Browsing by Subject/Keyword: people, organizations and landmarks:
Early Snowfall, The Morton Arboretum (3.2983)
Creator: Webb, Ralph E.
Type: Photographic image
Description:First snowfall at the west end of Lake Marmo
Extent: 1 photograph
So called 'Round Meadow' when work started on Lake Marmo (3.2996)
Date: 1921Creator: Henry Fuermann and Sons
Type: Photographic image
Description:So called 'Round Meadow' when work started on Lake Marmo
Extent: 1 photograph
Round Meadow: men, mules & machines (3.2997)
Date: 1921Creator: Henry Fuermann and Sons
Type: Photographic image
Description:Round Meadow: men, mules & machines
The digging out of Lake Marmo using mules, plows, and scrapers.
Extent: 1 photograph
Lake Marmo dam & bridge as originally designed by O.C. Simonds (3.3032)
Date: 1922Type: Photographic image
Description:Lake Marmo dam & bridge as originally designed by O.C. Simonds
Extent: 1 photograph
Lake Marmo, looking southeast (3.3033)
Date: 1930sType: Photographic image
Description:Lake Marmo, looking southeast, bridge and dam in the distance
Extent: 1 photograph
View of Lake Marmo from bridge in spring with school group in the distance (3.3037)
Type: Photographic image
Description:View of Lake Marmo from bridge in spring with school group in the distance
Extent: 1 photograph
Bridge over Lake Marmo inlet looking upstream (3.3048)
Date: 1940Type: Photographic image
Description:Bridge over Lake Marmo inlet looking upstream
Extent: 1 photograph
Expanded bridge over Lake Marmo (3.3049)
Date: 1940sType: Photographic image
Description:Expanded bridge over Lake Marmo
Extent: 1 photograph
Lake Marmo Footbridge (3.3051)
Creator: Fischer, Richard
Type: Photographic image
Description:Lake Marmo Footbridge
Extent: 1 photograph
Lake Marmo looking north (3.3056)
Date: 1940sType: Photographic image
Description:Lake Marmo looking north
Extent: 1 negative
Early Lake Marmo view - white geese opposite (3.3064)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Early Lake Marmo view - white geese opposite
Extent: 1 photograph
Lunching & Learning with Clarence Godshalk: Evolution of the Arboretum - From Farm to Arboretum (3.31582)
Date: January 25 1978Type: Audio
Description:Lunching and Learning program presented by Clarence Godshalk as he describes the evolution of the Arboretum, from farm land to Arboretum.
Extent: 1 audio cassette
Ice making on Lake Marmo at Lisle Farms (3.31713)
Date: 1930sType: Photographic image
Description:Three men standing near large blocks of ice and a horse-drawn sled on Lake Marmo
Lisle Farms early operations, ice making with Percheron horse
Ice house torn down in 1934
Extent: 1 negative
Lake Marmo Cleaning: removing sediment from Lake Marmo (3.31748)
Date: 1939Type: Photographic image
Description:Lake Marmo Cleaning: removing sediment from Lake Marmo
4 feet deep in places
Job done by Yackley of Lisle
Extent: 1 negative
West end Lake Marmo from inlet bridge looking northeast (3.33546)
Type: Photographic image
Description:West end Lake Marmo from inlet bridge looking northeast
*located at about 10-S on Arboretum map/grid
Extent: 1 negative
Redbuds (Cercis canadensis) near Lake Marmo at The Morton Arboretum (3.36295)
Date: April 25 2014Creator: The Morton Arboretum
Type: Photographic image
Description:Pinkish-purple flowers of redbuds (Cercis canadensis) in the spring contrast with the dark green spruce along the shore of Lake Marmo at The Morton Arboretum
Vegetation in and along edge of Lake Marmo looking south to bridge and dam (3.36862)
Date: 1930sType: Photographic image
Description:Vegetation in and along edge of Lake Marmo looking south to bridge and dam, two men sitting on bridge overlooking lake
Extent: 1 negative
Acer x freemanii (Freeman’s maple) and Acer saccharum (sugar maple), along Lake Marmo showing fall color (3.37262)
Date: November 1999Creator: Mehaffey, Scott A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer x freemanii (Freeman’s maple) on left and Acer saccharum (sugar maple) on right, along Lake Marmo lakefront, showing fall color
Extent: 1 slide
Campers at Summer Science Camp (3.39861)
Date: June 30 2016Creator: Dunning, Megan
Type: Photographic image
Description:Children casting a net at Lake Marmo as they learn to catch fish during Summer Science Camp at The Morton Arboretum.
Morton Arboretum Naturalist Guide, Mickey Shaw, with school group around Lake Marmo (3.4134)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Morton Arboretum Naturalist Guide, Mickey Shaw, with school group around Lake Marmo
Extent: 1 photograph
Lake Marmo Visitor Station Survey Worksheet (3.44608)
Date: May 5 1999Type: Map
Description:Topographic map of Lake Marmo and Visitor Station with elevation bench marks.
Extent: 1 Sheet
Topographical Survey, Grounds Around Proposed Lake [Marmo] Morton Arboretum, Lisle, Illinois (3.5236)
Date: July 1921Creator: O. C. Simonds & Co.
Type: Map
Description:The outline of the future Lake Marmo is demarcated by colored shading. Locations are shown for eight species of existing woodland cover.
Extent: 1 sheet
Planting plan for the Lake [Marmo area] Morton Arboretum, Lisle, Illinois (3.5639)
Date: 1922Creator: O. C. Simonds & Co.
Type: Plan
Extent: 1 sheet
Planting plan for the Lake [Marmo area] Morton Arboretum, Lisle, Illinois (3.5640)
Date: 1922Creator: O. C. Simonds & Co.
Type: Plan
Extent: 1 sheet
1978/11/27: Marion T. Hall to Jack T. Knuepfer (3.57370)
Date: November 27 1978Creator: Hall, Marion Trufant
Type: Document
Description:A set of two documents.
The first document is a letter from Marion T. Hall to Jack T. Knuepfer outlining the negative impact of ineffective sewage and stormwater management on the Morton Arboretum's land and waterways.
The second document is a flyer promoting a one day conference sponsored by the George Williams College's Institute for Environmental Awareness.
Extent: 4 sheets
A Landscape Planting Plan for the Area NW of Lake Marmo, The Morton Arboretum (3.6040)
Date: circa 1990Creator: Tyznik, Anthony
Type: Plan
Extent: 1 sheet
A Planting Plan for the South Side of Lake Marmo, The Morton Arboretum (3.6131)
Date: circa 1990Creator: Tyznik, Anthony
Type: Plan
Extent: 1 sheet
Sketch for Proposed Bridge, Morton Arboretum (3.6359)
Date: circa 1921Creator: O. C. Simonds & Co.
Type: Plan
Description:Sketch has been repaired and placed in cardboard/clear plastic envelope. Includes plan, section and elevation. (Lake Marmo dam bridge)
Extent: 1 sheet
Lake Marmo in Winter video (3.83194)
Date: January 27 2020Creator: The Morton Arboretum
Type: Video
Description:An aerial video of Lake Marmo in the winter. Birds are making sounds in the background.