Pansy (3.24633)

Date: 20th century
Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustration of a large pansy flower and three detail views, including floral diagram, reverse of flower, and center, accompanied by descriptive text. Background sketches along the left side include a house, a heart, and a church, center bottom includes three women and two girls sitting in a circle drinking tea, and center right includes flowers and an elf. Sketches depict various pansy folklore.

Upper left text lists various names this flower goes by - herb trinity, pink of my John, heart's ease, step-mother, kit run in the street, kiss me at the garden gate, cuddle me to you, kiss me quick or PANSY

Top right floral diagram illustration identifies sepal, petal, stamen, pistil, nectar sac

Bottom left illustration (reverse of flower) identifies sepal, petal, nectar sac

Bottom right illustration identifies stigma, pistil and stamens, nectar sac
Extent: 1 sheet

Jeffersonia Diphylla (3.24637)

Date: 20th century
Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Large illustration of a Twinleaf plant with detailed views of seed pods, seed, stamen, and pistil details with identifying text. Background images include Monticello at center left, and silhouettes of two small scenes at top right, the top showing a man giving a lecture or speech with the word "Poter" or "Peter" partially erased, the bottom showing a man and a women planting or gardening.

Illustrations as depicted from left to right:

• 2 stamens, one closed, one opened
• 1 pistil
• 1 large illustration of Twinleaf with three sets of leaves and 1 flower
• 1 seed-pod closed
• 1 seed-pod open
• 1 seed

Text in banner across bottom center: JEFFERSONIA DIPHYLLA, Rheumatism Root, Twinleaf
Extent: 1 sheet

Owl Pellets Galore (3.24640)

Date: 20th century
Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Document
Description:Four pages of type-written text for Owl Pellets Galore by May Theilgaard Watts, an account detailing the process of searching for and examining long-eared owl pellets with Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts.

Accompanied by artwork titled Under the Roost of the Long-Eared Owls.
Extent: 4 sheets

Under the Roost of the Long-Eared Owls (3.24641)

Date: 20th century
Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Four illustrations depicting long-eared owls and their pellets. Captions accompany each individual illustration. The drawings illustrate the story OWL PELLETS GALORE  by May Theilgaard Watts, Naturalist at The Morton Arboretum. 

Upper left text: UNDER the ROOST of the LONG-EARED OWLS 

Illustrations with captions, from left to right, top to bottom:

• Drawing of an owl pellet
  • Caption: An owl pellet
• Drawing of forest floor, including rhododendron
  • Caption: When rhododendron leaves uncurl we find pellets.
• Drawing of rodent bone findings
  • Caption: Each pellet reveals parts of a small rodent.
• Drawing of two owls in a tree
  • Caption: They seem to grow taller as we approach.

 
Extent: 1 sheet

Three Seasons of Bloom in the Prairie (3.24642)

Date: 20th century
Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustration of 23 prairie plants shown in a chart formation categorized by Fall, Summer, and Spring from top to bottom, and from high prairie to low prairie from left to right. Identifying text appears beneath each illustration, some of which is on strip of board attached to the bottom with tape.

Header: THREE SEASONS of BLOOM in the PRAIRIE

Text, top right: the individual plants represent colonies of varying sizes

Plants as depicted from top to bottom, left to right:

• Fall
  • big bluestem
  • blazing star
  • Indian grass
  • wild rye
  • switch grass
  • saw-toothed sunflower
  • prairie dock
  • cord grass
• Summer
  • lead plant
  • New Jersey tea
  • flowering spurge
  • stiff goldenrod
  • black-eyed Susan
  • Culver's root
  • tall meadow rue
  • Sullivant's milkweed
• Spring:
  • bird's-foot violet
  • blue-eyed grass
  • puccoon
  • downy phlox
  • wild strawberry
  • Canada anemone
  • yellow star grass

Extent: 1 sheet

Landscape with Houses and Trees (3.24647)

Date: 20th century
Creator: 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

View of Thornhill (3.31060)

Date: 20th century
Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustration of view up the hill to the Thornhill Education Center at The Morton Arboretum, with bare trees and mushrooms in foreground, clouds and trees behind building in background, and an ink border.

Illustration used as image for printed notecards.
Extent: 1 sheet

Reading the Landscape of America Book Cover (3.92359)

Date: 1999
Type: Photographic image
Description:Image of book cover of May Theilgaard Watts' Reading the Landscape of America.