Bulletin of Popular Information V. 19 No. 02 (3.32469)
Date: February 1944Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Serial
Description:
- Through A Magnifying Glass
Extent: 4 pages
May T. Watts Reading Garden slate, engraved by Fr. Catich (3.3315)
Date: 1960sType: Photographic image
Description:May T. Watts Reading Garden slate, engraved by Fr. Catich from St. Ambrose College, Davenport, Iowa
Fountain plume calligraphy also done by Fr. Catich
Extent: 1 photograph
Education charts: Twigs, #1 (3.34235)
Type: Photographic image
Description:An educational chart created by May T. Watts for The Morton Arboretum, depicting 12 types of winter buds on twigs. The chart appears to be tacked to a classroom display board.
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 slide
The Stylish House: 1881 to 1906 (3.34275)
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 late 19th century/early 20th century.
Text and images from top to bottom, left to right:
- David and Mary / and / Theodore / Ethel / Victoria / Charles / and / Rusty / and / King
- 1881 / to / 1906
- [sketch of a potted plant on a small table]
- [drawing showing a bird's-eye view of the house and lawn surrounded by a fence, including the following labeled plants and trees:]
- mulberry
- cockscomb
- coleus
- hen and chickens
- hosta
- white birch
- cannas / nasturtiums / lobelias
- mountain ash
- castor beans / geranium / alyssum
- [sketches of three additional potted plants and a fan to the right of the illustration]
Extent: 1 slide
Vegetable dyes: mat of hooked wool (3.34413)
Type: Photographic image
Description:A mat of hooked wool made with vegetable-dyed thread, depicting a design of leaves, stems, and fruit.
Extent: 1 slide
The May T. Watts Reading Garden (3.35365)
Type: Photographic image
Description:A close-up of the sign for The May T. Watts Reading Garden, located at The Morton Arboretum's Sterling Morton Library.
Extent: 1 photograph
Tudor style houses (3.36491)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Two Tudor-style homes, one brick and one with white siding. Various evergreens are growing in the front yard of the brick house on the right. Some snow is also visible on the grass, and a car and a fire hydrant are visible of the foreground.
This image is part of a group of slides that belonged to May T. Watts, related to her book Reading the Landscape.
Extent: 1 slide
1940: Jean M. Cudahy to Clarence E. Godshalk (3.85154)
Date: 1940Creator: Cudahy, Jean Morton
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Jean M. Cudahy to Clarence E. Godshalk: 1) "important question of policy involved in Miss Keller's request for the course for teachers." Mrs. Watts should be involved. 2) Fairchild Gardens has invited her to serve on their Board. She has accepted. 3) Dr. Allen of Cornell will give a lecture.
Extent: 8 sheets
Botanical Terms Used in Describing Leaves, page 2 (3.19464)
Date: July 1944Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Sheet 2 of 4. Glossary of botanical terms and illustrations used for describing leaves, created to accompany "Botanical Terms Used in Describing Leaves" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information. Illustrations depict various over-lapping leaf silhouettes with additional small sketches of objects to explain each shape in a column on the left, and a glossary of terms describing the leaves in a column on the right. Descriptive text adhered to the board includes details of leaf shapes.
Header: A LEAF SHAPE IS CALLED:
Leaf shapes depicted from top to bottom, left to right:
- OBLONG
- Silhouette of oblong shaped leaf with sketch of radio tube under stem
- OVAL
- Silhouette of oval shaped leaf with sketch of tennis racket under stem
- OVATE
- Silhouette of ovate shaped leaf with sketch of lit candle under stem
- OBOVATE
- Silhouette of obovate shaped leaf with sketch of light bulb under stem
- ELLIPTIC
- Silhouette of elliptic shaped leaf with sketch of an eye at stem
- CORDATE
- Silhouette of cordate shaped leaf with sketch of a playing card at stem
- PELTATE
- Silhouette of peltate shaped leaf with sketch of an umbrella under stem
- RENIFORM
- Silhouette of reniform shaped leaf with sketch of a jelly bean under stem
- DELTOID
- Silhouette of deltoid shaped leaf with sketch of a garden trowel under stem
- HALBERD-SHAPED
- Silhouette of halberd-shaped leaf with sketch of a fish hook under stem
- LANCEOLATE
- Silhouette of lanceolate shaped leaf with sketch of a carrot under stem
- OBLANCEOLATE
- Silhouette of oblanceolate shaped leaf with sketch of a dart at stem
- SPATULATE
- Silhouette of spatulate shaped leaf with sketch a canoe at stem
- LINEAR
- Silhouette of linear shaped leaf with sketch a butter knife at stem
Extent: 1 sheet
Morton Arboretum Map: Preliminary Drawing for Colored Map (3.19480)
Date: 1943Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Preliminary drawing for detailed colored map of Arboretum grounds that was printed in 1943, showing roads, paths, landscaping, shelters, enlargement of some specific features, hedge garden, and center of hedge garden. Blank spaces indicate water and text placement. Tree symbols show exceptional specimens on east and west sides. The Morton Arboretum encompassed 813 acres at time of map. Drawing is in two pieces.
Extent: 2 sheets
Arboretum Landscape Teaching Aid Series: A River Emerged From Under A Glacier (3.19497)
Date: 1940 – 1960Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Primarily textual teaching aid depicting Arboretum landscape. This material shows the origin of gravel pits at the Arboretum.
Header: A RIVER EMERGED FROM UNDER A GLACIER
Text and illustrations from top to bottom:
- [Depicted in stylized scroll with illustration of a steam shovel in gravel pit] The Record: There are several old gravel pits in the Arboretum.
- Interpreting the record:
- 1) A river running under a glacier is confined to a narrow channel, and is, therefore swift. Because of its swiftness it can carry gravel.
- 2) When such a river comes out from under the ice it spreads out and slows down. Slow moving water can carry only fine material. Therefore the river dropped its heavy material.
- 3) When men found these places they dug the gravel out.
Extent: 1 sheet
Arboretum Landscape Teaching Aid Series: Trees Keep Records (3.19505)
Date: 1940 – 1960Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Primarily textual teaching aid depicting Arboretum landscape. This material describes the biography of a red oak tree with illustrations and text.
Header: TREES KEEP RECORDS [Illustration of a tree writing in a book with a quill pen, saying "it's nothing, really!"]
Text and illustrations from top to bottom, left to right:
- This red oak was planted, probably by a squirrel, the year that Mr. Joy Morton was 14. [Illustration of a squirrel planting an acorn with a shovel and a sketch of a high wheel bike and cyclist in the background, followed by the year 1869]
- It was this large (red ring) in the year that Sterling Morton inaugurated ARBOR DAY. [Illustration of men in top hats and suits planting trees, followed by the year 1872]
- It was this larger (green ring) in the year the Morton Arboretum was founded. [Illustration of a path with trees, followed by the year 1921]
- It grew vigorously in its youth and then slowed down.
Extent: 1 sheet
Cedar Apple Rust: Destroy, Inspect, and Spray (3.19517)
Date: 1940sCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Informational text listing preventative measures to stop the spread of the fungal disease known as cedar apple rust. Text also includes information regarding steps taken at the Arboretum to protect Hawthorns.
Text as depicted, from top to bottom:
1. DESTROY EITHER ONE OF THE TWO HOSTS TO A DISTANCE OF 1 1/2 TO 2 MILES. (One pathologist collected spores in an airplane one-half mile off the ground.)
HERE AT THE ARBORETUM 3000 RED CEDARS WERE DESTROYED TO PROTECT THE HAWTHORNS.
2. INSPECT EACH RED CEDAR FROM GROUND TO TOP EVERY WINTER OR EARLY SPRING. CUT OFF AND BURN ALL CEDAR APPLES.............
3. SPRAY. FOR THE RECOMMENDED SPRAYS FOR BOTH CEDARS AND APPLES SEE CONTROL MEASURES BOOKLET IN THIS ROOM.
Extent: 1 sheet
The Edge of the Forest (3.24604)
Date: 1944Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustrations of thirteen different trees and plants of the forest edge, created to accompany "The Edge of the Forest" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information. Drawings show species-specific seeds, flowers, trees, leaves, twigs and stems for each plant in columns and rows across the page. Some identifying text exists. The remaining identifying text originally adhered to the board has detached and is no longer present.
Header: THE EDGE of the FOREST
- includes generalized sketch of trees and other plants across the top
- Bird-distributed seeds
- Bee-pollenated flowers
- Protection from Grazers
- Armor
- Bitter Taste
- Rosa setigera -- Prairie rose
- Prunus americana -- Wild plum
- Rosa carolina -- Pasture rose
- Malus ioensis -- Wild crab
- Crataegus punctata -- Dotted hawthorn
- Rubus alligheniensis -- Blackberry
- Rubus occidentalis -- Blackcap raspberry
- Rhus glabra -- Smooth sumac
- Ribes cynosbati -- Gooseberry
- Cornus racemosa -- Gray dogwood
- Prunus virginiana -- Choke cherry
- Sambucus canadensis -- Elderberry
- Prunus serotina -- Black cherry
Extent: 1 sheet
Spring Wild Flowers of the Forest Floor At The Morton Arboretum: A Key To Identification, page 7 (3.24620)
Date: 1944Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustrations of wild flowers with identification text, key on left and habitat border of leaves on right, created to accompany "Spring Wild Flowers Of The Forest Floor At The Morton Arboretum" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information.
Illustrations and identifying text depicted, from top to bottom:
- Shooting star -- Dodecatheon meadia
- Blue phlox -- Phlox divaricata
- Virginia cowslip -- Mertensia virginica
- Ellisia -- Ellisia nyctelea
- Virginia waterleaf -- Hydrophyllum virginianum
- Appendaged waterleaf -- Hydrophyllum appendiculatum
- Shining bedstraw-- Galium concinnum
- Catchweed bedstraw -- Galium aparine
- Northern bedstraw -- Galium boreale
- Hairy bedstraw -- Galium pilosum
- Dutchmans breeches -- Dicentra cucullaria
- Squirrel corn -- Dicentra canadensis
- Self-heal -- Prunella vulgaris
- Wood betony -- Pedicularis canadensis
Extent: 1 sheet
Winter Twigs, page 4 (3.24636)
Date: 1943Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Page 4 of 4, illustrations showing identifying characteristics of different types of winter twigs, created to accompany "Winter Twigs" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information. Original identifying text has detached and is no longer present.
Illustrations are divided into seven sections, depicted from top to bottom, left to right:
1) [Original text] TREES WITH FLATTENED YELLOWISH BUDS
- Bitternut hickory -- Carya cordiformis
- Witch-hazel -- Hamamelis virginiana
- Shadbush -- Amelanchier canadensis
- Beech -- Fagus grandifolia
- Black walnut -- Juglans nigra
- Butternut -- Juglans cinerea
- Sassafras -- Sassafras albidum
- Shagbark hickory -- Carya ovata
- Linden -- Tilia americana
- Mountain ash -- Sorbus
- Sour gum -- Nyssa sylvatica
- Silver poplar -- Populus alba
Extent: 1 sheet
Forest Nature Trail Guide, page 10 illustrations and layout with preliminary sketches (3.24660)
Date: 1946Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Sheet One: Original illustrations and layout for page 10, excluding text, for The Morton Arboretum Forest Nature Trail Guide booklet. Key lines included.
Illustrated stumps with numbers indicate points of interest along trail as seen on trail map.
Tree stump #22: Ash
White Ash "twig," "leaf," and "fruit" as labeled and illustrated to the right.
Tree stump #23: A Woodchuck's Burrow
Illustration of a woodchuck and a cross-section of a woodchuck burrow to the right.
Tree stump #24: Moss on trees
Illustration of four generalized tree trunks with moss covering left side of each to the right.
Tree stump #25: Leaf veination
Identifying characteristics for "parallel-veined," "palmate-veined," and "pinnate-veined" leaves as labeled and illustrated to the right.
Sheet Two: Preliminary sketch of green-colored illustrations.
Extent: 2 sheets
Evergreen Nature Trail Guide, page 8 illustrations and layout with preliminary sketches (3.24682)
Date: 1940sCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Sheet One: Original illustrations and layout for page 8, excluding text, for The Morton Arboretum Evergreen Nature Trail Guide booklet. Key lines included.
Illustrated stump with number indicates point of interest along trail as seen on trail map.
Tree stump #16: The Junipers
Includes identifying characteristics of needles and fruit for three Juniper variations illustrated below.
16-A: Waukegan Juniper
16-B: Red Cedar
16-C: Common Juniper
Cedar-apple-rust cycle illustrated in circle-shaped diagram with clockwise arrows and leaves labeled "First year," "Second winter," "Second spring," "Spores carried by wind to young hawthorn leaves," "Fall," and "Spores carried by wind".
Sheet Two: Preliminary sketch of green-colored illustrations.
Extent: 2 sheets
Tree Portraits: Hill's Oak (3.31787)
Date: 1940 – 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Painting
Description:Color silhouette of a Hill's Oak tree, including a nature print outline of a leaf, drawings of a winter twig and fruit, and descriptive text.
Header: HILLS OAK
Drawings and text, from top to bottom, left to right:
- leaf: [arrow] shining surface
- tree
- twig
- fruit
Extent: 1 sheet
Bulletin of Popular Information V. 19 No. 03 (3.32470)
Date: March 1944Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Serial
Description:
- The Flowers Nobody Knows
Extent: 4 pages
Trees Native To North America But Not To This Region That Can Be Grown Here (3.33821)
Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:A large illustration depicting a bird's-eye view of three sets of houses and yards with different types of trees growing in each. The trees are drawn in silhouette.
Header:
- TREES NATIVE TO NORTH AMERICAN BUT NOT TO THIS REGION / THAT CAN BE GROWN HERE
arborvitae -- Osage-orange -- black locust -- hemlock -- gray birch -- Jeffrey pine -- flowering dogwood -- redbud -- tulip-tree -- pitch pine -- mountain-ash -- persimmon -- pawpaw -- red mulberry -- douglas-fir -- white spruce -- red-cedar -- [concolor] white fir -- balsam fir -- [Colorado] blue spruce -- jack pine -- paper birch -- magnolia -- white pine -- red pine -- beech -- limber pine -- ponderosa pine -- sycamore -- catalpa -- Ohio buckeye -- Pin oak
Extent: 1 sheet
Bicycle in Paris (3.35366)
Date: November 1969Type: Photographic image
Description:A bicycle parked on a cobblestone street in Paris, France. A satchel with flowers is attached to the back of the bike, along with two baguettes.
Extent: 1 photograph
Outdoor market, Patzcuaro, Mexico (3.37013)
Type: Photographic image
Description:An outdoor market in Patzcuaro, Mexico. Large palm trees stand in the foreground.
This image is part of a group of slides that belonged to May T. Watts, related to her book Reading the Landscape.
Extent: 1 slide
May Watts instructing class in Thornhill classroom (3.4080)
Date: 1950sType: Photographic image
Description:May Watts instructing class in Thornhill classroom
Extent: 1 photograph
1940/09/17: Clarence E. Godshalk to Jean M. Cudahy (3.85171)
Date: September 17 1940Creator: Godshalk, Clarence E.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Clarence E. Godshalk to Jean M. Cudahy. Mentions 1) improvements planned along the new west boundary land acquired from Mr. Slusser. 2) Attendance at Morton Arboretum is at record highs. 3) Attendance at Mrs. Watts' classes for teachers are lower than expected because Chicago Normal College no longer gives credit for outside classes. He recommends Morton Arboretum apply to be recognized as an educational institution. 4) Morton Arboretum Bulletin subscription list is growing.
Extent: 2 sheets
Botanical Terms Used in Describing Leaves, page 3 (3.19465)
Date: July 1944Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Sheet 3 of 4. Glossary of botanical terms and illustrations used for describing leaves, created to accompany "Botanical Terms Used in Describing Leaves" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information. Glossary of terms in 2 sections describe leaf tips and leaf bases in a column on the left. Illustrations depict various over-lapping leaf silhouettes with additional small sketches of objects to explain each shape in a column on the right. Descriptive text adhered to the board includes details of leaf tips and bases.
Section 1: A LEAF TIP IS CALLED:
Leaf tips depicted from top to bottom, left to right:
- ACUMINATE
- Silhouette of acuminate shaped leaf tip with sketch of long pointed witches hat
- ACUTE
- Silhouette of acute shaped leaf tip with sketch of clown hat angled less than 90 degrees
- MUCRONATE
- Silhouette of mucronate shaped leaf tip with sketch of beret with small tip at the center
- CUSPIDATE
- Silhouette of cuspidate shaped leaf tip with sketch of a hat with a sharply pointed tip
- OBTUSE
- Silhouette of obtuse shaped leaf tip with sketch of a pope's hat
- ROUNDED
- Silhouette of rounded shaped leaf tip with sketch of a baseball cap
- TRUNCATE
- Silhouette of truncate shaped leaf tip with sketch of a top hat
- EMARGINATE
- Silhouette of rounded shaped leaf tip with sketch of a queen's crown
Leaf bases depicted from top to bottom, left to right:
- TRUNCATE
- Silhouette of truncate shaped leaf base with sketch of a skirt cut straight across
- CORDATE
- Silhouette of cordate shaped leaf base with sketch of a men's Elizabethan breeches
- OBLIQUE
- Silhouette of oblique shaped leaf base with sketch of a golf pants of unequal length
- AURICULATE
- Silhouette of auriculate shaped leaf base with sketch of a pants gathered at ankles with droopy ear lobe-like shape
- ROUNDED
- Silhouette of rounded shaped leaf base with sketch of an apron over a skirt
- ACUTE
- Silhouette of acute shaped leaf base with sketch of tapered riding pants
- ACUMINATE
- Silhouette of acuminate shaped leaf base with sketch of a pirate with a peg leg
Extent: 1 sheet
Morton Arboretum Map (3.19481)
Date: 1943Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Map
Description:Detailed map of Arboretum grounds, showing roads, paths, landscaping, shelters, structures, enlargement of some specific features, hedge garden, some specific trees, and trails with markers numbered 1 - 42. Other features include a scale, a calendar, and a compass rose consisting of directions depicted with leaves. A highly ornamental border includes grid marks, as well as drawings of animal tracks and detailed drawings and labels of plants. Some replacement illustration and text has been adhered to the map. The Morton Arboretum encompassed 813 acres at time of map. One section is partially missing.
Extent: 1 sheet
Cedar Apple Rust: First Year and Second Winter (3.19518)
Date: 1940sCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Panel 1 of 4 with illustrations and informational text about the fungal disease cedar apple rust cycle and its effect on Red cedar and Hawthorn trees. Focus of this panel is on the first year and second winter of the disease cycle, featuring drawings of Juniper twigs, galls, and a Red cedar tree.
Header: FIRST YEAR and SECOND WINTER
Drawings and text, clockwise from left:
- FIRST YEAR
- Juniper twig: WINTER; NO EFFECT EVIDENT
- Twig and gall: SUMMER; PURPLISH-BROWNISH GALL DEVELOPS
- GALL GROWS
- Twig with gall: SECOND WINTER; FUNGUS REMAINS DORMANT WITHIN SWOLLEN TISSUE
- RED (left half image of a full-sized Red cedar)
Extent: 1 sheet
The Men Behind the Plants (3.24605)
Date: 1945Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Six plant illustrations with leaves and flowers, created to accompany "The Men Behind The Plants" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information. Includes text and sketches referring to their namesakes alongside illustrations.
Header: The Men Behind the Plants
Plants depicted, from left to right, top to bottom:
Forget Me Not
Illustration of Forget-me-not plant with a sketch of a pastor giving a sermon.
Text reads "brings memories of a Lutheran pastor who preached dull sermons"
Rosa Hugonis
Illustration of a Rosa Hugonis flower and leaves with a sketch of a hiking monk.
Text reads "was named for a Welsh missionary to Tibet"
Jeffersonia
Illustration of a Jeffersonia flower, leaves, and seeds with a sketch of Thomas Jefferson's mansion at Monticello.
Text reads "was named for a naturalist president"
Kalmia
Illustration of a Kalmia plant with a sketch of the eastern coast of North America, the Atlantic Ocean, the British Isles, and the northwest coast of Europe.
Text reads "is an American native named by a Swedish botanist for a Finnish student"
Pinus Banksiana
Illustration of a Pinus banksiana plant with a sketch of a sailing ship.
Text reads "brings memories of mutiny at sea"
Halesia
Illustration of a Halesia plant with a sketch of a plant undergoing an experiment.
Text reads "commemorates the first experiments in plant physiology"
Extent: 1 sheet
Spring Wild Flowers of the Forest Floor At The Morton Arboretum: A Key To Identification, page 6 (3.24621)
Date: 1944Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustrations of wild flowers with identification text, key on left and habitat border of leaves on right, created to accompany "Spring Wild Flowers Of The Forest Floor At The Morton Arboretum" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information.
Illustrations and identifying text depicted, from top to bottom:
- Golden alexanders -- Zizia aurea
- Yellow taenidia -- Taenidia integerrima
- Purple-stem angelica -- Angelica atropurpurea
- Cow parsnip -- Heracleum lanatum
- Smooth sweet cicely -- Osmorhiza longistylis
- Hairy sweet cicely -- Osmorhiza claytoni
- Vetch -- Vicia caroliniana
- Downy yellow violet -- Viola pubescens
- Palmate violet -- Viola palmata
- Hairy blue violet -- Viola sororia
- Common blue violet -- Viola papilionacea
- Jacob's ladder -- Polemonium reptans
Extent: 1 sheet
Jeffersonia Diphylla (3.24637)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: 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
Extent: 1 sheet
Evergreen Nature Trail Guide, page 9 illustrations and layout with preliminary sketches (3.24683)
Date: 1940sCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Sheet One: Original illustrations and layout for page 9, excluding text, for The Morton Arboretum Evergreen Nature Trail Guide booklet. Key lines included.
Pine Hill section begins with text "Pines have - needles in bundles (illustration of 3 types of bundles), tips of cone scales thickened (illustration of cone)."
Illustrated stumps with numbers indicate points of interest along trail as seen on trail map.
Tree stump #17: Jack Pine
Includes illustrated identifying characteristics of needles.
Tree stump #18: Jeffery Pine
Includes illustrated identifying characteristics of needles.
Tree stump #19: Limber Pine
Includes illustrated identifying characteristics of needles.
Tree stump #20: Ponderosa Pine
Includes illustrated identifying characteristics of needles.
Tree stump #21: Japanese White Pine
Includes illustrated identifying characteristics of needles and an illustrated image of Bonsai tree in pot on bottom right.
Several cutout illustrations depicting cone characteristics originally adhered to board have detached and are no longer present.
Sheet Two: Preliminary sketch of green-colored illustrations.
Extent: 2 sheets
Bulletin of Popular Information V. 19 No. 04-05 (3.32471)
Date: April – May 1944Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Serial
Description:
- Spring Wild Flowers Of The Forest Floor
Extent: 8 pages
Trees of the Eastern Hemisphere That Can Be Grown Here (3.33822)
Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:A large illustration depicting a cross-section of a hilly landscape with several types of trees. The trees are drawn in silhouette and a few houses are scattered in-between them. Each tree is also accompanied by a line of color across the top indicating the color of its leaves in Fall as well as an outline of its leaf below.
Header:
- TREES OF THE EASTERN HEMIPSHERE / THAT CAN BE GROWN HERE
- THESE FOREIGN TREES LACK THE DISPLAY / OF BRILLIANT FALL COLORING, THAT CHARACTER- / IZES OUR NATIVE SPECIES -------
- The color line about each of these trees indicates its / characteristic fall coloring -------
russian-olive -- [wych] Scots elm -- Norway spruce -- Scots pine -- Lombardy poplar -- [silver] white poplar -- European larch -- Japanese larch -- weeping willow -- European black alder -- camperdown elm -- European white birch -- English oak -- European linden (lime) -- Amur cherry -- Amur maple -- oriental crab -- oriental pear -- sycamore maple -- Serbian spruce -- Chinese juniper -- [Irish] common juniper -- horse-chestnut -- mountain-ash -- Nordmann's fir -- ginkgo -- [ailanthus] tree of heaven -- English ash
Extent: 1 sheet
May T. Watts teaching an art class at The Morton Arboretum (3.34045)
Date: 1940 – 1950Type: Photographic image
Description:May T. Watts teaching an outdoor art class to a group of students at The Morton Arboretum.
Extent: 1 photograph
National Trails Symposium, May Watts, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Rogers Morton, and others cutting a ribbon (3.35246)
Date: 1971Type: Photographic image
Description:May Watts cuts a ribbon with United States Secretary of the Interior Rogers Morton and others at the opening of the National Trail System. On this occasion, the Illinois Prairie Path became part of the National Trail System, and Watts was honored with an award.
Extent: 1 photograph