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Four Oaks (3.19491)
Date: 1940 – 1959Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustrations of four oaks: Chinkapin oak, Swamp white oak, White oak and Bur oak. Each tree is illustrated by silhouette, and is accompanied by an outline of its leaf and drawings of its twig with a winter bud and its acorn.
upper left: Quercus muehlenbergii, Chinkapin oak
upper right: Quercus bicolor, Swamp white oak
lower left: Quercus alba, White oak
lower right Quercus macrocarpa, Bur oak
Extent: 1 sheet
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
Winter Buds, #2 (3.19512)
Date: 1940 – 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Large poster depicting 12 types of winter buds, bound in green tape.
Illustrations and text, from left to right, top to bottom:
- bitternut hickory
- witch-hazel
- shadbush
- beech
- black walnut
- butternut
- sassafras
- shagbark hickory
- linden
- mountain ash
- sour gum
- silver poplar
Extent: 1 sheet
Winter Buds, #3 (3.19513)
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:
- honey locust
- black locust
- Osage orange
- hawthorn
- wild crab
- wild plum
- European larch
- ginkgo
- red oak
- white oak
- tulip tree
- sycamore
- Kentucky coffeetree
- tree of heaven
- staghorn sumac
- willow
Extent: 1 sheet
Leaf Prints: European Black Alder (3.27657)
Date: circa 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Print
Description:A white negative nature print of European Black Alder leaves, stems, buds, and fruit on a dark background with identifying text at bottom center handwritten by May T. Watts.
Identifying text:
- Alder
- Alnus glutinosa
Extent: 1 sheet
Leaf Prints: Apple (3.27658)
Date: circa 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Print
Description:A white negative nature print of Apple tree leaves, stems, buds, and flowers on a dark background with identifying text at bottom right handwritten by May T. Watts.
Identifying text:
- Apple
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
Leaf Prints: American Beech (3.27664)
Date: circa 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Print
Description:A white negative nature print of American beech leaves, stems, and a twig with buds on a dark background with identifying text at bottom right handwritten by May T. Watts.
Identifying text:
- Beech American
- Fagus Americana
Extent: 1 sheet
Leaf Prints: Eastern Arborvitae (3.27675)
Date: circa 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Print
Description:A white negative nature print of eastern arborvitae, or white cedar, leaves, stems, and buds on a dark background with identifying text at bottom right handwritten by May T. Watts.
Identifying text:
- Cedar white
- Thuja occidentalis
Extent: 1 sheet
Leaf Prints: Horse-chestnut (3.27679)
Date: circa 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Print
Description:A white negative nature print of horse-chestnut leaves, stems, and a bud on a dark background with identifying text at bottom right handwritten by May T. Watts.
Identifying text:
- Chestnut Horse
- Aesculus hippocastanum
Extent: 1 sheet
Leaf Prints: Ginkgo (3.27692)
Date: circa 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Print
Description:A white negative nature print of ginkgo leaves, stems, and buds on a dark background with identifying text at bottom right handwritten by May T. Watts.
Identifying text:
- Ginkgo
- Ginkgo biloba
Extent: 1 sheet
Leaf Prints: American Hazelnut (3.27696)
Date: circa 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Print
Description:A white negative nature print of American hazelnut leaves, stems, and buds on a dark background with identifying text at bottom right handwritten by May T. Watts.
Identifying text:
- Hazelnut beaked
- Corylus Americana
Extent: 1 sheet
Leaf Prints: Bitternut Hickory (3.27699)
Date: circa 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Print
Description:A white negative nature print of bitternut hickory leaves, stems, twigs, buds, and flowers on a dark background with identifying text at bottom right handwritten by May T. Watts.
Identifying text:
- Hickory bitternut
- Hicoria minima
Extent: 1 sheet
Leaf Prints: Shagbark Hickory (3.27700)
Date: circa 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Print
Description:A white negative nature print of shagbark hickory leaves, stems, twigs, buds, and flowers on a dark background with identifying text at bottom right handwritten by May T. Watts.
Identifying text:
- Hickory shellbark
- Hicoria ovata
Extent: 1 sheet
Leaf Prints: Ironwood (3.27701)
Date: circa 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Print
Description:A white negative nature print of ironwood, or hop-hornbeam, leaves, stems, twigs, buds, and flowers on a dark background with identifying text at bottom right handwritten by May T. Watts.
Identifying text:
- Hop-hornbeam
- Ostrya virginiana
Extent: 1 sheet
Leaf Prints: Swamp Laurel Oak (3.27719)
Date: circa 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Print
Description:A white negative nature print of swamp laurel oak leaves, stems, and buds on a dark background with identifying text at bottom right handwritten by May T. Watts.
Identifying text:
- Oak shingle
- Quercus laurifolia
Extent: 1 sheet
Leaf Prints: Balsam Poplar (3.27730)
Date: circa 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Print
Description:A white negative nature print of balsam poplar leaves, stems, and a twig with a bud on a dark background with identifying text at bottom right handwritten by May T. Watts.
Identifying text:
- Poplar balsam
- Populus balsamifera caudicans
Extent: 1 sheet
Leaf Prints: Redbud (3.27734)
Date: circa 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Print
Description:A white negative nature print of redbud leaves, stems, buds, flowers, and fruit on a dark background with identifying text at bottom right handwritten by May T. Watts.
Identifying text:
- Redbud
- Cercis canadensis
Extent: 1 sheet
Leaf Prints: Rose (3.27735)
Date: circa 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Print
Description:A white negative nature print of rose leaves, stems, buds, flowers, and fruit on a dark background with identifying text at bottom right handwritten by May T. Watts.
Identifying text:
- Rose
Extent: 1 sheet
Leaf Prints: Fragrant Sumac (3.27739)
Date: circa 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Print
Description:A white negative nature print of fragrant sumac leaves, stems, and buds on a dark background with identifying text at bottom right handwritten by May T. Watts.
Identifying text:
- Sumach fragrant
- Rhus canadensis
Extent: 1 sheet
Leaf Prints: Sycamore (3.27741)
Date: circa 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Print
Description:A white negative nature print of sycamore leaves, stems, and a twig with a bud on a dark background with identifying text at bottom right handwritten by May T. Watts.
Identifying text:
- Sycamore
- Platanus occidentalis
Extent: 1 sheet
Leaf Prints: Maple-leaved Viburnum (3.27744)
Date: circa 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Print
Description:A white negative nature print of maple-leaved viburnum leaves, stems, buds, and flowers on a dark background with identifying text at bottom right handwritten by May T. Watts.
Identifying text:
- Viburnum
- Viburnum acerifolium
Extent: 1 sheet
Leaf Prints: Butternut (3.27746)
Date: circa 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Print
Description:A white negative nature print of butternut, or white walnut, leaves, stems, fruit, and a twig with buds on a dark background with identifying text at bottom right handwritten by May T. Watts.
Identifying text:
- Walnut white
- Juglans cinerea
Extent: 1 sheet
Leaf Prints: Black Willow (3.27747)
Date: circa 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Print
Description:A white negative nature print of black willow leaves, stems, and buds on a dark background with identifying text at bottom right handwritten by May T. Watts.
Identifying text:
- Willow black
- Salix nigra
Extent: 1 sheet
Tree Portraits: Willow (3.31790)
Date: 1940 – 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Painting
Description:Color silhouette of a Willow tree, including a nature print outline of a leaf, a drawing of a twig with buds, and descriptive text.
Header: WILLOW
Drawings and text, from top to bottom, left to right:
- leaf
- twig and buds: single scale on each bud
- tree: twigs slender, yellow in Spring; along a river bank
Extent: 1 sheet
Tree Portraits: Red Maple (3.31791)
Date: 1940 – 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Painting
Description:Color silhouette of a Red Maple tree, including a nature print outline of a leaf, drawings of a twig with buds, seeds, and descriptive text.
Header: RED MAPLE
Drawings and text, from top to bottom, left to right:
- leaf
- tree
- twig with buds: opposite-branching
- seeds: ripe in May-June; found in lowlands but also on uplands
Extent: 1 sheet
Tree Portraits: Witch Hazel (3.31797)
Date: 1940 – 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Painting
Description:Color silhouette of a Witch Hazel tree, including a nature print outline of a leaf, drawings of flower and seed, a winter bud, and descriptive text.
Header: WITCH HAZEL
Drawings and text from top to bottom, left to right:
- leaf
- flower and seed
- bud: winter bud stalked, naked
- tree: yellow flowers in October
Extent: 1 sheet
Tree Portraits: English Oak (3.31801)
Date: 1940 – 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Painting
Description:Color silhouette of an English Oak tree, including a nature print outline of a leaf, a drawing of a fruit, a twig, and descriptive text.
Header: ENGLISH OAK
Drawings and text from top to bottom, left to right:
- leaf: alternate
- fruit: not native
- tree: European
- twig with buds
Extent: 1 sheet
Tree Portraits: Chestnut Oak (3.31806)
Date: 1940 – 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Painting
Description:Color silhouette of a Chestnut Oak tree, including a nature print outline of a leaf, drawings of a twig, a fruit, flowers, and descriptive text.
Header: CHESTNUT OAK
Drawings and text from top to bottom, left to right:
- leaf
- tree
- twig with buds: native just south of Arboretum
- fruit: matures in one year; kernel sweet
- flowers
Extent: 1 sheet
Tree Portraits: Sycamore Maple (3.31808)
Date: 1940 – 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Painting
Description:Color silhouette of a Sycamore Maple tree, including a nature print outline of a leaf, drawings of a twig, seeds, and descriptive text.
Header: SYCAMORE MAPLE
Drawings and text from top to bottom, left to right:
- leaf
- tree: dark heavy green; no Autumn coloring; no milk
- twig with buds
- seeds: ripe in Fall; European
Extent: 1 sheet