Evergreen Nature Trail Guide, page 5 illustrations and layout with preliminary sketches (3.24679)
Date: 1940sCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Sheet One: Original illustrations and layout for page 5, 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 #7: White Fir
Includes generalized identifying characteristics of tree illustrated below with glued-on cutout of detailed needle illustration.
Tree stump #8: Douglas Fir
Includes generalized identifying characteristics of tree illustrated below.
Tree stump #9: Japanese Yew
Includes generalized identifying characteristics of tree with detailed needle and fruit images illustrated below.
Tree stump #10: False Cypress
Includes generalized identifying characteristics of tree with detailed needle and cone images illustrated below.
Several cutout illustrations depicting needle/cone characteristics originally adhered to board have detached and are no longer present. One detached cutout illustration of Douglas Fir needles housed with art.
Sheet Two: Preliminary sketch of green-colored illustrations.
Extent: 2 sheets, 1 cutout
The Stylish House: 1941 (3.34278)
Type: Photographic image
Description:A version of an illustration from Reading the Landscape, Chapter 13: "The Stylish House or Fashions as an Ecological Factor," depicting a home and its landscaped yard. This illustration shows the view of the house and yard during the mid-20th century.
Text and images from top to bottom, left to right:
- Don and Kay / and / Debby / and / Stockwell Stilwell Hamlet II / and Stockwell Stilwell Ophelia
- 1941 --- [sketch of a lamp with a potted plant]
- currants
- tuberous begonias
- ferns
- roses
- Japanese yew
- Japanese quince
- winter honeysuckle
- honey locusts
- winged Euonymus
- [sketches of two ornamental planters to the right of the illustration]
Extent: 1 slide
Taxus cuspidata (Japanese Yew), habit, winter (3.59798)
Date: February 5 2009Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Taxus cuspidata (Japanese Yew), habit, winter
Taxus cuspidata (Japanese Yew), leaf, mature (3.59799)
Date: February 5 2009Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Taxus cuspidata (Japanese Yew), leaf, mature
Taxus cuspidata (Japanese Yew), leaf, mature (3.59800)
Date: February 5 2009Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Taxus cuspidata (Japanese Yew), leaf, mature
Taxus cuspidata (Japanese Yew), leaf, mature (3.59801)
Date: February 5 2009Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Taxus cuspidata (Japanese Yew), leaf, mature