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Please visit our ABOUT section for more information.Ed Hedborn oral history interview, 2022 October 26
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October 26 2022Description
A recording of an oral history interview with Ed Hedborn, manager of plant records, conducted by Kristin Arnold, archivist. The interview took place on October 26, 2022 in the Sterling Morton Library at The Morton Arboretum.The interview focuses on Hedborn's experiences and memories of The Morton Arboretum's Collections Program during the curatorship of Ray Schulenberg, which lasted from 1977 to 1987. Topics include Hedborn's early days as plant recorder, the shift of collections focus to wild-collected plants, seed collecting trips through the western United States and Northern Illinois, tracing the history of plants, the computerization of plant records, and the start of Bloom and Color Reports.
Subject - keywords and LC headings
Plant and Tree InventoryBirch Family Collection
European Collections
Maple Collection
Northern Illinois Collection
Pacific Northwest Collection
Plains Collection
Plant and Seed Collecting
Rockies Collection
Seed and plant exchanges
Southwest United States Collection
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