[Topographic maps of the United States] Illinois topography… mapped, edited, and published by the Geological Survey in cooperation with State of Illinois Geological Survey (3.6552)
Date: 1922 – 1954Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Type: Map
Description:Sheets 2-6 are same as REF:B I (a) 1 - REF:B II (b) 1. Sheet 1 - Belvedere Quadrangle - Illinois - Wisconsin. Sheet 2 - Herscher Quadrangle. Sheet 3 - Kankakee Quadrangle. Sheet 4 - Momence Quadrangle - Illinois - Indiana. Sheet 5 - Wilmington Quadrangle. Sheet 6 - Yorkville Quadrangle.
Extent: 6 sheets
[Thornhill Building, Showing Heating and Ventilation Details in Basement] (3.5547)
Date: June 20 1942Creator: Northwestern Heating & Plumbing Co.
Type: Plan
Description:"Record Drawing."
Extent: 1 sheet
[Sketch for Mr. Flosi] (3.97376)
Date: 1940Creator: Johnson, Marshall L.
Type: Plan
Description:"Flosi"
"For C. E. Construction Co."
[Portion of] a Suggested Development for a Residence (3.97130)
Date: 1949 – 1953Creator: Johnson, Marshall L.
Type: Plan
Extent: 1 sheet
[Planting plans for Courtland Street and Palmer Street [cartographic material] / O.C. Simonds]. (3.24871)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Simonds, O. C.
Type: Plan
Extent: 1 plan 98 x 37 cm.
[Planting Plan for] Harry L. Oppenheimer Highland Park, Illinois (3.97358)
Date: February 1940Creator: Johnson, Marshall L.
Type: Plan
Description:title penciled in
Extent: 1 sheet
[Map of U.S. counties] [cartographic material] / U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census. (3.24845)
Date: 1942Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Type: Plan
Extent: 1 map 62 x 97 cm.
[Map of U.S. counties] Revised (3.5930)
Date: 1942Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Type: Map
Extent: 1 sheet
[Guide Map of The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, Illinois, 1940s?] (3.6814)
Date: 1940sCreator: Godshalk, Clarence E.
Type: Map
Description:Map mounted on cardboard, labels pasted on, no title, "C. Godshalk" on reverse.
Extent: 1 sheet
[Aerial Photograph of the Morton Arboretum] (3.6051)
Date: circa 1940Creator: Chicago Aerial Survey Co.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Photomosaic print mounted on masonite board.
Areas outlined in red.
Collection has reduction mounted on masonite (1 inch = 900 feet, 70 cm x 29 cm)
Extent: 1 sheet mounted
[Aerial photograph of the Morton Arboretum] (3.5413)
Date: circa 1940Creator: Chicago Aerial Survey Co.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Photomosaic print mounted on masonite board.
Extent: 1 sheet
[A Development Plan for a Residential Community Within the Arboretum] (3.5766)
Date: 1940sCreator: Godshalk, Clarence E.
Type: Plan
Description:A landscape design developed in connection with planning for Arbordale. The community shown here was projected for an area roughly the same as that occupied currently by Arbordale. The plan was drawn on the Lozier/Steinbrecher Assessment plat no. 1 issued Sept. 29, 1934
Authorship is shown in a ms. note written on the map by C.E. Godshalk: "CEG did this."
Extent: 1 sheet
[A development plan for a residential community in the Arboretum] (3.5763)
Date: 1940sCreator: Schafer, Joe
Type: Plan
Description:A landscape design developed in connection with planning for Arbordale. The community shown here was projected for the area south and east of South Farm. The plan was drawn on the Lozier/Steinbrecher Assessment plat no. 1 (Lands Belonging To Trustees Under The Will Of Joy Morton, Deceased) issued Sept. 29, 1934 (See SURV:B III (b) 1). Authorship was assigned by C. E. Godshalk in a ms. note. Additions added in colored pencil.
Extent: 1 sheet
[1948/02]: Marie M. Carney to C. E. Godshalk (3.85915)
Date: February 1948Creator: Carney, Marie M.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Marie M. Carney asking C. E. Godshalk for a sketch of Jean Morton Cudahy's accomplishments as the Garden Club of Lake Forest is nominating her for The Garden Club of America Achievement Medal and would like to include the sketch with their nomination letter.
The letter is undated, but Godshalk's reply to her letter is dated March 1, 1948.
Extent: 2 sheets
[1946]/09/14: Mark Morton to Frank Herrick (3.84416)
Date: September 14 1946Creator: Morton, Mark
Type: Document
Description:Note from Mark Morton to Frank Herrick acknowledging receipt of DuPage Co. Out of Doors [ ]. He said the poems are interesting and to send him ten copies with his bill. He writes to [Team] telling them to read these poems, especially pages 7 & 8.
Extent: 1 sheet
[1946]/03/12: Jean Cudahy to C. E. Godshalk (3.85823)
Date: March 12 1946Creator: Cudahy, Jean Morton
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Jean Cudahy to C.E. Godshalk returning the photographs with her choices for the postcards. She encloses a check to pay for Mr. Wyman's crabapple book and gives information about arrangements for his upcoming lecture at the Arboretum.
Extent: 2 sheets
[1946]/03/10: Jean Cudahy to Evelyn Rasch (3.85822)
Date: March 10 1946Creator: Cudahy, Jean Morton
Type: Document
Description:Postcard from Jean Cudahy to Evelyn Rasch enclosing a check to pay for some roses. She also thanks her for having duplicates of some slides made; they will add greatly to her collection.
Extent: 1 sheet
[1945/11]: N. C. Abbott to C. E. Godshalk (3.84409)
Date: November 1945Creator: Abbott, N. C.
Type: Document
Description:Undated letter from N. C. Abbott to C. E. Godshalk thanking him for the Arboretum materials he sent. He asks Godshalk to give Mr. Boulton his best wishes; he hopes to see him again. He is intrigued by the history of the Arboretum, and he greatly admires Joy Morton, in addition to General Wood, General Pershing, and J. Sterling Morton. Mr. Olson [Jerome] is now secretary of the State Historical Society and will soon be out of the service. He has grown greatly since they first knew him and now has a wife and child.
Extent: 1 sheet
[1943]/03/13: Mrs. Joy [Faith] Morton to C.E. Godshalk (3.84376)
Date: March 13 1943Creator: Morton, Faith C.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Mrs. Joy (Faith) Morton to C.E. Godshalk thanking him for his assistance [with her vegetable/fruit garden]. She hopes he will see the results at some point.
Extent: 1 sheet
[1943]/03/07: Mrs. Joy (Faith) Morton to C.E. Godshalk (3.84374)
Date: March 7 1943Creator: Morton, Faith C.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Mrs. Joy (Faith) Morton to C.E. Godshalk requesting his assistance with planning/designing her vegetable/fruit garden and asking for suggestions for recommended varieties of strawberries, plums, raspberries, grapes, and asparagus.
Extent: 2 sheets
[1940]/04/18: [Norma Bryan] to Clarence E. Godshalk (3.109150)
Date: April 18 1940Creator: Bryan, Norma A.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Norma Bryan to Clarence E. Godshalk discussing the moving of the Morton Salt offices and the Bulletin of Popular Information.
Extent: 1 sheet
Young ferns [graphic] / Clare Leighton. (3.26525)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Leighton, Clare, 1898-1989.
Type: Print
Extent: 1 print : wood engraving, b&w 17 x 13 cm.
Yellow Pond Lily (3.19469)
Date: 1940sCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Two illustrations of a yellow pond lily, depicting leaves and flowers with identifying text below each image. Image "A" shows the flower about to open on the first day, and image "B" shows the second day with flower fully open.
Header: yellow pond lily
Plants and text as depicted from left to right:
- A - For one day the opening flower offers insects a small entrance, filled with the stigma reader for pollen from a flower like B [arrow pointing right to next column of text]
- B - On the second day the flower opens wide, and its stamens burst with pollen, ready to be carried by insects to a flower like A [arrow pointing left back to text in the first column]
Extent: 1 sheet
Wisteria scroll (3.31487)
Date: 20th centuryType: Painting
Extent: 1 scroll : brush and ink, watercolor ; 27 x 145 cm.
Wisteria and euonymus scroll (3.31485)
Date: 20th centuryType: Painting
Extent: 1 scroll : brush and ink, watercolor ; 28 x 45 cm.
Winter woods with evergreens (3.33440)
Date: 1930 – 1949Type: Photographic image
Description:Winter woods with evergreens
Extent: 1 negative
Winter Twigs, page 4 (3.24636)
Date: 1943Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Page 4 of 4, illustrations showing identifying characteristics of different types of winter twigs, created to accompany "Winter Twigs" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information. Original identifying text has detached and is no longer present.
Illustrations are divided into seven sections, depicted from top to bottom, left to right:
1) [Original text] TREES WITH FLATTENED YELLOWISH BUDS
- Bitternut hickory -- Carya cordiformis
- Witch-hazel -- Hamamelis virginiana
- Shadbush -- Amelanchier canadensis
- Beech -- Fagus grandifolia
- Black walnut -- Juglans nigra
- Butternut -- Juglans cinerea
- Sassafras -- Sassafras albidum
- Shagbark hickory -- Carya ovata
- Linden -- Tilia americana
- Mountain ash -- Sorbus
- Sour gum -- Nyssa sylvatica
- Silver poplar -- Populus alba
Extent: 1 sheet
Winter Twigs, page 3 (3.24632)
Date: 1943Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Page 3 of 4, illustrations showing identifying characteristics of different types of winter twigs with identifying labels and text above each, created to accompany "Winter Twigs" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information. Some original identifying text has detached and is no longer present.
Illustrations are divided into seven sections, depicted from top to bottom, left to right:
1) TREES WITH THORNS
- Honey locust -- Gleditsia triacanthos
- Black locust -- Robinia pseudo-acacia
- Osage orange -- Maclura pomifera
- Hawthorn -- Crataegus
- Wild crab -- Malus ioensis [and] Malus coronaria
- Wild plum : Prunus americana [and] Prunus nigra
- European larch -- Larix decidua
- Tamarack -- Larix laricina
- Ginkgo -- Ginkgo biloba
- Black Oak Group
- Red oak -- Quercus borealis maxima
- Northern pin oak -- Quercus ellipsoidalis
- Pin oak -- Quercus palustris
- White Oak Group
- Bur Oak -- Quercus macrocarpa
- White oak -- Quercus alba
- Swamp white oak -- Quercus bicolor
- Tulip [tree] -- Liriodendron tulipifera
- Sycamore -- Platanus occidentalis
- Kentucky coffee tree -- Gymnocladus dioicus
- Tree of heaven -- Ailanthus altissima
- Staghorn sumac -- Rhus typhina
- Smooth sumac -- Rhus glabra
- Willow -- Salix
Extent: 1 sheet
Winter Twigs, page 2 (3.24631)
Date: 1943Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Page 2 of 4, illustrations showing identifying characteristics of different types of winter twigs, created to accompany "Winter Twigs" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information. Original identifying text has detached and is mostly missing.
Illustrations are divided into two sections, depicted from top to bottom, left to right:
1) [Original text] TREES WITH OPPOSITE BRANCHING
- White ash -- Fraxinus americana
- Black ash -- Fraxinus nigra
- Blue ash -- Fraxinus quadrangulata
- Red ash -- Fraxinus pennsylvanica
- Sugar maple -- Acer saccharum
- Norway maple -- Acer platanoides
- Red maple -- Acer rubrum
- Silver maple -- Acer saccharinum
- Box-elder -- Acer negundo
- Horse-chestnut -- Aesculus hippocastanum
- Ohio buckeye -- Aesculus glabra
- Flowering dogwood -- Cornus florida
- Catalpa -- Catalpa speciosa [and] Catalpa bignonioides
- Ironwood -- Ostrya virginiana
- Gray birch -- Betula populifolia
- [as a single illustration:]
- Yellow birch -- Betula lutea
- River birch -- Betula nigra
- Cherry birch -- Betula lenta
- Paper birch -- Betula papyrifera
- European white birch -- Betula pendula
- European alder -- Alnus glutinosa
Extent: 1 sheet
Winter Twigs, page 1 (3.24627)
Date: 1943Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Page 1 of 4, illustrations showing identifying characteristics of different types of winter twigs, created to accompany "Winter Twigs" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information. Illustrations include those with distinctive leaf scars, buds, and pith. Original identifying text has detached.
Illustrations are divided into three sections, depicted from top to bottom, left to right:
1) [Original text] SOME HAVE DISTINCTIVE LEAF SCARS
- Black walnut
- Butternut
- Catalpa
- Maple
- Sycamore
- Sumac
- Ash
- Flowering dogwood
- Beech
- Willow
- Oak
- Linden
- Alder
- Tulip [tree]
3) [Orignial text] SOME HAVE DISTINCTIVE PITH
- Black walnut
- Butternut
- Hackberry
- Tulip [tree]
- Kentucky coffee tree
- Oak
- Alder
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
Winter Buds, #2 (3.19512)
Date: 1940 – 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Large poster depicting 12 types of winter buds, bound in green tape.
Illustrations and text, from left to right, top to bottom:
- bitternut hickory
- witch-hazel
- shadbush
- beech
- black walnut
- butternut
- sassafras
- shagbark hickory
- linden
- mountain ash
- sour gum
- silver poplar
Extent: 1 sheet
Winter Buds, #1 (3.19511)
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:
- white ash
- black ash
- blue ash
- red ash
- sugar maple
- Norway maple
- silver maple
- box-elder
- horse-chestnut
- ohio buckeye
- flowering dogwood
- catalpa
- ironwood
- gray birch
- European white birch
- European alder
Extent: 1 sheet
Willow branches [graphic]. (3.24543)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Hassall, Joan.
Type: Drawing
Extent: 1 drawing : brush and pen, one color 25 x 21 cm.