1996/10/18: George Ware to Carl Niermann (3.47519)
Date: October 18 1996Creator: Ware, George
Type: Document
Description:Letter from George Ware to Carl Niermann discussing the condition of the oak trees on his property and the death of one due to increased soil wetness.
Extent: 1 sheet
1997/04/29: George Ware to Brian O'Day (3.47523)
Date: April 29 1997Creator: Ware, George
Type: Document
Description:Fax from George Ware to Brian O'Day assessing six red oaks on a property in Naperville, Illinois. Yellow post-it attached with fax number.
Extent: 2 sheets
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: Know, Know, Know Your Oaks, This Is How They Grow (3.19509)
Date: 1940 – 1960Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Primarily textual teaching aid depicting Arboretum landscape. This material describes the growth direction of five types of oak tree branches. Illustrations depict small human-shaped figures that indicate tree branch growth with arms and run diagonally down the center of the image with descriptive text on either side.
Header: Know, know, know your oaks, / This is how they grow:
Text and illustrations from top to bottom:
- Red Oak, [illustration of figure with arms raised overhead] (arms held to indicate acute-angled branching)
- White Oak, [illustration of figure with arms raised to shoulders] (arms indicate right-angled branching)
- Bur Oak, [illustration of figure with arms raised to shoulder and elbows bent down] (elbows indicated gnarled branching)
- Pin Oak, [illustration of figure with arms extended at sides] (deflected lower branches)
- and Hill's, untidy below. [illustration of figure with arms raised to shoulder, elbows bent down, and fingers splayed] (fingers indicate deflected, dead, lower branches)
Extent: 1 sheet
Canada jay = Corvus canadensis. Linn. (3.29155)
Date: 1950Creator: Audubon, John James, 1785-1851.
Type: Painting
Extent: 1 print : commercial reproduction, color image 44 x 33 cm., on sheet 50 x 41 cm.
Education charts: Twigs, #3 (3.34236)
Type: Photographic image
Description:An educational chart created by May T. Watts for The Morton Arboretum, depicting 16 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:
- 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 slide
Emergent Plant Series: #6, Climax Forest Stage (3.19490)
Date: 1950sCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Part of a series of numbered illustrations about the stages of pond growth. This material includes a view of a pond in the center with forest trees and hills in the background, and a cross-section of illustrations of forest trees, and trees and emergent plants of the water's edge.
Header: CLIMAX FOREST STAGE / THE PERMAMENT FOREST of the REGION
Drawings and text from top to bottom, left to right:
- pond and surrounding landscape
- cross-section [divided into 7 sections]:
- CLIMAX FOREST
- red oak
- white oak
- hickory
- LOWLAND FOREST ZONE
- elm
- ash
- hackberry
- linden
- PIONEER TREE ZONE
- willow
- silver maple
- EMERGENT ZONE
- cat-tails
- arrowhead
- bur reed
- pickerel weed
- bull-rush
- PIONEER TREE ZONE
- LOWLAND FOREST ZONE
- CLIMAX FOREST
- CLIMAX FOREST
Extent: 1 sheet
Forest Nature Trail Guide, page 12 illustrations and layout with preliminary sketches (3.24669)
Date: 1946Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Sheet One: Original illustrations and layout for page 12, 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 #29: Four Kinds of Acorns
Identifying characteristics for "red," "northern pin," "bur," and "white" acorns as labeled and illustrated to the right.
Tree stump #30: Hepatica Leaves
Identifying characteristics for leaves, flower, and berry including a cube shape illustrated to the right - appears to have been replaced with new illustration of leaves on separate card that has become unglued (see below).
Tree stump #31: Blackberries
Identifying characteristics for leaves illustrated to the right - appears to have been replaced with new illustration of leaves, flower, and berry on separate card that has become unglued (see below).
Tree stump #32: A White Oak Tradmark
Illustration of a White Oak trunk with a band of bark that has been formed due to fungus.
Tree stump #33: Young Sugar Maples
Identifying characteristics for leaves and seeds illustrated to the right.
A cutout illustration depicting leaf characteristics for the Hepatica and leaf, flower, and berry characteristics for blackberries originally adhered to board has detached and is housed with art.
Sheet Two: Preliminary sketch of green-colored illustrations.
Extent: 2 sheets
Forest Nature Trail Guide, page 3 illustrations and layout with preliminary sketches (3.24653)
Date: 1946Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Sheet One: Original illustrations and layout for page 3, 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 #1: Four Kinds of Oaks
Identifying characteristics for oak trees and leaves illustrated to the right for Bur Oak, White Oak, Red Oak, Northern Pin Oak.
Tree stump #2: A Limestone Boulder
Identifying characteristics for trilobites and crinoids illustrated to the right.
Tree stump #3: A Granite Boulder
Identifying characteristics for granite boulder illustrated to the right.
Tree stump #4: Wild Black Raspberries
Identifying characteristics for wild black raspberries leaves, stem, flower, and fruit illustrated to the right.
Sheet Two: Preliminary sketch of green-colored illustrations.
Extent: 2 sheets
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
Gary Watson (on tractor) and Mike Spravka in Round Meadow gathering soil samples to study roots of white oaks in amended soils, Giddings Rig (3.4549)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Gary Watson (on tractor) and Mike Spravka in Round Meadow gathering soil samples to study roots of white oaks in amended soils, Giddings Rig
Extent: 1 photograph
Holiday card 1998 : trees in four seasons / Nancy Hart Stieber. (3.30397)
Date: 1998Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Painting
Extent: 1 painting : watercolor, color image 12 x 33 cm., on sheet 24 x 37 cm. + 1 greeting card (art reproduction : color folded size, 10 x 23 cm.)
Holiday card 1998 [graphic] : trees in four seasons / Nancy Hart Stieber. (3.24011)
Date: 1998Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 1 painting : watercolor, color image 12 x 33 cm., on sheet 24 x 37 cm. + 1 greeting card (art reproduction : color folded size, 10 x 23 cm.)
January Calendar (3.19467)
Date: 1940sCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Calendar for the month of January consisting of five rows and seven columns depicting days and dates from Sunday through Saturday, the 1st through the 31st. Each square has a date plus illustration and text, some of which anticipates the coming Spring and some which show reminders of the past year.
Header: January
Text and illustrations, from top to bottom, left to right:
- (Friday, 1) [image of dogwood stems and buds] flowering dogwood is ready for Spring
- (Saturday, 2) [image of hemlock needles and cones] small cones drip from the hemlock tips -
- (Sunday, 3) [image of unidentified stems and fruit]
- (Monday, 4) [image of one chickadee and a birdhouse]
- (Tuesday, 5) [image of two chickadees and a birdhouse] chikca-dees stay to crack their seeds
- (Wednesday, 6) [image of evergreen needles and star magnolia stems and buds] star mag-nolia buds are pale against evergreens
- (Thursday, 7) [image of long-eared owl on branch of Norway spruce] long-eared owls look down from Norway spruce trees
- (Friday, 8) [image of 2 pellets on ground beneath evergreen branch] 2 pellets under an owl roost contain skeletons of 2 deer mice
- (Saturday, 9) [image of small animal bones on ground] when an owl pellet is pulled apart, evidence of sudden death is re-vealed
- (Sunday, 10) [image of euonymus stems and fruit] Euonymus still holds some of the "little hearts bursting with love"
- (Monday, 11) [image of birch stems, cones, and catkins] wind and birds have shattered birch cones but catkins are ready for Spring
- (Tuesday, 12) [image of zumi crabapple stems and fruit] Zumi crabs still hold their fruit
- (Wednesday, 13) [image of one cardinal and a birdhouse] the cardinal is back now that we have sunflower seeds again
- (Thursday, 14) [images of canker-worms on a dogwood twig] on a dogwood twig, canker worms are ready for Spring
- (Friday, 15) [images of evergreens and a hawthorn] hoar frost is on the hawthorns ---
- (Saturday, 16) [image of redbud stems, buds, and fruit] on red-bud, flower buds are ready for next Spring, and pods recall last Spring's flowers
- (Sunday, 17) [image of a bird on a tree branch]
- (Monday, 18) [image of sycamore trunks and branches] sycamore bark
- (Tuesday, 19) [image of trees and a trail] evergreen trail
- (Wednesday, 20) [image of rhododendron stems and leaves] Rhododendron leaves pointing down say it's COLD!
- (Thursday, 21) [image of a white Oak] white oaks hold last summer's leaves on lower branches
- (Friday, 22) [image of a Norway spruce] Norway spruce holds long cones
- (Saturday, 23) [image of pixie-cup lichens through a magnifying glass] there are Pixie-cup lichens in the spruce plot
- (Sunday, 24) [image of two ostrich ferns] the fertile fronds of ostrich fern stand stiff and dark
- (Monday, 25) [image of American cranberry-bush stems and fruit] high-bush cranberry wears puffs of snow
- (Tuesday, 26) [image of winter wren in brush] the winter wren weaves through low brush
- (Wednesday, 27) [image of hazel stems and catkins] hazel catkins feel softer
- (Thursday, 28) [image of vernal witch-hazel and close-up of flower] vernal witch hazel is in bloom
- (Friday, 29) [image of one set of raccoon tracks] raccoon tracks are plentiful after a mild night
- (Saturday, 30) [image of two sets of deer mouse tracks with trail mark between] white-footed deer mouse hops past
- (Sunday, 31) [image of three sets of Junco bird tracks] juncoes hop too
Extent: 1 sheet
Landscape with Houses and Trees (3.24647)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: 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
Leaf Prints: White Oak (3.27721)
Date: circa 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Print
Description:A white negative nature print of white oak leaves and stems on a dark background with identifying text at bottom right handwritten by May T. Watts.
Identifying text:
- Oak white
- Quercus alba
Extent: 1 sheet
Logo designs [graphic] : AABGA conference 1995 / N.S. Hart. (3.24510)
Date: 1995Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 2 drawings : pen and ink, b&w 25 x 35 cm., and smaller + 4 photocopies b&w, 25 x 35 cm., and smaller.
Logo designs [graphic] : AABGA conference 1995 / N.S. Hart. (3.24511)
Date: 1995Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 2 drawings : pen and ink, b&w 25 x 35 cm., and smaller + 4 photocopies b&w, 25 x 35 cm., and smaller.
Logo designs [graphic] : AABGA conference 1995 / N.S. Hart. (3.24038)
Date: 1995Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 2 drawings : pen and ink, b&w 25 x 35 cm., and smaller + 4 photocopies b&w, 25 x 35 cm., and smaller.
Logo designs [graphic] : AABGA conference 1995 / N.S. Hart. (3.24062)
Date: 1995Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 2 drawings : pen and ink, b&w 25 x 35 cm., and smaller + 4 photocopies b&w, 25 x 35 cm., and smaller.
Logo designs [graphic] : AABGA conference 1995 / N.S. Hart. (3.24063)
Date: 1995Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 2 drawings : pen and ink, b&w 25 x 35 cm., and smaller + 4 photocopies b&w, 25 x 35 cm., and smaller.
Logo designs [graphic] : AABGA conference 1995 / N.S. Hart. (3.24064)
Date: 1995Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 2 drawings : pen and ink, b&w 25 x 35 cm., and smaller + 4 photocopies b&w, 25 x 35 cm., and smaller.
Logotype designs for The Morton Arboretum [graphic] / N.S. Hart. (3.24492)
Date: 1972Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 3 drawings : pen and ink, b&w image size a.) 16 x 13 cm. b. and c.) 14 x 12 cm., on sheets 28 x 21 cm.
Millennium Oak in summer (3.39878)
Date: July 21 2015Type: Photographic image
Description:The historic Millenium Oak spreads its branches high above the summer grasses at The Morton Arboretum
Notecards: Views of the Arboretum (3.27751)
Date: 1940 – 1960Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Print
Description:Nine notecards showing 5 different views of The Morton Arboretum. Notecards are black ink etchings on cream paper, folded, with a deckle edge, accompanied by nine matching cream envelopes with a deckle edge and housed in a two-sided, gray leatherette portfolio with an orange paper tie. All notecards are blank with the exception of one which has a letter written inside.
Text in blue on front of the portfolio: THE MORTON ARBORETUM LISLE, ILLINOIS
Title on the bottom left and The Morton Arboretum on the bottom right of each notecard:
- From the hedge collection [1 card]
- Illustration depicts stone steps leading up to hedge collection and evergreen trees
- Along a small stream [3 cards]
- Illustration depicts a stream, bridge, tress, and shrubbery in winter
- Thornhill Building [2 cards]
- Illustration depicts view up the hill to the Thornhill building, with bare trees and mushrooms in foreground, clouds and trees behind building in background
- Along walk to Thornhill Building [2 cards, one containing correspondence regarding plans for a field trip]
- Illustration depicts trees and flowers in forest
- White oak [1 card]
- Illustration depicts a winter white oak in forest with shrubbery
Extent: 9 notecards with envelopes
Oaks (#1) (3.24411)
Date: 1986Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Description:Four different oak trees: swamp white oak, white oak, northern red oak, and bur oak, with a single leaf to the right of each tree. Tree name is pasted next to or below each tree. Drawn for a vote to choose the state tree by 5th grade students.
Extent: 1 drawing
Oaks (#2) (3.24412)
Date: 1986Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Description:White oak tree with roots showing drip line. Single leaf to the left underneath the tree. Used for Plant Clinic handouts.
Extent: 1 drawing
Oaks (#3) (3.24006)
Date: 1986Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Print
Description:Three different winter oak trees: white oak, northern red oak, and bur oak. Each tree has an acorn to the left and a leaf to the right of the trunk. White oak acorn has been cut out and is missing.
Extent: 1 print
Oaks of the Arboretum (3.24796)
Date: 1944Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustrations of five species of oak, created to accompany "The Oaks of The Morton Arboretum" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information. Illustrations include full tree outline in winter. Each oak is accompanied with descriptive text including its scientific name, soil requirements, branch, and bark descriptions.
Trees and text depicted from left to right, top to bottom:
- Eastern Red Oak -- Quercus borealis maxima
- smooth upper parts; acute-angled branching, dark ridged bark, on well-drained upland
- Pin Oak -- Quercus palustris
- straight central shaft; payramidal shape; short spur-like twigs; dark ridged bark; in moist lowland
- Northern Pin Oak -- Quercus ellipsoidalis
- smooth upper parts; leaves persistent in winter; deflected dead lower branches; on well-drained upland
- White Oak -- Quercus alba
- horizontal branching; leaves persistent in winter; scaly whitish bark; on well-drained upland
- Bur Oak -- Quercus macrocarpa
- gnarled branches; corky ridges; gray, ridged bark; on rich bottom-land
Extent: 1 sheet
Pine Hill, pine plantings on Thornhill residence grounds (3.37878)
Date: 1930sType: Photographic image
Description:Pine Hill, pine plantings on residence grounds
White pine in foreground, White oak and Scotch pine in background
Extent: 1 negative
Poster of botanical items (3.34290)
Type: Photographic image
Description:A poster composed of leaf and plant specimens, a feather, a braided belt, and leaf drawings. Labels are included, but most are illegible.
Legible text:
- WALNUT
- BLADDER NUT
- BLACK WALNUT
- SASSFRAS
- LINDEN ROPE
- WHITE OAK
- [BLACK ---]
- HEMLOCK
- HONEY LOC
Extent: 1 slide
Quercus (oak), section of mature trunks (3.38334)
Date: December 1972Creator: Reynolds, P. J.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Quercus (oak), close-up section of two mature trunks showing bark detail of Quercus veluntina (black oak) with deep ridges on left and Quercus alba (white oak) with pale gray peeling ridges on right amongst trees and fallen brown leaves on snow-covered ground
Extent: 1 slide
Quercus alba (white oak) and Quercus macrocarpa (bur oak), acorns detail (3.38374)
Date: December 1972Creator: Reynolds, P. J.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Quercus alba (white oak) and Quercus macrocarpa (bur oak), detail of two acorns side by side with nuts facing up, showing dark brown nut and shallow cup of white oak on left and deep, shaggy-fringed cup of bur oak on right
Extent: 1 slide
Quercus alba (white oak), acorn and leaves detail (3.38327)
Date: August 1973Creator: Lamp, Herbert F.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Quercus alba (white oak), detail of single yellowish-green acorn amongst mature leaves with moderate to deep lobes and short stalk
Extent: 1 slide
Quercus alba (white oak), acorn and leaves detail (3.38328)
Date: August 1973Creator: Lamp, Herbert F.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Quercus alba (white oak), close-up view of single yellowish-green acorn and leaves with moderate to deep lobes and short stalk
Extent: 1 slide
Quercus alba (White Oak), acorn cap (3.46019)
Date: September 6 2017Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Quercus alba (White Oak), acorn cap