Cobblestones and Concrete: the Nob Hill Flora after Seventy Years (3.10536)
Date: June 21 – September 20 1968Creator: Moulton, Mary K.
Type: Article
Kentucky Coffee-tree, Gymnocladus dioicus: Pea Family (Leguminosae) (3.10568)
Date: September 21 – December 20 1969Creator: Tyznik, Anthony
Type: Article
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
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
Vignette : horseback riding (3.25212)
Date: 1960sCreator: Bewick, Thomas, 1753-1828.
Type: Print
Description:Modern print by R. Hunter Middleton.
White line wood engraving, black ink, on Japanese paper.
Man on horse, boy on horse, and dog, in landscape.
Extent: 1 print
Mitteleuropäische Pilze [Pl. 17: Gyromitra infula, Helvella elastica, Helvella capucina] (3.29290)
Date: 1960 – 1964Creator: Caspari, Claus, 1911-1980.
Type: Painting
Extent: 180 watercolor reproductions : photomechanical prints, color 27 x 19 cm. + 1 booklet (72 p., ill, 27 cm.).
Mitteleuropäische Pilze [Pl. 49: Cantharellus cibarius] (3.29322)
Date: 1960 – 1964Creator: Caspari, Claus, 1911-1980.
Type: Painting
Extent: 180 watercolor reproductions : photomechanical prints, color 27 x 19 cm. + 1 booklet (72 p., ill, 27 cm.).
Mitteleuropäische Pilze [Pl. 65: Boletus pinicola] (3.29338)
Date: 1960 – 1964Creator: Caspari, Claus, 1911-1980.
Type: Painting
Extent: 180 watercolor reproductions : photomechanical prints, color 27 x 19 cm. + 1 booklet (72 p., ill, 27 cm.).
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.
Mitteleuropäische Pflanzenwelt : Sträucher und Bäume [Pl. 31: Fagus silvatica] (3.31138)
Date: 1956 – 1960Creator: Caspari, Claus, 1911-1980.
Type: Print
Description:Watercolor reproductions depicting woody plants of central Europe. German and Latin plant names on bottom. Text with scientific description on reverse side. Signed by Claus Caspari.
Extent: 1 print
Mitteleuropäische Pflanzenwelt : Sträucher und Bäume [Pl. 25: Betula pendula] (3.31153)
Date: 1956 – 1960Creator: Caspari, Claus, 1911-1980.
Type: Print
Description:Watercolor reproductions depicting woody plants of central Europe. German and Latin plant names on bottom. Text with scientific description on reverse side. Signed by Claus Caspari.
Extent: 1 print
Mitteleuropäische Pflanzenwelt : Sträucher und Bäume [Pl. 113: Hedra helix] (3.31254)
Date: 1956 – 1960Creator: Grossman, K.
Type: Print
Description:Watercolor reproductions depicting woody plants of central Europe. German and Latin plant names on bottom. Text with scientific description on reverse side. Signed by K. Grossman.
Extent: 1 print
Mitteleuropäische Pflanzenwelt : Sträucher und Bäume [Pl. 129: Calluna vulgaris] (3.31273)
Date: 1956 – 1960Creator: Grossman, K.
Type: Print
Description:Watercolor reproductions depicting woody plants of central Europe. German and Latin plant names on bottom. Text with scientific description on reverse side. Signed by K. Grossman.
Extent: 1 print
Sterling Pond looking north from Clarence Godshalk's yard (3.31812)
Date: 1960sType: Photographic image
Description:Sterling Pond looking north from Director Clarence Godshalk's yard. Open area across Sterling Pond used to be a gravel pit before 1959 when pond was dug.
Extent: 1 negative filmstrip
Bulletin of Popular Information V. 35 No. 07-08 (3.32668)
Date: July – August 1960Creator: Kammerer, E. Lowell
Type: Serial
Description:
- Street, Shade And Lawn Trees To Meet Every Purpose
Extent: 8 pages
Bulletin of Popular Information V. 36 No. 12 (3.32684)
Date: December 1961Creator: Kammerer, E. Lowell
Type: Serial
Description:
- Conifers Of The Morton Arboretum XI
Extent: 4 pages
Bulletin of Popular Information V. 38 No. 05 (3.32700)
Date: May 1963Creator: Kammerer, E. Lowell
Type: Serial
Description:
- Bud-Hardy Forsythias (Golden Bells)
Extent: 4 pages
Bulletin of Popular Information V. 39 No. 10 (3.32717)
Date: October 1964Creator: Kammerer, E. Lowell
Type: Serial
Description:
- Trees Of The Morton Arboretum (Deciduous) XV
Extent: 4 pages
Sterling Morton Library, exterior southwest side, in winter (3.3330)
Date: circa 1963Creator: Hedrich-Blessing
Type: Photographic image
Description:Sterling Morton Library, exterior southwest side, in winter
Extent: 1 photograph
The Morton Arboretum Quarterly V. 03 No. 04 (3.34553)
Date: December 21 1967 – March 20 1968Type: Serial
Description:
- The Arboretum as a Cultural Institution (49-53)
- Winter Injury (54-58)
- Climatological Summary (57)
- The Lookout (59)
- Sycamore, Buttonwood, Platanus occidentalis: Sycamore Family (Platanaceae) (60-61)
- Arboretum News and Notes (62)
- Three Year Index: 1965-1967 (62-64)
Extent: 16 pages
Sterling Morton Library, reading room, entering from the west (3.3759)
Date: circa 1963Type: Photographic image
Description:Sterling Morton Library, reading room, entering from the west
Extent: 1 photograph
Populus deltoides (eastern cottonwood), catkin detail (3.37678)
Date: April 1962Creator: Scott, Marion
Type: Photographic image
Description:Populus deltoides (eastern cottonwood), longitudinal catkin detail showing pinkish nodules
Extent: 1 slide
Populus deltoides (eastern cottonwood), female catkin and bud (3.37706)
Date: May 1962Creator: Scott, Marion
Type: Photographic image
Description:Populus deltoides (eastern cottonwood), twig detail with two emerging green female catkins and terminal bud
Extent: 1 slide
Acer saccharinum (silver maple), seedling (3.37916)
Date: June 1969Creator: Kohout, John, Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer saccharinum (silver maple), closeup detail of seedling in sand
Extent: 1 slide
Acer saccharum (sugar maple), bark (3.37996)
Date: September 1969Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer saccharum (sugar maple), closeup detail of bark that is furrowed and plated, indicative of an older tree
Extent: 1 slide
Acer platanoides (Norway maple), flowers (3.38074)
Date: May 1962Creator: Scott, Marion
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer platanoides (Norway maple), closeup detail of bright yellow-green rounded flower cluster against blue background
Extent: 1 slide
Acer platanoides (Norway maple), residential street (3.38107)
Date: April 1969Creator: Crowley Jr., Webster R.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer platanoides (Norway maple), view of residential street lined with Norway maples planted in parkway on both sides of the road, branches of trees are visible and sparsely covered with bright yellow-green flowers in spring
Extent: 1 slide
Acer rubrum (red maple), flowers (3.38161)
Date: April 1968Creator: Jirak, Jana R.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer rubrum (red maple), against black backdrop, closeup detail of early female flowers with reddish color budding from twig
Extent: 1 slide
Asclepias tuberosa (3.54257)
Date: November 23 1962Creator: Schulenberg, Ray
Type: Document
Description:A note card containing handwritten notes (presumably written by Ray Schulenberg) with propagation information on prairie plants.
Extent: 1 Card
Aster umbellatus (3.54274)
Date: 1962Creator: Schulenberg, Ray
Type: Document
Description:A note card containing handwritten notes (presumably written by Ray Schulenberg) with propagation information on prairie plants.
Extent: 1 Card
Quercus rubra (northern red oak), tree trunk and bark (3.57800)
Date: November 1968Creator: Coulter, Ronald M.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Quercus rubra (northern red oak), partial view of tree trunk splitting into three upright limbs; bark is dark gray with long, broad vertical ridges with some patchy areas of smooth and lighter gray bark. The tree is situated in a densely wooded area.
Extent: 1 slide
Nuckoll's Plat of Lots 1 & 2 of Part of the Southeast Quarter of Section Thirty-three (33), Township Thirty-nine (39) North, Range Ten (10) East of the Third Principal Meridian, in DuPage County, Illinois (3.6089)
Date: May 2 1962Creator: Steinbrecher, Harold F.
Type: Map
Extent: 1 sheet
Focus: V. 1 No. 1 (1.8859)
Date: May 1965Type: Serial
A Time To Transplant (3.10545)
Date: September 21 – December 20 1968Type: Article
Arboretum News and Notes (3.10569)
Date: September 21 – December 20 1969Type: Article