by R. Havell. (3.24928)

Date: 1830s
Creator: Audubon, John James, 1785-1851.
Type: Print
Extent: 1 print : engraving, hand-colored plate mark 66 x 53 cm. on sheet 97 x 65 cm.

Liriodendron tulipfera [graphic] / Brender à Brandis. (3.25294)

Date: 2000
Creator: Brender à Brandis, Gerard William
Type: Print
Extent: 1 print : wood engraving, b&w image 11 x 9 cm., on sheet 21 x 16 cm.

Liriodendrum foliis angulatis truncatis [graphic]. (3.25377)

Date: 1750 – 1773
Creator: Ehret, Georg Dionysius, 1708-1770.
Type: Print
Extent: 1 print : black line engraving, hand-colored plate mark 43 x 28 cm., on sheet 54 x 38 cm.

Leaf Prints: Tulip-tree (3.27743)

Date: circa 1950
Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Print
Description:A white negative nature print of tulip-tree leaves, stems, flowers, and fruit on a dark background with identifying text at bottom right handwritten by May T. Watts.

Identifying text:

• Tulip tree
• Liriodendron tulipifera

Extent: 1 sheet

Tulips (3.31476)

Date: 19th century
Type: Painting
Extent: 1 painting : watercolor and graphite 24 x 19 cm.

Tree Portraits: Tulip-tree (3.31830)

Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Painting
Description:Color silhouette of a tulip-tree, including a nature print outline of a leaf and a drawing of flower. Tape adhered to bottom left corner indicates assigned letter.

Descriptive text in bottom left:

• h

Extent: 1 sheet

Trees Native To North America But Not To This Region That Can Be Grown Here (3.33821)

Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:A large illustration depicting a bird's-eye view of three sets of houses and yards with different types of trees growing in each. The trees are drawn in silhouette.

Header: 

• TREES NATIVE TO NORTH AMERICAN BUT NOT TO THIS REGION / THAT CAN BE GROWN HERE

Types of trees depicted:

arborvitae  -- Osage-orange -- black locust -- hemlock -- gray birch -- Jeffrey pine -- flowering dogwood -- redbud -- tulip-tree -- pitch pine -- mountain-ash -- persimmon -- pawpaw -- red mulberry -- douglas-fir -- white spruce -- red-cedar -- [concolor] white fir -- balsam fir -- [Colorado] blue spruce -- jack pine -- paper birch -- magnolia -- white pine -- red pine -- beech -- limber pine -- ponderosa pine -- sycamore -- catalpa -- Ohio buckeye -- Pin oak
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

Exhibits: Beall Woods trees, detailed bark and leaves (3.34252)

Type: Photographic image
Description:An exhibit board created by Elizabeth Zimmerman for The Morton Arboretum, depicting detailed drawings of the leaves, bark, and a flower found on trees in Beall Woods.

Labels:

• Hackberry
• Tulip - / "Yellow Poplar"
• Sugarberry
• Dogwood
• Sour Gum -
• Sweet / Gum -

Extent: 1 slide

Leaf casts (3.34284)

Type: Photographic image
Description:Three decorative plaster casts of leaves created by May T. Watts for The Morton Arboretum. The casts on the left and right are unidentified, while the cast in the center depicts a leaf from a tulip tree, labeled as follows:

• TULIP TREE
• LIRIODENDRON TULIPIFERA 

Extent: 1 slide

Uses of Wood Exhibit (3.34367)

Date: September 4 1974
Creator: Stickney, William S.
Type: Photographic image
Description:An exhibit featuring wood from 18 different trees and its uses. The display is configured in four concentric circles centered around a spinning cross: the inner circle depicts tree silhouettes, the next circle depicts detailed images of leaves, the third consists of square panels of processed wood, and the outer circle consists of dioramas depicting how each type of wood is used.

The cross is labeled as follows:

• TREE SHAPE
• LEAF [red arrow]
• WOOD
• USES

The text at the top right of the exhibit is a follows:

• TURN THE RED ARROW TO A LEAF / THE OTHER ARMS WILL POINT TO: / the shape of the tree / a piece of wood from the tree / some uses for the wood

The following leaves are labeled, clockwise from the top:

• WHITE ASH
• ARBOR VITAE
• WHITE SPRUCE
• SWEET GUM
• SUGAR MAPLE
• AMERICAN LINDEN
• CHERRY
• TULIP TREE
• BALD CYPRESS
• IRONWOOD
• WHITE PINE
• BLACK WALNUT
• AMERICAN ELM
• SHAGBARK HICKORY
• WHITE OAK
• RED OAK
• EASTERN HEMLOCK
• PONDEROSA PINE

Extent: 1 slide

Uses of Wood Exhibit: Tulip-tree (3.34387)

Date: September 4 1974
Creator: Stickney, William S.
Type: Photographic image
Description:A diorama from the Uses of Wood exhibit, depicting an example of how tulip-tree wood is used in items such as barrels and crates.
Extent: 1 slide