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
Botanical plates / M.E. Eaton.. [et al.]. (3.29758)
Date: 1916 – 1964Creator: Eaton, Mary Emily.
Type: Painting
Extent: 281 prints : art reproductions, color, b&w 27 x 18 cm.
Forest Road in winter, probably near Buckeye Collection (3.32167)
Date: 1950sType: Photographic image
Description:Forest Road in winter, probably near Buckeye Collection
Extent: 1 negative
Bulletin of Popular Information V. 29 Index (3.32586)
Date: December 1954Type: Serial
Description:
- Index Vol. 29
Extent: 10 pages
Arboretum Landscape Teaching Aid Series: A Fence Long Gone Marked A Boundary (3.19498)
Date: 1940 – 1960Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Primarily textual teaching aid depicting Arboretum landscape. This material shows how a fence once marked a boundary through a forest.
Header: A fence (long gone) marked a boundary through a forest (long gone)
Text and illustrations from top to bottom:
- [Depicted in stylized scroll] The Record:
- 1. A long row of trees: red oaks, white oaks, and ironwood [an illustration of a row of trees]
- 2. the soil profile on both sides of this row [arrow pointing right to illustration of a cross-section of soil]
- Interpreting the record:
- 1) Because red oaks and ironwoods belong in rich (mesophytic) woods, and
- 2) because a thin layer of black soil on top of clay is typical of forests in this area (but not of prairies) and
- 3) because there would have been forest-margin trees, like hawthorn, if this fence had edged a forest - We read the record as above [arrow extending upward to header]
Extent: 1 sheet
Arboretum Landscape Teaching Aid Series: Three Norway Spruces (3.19506)
Date: 1940 – 1960Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Primarily textual teaching aid depicting Arboretum landscape. This material describes the three Norway spruce trees planted by Joy Morton, Wirt Morton, and Sterling Morton, including a pasted Arboretum map of their location on the grounds.
Header: THREE Norway Spruces [image of three stylized trees] were planted by THREE Mortons / JOY MORTON / WIRT MORTON / STERLING MORTON
Text and illustrations from top to bottom:
- [Depicted in stylized scroll] THE RECORD: Three Tall Trees [Illustration of three trees] On Forest Road [followed by an arrow pointing downward to map below]
- map: the 3 spruces [arrow pointing downward to spot on map where trees are located, on Forest Road]. Label in lower right: GUIDE MAP of THE MORTON ARBORETUM LISLE, ILLINOIS
- text below map: *these trees are one answer to the ever occurring question: HOW FAST DO TREES GROW?
Extent: 1 sheet
Summer or wood duck = Anas sponsa. L. (3.29192)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Audubon, John James, 1785-1851.
Type: Painting
Extent: 1 print : commercial reproduction, color image 74 x 49 cm., on sheet 82 x 56 cm.
Botanical plates / M.E. Eaton.. [et al.]. (3.29614)
Date: 1916 – 1964Creator: Eaton, Mary Emily.
Type: Painting
Extent: 281 prints : art reproductions, color, b&w 27 x 18 cm.
Botanical plates / M.E. Eaton.. [et al.]. (3.29744)
Date: 1916 – 1964Creator: Eaton, Mary Emily.
Type: Painting
Extent: 281 prints : art reproductions, color, b&w 27 x 18 cm.
Bulletin of Popular Information V. 29 No. 01 (3.32587)
Date: January 1954Creator: Kammerer, E. Lowell
Type: Serial
Description:
- Reviewing The 1953 Horticultural Publications
Extent: 6 pages
Ed Meyers working on a car in the shop (3.5084)
Date: 1954Type: Photographic image
Description:Ed Meyers working on a car in the shop
Extent: 1 photograph
Pansy (3.24633)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: 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
Botanical plates / M.E. Eaton.. [et al.]. (3.29681)
Date: 1916 – 1964Creator: Eaton, Mary Emily.
Type: Painting
Extent: 281 prints : art reproductions, color, b&w 27 x 18 cm.
Bulletin of Popular Information V. 29 No. 02-03 (3.32588)
Date: February – March 1954Creator: Kammerer, E. Lowell
Type: Serial
Description:
- An Annotated List Of Deciduous Trees For The Chicago Region
Extent: 8 pages
Caulophyllum thalictroides (L.) Michx. (3.55792)
Date: 1954Creator: Schulenberg, Ray
Type: Document
Description:A note card containing handwritten notes (presumably written by Ray Schulenberg) with propagation information on prairie plants.
Extent: 1 Card
Vernal Witch-hazel (3.19477)
Date: 1940 – 1960Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustration of the Vernal witch-hazel plant, including three detailed views and some descriptive text. Background sketches include trees at top and center, and shrubs at center and bottom.
Header: VERNAL WITCH-HAZEL, HAMAMELIS vernalis
Illustrations as depicted, from top to bottom, left to right:
- a single pistil, labeled PISTIL
- two stamens, front view and side view, labeled STAMEN
- a single twig in bloom
- a flower
Extent: 1 sheet
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
Arboretum Landscape Teaching Aid Series: Early Settlers Brought Roses (3.19507)
Date: 1940 – 1960Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Primarily textual teaching aid depicting Arboretum landscape. This material describes locations of sites where roses were obtained for the Old-Fashioned Rose Garden.
Header [framed by illustrations of rose bushes, one red and one pink]: Early Settlers Brought ROSES from the East often in covered wagons
Text and illustrations from top to bottom:
- [Depicted in stylized scroll] The Record is in our Old-Fashioned Rose Garden / When this garden was started plants were obtained from old settlers near the Arboretum.
- THREE OLD-TIMERS: [Illustration of three types of roses, from left to right]
- Harrison's Yellow
- moss rose
- Cabbage rose
- These three and other old-time roses were obtained from:
- 1. The Jones Homestead in Warrenville, to which the Jones family came from New York State in 1845 in a covered wagon.
- 2. The old Peaslee home in Naperville, to which the Peaslee family came, from West Virginia, 60 years ago.
- 3. The Blanchard home in Wheaton. The roses were moved from Cincinnati, Ohio, to Galseburg, Illinois; then from Galesburg to Wheaton.
- 4. The property given by President Jonathan Blanchard, first president of Wheaton College, in 1890, to his daughter.
- 5. The oldest house in Wheaton, (corner of Naperville Rd. and Roosevelt) built by Warren Wheaton, who came from Connecticut in 1837, and built the house in 1847.
- and others
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
Botanical plates / M.E. Eaton.. [et al.]. (3.29665)
Date: 1916 – 1964Creator: Eaton, Mary Emily.
Type: Painting
Extent: 281 prints : art reproductions, color, b&w 27 x 18 cm.
Botanical plates / M.E. Eaton.. [et al.]. (3.29698)
Date: 1916 – 1964Creator: Eaton, Mary Emily.
Type: Painting
Extent: 281 prints : art reproductions, color, b&w 27 x 18 cm.
Botanical plates / M.E. Eaton.. [et al.]. (3.29714)
Date: 1916 – 1964Creator: Eaton, Mary Emily.
Type: Painting
Extent: 281 prints : art reproductions, color, b&w 27 x 18 cm.
Bulletin of Popular Information V. 29 No. 04 (3.32589)
Date: April 1954Creator: Kammerer, E. Lowell
Type: Serial
Description:
- More Plant Combinations
Extent: 4 pages
Topographical Map of a Portion of Assessment Plat No. 4, Lands Belonging to Trustees Under the Will of Joy Morton, Deceased, near Lisle, DuPage County, Illinois (3.5255)
Date: January 15 1954Creator: Steinbrecher, Harold F.
Type: Map
Description:Shows designs for a subdivision that was never developed in the Park Blvd. and Main Thornhill Drive area. Elevations are based on an arbitrary benchmark. "Topo of Land South of S(t)romquist, N. of Main Drive, W. Side" in pencil on reverse of map.
Extent: 1 sheet
Skunk Cabbage (3.19478)
Date: 1940 – 1960Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustration of the skunk cabbage plant with environment, including three detailed views of flowering parts. Background sketches include a willow tree, cattails, and skunk cabbage in and near water.
Header: SKUNK CABBAGE
Illustrations as depicted, from top to bottom, left to right:
- enlarged view of the spathe
- enlarge view of a single flower
- enlarged view of the spadix
Extent: 1 sheet
Botanical plates / M.E. Eaton.. [et al.]. (3.29764)
Date: 1916 – 1964Creator: Eaton, Mary Emily.
Type: Painting
Extent: 281 prints : art reproductions, color, b&w 27 x 18 cm.
View of Thornhill (3.31060)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: 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
Bulletin of Popular Information V. 29 No. 05 (3.32590)
Date: May 1954Creator: Kammerer, E. Lowell
Type: Serial
Description:
- Looking At The Japanese Quinces
Extent: 6 pages
Topographical Map of a Portion of Assessment Plat No. 1, Lands Belonging to Trustees Under the Will of Joy Morton, Deceased, near Lisle, DuPage County, Illinois (3.5257)
Date: January 30 1954Creator: Steinbrecher, Harold F.
Type: Map
Description:Surveys area in which the Arbordale subdivision now is located. Elevations are based on an arbitrary benchmark. "Topo of Housing Site S. of CEO Residence" is in pencil on the back of the map.
Extent: 1 sheet
Chelone obliqua (3.55797)
Date: 1954Creator: Schulenberg, Ray
Type: Document
Description:A note card containing handwritten notes (presumably written by Ray Schulenberg) with propagation information on prairie plants.
Extent: 1 Card
Arboretum Landscape Teaching Aid Series: Confirmation from Old Maps (3.19500)
Date: 1940 – 1960Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Primarily textual teaching aid depicting Arboretum landscape. This material is depicted in the shape of an open book. It shows a drawing of an old map of the farm that later became the Arboretum.
Header: CONFIRMATION from old maps
Text and illustrations from top to bottom, left to right:
- text: An old map shows the location of the farmhouse and the spring house
- map illustration: a road extending from bottom to top, a stream extending from left to right, trees at top and right, and a small patch of farm land at center with a wall and two structures, one labeled "Solomon Mertz" and the other "Spring house"
- text, bottom right: FROM 1874 ATLAS OF DUPAGE COUNTY
Extent: 1 sheet
Arboretum Landscape Teaching Aid Series: Indian Trails and Villages (3.19508)
Date: 1940 – 1960Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Primarily textual teaching aid depicting Arboretum landscape. This material describes a Native American chipping station and village located on what later became The Morton Arborteum grounds. It also includes a map showing locations of other Native American sites and trails throughout the Chicagoland area. An arrowhead wrapped in plastic is still attached on the left, while a second arrowhead appears to be missing on the right.
Header: INDIANS had a chipping station and a village here ----
Text and illustrations from top to bottom:
- [Depicted in stylized scroll] [Arrowhead wrapped in plastic] THE RECORD many arrowheads many chips of flint and chert shaped tomahawk heads [plastic wrapping]
- Map: INDIAN TRAILS AND VILLAGES OF CHICAGO AND OF COOK, DUPAGE AND WILL COUNTIES, ILLS. (1804) AS SHOWN BY WEAPONS AND IMPLEMENTS OF THE STONE-AGE / COPYRIGHTED 1900 & 1901 ALBERT F. SCHARF. / - INDEX - [with map symbols]
- INDIAN VILLAGES (NUMBERED) [teepee symbol]
- MINOR INDIAN VILLAGES [triangle with "x" at top]
- INDIAN CAMPS [triangle]
- CHIPPING STATIONS [inverted triangle]
- PRINCIPAL INDIAN TRAILS LETTERED AND NUMBERED [line]
- PORTAGE [concave depression]
- SPRINGS [inverted "J"]
- HEIGHTS AND SIGNAL STATIONS [cross]
- INDIAN MOUNDS [circle with dot in center]
- MOUND BUILDERS TRAIL [mound symbol]
- Text at bottom of map: AN ARCHEOLOGICAL MAP OF CHICAGO AND VICINITY / This map, the work of Albert F. Scharf, is reproduced by the courtesy of Mr. Scharf and the Chicago Historical Society.
- Text below map: Arboretum in green
Extent: 1 sheet
Under the Roost of the Long-Eared Owls (3.24641)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: 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
Botanical plates / M.E. Eaton.. [et al.]. (3.29765)
Date: 1916 – 1964Creator: Eaton, Mary Emily.
Type: Painting
Extent: 281 prints : art reproductions, color, b&w 27 x 18 cm.