Students in a Junior Forestry class, using shovels to dig on the grounds (3.34156)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Schoolchildren participate in a Junior Forestry class with May T. Watts at The Morton Arboretum. Some use shovels to dig into the ground while others hold pruned trees.
Extent: 1 slide
May T. Watts giving a lecture (3.36037)
Type: Photographic image
Description:May T. Watts gives a lecture while wearing a microphone and standing next to a podium. A small tree is visible in the background
Extent: 1 photograph
Participants in a geology workshop, examining plants in a meadow (3.34149)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Participants in a geology workshop with May T. Watts inspect plants in a meadow at The Morton Arboretum.
Extent: 1 slide
Mabelle reading an informational device (3.34088)
Type: Photographic image
Description:A participant named Mabelle inspects a type of hand-held informational device during a class with May T. Watts at The Morton Arboretum.
Extent: 1 slide
Outdoor sketch class (3.34174)
Type: Photographic image
Description:An watercolor painting from an art class at the Morton Arboretum, depicting a person sketching outdoors while seated in a chair. A display board with what appears to be other paintings or sketches is visible to the left of the figure.
Extent: 1 slide
May T. Watts with a Wednesday morning class in a meadow (3.34081)
Type: Photographic image
Description:May T. Watts speaking with participants at a Wednesday morning class in a meadow at The Morton Arboretum.
Extent: 1 slide
May T. Watts leading workshop participants through a meadow (3.34142)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Workshop participants walk with May T. Watts through a meadow at The Morton Arboretum.
Extent: 1 slide
May T. Watts, public television presentation (3.34167)
Type: Photographic image
Description:May T. Watts presents her horticultural program at the studio of the Chicago public television station, WTTW. The camera crew is visible in the foreground.
Extent: 1 slide
May T. Watts and class at the Arboretum, riding in an open-air tram (3.33926)
Type: Photographic image
Description:May T. Watts and Helen Turner sit next to the driver of an open-air tram with a group taking her class at The Morton Arboretum.
Extent: 1 photograph
Ecology class workshop (3.34135)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Workshop participants attend an ecology class with May T. Watts at The Morton Arboretum.
Extent: 1 slide
Students in a Junior Forestry class, planting trees with teachers (3.34160)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Schoolchildren participate in a Junior Forestry class with May T. Watts at The Morton Arboretum. Some students are in the process of planting tress with help from their teachers.
Extent: 1 slide
Students in a Junior Forestry class, participating in a classroom activity (3.34153)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Schoolchildren participate in a Junior Forestry class with May T. Watts at The Morton Arboretum. These students and their teacher appear to be involved in a classroom activity about trees.
Extent: 1 slide
May T. Watts home, front yard (3.35350)
Type: Photographic image
Description:A portion of the front yard and front door to May T. Watts' home in Naperville, Illinois.
Extent: 1 negative
May T. Watts with class at work on Plot II (3.34102)
Type: Photographic image
Description:May T. Watts with participants in a class at work on Plot II.
Extent: 1 slide
Participants in a geology workshop, gathered in the shade (3.34146)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Participants in a geology workshop with May T. Watts stand in the shade of a wooded area at the Morton Arboretum.
Extent: 1 slide
Helen measuring a trout lily bulb root (3.34085)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Helen Turner measures the root of a trout lily bulb during a class with May T. Watts at The Morton Arboretum.
Extent: 1 slide
May T. Watts, presenting her public television program at WTTW (3.34171)
Type: Photographic image
Description:May T. Watts presents her horticultural program at the studio of the Chicago public television station, WTTW. The camera crew is visible in the foreground.
Extent: 1 slide
Workshop participants creating nature crafts with various art materials and leaves (3.34139)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Participants at a Morton Arboretum workshop with May T. Watts create nature crafts with art materials and leaves.
Extent: 1 slide
A brownish-red flower (3.34164)
Type: Photographic image
Description:A brownish-red colored flower, possibly a pansy.
Extent: 1 slide
Students in a Junior Forestry class, standing with shovels (3.34157)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Schoolchildren participate in a Junior Forestry class with May T. Watts at The Morton Arboretum. Some use shovels to dig into the ground while others appear to be observing something off camera.
Extent: 1 slide
May T. Watts giving a Lunch and Learning presentation (3.36038)
Type: Photographic image
Description:May T. Watts gives a Lunch and Learning presentation to visitors at The Morton Arboretum. She appears to be in the process of drawing flower petals.
Extent: 1 photograph
Students in a Junior Forestry class, listening to a classroom presentation (3.34150)
Type: Photographic image
Description:A group of schoolchildren and teachers in a Junior Forestry class with May T. Watts listen to a presentation in a classroom at the Morton Arboretum.
Extent: 1 slide
Mr. Nelson inspecting a specimen of sedge or grass (3.34089)
Type: Photographic image
Description:A participant named Mr. Nelson inspects a sedge or grass specimen during a class with May T. Watts at The Morton Arboretum.
Extent: 1 slide
Landscape and path (3.34175)
Type: Photographic image
Description:A watercolor painting of a landscape, from a class at the Morton Arboretum, depicting a path in a wooded area. A sign post is visible in the foreground, at the intersection of a path.
Extent: 1 slide
Participants in a geology workshop, examining the forest floor (3.34143)
Type: Photographic image
Description:A small group examines items on the forest floor during a geology workshop with May T. Watts at The Morton Arboretum.
Extent: 1 slide
May T. Watts, presenting in the WTTW public television studio (3.34168)
Type: Photographic image
Description:May T. Watts presents her horticultural program at the studio of the Chicago public television station, WTTW. The camera crew is visible in the foreground.
Extent: 1 slide
May T. Watts and class at the Arboretum, sitting on a bench (3.33928)
Type: Photographic image
Description:May T. Watts and Helen Turner sit on a bench at The Morton Arborteum with three other people, including two unidentified men and one unidentified women who may be attending one of her classes.
Extent: 1 photograph
Nature crafts with May T. Watts (3.34136)
Type: Photographic image
Description:May T. Watts guides two participants creating nature crafts at The Morton Arboretum.
Extent: 1 slide
Students in a Junior Forestry class, gathered outdoors (3.34161)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Schoolchildren participate in a Junior Forestry class with May T. Watts at The Morton Arboretum. The students stand grouped together in a circle with teachers.
Extent: 1 slide
May T. Watts speaking to visitors (3.36042)
Type: Photographic image
Description:May T. Watts speaks to visitors in front of what appears to be a display about the Illinois Prairie Path at a nature or plant expo.
The following words are visible in the background:
- the ILLINOIS PRAIRIE PATH
Extent: 1 photograph
Students in a Junior Forestry class, examining classroom materials (3.34154)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Schoolchildren participate in a Junior Forestry class at The Morton Arboretum. Educational aids from the Arboretum Landscape Teaching Aid Series created by May T. Watts are visible in the background, adhered to the bulletin board. These items include, from top to bottom, left to right:
- Arboretum Landscape Teaching Aid Series: Trees Keep Records
- Arboretum Landscape Teaching Aid Series: A Fence Long Gone Marked A Boundary
- Arboretum Landscape Teaching Aid Series: Indian Trails and Villages
- Arboretum Landscape Teaching Aid Series: An Old Bridge
- Arboretum Landscape Teaching Aid Series: Affirmation from Memories of Old Settlers, Part I
- Arboretum Landscape Teaching Aid Series: Affirmation from Memories of Old Settlers, Part II
Extent: 1 slide
A walking tour of The Morton Arboretum with May T. Watts, group walking along a path (3.35367)
Type: Photographic image
Description:May T. Watts leads a group walking along a path at The Morton Arboretum.
Extent: 1 photograph
Neal McLain measuring the diameter of a maple tree trunk (3.34103)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Neal McLain, class participant, measures the diameter of a maple tree trunk during a class with May T. Watts at The Morton Arboretum.
Extent: 1 slide
Participants in a geology workshop, listening to May T. Watts speak (3.34147)
Type: Photographic image
Description:A group of participants in a geology workshop with May T. Watts listen to her speak as they stand near several evergreen trees at the Morton Arboretum.
Extent: 1 slide
Marion inspecting a skunk cabbage (3.34086)
Type: Photographic image
Description:A participant named Marion conducts a close-up investigation of a skunk cabbage during a class with May T. Watts at The Morton Arboretum.
Extent: 1 slide
May T. Watts, presenting her program for public television (3.34172)
Type: Photographic image
Description:May T. Watts presents her horticultural program at the studio of the Chicago public television station, WTTW. The camera crew is visible in the foreground.
Extent: 1 slide