Pine Cones (3.24629)
Date: 1943Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustration of nine pine cones, created to accompany "The Cones Of The Arboretum" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information. Identifying text originally adhered to board have detached and are no longer present.
[Original header (not included with art): PINE CONES have scales with thickened tips; mature in 2 years]
Pine cones depicted, from left to right, top to bottom:
- Eastern white pine -- Pinus strobus
- Limber pine -- Pinus flexilis
- Red pine -- Pinus resinosa
- Scotch pine -- Pinus sylvestris
- Ponderosa pine -- Pinus ponderosa
- Austrian pine -- Pinus nigra
- Jack pine -- Pinus banksiana
- Japanese red pine -- Pinus densiflora
- Pitch pine -- Pinus rigida
Extent: 1 sheet
Evergreen Nature Trail Guide, page 9 illustrations and layout with preliminary sketches (3.24683)
Date: 1940sCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Sheet One: Original illustrations and layout for page 9, excluding text, for The Morton Arboretum Evergreen Nature Trail Guide booklet. Key lines included.
Pine Hill section begins with text "Pines have - needles in bundles (illustration of 3 types of bundles), tips of cone scales thickened (illustration of cone)."
Illustrated stumps with numbers indicate points of interest along trail as seen on trail map.
Tree stump #17: Jack Pine
Includes illustrated identifying characteristics of needles.
Tree stump #18: Jeffery Pine
Includes illustrated identifying characteristics of needles.
Tree stump #19: Limber Pine
Includes illustrated identifying characteristics of needles.
Tree stump #20: Ponderosa Pine
Includes illustrated identifying characteristics of needles.
Tree stump #21: Japanese White Pine
Includes illustrated identifying characteristics of needles and an illustrated image of Bonsai tree in pot on bottom right.
Several cutout illustrations depicting cone characteristics originally adhered to board have detached and are no longer present.
Sheet Two: Preliminary sketch of green-colored illustrations.
Extent: 2 sheets
Trees Native To North America But Not To This Region That Can Be Grown Here (3.33821)
Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:A large illustration depicting a bird's-eye view of three sets of houses and yards with different types of trees growing in each. The trees are drawn in silhouette.
Header:
- TREES NATIVE TO NORTH AMERICAN BUT NOT TO THIS REGION / THAT CAN BE GROWN HERE
arborvitae -- Osage-orange -- black locust -- hemlock -- gray birch -- Jeffrey pine -- flowering dogwood -- redbud -- tulip-tree -- pitch pine -- mountain-ash -- persimmon -- pawpaw -- red mulberry -- douglas-fir -- white spruce -- red-cedar -- [concolor] white fir -- balsam fir -- [Colorado] blue spruce -- jack pine -- paper birch -- magnolia -- white pine -- red pine -- beech -- limber pine -- ponderosa pine -- sycamore -- catalpa -- Ohio buckeye -- Pin oak
Extent: 1 sheet
Uses of Wood Exhibit (3.34367)
Date: September 4 1974Creator: Stickney, William S.
Type: Photographic image
Description:An exhibit featuring wood from 18 different trees and its uses. The display is configured in four concentric circles centered around a spinning cross: the inner circle depicts tree silhouettes, the next circle depicts detailed images of leaves, the third consists of square panels of processed wood, and the outer circle consists of dioramas depicting how each type of wood is used.
The cross is labeled as follows:
- TREE SHAPE
- LEAF [red arrow]
- WOOD
- USES
- TURN THE RED ARROW TO A LEAF / THE OTHER ARMS WILL POINT TO: / the shape of the tree / a piece of wood from the tree / some uses for the wood
- WHITE ASH
- ARBOR VITAE
- WHITE SPRUCE
- SWEET GUM
- SUGAR MAPLE
- AMERICAN LINDEN
- CHERRY
- TULIP TREE
- BALD CYPRESS
- IRONWOOD
- WHITE PINE
- BLACK WALNUT
- AMERICAN ELM
- SHAGBARK HICKORY
- WHITE OAK
- RED OAK
- EASTERN HEMLOCK
- PONDEROSA PINE
Extent: 1 slide
Uses of Wood Exhibit: Ponderosa Pine (3.34376)
Date: September 4 1974Creator: Stickney, William S.
Type: Photographic image
Description:A diorama from the Uses of Wood exhibit, depicting an example of how ponderosa pine wood is used in agricultural work, such as wheelbarrows and barn construction.
Extent: 1 slide
Pinus ponderosa (Ponderosa Pine), bark, branch (3.61256)
Date: April 16 1998Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Pinus ponderosa (Ponderosa Pine), bark, branch
Pinus ponderosa (Ponderosa Pine), bud (3.61257)
Date: March 22 2007Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Pinus ponderosa (Ponderosa Pine), bud
Pinus ponderosa (Ponderosa Pine), bud (3.61258)
Date: November 25 2008Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Pinus ponderosa (Ponderosa Pine), bud
Pinus ponderosa (Ponderosa Pine), cone, mature (3.61259)
Date: November 25 2008Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Pinus ponderosa (Ponderosa Pine), cone, mature
Pinus ponderosa (Ponderosa Pine), cone, mature (3.61260)
Date: November 25 2008Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Pinus ponderosa (Ponderosa Pine), cone, mature
Pinus ponderosa (Ponderosa Pine), cone, mature (3.61261)
Date: March 22 2007Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Pinus ponderosa (Ponderosa Pine), cone, mature
Pinus ponderosa (Ponderosa Pine), cone, mature (3.61262)
Date: November 25 2008Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Pinus ponderosa (Ponderosa Pine), cone, mature
Pinus ponderosa (Ponderosa Pine), cone, mature (3.61263)
Date: November 25 2008Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Pinus ponderosa (Ponderosa Pine), cone, mature
Pinus ponderosa (Ponderosa Pine), cone, mature (3.61264)
Date: April 16 1998Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Pinus ponderosa (Ponderosa Pine), cone, mature
Pinus ponderosa (Ponderosa Pine), habit, spring (3.61265)
Date: March 22 2007Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Pinus ponderosa (Ponderosa Pine), habit, spring
Pinus ponderosa (Ponderosa Pine), habit, spring (3.61266)
Date: April 16 1998Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Pinus ponderosa (Ponderosa Pine), habit, spring
Pinus ponderosa (Ponderosa Pine), habit, winter (3.61267)
Date: November 25 2008Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Pinus ponderosa (Ponderosa Pine), habit, winter
Pinus ponderosa (Ponderosa Pine), habitat (3.61268)
Date: October 8 1980Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Pinus ponderosa (Ponderosa Pine), habitat
Pinus ponderosa (Ponderosa Pine), habitat (3.61269)
Date: October 8 1980Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Pinus ponderosa (Ponderosa Pine), habitat
Pinus ponderosa (Ponderosa Pine), habitat (3.61270)
Date: August 14 2003Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Pinus ponderosa (Ponderosa Pine), habitat
Pinus ponderosa (Ponderosa Pine), habitat (3.61271)
Date: July 30 2016Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Pinus ponderosa (Ponderosa Pine), habitat
Pinus ponderosa (Ponderosa Pine), habitat (3.61272)
Date: July 30 2016Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Pinus ponderosa (Ponderosa Pine), habitat
Pinus ponderosa (Ponderosa Pine), leaf, mature (3.61273)
Date: March 22 2007Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Pinus ponderosa (Ponderosa Pine), leaf, mature
Pinus ponderosa (Ponderosa Pine), leaf, mature (3.61274)
Date: November 25 2008Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Pinus ponderosa (Ponderosa Pine), leaf, mature
Pinus ponderosa (Ponderosa Pine), leaf, mature (3.61275)
Date: November 25 2008Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Pinus ponderosa (Ponderosa Pine), leaf, mature