Three Trees Whose Relatives Are Largely In the Tropics (3.19472)
Date: 1940sCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustrations of three types of leaves layered one on top of the other.
Text at center left: Three trees whose relatives are largely in the tropics
Illustrations from center outward:
- Silver Bell
- Fringe Tree
- Paw-paw
Extent: 1 sheet
Winter Buds, #3 (3.19513)
Date: 1940 – 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Large poster depicting 16 types of winter buds, bound in green tape.
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 sheet
Evergreen Nature Trail Guide, back cover/page 16 illustrations and layout with preliminary sketches (3.24690)
Date: 1940sCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Sheet One: Original illustrations and layout for back cover/page 16, for The Morton Arboretum Evergreen Nature Trail Guide booklet. Key lines included.
Includes a key to evergreen needle characteristics. Header text "A KEY TO THE EVERGREENS ALONG THIS TRAIL"
(first section) Needles in Bundles
Includes illustrated identifying characteristics of Evergreen needles in 2's, in 3's and in 5's.
(second section) NEEDLES OVERLAPPING
Includes illustrated identifying characteristics of Evergreen needles, including those with 2 kinds of needles and with 1 kind of needle.
(third section) NEEDLES DECIDUOUS
Includes illustrated identifying characteristics of Evergreen needles, including tufts and 2-ranked.
(fourth section) NEEDLES NOT IN BUNDLES; NOT OVERLAPPING; NOT DECIDUOUS
Includes illustrated identifying characteristics of Evergreen needles, including categories "Needles flat, twigs smooth" and "Needles 4-sided, twigs rough."
Sheet Two: Preliminary sketch of green-colored illustrations.
Extent: 2 sheets
Coprinus comatus (3.29229)
Date: 1920 – 1950Creator: Beggs, Helene Warder, 1882-1970
Type: Painting
Extent: 1 painting : watercolor and graphite 28 x 20 cm.
Lycoperdon cyathiforme (3.29246)
Date: 1920 – 1950Creator: Beggs, Helene Warder, 1882-1970
Type: Painting
Extent: 1 painting : watercolor and graphite 26 x 21 cm.
Two mushrooms (3.29263)
Date: 1920 – 1950Creator: Beggs, Helene Warder, 1882-1970
Type: Painting
Extent: 1 painting : watercolor and graphite 26 x 18 cm.
View from prairie remnant on Meadow Road looking northwest over Cutten land (3.3027)
Date: 1940sType: Photographic image
Description:View from prairie remnant on Meadow Road looking northwest over Cutten land
Extent: 1 photograph
Bulletin of Popular Information V. 18 No. 3 (3.32459)
Date: March 1943Creator: Kammerer, E. Lowell
Type: Serial
Description:
- Birches 2
Extent: 4 pages
Ridge Road in winter through bare trees looking east (3.32759)
Date: 1930 – 1949Type: Photographic image
Description:Ridge Road in winter through bare trees looking east
Extent: 1 negative
Trees in October alongside Ridge Road (3.32768)
Date: 1930 – 1949Type: Photographic image
Description:Trees in October alongside Ridge Road
Extent: 1 negative
Meadow Road looking north (3.33186)
Date: 1930 – 1949Type: Photographic image
Description:Meadow Road looking north
Extent: 1 negative
Forest Road, unpaved, in dappled sunlight (3.33201)
Date: 1922 – 1949Type: Photographic image
Description:Forest Road, unpaved, in dappled sunlight
Original Ed Puffer land
Extent: 1 negative
Ridge Road intersection with Valley Road looking east (3.33209)
Date: 1925 – 1949Type: Photographic image
Description:Ridge Road intersection with Valley Road looking east
Extent: 1 negative
A Bur Oak Twig (3.19473)
Date: 1940sCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Detailed illustration of a single bur oak twig with identifying text.
Text: a bur oak twig
Extent: 1 sheet
Arboretum Landscape Teaching Aid Series: The Great Ice Sheet (3.19496)
Date: 1940 – 1960Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Primarily textual teaching aid depicting Arboretum landscape. This material shows how the Arboretum Hills were pushed from Canada and Wisconsin.
Header: THE GREAT ICE SHEET brought THE ARBORETUM HILLS from Canada to Wisconsin
Text and illustrations from top to bottom:
- [Depicted in stylized scroll with an illustration of a body of water between two hills] The Record: The Arboretum hills are made of unsorted clay, sand, gravel and boulders.
- Interpreting the record:
- 1) Ice-deposited material is an unsorted material [arrow pointing right to illustration of ice-deposited material] Water-deposited material is sorted into layers [arrow pointing right to illustration of water-deposited material] The Arboretum hills are made of material dumped by the melting ice.
- 2) Granite boulders are found in this material. No granite bed-rock is found within 200 miles of here.
- 3) Rocks frozen into a glacier are flattened and scratched like this [arrow pointing left to illustration of a rock] (see rock at end of table) Water-borne rocks are rounded and smoothed.
Extent: 1 sheet
Arboretum Landscape Teaching Aid Series: Affirmation from Memories of Old Settlers, Part II (3.19504)
Date: 1940 – 1960Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Primarily textual teaching aid depicting Arboretum landscape. This material is depicted in the shape of a head, including sketches of eyes, a nose, and mouth. It describes the childhood memories of an early settler who recalls pulling up stumps to help create pasture as a boy.
Header: Affirmation from memories of old settlers
Text from top to bottom:
- Mr Henry Schwarz recalls helping, as a boy, to grub out stumps here to make pasture. He says "The stumps were Big and Close"
Extent: 1 sheet
Evergreen Nature Trail Guide, front cover/page 1 illustrations and layout w/ preliminary sketch page (3.24675)
Date: 1940sCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Sheet 1: Original illustrations and layout for the front cover/page 1 of The Morton Arboretum Evergreen Nature Trail Guide booklet. Key lines included.
Illustrated map of trail area. Stylized evergreen trees below map.
Sheet 2: Preliminary sketch page (no sketches), "green" written in top right corner.
Extent: 2 sheets
Amanita muscari (3.29209)
Date: 1920 – 1950Creator: Beggs, Helene Warder, 1882-1970
Type: Painting
Extent: 1 painting : watercolor and graphite 29 x 23 cm.
Coprinus micaceus (3.29230)
Date: 1920 – 1950Creator: Beggs, Helene Warder, 1882-1970
Type: Painting
Extent: 1 painting : watercolor and graphite 26 x 21 cm.
Lycoperdon gemmatum (3.29247)
Date: 1920 – 1950Creator: Beggs, Helene Warder, 1882-1970
Type: Painting
Extent: 1 painting : watercolor and graphite 26 x 18 cm.
Volvaria bombycina (3.29264)
Date: 1920 – 1950Creator: Beggs, Helene Warder, 1882-1970
Type: Painting
Extent: 1 painting : watercolor and graphite 26 x 18 cm.
Botanical plates / M.E. Eaton.. [et al.]. (3.29579)
Date: 1916 – 1964Creator: Eaton, Mary Emily.
Type: Painting
Extent: 281 prints : art reproductions, color, b&w 27 x 18 cm.
Tree Portraits: Willow (3.31790)
Date: 1940 – 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Painting
Description:Color silhouette of a Willow tree, including a nature print outline of a leaf, a drawing of a twig with buds, and descriptive text.
Header: WILLOW
Drawings and text, from top to bottom, left to right:
- leaf
- twig and buds: single scale on each bud
- tree: twigs slender, yellow in Spring; along a river bank
Extent: 1 sheet
Bulletin of Popular Information V. 18 No. 04-05 (3.32460)
Date: April – May 1943Creator: Kammerer, E. Lowell
Type: Serial
Description:
- "Select" Shrubs For Use In The Chicago Area
Extent: 12 pages
Front Road curving right as viewed between two trees (3.33187)
Date: 1930 – 1949Type: Photographic image
Description:Front Road curving right as viewed between two trees
Extent: 1 negative
Forest Road in winter, footprints in the snow (3.33202)
Date: 1930 – 1949Type: Photographic image
Description:Forest Road in winter, footprints in the snow
Original Jake Mey land
Extent: 1 negative
Evergreen Trail covered in snow, first post sign from trail guide on right (3.33267)
Date: 1940sType: Photographic image
Description:Evergreen Trail covered in snow, first post sign from trail guide on right
Extent: 1 negative
Trail in summer near Thornhill residence, west side (3.33441)
Date: 1930 – 1949Type: Photographic image
Description:Trail in summer near Thornhill residence, west side
Grassy path through trees
Extent: 1 negative
Path on hill (3.33767)
Date: 1930 – 1949Type: Photographic image
Description:Path on hill
Extent: 1 negative
Thornhill Education Center, reception hall (3.3419)
Date: 1940sType: Photographic image
Description:Thornhill Education Center, reception hall
Extent: 1 photograph
Four Plants Whose Relatives Are In Eastern Asia (3.19474)
Date: 1940sCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustrations of leaves of four types of plants, including two with flowers.
Upper left text: Four plants whose relatives are in eastern Asia
Plants depicted, from left to right:
- tulip tree
- sweet gum
- Jeffersonia
- May apple
Extent: 1 sheet
Cedar Apple Rust: On Red Cedar and Hawthorn (3.19516)
Date: 1940sCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Informational text about the fungal disease known as cedar apple rust and its effect on Red cedar and Hawthorn trees. Text also includes information regarding laws enacted to prevent damage to apple orchards.
Text as depicted, from top to bottom:
- ON RED CEDAR
- AFFECTED TISSUES EVENTUALLY DIE, LEAVING DEAD AREAS WHERE WOOD-DECAYING FUNGI MAY ENTER.
- ON HAWTHORN
- ACTIVE LEAF SURFACE IS SERIOUSLY REDUCED........
- IF INFECTION IS HEAVY EXTENSIVE DEFOLIATION MAY OCCUR......................
- SEVERAL STATES HAVE ENACTED LAWS REQUIRING THE CUTTING OF RED CEDARS TO PREVENT INJURY TO APPLE ORCHARDS.
Extent: 1 sheet
Evergreen Nature Trail Guide, page 2 illustrations and layout with preliminary sketches (3.24676)
Date: 1940sCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Sheet One: Original illustrations and layout for page 2 (inside front cover), excluding text, for The Morton Arboretum Evergreen Nature Trail Guide booklet. Key lines included.
Introductory page to trail guide, including map of the trail's location on Arboretum grounds near parking lot 2. Map header text "LOCATION OF EVERGREEN NATURE TRAIL in the Arboretum" points arrow to Evergreen Nature Trail on map. Thornhill Building and Administration Building identified in map for reference to trail location on grounds.
Map also identifies 2 other trails in the Arboretum:
Thornhill Trail - identified by circles located near Thornhill Building
Forest Trail - identified by crosses in far right section of the map
Sheet Two: Preliminary sketch of green-colored map with page number and various ink lines.
Extent: 2 sheets
Amanitopsis vaginata (3.29210)
Date: 1920 – 1950Creator: Beggs, Helene Warder, 1882-1970
Type: Painting
Extent: 1 painting : watercolor and graphite 26 x 21 cm.
Cortinarius purpurascens (3.29231)
Date: 1920 – 1950Creator: Beggs, Helene Warder, 1882-1970
Type: Painting
Extent: 1 painting : watercolor and graphite 26 x 21 cm.