Arboretum Landscape Teaching Aid Series: Confirmation from Old Maps (3.19500)
Date: 1940 – 1960Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Primarily textual teaching aid depicting Arboretum landscape. This material is depicted in the shape of an open book. It shows a drawing of an old map of the farm that later became the Arboretum.
Header: CONFIRMATION from old maps
Text and illustrations from top to bottom, left to right:
- text: An old map shows the location of the farmhouse and the spring house
- map illustration: a road extending from bottom to top, a stream extending from left to right, trees at top and right, and a small patch of farm land at center with a wall and two structures, one labeled "Solomon Mertz" and the other "Spring house"
- text, bottom right: FROM 1874 ATLAS OF DUPAGE COUNTY
Extent: 1 sheet
Forest Road in winter, probably near Buckeye Collection (3.32167)
Date: 1950sType: Photographic image
Description:Forest Road in winter, probably near Buckeye Collection
Extent: 1 negative
May Watts instructing class in Thornhill classroom (3.4080)
Date: 1950sType: Photographic image
Description:May Watts instructing class in Thornhill classroom
Extent: 1 photograph
1952/09/22: C.W. Wood to E.L. Kammerer (3.62644)
Date: September 22 1952Type: Document
Description:Thank you for order and regret that 2 other requests have been sold.
Extent: 1 sheet
Bulletin of Popular Information V. 27 No. 10-11 (3.32571)
Date: October – November 1952Creator: Kammerer, E. Lowell
Type: Serial
Description:
- Berries For The Birds
Extent: 8 pages
Bulletin of Popular Information V. 27 No. 12 (3.32572)
Date: December 1952Creator: Kammerer, E. Lowell
Type: Serial
Description:
- Eastern Wahoo, Cut-leaf Barberry, Mountain Ninebark And Some Other Plants Furnishing Late Autumn Color
Extent: 4 pages
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
May Watts leading group of children wearing feather headbands in musical performance on steps outside of Thornhill (3.4077)
Date: 1950sType: Photographic image
Description:May Watts leading group of children wearing feather headbands in musical performance on steps outside of Thornhill
Extent: 1 photograph
Mothers and Children's course: Participants perform with May T. Watts (3.34131)
Date: 1952Type: Photographic image
Description:A group of mothers and children attend a class with May T. Watts on the grounds of The Morton Arboretum. All of the participants are wearing headbands with feather and many also appear to be playing simple instruments, including Watts.
Extent: 1 slide
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.
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
Arboretum Landscape Teaching Aid Series: Cut-Over and Grazed Land (3.19502)
Date: 1940 – 1960Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Primarily textual teaching aid depicting Arboretum landscape. This material describes the grazed and cut-over land that was added to the Arboretum, including the effects of fencing out cattle.
[Illustration of a tree stump] Header: CUT-OVER AND GRAZED LAND was added to the Arboretum in 1910 [image of a cow's head with its tongue out]
Text and illustrations from top to bottom:
- [Depicted in stylized scroll] THE RECORD:
- 1. No big trees in this area [illustration of a tree with a large red "X" over it]
- 2. Many stump sprouts [sketch of stump sprouts]
- 3. Many aspens and big-toothed poplars [sketch of aspens and poplars]
- 4. Young oaks, many of the same age [sketch of oaks]
- INTERPRETATION of THE RECORD:
- 1. Aspens and big-toothed poplars grow in sunny places.
- 2. The even age oaks show by their annual rings that they started growing on the year that the Arboretum fenced cows from this area.
- 3. The wild flowers have returned steadily to this area. There was only thistles, milkweed, dandelions, and other tough ones, there when the cattle were fenced out. Now there are trilliums, spring beauties, blood-root, may-apple, and many, many, others.
Extent: 1 sheet
The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, DuPage County, Illinois [article, 1952] (3.64478)
Date: July 1952Type: Document
Description:Article for the Ford Club about the Morton Arboretum, describing all aspects of the Morton Arboretum as they were in 1952.
Extent: 9 pages
Botanical plates / M.E. Eaton.. [et al.]. (3.29758)
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.]. (3.29744)
Date: 1916 – 1964Creator: Eaton, Mary Emily.
Type: Painting
Extent: 281 prints : art reproductions, color, b&w 27 x 18 cm.
1952/12/05: B.O. Mulligan to Dr. Donald Wyman (3.64459)
Date: December 5 1952Creator: Mulligan, Brian O.
Type: Document
Description:Correspondence between B.O. Mulligan and Dr. Donald Wyman regarding a plant exchange scheme.
Extent: 3 pages
Under the Roost of the Long-Eared Owls (3.24641)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Four illustrations depicting long-eared owls and their pellets. Captions accompany each individual illustration. The drawings illustrate the story OWL PELLETS GALORE by May Theilgaard Watts, Naturalist at The Morton Arboretum.
Upper left text: UNDER the ROOST of the LONG-EARED OWLS
Illustrations with captions, from left to right, top to bottom:
- Drawing of an owl pellet
- Caption: An owl pellet
- Drawing of forest floor, including rhododendron
- Caption: When rhododendron leaves uncurl we find pellets.
- Drawing of rodent bone findings
- Caption: Each pellet reveals parts of a small rodent.
- Drawing of two owls in a tree
- Caption: They seem to grow taller as we approach.
Extent: 1 sheet
Arboretum Landscape Teaching Aid Series: A River Emerged From Under A Glacier (3.19497)
Date: 1940 – 1960Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Primarily textual teaching aid depicting Arboretum landscape. This material shows the origin of gravel pits at the Arboretum.
Header: A RIVER EMERGED FROM UNDER A GLACIER
Text and illustrations from top to bottom:
- [Depicted in stylized scroll with illustration of a steam shovel in gravel pit] The Record: There are several old gravel pits in the Arboretum.
- Interpreting the record:
- 1) A river running under a glacier is confined to a narrow channel, and is, therefore swift. Because of its swiftness it can carry gravel.
- 2) When such a river comes out from under the ice it spreads out and slows down. Slow moving water can carry only fine material. Therefore the river dropped its heavy material.
- 3) When men found these places they dug the gravel out.
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
Bulletin of Popular Information V. 27 No. 02 (3.32563)
Date: February 1952Creator: Kammerer, E. Lowell
Type: Serial
Description:
- Desirable Landscape Plants Difficult To Obtain
Extent: 6 pages
1952/08/22: Carl W. Fenninger to B.O. Mulligan (3.64461)
Date: October 22 1952Creator: Mulligan, Brian O.
Type: Document
Description:Copy of a correspondence between Carl W. Fenninger and B.O. Mulligan regarding paid dues for members.
Extent: 1 page
Summer or wood duck = Anas sponsa. L. (3.29192)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Audubon, John James, 1785-1851.
Type: Painting
Extent: 1 print : commercial reproduction, color image 74 x 49 cm., on sheet 82 x 56 cm.
[Tollway Right-of-way and Easements Over the Southern Portion of the Thoman Farm] (3.5371)
Date: 1950sType: Map
Description:Acreages decicated to right -of-way are shown by colored shading. These data are shown on the composite survey copied by H.F. Steinbrecher from earlier plats titled: Plat showing the Thoman Farm, and issued ca. 1935.
Extent: 1 sheet
Bulletin of Popular Information V. 27 No. 04 (3.32565)
Date: April 1952Creator: Kammerer, E. Lowell
Type: Serial
Description:
- The Colorful Cornels (Dogwoods)
Extent: 4 pages
Arboretum Landscape Teaching Aid Series: Indian Trails and Villages (3.19508)
Date: 1940 – 1960Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Primarily textual teaching aid depicting Arboretum landscape. This material describes a Native American chipping station and village located on what later became The Morton Arborteum grounds. It also includes a map showing locations of other Native American sites and trails throughout the Chicagoland area. An arrowhead wrapped in plastic is still attached on the left, while a second arrowhead appears to be missing on the right.
Header: INDIANS had a chipping station and a village here ----
Text and illustrations from top to bottom:
- [Depicted in stylized scroll] [Arrowhead wrapped in plastic] THE RECORD many arrowheads many chips of flint and chert shaped tomahawk heads [plastic wrapping]
- Map: INDIAN TRAILS AND VILLAGES OF CHICAGO AND OF COOK, DUPAGE AND WILL COUNTIES, ILLS. (1804) AS SHOWN BY WEAPONS AND IMPLEMENTS OF THE STONE-AGE / COPYRIGHTED 1900 & 1901 ALBERT F. SCHARF. / - INDEX - [with map symbols]
- INDIAN VILLAGES (NUMBERED) [teepee symbol]
- MINOR INDIAN VILLAGES [triangle with "x" at top]
- INDIAN CAMPS [triangle]
- CHIPPING STATIONS [inverted triangle]
- PRINCIPAL INDIAN TRAILS LETTERED AND NUMBERED [line]
- PORTAGE [concave depression]
- SPRINGS [inverted "J"]
- HEIGHTS AND SIGNAL STATIONS [cross]
- INDIAN MOUNDS [circle with dot in center]
- MOUND BUILDERS TRAIL [mound symbol]
- Text at bottom of map: AN ARCHEOLOGICAL MAP OF CHICAGO AND VICINITY / This map, the work of Albert F. Scharf, is reproduced by the courtesy of Mr. Scharf and the Chicago Historical Society.
- Text below map: Arboretum in green
Extent: 1 sheet
Arboretum Landscape Teaching Aid Series: Three Norway Spruces (3.19506)
Date: 1940 – 1960Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Primarily textual teaching aid depicting Arboretum landscape. This material describes the three Norway spruce trees planted by Joy Morton, Wirt Morton, and Sterling Morton, including a pasted Arboretum map of their location on the grounds.
Header: THREE Norway Spruces [image of three stylized trees] were planted by THREE Mortons / JOY MORTON / WIRT MORTON / STERLING MORTON
Text and illustrations from top to bottom:
- [Depicted in stylized scroll] THE RECORD: Three Tall Trees [Illustration of three trees] On Forest Road [followed by an arrow pointing downward to map below]
- map: the 3 spruces [arrow pointing downward to spot on map where trees are located, on Forest Road]. Label in lower right: GUIDE MAP of THE MORTON ARBORETUM LISLE, ILLINOIS
- text below map: *these trees are one answer to the ever occurring question: HOW FAST DO TREES GROW?
Extent: 1 sheet
Arboretum entrance drive in winter during reconstruction when Route 53 was widened (3.32051)
Date: 1950sType: Photographic image
Description:Arboretum entrance drive in winter during reconstruction when Route 53 was widened
Extent: 1 photograph
Founder's Room in Thornhill Education Center (3.37324)
Date: 1950sType: Photographic image
Description:Founder's Room in Thornhill Education Center
View directed at bay and fireplace
Extent: 1 photograph
Bulletin of Popular Information V. 27 No. 09 (3.32570)
Date: September 1952Creator: Kammerer, E. Lowell
Type: Serial
Description:
- Sweet Pepperbush, Shrub Lespedeza, Hard Lilac Chaste-Tree, Cutleaf Chaste-Tree And Blue Mist Bluebeard - Flowering Shrubs Of Late Summer
Extent: 4 pages
Acer negundo (boxelder), fall color (3.37507)
Date: October 1952Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer negundo (boxelder), small tree showing fall color
Extent: 1 slide
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.
Bulletin of Popular Information V. 27 No. 07 (3.32568)
Date: July 1952Creator: Kammerer, E. Lowell
Type: Serial
Description:
- Trees Of The Morton Arboretum - 4
Extent: 4 pages
View of Thornhill (3.31060)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustration of view up the hill to the Thornhill Education Center at The Morton Arboretum, with bare trees and mushrooms in foreground, clouds and trees behind building in background, and an ink border.
Illustration used as image for printed notecards.
Extent: 1 sheet
Hen turkey and young : a study in miniature of plate 6 of the Elephant folio reproduced from the original drawing. (3.31121)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Audubon, John James, 1785-1851.
Type: Painting
Extent: 1 print : commercial reproduction, color 30 x 21 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.
Arboretum Landscape Teaching Aid Series: An Old Bridge (3.19501)
Date: 1940 – 1960Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Primarily textual teaching aid depicting Arboretum landscape. This material describes a bridge that was left on what are now the Arboretum grounds, as well as part of the story of the Morton Arboretum's origins.
[Illustration of the bridge] Header: AN OLD BRIDGE was left behind when the HIGHWAY cut through [illustration of the highway]
Text and illustrations from top to bottom:
- [Depicted in stylized scroll] The Record: The old bridge still bears a plate with the date. It rested for many years. Now the Arboretum uses it. (but No Buses, please)
- Interpreting the record: The old bridge must have served many a surrey, and hayrack, and cattle being driven to market, and horses going to the Saturday Horse Fair at Naperville. This was the bridge that Joy Morton crossed on the day of the event described here [to the right of this text is pasted material from the May 1952 "Service Bulletin," Vol. 21, No. 2, including the front cover illustration depicting an antique vehicle and two men putting out a brush fire and partial text describing how Joy Morton found the location where he had his home Thornhill built.]
Extent: 1 sheet