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
Trees with Flowers Borne in Clusters (3.24608)
Date: 1944Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustrations depicting four groups of staminate and pistillate flowers with associated outline of six 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 Flowers Borne in Clusters
Illustrations are separated into four sections, from top to bottom:
Section 1: Pistillate and Staminate Flowers on Different Trees
(depicted from left to right)
- White ash -- Fraxinus americana
- Box-elder -- Acer negundo
(depicted from left to right)
- Sugar maple -- Acer saccharum
- Silver maple -- Acer saccharinum
- Sycamore -- Platanus occidentalis
- American elm -- Ulmus americana
Extent: 1 sheet
Winter Twigs, page 2 (3.24631)
Date: 1943Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Page 2 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 mostly missing.
Illustrations are divided into two sections, depicted from top to bottom, left to right:
1) [Original text] TREES WITH OPPOSITE BRANCHING
- White ash -- Fraxinus americana
- Black ash -- Fraxinus nigra
- Blue ash -- Fraxinus quadrangulata
- Red ash -- Fraxinus pennsylvanica
- Sugar maple -- Acer saccharum
- Norway maple -- Acer platanoides
- Red maple -- Acer rubrum
- Silver maple -- Acer saccharinum
- Box-elder -- Acer negundo
- Horse-chestnut -- Aesculus hippocastanum
- Ohio buckeye -- Aesculus glabra
- Flowering dogwood -- Cornus florida
- Catalpa -- Catalpa speciosa [and] Catalpa bignonioides
- Ironwood -- Ostrya virginiana
- Gray birch -- Betula populifolia
- [as a single illustration:]
- Yellow birch -- Betula lutea
- River birch -- Betula nigra
- Cherry birch -- Betula lenta
- Paper birch -- Betula papyrifera
- European white birch -- Betula pendula
- European alder -- Alnus glutinosa
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: 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
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: White ash (3.31859)
Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Painting
Description:Color silhouette of a white ash, or American ash, tree, including a nature print outline of a leaf. Tape adhered to bottom right corner indicates assigned letter.
Descriptive text in bottom right:
- S
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, #2 (3.34234)
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 display board in a classroom.
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 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: White Ash (3.34377)
Date: September 4 1974Creator: Stickney, William S.
Type: Photographic image
Description:A diorama from the Uses of Wood exhibit, depicting an example of how white ash wood is used in sports equipment, such as baseball bats.
Extent: 1 slide
Fraxinus americana (White Ash), bark, trunk (3.56112)
Date: July 29 2015Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Fraxinus americana (White Ash), bark, trunk
Fraxinus americana (White Ash), bark, trunk (3.56113)
Date: July 29 2015Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Fraxinus americana (White Ash), bark, trunk
Fraxinus americana (White Ash), bark, trunk (3.56114)
Date: March 10 2007Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Fraxinus americana (White Ash), bark, trunk
Fraxinus americana (White Ash), bark, trunk (3.56115)
Date: March 10 2007Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Fraxinus americana (White Ash), bark, trunk
Fraxinus americana (White Ash), bark, trunk (3.56116)
Date: March 10 2007Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Fraxinus americana (White Ash), bark, trunk
Fraxinus americana (White Ash), bark, trunk (3.56117)
Date: March 10 2007Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Fraxinus americana (White Ash), bark, trunk
Fraxinus americana (White Ash), bud, lateral (3.56118)
Date: October 28 2008Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Fraxinus americana (White Ash), bud, lateral
Fraxinus americana (White Ash), bud, lateral (3.56119)
Date: April 9 2009Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Fraxinus americana (White Ash), bud, lateral
Fraxinus americana (White Ash), bud, terminal (3.56120)
Date: October 28 2008Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Fraxinus americana (White Ash), bud, terminal
Fraxinus americana (White Ash), bud, terminal (3.56121)
Date: October 29 2008Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Fraxinus americana (White Ash), bud, terminal
Fraxinus americana (White Ash), bud, terminal (3.56122)
Date: October 29 2008Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Fraxinus americana (White Ash), bud, terminal
Fraxinus americana (White Ash), bud, terminal (3.56123)
Date: April 9 2009Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Fraxinus americana (White Ash), bud, terminal
Fraxinus americana (White Ash), habit, winter (3.56124)
Date: March 10 2007Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Fraxinus americana (White Ash), habit, winter
Fraxinus americana (White Ash), leaf, summer (3.56125)
Date: July 29 2015Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Fraxinus americana (White Ash), leaf, summer
Fraxinus americana (White Ash), leaf, upper surface (3.56126)
Date: July 29 2015Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Fraxinus americana (White Ash), leaf, upper surface
1991/10/04: George Ware to Suzanne Malec (3.56304)
Date: October 4 1991Creator: Ware, George
Type: Document
Description:Facsimile of an abstract and research paper sent to Suzanne Malec of the Open Land Project. The paper, Trees for Restricted Spaces was written by George Ware and discusses the genetic, topographic, and edaphic factors to take into consideration when selecting urban trees.
Extent: 8 sheets