Some Ways of Wearing the Snow (3.24622)
Date: 1945Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Ten illustrations of evergreen trees, deciduous trees, and shrubs with snow clinging to them in different ways, created to accompany "They Wear The Snow With A Difference" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information. A descriptive label accompanies each image.
Header: SOME WAYS OF WEARING THE SNOW
Branches, needles, and leaves of trees and plants depicted, from left to right, top to bottom:
- White Pine
- Colorado Spruce
- Mugo pine
- Norway spruce
- Hemlock
- Bur oak
- Hawthorn
- Rhododendron
- High-bush cranberry
- Ninebark
Extent: 1 sheet
Evergreen Nature Trail Guide, page 12 illustrations and layout with preliminary sketches (3.24686)
Date: 1940sCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Sheet One: Original illustrations and layout for page 12, 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 #27:Pitch Pine
Includes illustrated identifying characteristics of needles.
Tree stump #28: Japanese Table Pine
Includes illustrated identifying characteristics of needles and of tree below.
Tree stump #29: Austrian Pine
Includes illustrated identifying characteristics of needles.
Tree stump #30: Mountain Pine
Includes illustrated identifying characteristics of needles and cone.
Several cutout illustrations depicting cone characteristics originally adhered to board have detached and are no longer present. One detached cutout illustration of Japanese Table Pine cone housed with art.
Sheet Two: Preliminary sketch of green-colored illustrations.
Extent: 2 sheets, 1 cutout
Wheatland Plowing Match marker (3.36273)
Type: Photographic image
Description:A portion of an historical marker dedicated to early settlers of Wheatland Township, Illinois, next to a mugo pine.
This image is part of a group of slides that belonged to May T. Watts, related to her book Reading the Landscape. A drawing of a similar marker can be found in Chapter 2 of the book: "Prairie Plowing Match or The Making and Breaking of the Tall Grass Sod."
Extent: 1 slide
Pinus mugo mugo (Mugo Pine), bark, branch (3.61139)
Date: March 17 2014Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Pinus mugo mugo (Mugo Pine), bark, branch
Pinus mugo mugo (Mugo Pine), bud, terminal (3.61140)
Date: March 17 2014Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Pinus mugo mugo (Mugo Pine), bud, terminal
Pinus mugo mugo (Mugo Pine), habit, winter (3.61141)
Date: March 17 2014Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Pinus mugo mugo (Mugo Pine), habit, winter
Pinus mugo mugo (Mugo Pine), leaf, winter (3.61142)
Date: March 17 2014Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Pinus mugo mugo (Mugo Pine), leaf, winter
Pinus mugo mugo (Mugo Pine), leaf, winter (3.61143)
Date: March 17 2014Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Pinus mugo mugo (Mugo Pine), leaf, winter
Pinus mugo (Mugo Pine), bark, mature (3.61148)
Date: August 10 2016Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Pinus mugo (Mugo Pine), bark, mature
Pinus mugo (Mugo Pine), habit, spring (3.61149)
Date: April 7 1999Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Pinus mugo (Mugo Pine), habit, spring
Pinus mugo (Mugo Pine), habit, summer (3.61150)
Date: August 10 2016Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Pinus mugo (Mugo Pine), habit, summer
Pinus mugo (Mugo Pine), leaf, summer (3.61151)
Date: August 10 2016Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Pinus mugo (Mugo Pine), leaf, summer