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Arboretum Landscape Teaching Aid Series: An Apple Tree was Planted on a Farm (3.19499)
Date: 1940 – 1960Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Primarily textual teaching aid depicting Arboretum landscape. This material describes the remains of the farm that later became the Arboretum, including an apple tree that still stood at the time.
[Illustration of a farmer with a shovel standing next to a sapling] Header: AN APPLE TREE was planted on a farm, many years ago / The farm later became a part of the Arboretum
Text and illustrations from top to bottom:
- [Depicted in stylized scroll] The Record:
- 1) The old apple tree still stands, at the corner of Spring Road and Oakwood Drive.
- 2) Across the road from the apple tree is a bit of the old well curb.
- 3) Nearby, along Spring Road, is a spring, with a bit of cemented wall that was probably the base of the farmer's spring house. [illustration of a tree]
Extent: 1 sheet
Traffic at intersection of Oakwood Drive and Route 53 looking north (3.32063)
Date: 1940sType: Photographic image
Description:Traffic at intersection of Oakwood Drive and Route 53 looking north.
Extent: 1 photograph
Oakwood loop and cutoff with car approaching (3.33192)
Date: 1922 – 1949Type: Photographic image
Description:Oakwood loop and cutoff with car approaching
Extent: 1 negative
Oakwood loop looking east, man standing at curve (3.33193)
Date: 1930 – 1949Type: Photographic image
Description:Oakwood loop looking east, man standing at curve
Extent: 1 negative