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
Carya ovata [graphic] / A. Tyznik. (3.24597)
Date: 1977Creator: Tyznik, Anthony
Type: Drawing
Extent: 1 drawing : pen and ink, b&w 39 x 31 cm.
Trees with Staminate Flowers, Only, in Catkins (3.24610)
Date: 1944Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustrations depicting pistillate and staminate flowers, staminate catkins, fruits, and associated outline of four trees, created to accompany "The Flowers Nobody Knows" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information. Descriptive text identifies coloring, anatomy, and bloom time.
Header: Trees with Staminate Flowers, Only, in Catkins
(depicted from left to right, top to bottom)
- Black walnut -- Juglans nigra
- Shagbark hickory -- Carya ovata
- White oak -- Quercus alba
- Ginkgo -- Ginkgo biloba
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
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
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
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: Shagbark Hickory 2 (3.31895)
Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Painting
Description:Color silhouette of a shagbark hickory tree, including a nature print outline of leaves.
Extent: 1 sheet
Trees Native To This Region (3.33823)
Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:A large illustration depicting a cross-section of hill with several types of trees growing down its slope. The trees are drawn in silhouette and are grouped into four categories based on location. Each tree is also accompanied by a line of color across the top indicating the color of its leaves in Fall as well as an outline of its leaf below.
Header:
- TREES NATIVE TO THIS REGION
- THE COLOR LINE OVER EACH TREE / INDICATES ITS CHARACTERISTIC / FALL COLORING. NATIVE TREES / GIVE US THE BEST COLOR
- TREES OF OUR UPLANDS
- witch-hazel -- white oak -- red oak -- Hill's oak -- sugar maple -- ironwood -- shadbush -- shagbark hickory -- black cherry -- blue ash -- bur oak -- white ash -- linden
- TREES of the EDGE of the FOREST
- aspen -- sumac -- choke cherry -- wild crabapple -- hawthorn -- wild plum
- TREES of our LOWLANDS
- black ash -- slippery elm -- American elm -- walnut -- hackberry -- cottonwood -- black willow -- silver maple
- TREES of our SWAMPS
- [sour gum] tupelo -- yellow birch -- tamarack -- red maple -- poison sumac
Extent: 1 sheet
Education charts: Twigs, #1 (3.34235)
Type: Photographic image
Description:An educational chart created by May T. Watts for The Morton Arboretum, depicting 12 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:
- bitternut hickory
- witch-hazel
- shadbush
- beech
- black walnut
- butternut
- sassafras
- shagbark hickory
- linden
- mountain ash
- sour gum
- silver poplar
Extent: 1 slide
Exhibits: Beall Woods trees, Shellbark Hickory and Pecan (3.34253)
Type: Photographic image
Description:An exhibit board created by Elizabeth Zimmerman for The Morton Arboretum, depicting detailed drawings of the trunks, leaves, stems, and fruit found on trees in Beall Woods.
Labels:
- Shellbark / Hickory -
- Pecan
Extent: 1 slide
Uses of Wood Exhibit (3.34367)
Date: September 4 1974Creator: 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
- 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
- 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: Shagbark Hickory (3.34372)
Date: September 4 1974Creator: Stickney, William S.
Type: Photographic image
Description:A diorama from the Uses of Wood exhibit, depicting an example of how shagbark hickory wood is used in an axe handle.
Extent: 1 slide
The Morton Arboretum Quarterly V. 04 No. 04 (3.34565)
Date: December 21 1968 – March 20 1969Type: Serial
Description:
- The Arboretum Landscape – A Sesquicentennial Perspective (49-61)
- Blue Beech, Carpinus caroliniana: Birch Family (Betulaceae) (62-63)
- The Lookout/ Climatological Summary (64)
Extent: 16 pages
Carya ovata (shagbark hickory), view from beyond path (3.37762)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Carya ovata (shagbark hickory), view from beyond path
Extent: 1 negative
Carya ovata (Shagbark Hickory), bark, branch (3.61845)
Date: May 17 2012Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Carya ovata (Shagbark Hickory), bark, branch
Carya ovata (Shagbark Hickory), bark, trunk (3.61846)
Date: May 9 2015Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Carya ovata (Shagbark Hickory), bark, trunk
Carya ovata (Shagbark Hickory), bark, trunk (3.61847)
Date: September 15 2007Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Carya ovata (Shagbark Hickory), bark, trunk
Carya ovata (Shagbark Hickory), bark, trunk (3.61848)
Date: September 27 2007Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Carya ovata (Shagbark Hickory), bark, trunk
Carya ovata (Shagbark Hickory), bark, trunk (3.61849)
Date: September 29 2007Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Carya ovata (Shagbark Hickory), bark, trunk
Carya ovata (Shagbark Hickory), bark, trunk (3.61850)
Date: July 29 2008Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Carya ovata (Shagbark Hickory), bark, trunk
Carya ovata (Shagbark Hickory), bark, trunk (3.61851)
Date: July 29 2008Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Carya ovata (Shagbark Hickory), bark, trunk
Carya ovata (Shagbark Hickory), bark, trunk (3.61852)
Date: October 29 2008Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Carya ovata (Shagbark Hickory), bark, trunk
Carya ovata (Shagbark Hickory), bark, twig, bud, lateral (3.61853)
Date: May 17 2012Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Carya ovata (Shagbark Hickory), bark, twig, bud, lateral
Carya ovata (Shagbark Hickory), bud, lateral (3.61854)
Date: September 12 2009Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Carya ovata (Shagbark Hickory), bud, lateral
Carya ovata (Shagbark Hickory), bud, lateral (3.61855)
Date: May 17 2012Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Carya ovata (Shagbark Hickory), bud, lateral
Carya ovata (Shagbark Hickory), bud, terminal (3.61856)
Date: September 12 2009Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Carya ovata (Shagbark Hickory), bud, terminal
Carya ovata (Shagbark Hickory), bud, terminal (3.61857)
Date: October 5 2008Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Carya ovata (Shagbark Hickory), bud, terminal
Carya ovata (Shagbark Hickory), bud, terminal (3.61858)
Date: July 1 2009Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Carya ovata (Shagbark Hickory), bud, terminal
Carya ovata (Shagbark Hickory), bud, terminal (3.61859)
Date: February 17 2009Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Carya ovata (Shagbark Hickory), bud, terminal
Carya ovata (Shagbark Hickory), bud, terminal (3.61860)
Date: September 23 2009Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Carya ovata (Shagbark Hickory), bud, terminal
Carya ovata (Shagbark Hickory), bud, terminal (3.61861)
Date: October 29 2008Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Carya ovata (Shagbark Hickory), bud, terminal
Carya ovata (Shagbark Hickory), bud, terminal (3.61862)
Date: October 29 2008Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Carya ovata (Shagbark Hickory), bud, terminal
Carya ovata (Shagbark Hickory), bud, terminal (3.61863)
Date: October 29 2008Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Carya ovata (Shagbark Hickory), bud, terminal
Carya ovata (Shagbark Hickory), bud, terminal (3.61864)
Date: August 9 2017Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Carya ovata (Shagbark Hickory), bud, terminal
Carya ovata (Shagbark Hickory), fruit, immature (3.61865)
Date: August 9 2017Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Carya ovata (Shagbark Hickory), fruit, immature