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.]. (3.29665)
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.
Mitteleuropäische Pflanzenwelt : Sträucher und Bäume [Pl. 7: Pinus cembra] (3.31151)
Date: 1956 – 1960Creator: Caspari, Claus, 1911-1980.
Type: Print
Description:Watercolor reproductions depicting woody plants of central Europe. German and Latin plant names on bottom. Text with scientific description on reverse side. Signed by Claus Caspari.
Extent: 1 print
Mitteleuropäische Pflanzenwelt : Sträucher und Bäume [Pl. 20: Salix reticulata] (3.31168)
Date: 1956 – 1960Creator: Caspari, Claus, 1911-1980.
Type: Print
Description:Watercolor reproductions depicting woody plants of central Europe. German and Latin plant names on bottom. Text with scientific description on reverse side. Signed by Claus Caspari.
Extent: 1 print
Mitteleuropäische Pflanzenwelt : Sträucher und Bäume [Pl. 73: Prunus amygdalus] (3.31201)
Date: 1956 – 1960Creator: Grossman, K.
Type: Print
Description:Watercolor reproductions depicting woody plants of central Europe. German and Latin plant names on bottom. Text with scientific description on reverse side. Signed by K. Grossman.
Extent: 1 print
Mitteleuropäische Pflanzenwelt : Sträucher und Bäume [Pl. 115: Cornus mas] (3.31252)
Date: 1956 – 1960Creator: Caspari, Claus, 1911-1980.
Type: Print
Description:Watercolor reproductions depicting woody plants of central Europe. German and Latin plant names on bottom. Text with scientific description on reverse side. Signed by Claus Caspari.
Extent: 1 print
Mitteleuropäische Pflanzenwelt : Kräuter und Stauden [Pl. 164: Cichorium intybus] (3.31287)
Date: 1957Type: Painting
Extent: 168 watercolor reproductions : photomechanical prints, color 27 x 19 cm + 1 index.
Mitteleuropäische Pflanzenwelt : Kräuter und Stauden [Pl. 80: Lotus corniculatus] (3.31367)
Date: 1957Type: Painting
Extent: 168 watercolor reproductions : photomechanical prints, color 27 x 19 cm + 1 index.
Mitteleuropäische Pflanzenwelt : Kräuter und Stauden [Pl. 95: Oenothera biennis] (3.31382)
Date: 1957Type: Painting
Extent: 168 watercolor reproductions : photomechanical prints, color 27 x 19 cm + 1 index.
Mitteleuropäische Pflanzenwelt : Kräuter und Stauden [Pl. 107: Lysimachia nummularia] (3.31394)
Date: 1957Type: Painting
Extent: 168 watercolor reproductions : photomechanical prints, color 27 x 19 cm + 1 index.
Mitteleuropäische Pflanzenwelt : Kräuter und Stauden [Pl. 151: Aster amellus] (3.31438)
Date: 1957Type: Painting
Extent: 168 watercolor reproductions : photomechanical prints, color 27 x 19 cm + 1 index.
Forest Road in winter near Buckeye Collection (3.32165)
Date: 1950sType: Photographic image
Description:Forest Road in winter near Buckeye Collection
Extent: 1 negative
Aerial view of Arbor Lodge (3.3290)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Savage, John S.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Aerial view of Arbor Lodge
Extent: 1 photograph
Tentative Plat of Owner's Resubdivision of Lot One in Assessment Plat No. One: Lands Belonging to Trustees Under the Will of Joy Morton, Deceased (3.5375)
Date: August 27 1957Creator: Steinbrecher, Harold F.
Type: Map
Description:Area surveyed, 59.52 acres, shows layout of Arbordale and Arbor Lake. Topographical contours are given.
Extent: 1 sheet
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.]. (3.29764)
Date: 1916 – 1964Creator: Eaton, Mary Emily.
Type: Painting
Extent: 281 prints : art reproductions, color, b&w 27 x 18 cm.
Mitteleuropäische Pflanzenwelt : Sträucher und Bäume [Pl. 16: Salix caprea] (3.31152)
Date: 1956 – 1960Creator: Caspari, Claus, 1911-1980.
Type: Print
Description:Watercolor reproductions depicting woody plants of central Europe. German and Latin plant names on bottom. Text with scientific description on reverse side. Signed by Claus Caspari.
Extent: 1 print
Mitteleuropäische Pflanzenwelt : Sträucher und Bäume [Pl. 29: Alnus glutinosa] (3.31169)
Date: 1956 – 1960Creator: Caspari, Claus, 1911-1980.
Type: Print
Description:Watercolor reproductions depicting woody plants of central Europe. German and Latin plant names on bottom. Text with scientific description on reverse side. Signed by Claus Caspari.
Extent: 1 print
Mitteleuropäische Pflanzenwelt : Sträucher und Bäume [Pl. 86: Genista sagittalis] (3.31220)
Date: 1956 – 1960Creator: Grossman, K.
Type: Print
Description:Watercolor reproductions depicting woody plants of central Europe. German and Latin plant names on bottom. Text with scientific description on reverse side. Signed by K. Grossman.
Extent: 1 print
Mitteleuropäische Pflanzenwelt : Sträucher und Bäume [Pl. 130: Erica tetralix] (3.31272)
Date: 1956 – 1960Creator: Grossman, K.
Type: Print
Description:Watercolor reproductions depicting woody plants of central Europe. German and Latin plant names on bottom. Text with scientific description on reverse side. Signed by K. Grossman.
Extent: 1 print
Mitteleuropäische Pflanzenwelt : Kräuter und Stauden [Pl. 1: Typhia latifolia] (3.31288)
Date: 1957Type: Painting
Extent: 168 watercolor reproductions : photomechanical prints, color 27 x 19 cm + 1 index.
Mitteleuropäische Pflanzenwelt : Kräuter und Stauden [Pl. 81: Coronilla varia] (3.31368)
Date: 1957Type: Painting
Extent: 168 watercolor reproductions : photomechanical prints, color 27 x 19 cm + 1 index.
Mitteleuropäische Pflanzenwelt : Kräuter und Stauden [Pl. 96: Sanicula europaea] (3.31383)
Date: 1957Type: Painting
Extent: 168 watercolor reproductions : photomechanical prints, color 27 x 19 cm + 1 index.
Mitteleuropäische Pflanzenwelt : Kräuter und Stauden [Pl. 120: Ajuga reptans] (3.31407)
Date: 1957Type: Painting
Extent: 168 watercolor reproductions : photomechanical prints, color 27 x 19 cm + 1 index.
Mitteleuropäische Pflanzenwelt : Kräuter und Stauden [Pl. 136: Euphrasia rostkoviana] (3.31423)
Date: 1957Type: Painting
Extent: 168 watercolor reproductions : photomechanical prints, color 27 x 19 cm + 1 index.
Mitteleuropäische Pflanzenwelt : Kräuter und Stauden, ein Auswahl unter Berücksichtigung der in Deutscland geschützen Arten = [Flora of central Europe : herbaceous plants] / Ausgewählt und bearb. von Richard Kräusel, unter Mitarbeit von Hermann Merxmüller und Heinrich Nothdurft [reproductions of original watercolors by C. Caspari and K. Grossman]. (3.31452)
Date: 1957Type: Painting
Extent: 168 watercolor reproductions : photomechanical prints, color 27 x 19 cm + 1 index.
Forest Road in winter, possibly leading to woodlot (3.32166)
Date: 1950sType: Photographic image
Description:Forest Road in winter, possibly leading to woodlot
Extent: 1 negative
South Farm buildings behind parking lot full of cars (3.38473)
Date: 1950sType: Photographic image
Description:South Farm buildings behind parking lot full of cars
Extent: 1 filmstrip
Northern Illinois Toll Highway Parcel No. E-2-25, Morton Arboretum, Section 1 & 2, T.38N., R. 10E. of the 3rd P.M., DuPage County, Illinois (3.5381)
Date: January 24 1957Creator: Illinois State Toll Highway Authority
Type: Map
Description:Shows four tracts of Arboretum land, comprising 39.53 acres, surveyed for the East-West Tollway and Finley Road.
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.]. (3.29765)
Date: 1916 – 1964Creator: Eaton, Mary Emily.
Type: Painting
Extent: 281 prints : art reproductions, color, b&w 27 x 18 cm.