Abies concolor = [graphic] white fir / Nancy S. Hart. (3.24268)
Date: 1974Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 1 drawing : pen and ink, b&w image 29 x 45 cm., on board 46 x 68 cm.
Nordmann fir = [graphic] Abies nordmanniana / N.H. Stieber. (3.24422)
Date: 1996Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 1 drawing : pen and ink, b&w 44 x 36 cm.
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
Evergreen Nature Trail Guide, page 3 illustrations and layout (3.24677)
Date: 1940sCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Original illustrations and layout for page 3, excluding text, for The Morton Arboretum Evergreen Nature Trail Guide booklet. Key lines included.
Illustrated stumps with numbers indicate points of interest along trail as seen on trail map.
Tree stump #1: The Ancestry of Evergreens
Tree stump #2: Firs and Spruces
Identifying characteristics for needles and cones illustrated in columns below.
No preliminary sketches available for page 3.
Extent: 1 sheet
Great-crested flycatcher = [graphic] Muscicapa crinita Linn. Olive-sided flycatcher = Muscicapa cooper / drawn from nature by J.J. Audubon chromolithy. by J. Bien. (3.24976)
Date: 1860Creator: Audubon, John James, 1785-1851.
Type: Print
Extent: 1 print : chromolithograph 68 x 100 cm.
White (single) spruce = [graphic] Abies alba / Bessa delt. Bocquet Sct. (3.25072)
Date: 1810Creator: Bessa, Pancrace, 1772-approximately 1835.
Type: Print
Extent: 1 print : engraving, hand-colored plate mark 23 x 15 cm., on sheet 28 x 19 cm.
Fir trees [graphic] / Clare Leighton. (3.26518)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Leighton, Clare, 1898-1989.
Type: Print
Extent: 1 print : wood engraving, b&w block mark 13 x 6 cm. on sheet 17 x 9 cm.
Trees of Britain and Northern Europe : Conifers / Ian Garrard. (3.30234)
Creator: Garrard, Ian.
Type: Painting
Extent: 1 print : commerical reproduction, color 77 x 51 cm.
Education charts: Rocky Mountains (3.34201)
Type: Photographic image
Description:An educational chart created by May T. Watts for The Morton Arboretum, depicting a Rocky Mountain association. A detailed illustration of a single tree leaf is positioned at the center of the chart, surrounded by four vingnettes showing additional flora and fauna found within the ecological community.
Header: ROCKY MOUNTAINS
Labels from top to bottom, left to right:
- Colorado columbine
- mountain bluebird
- --- ---
- cony
- alpine fir / Engelmann spruce
Extent: 1 slide
Abies Mill. (fir), needles, branch (3.81503)
Date: February 1969Type: Photographic image
Description:Abies Mill. (fir), green white-grey needles, branched out tip, brown cone tips, brown stem
Extent: 1 slide
Tsuga sp., needles (left), Abies sp., needles (bottom), Picea sp., needles (right) (3.81504)
Date: February 1969Type: Photographic image
Description:Tsuga sp. (left), green-grey pointed needles, straight light brown branch; Abies sp. (bottom), green-grey blunt tip needles, trio branch out tip, small brown pine cones on tips; Picea sp. (right), green-grey blunt tip needles, straight dark brown branch
Extent: 1 slide
Abies sp. (fir), needles (3.81506)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Abies sp. (fir), needle-like leaves attached to twig with suction-like attachment.
Extent: 1 slide
Abies sp. (fir), branch tip, needles (3.81508)
Date: February 1969Type: Photographic image
Description:Abies sp. (fir), branch tip, suction-like attachment of needle-like leaves to twig.
Extent: 1 slide