Grounds crew in winter securing large root balled tree on skid (3.59129)
Date: January 1994Creator: Nachel, Jim
Type: Photographic image
Description:Grounds crew in winter securing large root balled tree on skid
Extent: 1 slide
1923/06/05: John McDorman to H. D. Wyllie (3.84600)
Date: June 5 1923Creator: McDorman, John
Type: Document
Description:Letter from John McDorman to H. D. Wyllie. Includes invoice for board of District men, account of status of grocery costs and status of farming on site.
Extent: 4 pages
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
1923/06/23: Unknown sender to Mr. Morton (3.84605)
Date: June 14 1923Type: Document
Description:Letter to Mr. Morton outlining Goodell expenses, status of staff, levee and ditching project. Also describes water level of Thompson lake. Also contains reports of McDormand and McNally corn conditions and work force. Notes from Commission's Meeting.
Extent: 4 pages
1923/06/26: Unknown sender to John McDorman (3.84610)
Date: June 29 1923Type: Document
Description:Letter to John McDorman with issues and concerns about employment contract. Request to further discuss compensation, expenses, living arrangements and outside interests.
Extent: 2 pages
Experimental devices to catch salt from East-West Tollway near Puffer Lake (3.31922)
Date: January 1972Type: Photographic image
Description:Arboretum scientists have installed experimental devices at intervals to catch salt and other fallout at various distances from the East-West Tollway near Puffer Lake.
Extent: 1 negative
Arbor Day Centennial, tree planting, Marion Hall at microphone speaking to crowd (3.38509)
Date: April 22 1972Creator: Beasley, Michael
Type: Photographic image
Description:Arbor Day Centennial, tree planting, Marion Hall at microphone speaking to crowd
Extent: 1 negative
Cut-off at Meadow Road and Forest Road return looking north (3.31941)
Date: 1939Type: Photographic image
Description:Cut-off at Meadow Road and Forest Road return looking north
Extent: 1 photograph
Traffic backed up to get into Arboretum on Rte. 53 looking north (3.32065)
Date: 1940sType: Photographic image
Description:Traffic backed up to get into Arboretum on Rte. 53 looking north
Extent: 1 negative filmstrip
Arbor Day Centennial, Centennial Grove tree planting, Dick Wason and group shoveling dirt over newly planted tree (3.38538)
Date: April 22 1972Creator: Beasley, Michael
Type: Photographic image
Description:Arbor Day Centennial, Centennial Grove tree planting, Dick Wason and group shoveling dirt over newly planted tree
About 250 people from 52 organizations assisted in the planting of 100 trees in the new created Centennial Grove, located on the east side of the Arboretum
Extent: 1 negative
1923/07/16: Unknown sender to John D. McDorman (3.84628)
Date: July 16 1923Type: Document
Description:Letter to John D McDorman discussion of tractors and mules, new manager needed. Flag Lake. Thomson Lake pump out controversy.
Extent: 1 sheet
Unpaved road slightly curving along Oakwood Loop looking east (3.32115)
Date: 1930sType: Photographic image
Description:Unpaved road slightly curving along Oakwood Loop looking east
*located at about 82-W on Arboretum map/grid
Extent: 1 negative
Arbor Day Centennial, afternoon program, Clarence Godshalk at podium speaking to seated guests in tent (3.38555)
Date: April 22 1972Creator: Beasley, Michael
Type: Photographic image
Description:Arbor Day Centennial, afternoon program, Clarence Godshalk at podium speaking to seated guests in tent
Extent: 1 negative
1926/03/21: Unknown sender to Joy Morton (3.84633)
Date: March 21 1926Type: Document
Description:Letter to Joy Morton with information of Mark Morton sale and cattle testing.
Extent: 1 page
Arboretum east gate entrance in winter with close view of east side (3.32159)
Date: 1930sType: Photographic image
Description:Arboretum east gate entrance in winter with close view of east side
Extent: 1 negative
Muddy Arboretum dirt road curving to the left (3.32173)
Date: 1920sType: Photographic image
Description:Muddy Arboretum dirt road curving to the left
Dirt roads as they used to be until 1935 when Mrs. Jean Morton Cudahy became chairman. Muddy when wet, dusty when dry.
Extent: 1 negative
Morton residence and entry drive from east (3.38591)
Date: 1920sType: Photographic image
Description:Morton residence and entry drive from east
Extent: 1 negative
Morton residence library wing and Joy Path from water tower above stone cottage (3.38599)
Date: 1920sType: Photographic image
Description:Morton residence library wing and Joy Path from water tower above stone cottage
Extent: 1 negative
1927/08/09: [Joy Morton?] to Frank Williams (3.84654)
Date: August 9 1927Creator: Morton, Joy
Type: Document
Description:Booklets about Arbor Lodge received. Turning Arbor Lodge over to the State was the best idea.
Extent: 1 sheet
Arbor Lodge State Historical Park and Mansion, exterior, two rotunda porticoes (3.3226)
Date: August 1992Creator: Walls, Marjorie
Type: Photographic image
Description:Arbor Lodge State Historical Park and Mansion, exterior, two rotunda porticoes
Extent: 1 photograph
Index Seminum 1997 (3.59557)
Date: 1997Type: Document
Plat of survey of part of the southeast quarter of Section 34, Township 39 North, Range 10 east of the Third Principal Meridian, in DuPage County, Illinois, and part of the southwest quarter of Section 35, T.39N., R.10E. Of the 3rd P.M. (3.5988)
Date: August 24 1927Creator: Webster, Arthur L.
Type: Map
Description:Shows an 8.64 acre tract on the west side of the Arboretum bordering on Joliet Road, now Park Blvd.
Extent: 1 sheet
1929/02/21: Frank Williams to Joy Morton (3.84665)
Date: February 21 1929Type: Document
Description:Letter from Frank Williams to Joy Morton letting him know that the 4 carriages arrived and are in excellent condition.
Extent: 1 page
1931/07/15:The Nebraska Daily News-Press (Arbor State Highway) and Lincoln Star (Arbor Lodge State Park) Newspaper Clippings (3.84673)
Date: July 15 1931Type: Document
Description:Includes a newspaper clipping from The Nebraska Daily News-Press, dated in pencil 7/15/1931.
describing the naming of "Arbor State" Highway. The second clipping, undated, from the Lincoln Star, advocates for improvement to Arbor Lodge State Park.
Extent: 1 sheet
1921/11/24: Fred von Oven to Joy Morton (3.84679)
Date: November 24 1921Creator: Von Oven, Fred
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Fred von Oven of Naperville Nurseries to Joy Morton thanking him for the visit and the order for lining out stock. Mr. von Oven will have a quote for moving large evergreen.
Extent: 1 sheet
Bulletin of Popular Information V. 07 No. 02 (3.32318)
Date: May 26 1932Creator: Kammerer, E. Lowell
Type: Serial
Description:
- Spring Blossom
Extent: 4 pages
Floral forms in historic design : mainly from objects in the Victoria & Albert museum, but including examples from designs by William Morris and C.F.A. Voysey / selected and drawn by Lindsay P. Butterfield with preface and descriptive notes by W.G. Paulson Townsend. (3.24041)
Date: 1922Creator: Butterfield, Lindsay P.
Type: Drawing
Extent: 18 photomechanical prints : collotype, b&w image 37 x 27 cm., on sheet 49 x 36 cm. and image 27 x 37 cm., on sheet 36 x 49 cm. + 1 portfolio (50 x 37 cm.).
Bulletin of Popular Information V. 08 No. 04 (3.32332)
Date: June 30 1933Creator: Kammerer, E. Lowell
Type: Serial
Description:
- What's New Or Noteworthy Among Ornamental Woody Plants
Extent: 4 pages
Schedule for US Team 6, "Echange [sic] of Genetic Materials of Elm" in Nanjing (3.60332)
Date: 1995Type: Document
Description:A daily itinerary for the Arboretum's 1995 expedition to China.
Extent: 1 sheet
Bulletin of Popular Information V. 09 No. 07 (3.32347)
Date: August 25 1934Creator: Kammerer, E. Lowell
Type: Serial
Description:
- Woody Plants Of The Japanese Island Part 2: Shrubs And Vines
Extent: 4 pages
Arbor Day Centennial, James Olson, biographer of J. Sterling Morton, speaking to seated crowd under tent (3.3933)
Date: April 22 1972Type: Photographic image
Description:Arbor Day Centennial, James Olson, biographer of J. Sterling Morton, speaking to seated crowd under tent
Extent: 1 photograph
1938/08/09: Clarence Godshalk to Joseph Cudahy (3.84695)
Date: August 9 1938Creator: Godshalk, Clarence E.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Clarence Godshalk to Joseph Cudahy informating him that the two Chinese Elm leaves have been sent to Mr. H. F. Siebert, Chief Plant Inspector for the State of Illinois, for pest indentification.
Extent: 1 page
Bulletin of Popular Information V. 10 No. 09 (3.32361)
Date: October 10 1935Creator: Kammerer, E. Lowell
Type: Serial
Description:
- Annual Report On Forestry Plots Part 1: Coniferous Trees
Extent: 4 pages
Bulletin of Popular Information V. 11 No. 11 (3.32376)
Date: November 1936Creator: Kammerer, E. Lowell
Type: Serial
Description:
- Yews
Extent: 4 pages
Bulletin of Popular Information V. 12 No. 12 (3.32390)
Date: December 1937Creator: Kammerer, E. Lowell
Type: Serial
Description:
- Growth Rates Of Deciduous Trees
Extent: 4 pages
Bulletin of Popular Information V. 14 Index (3.32404)
Date: December 1939Type: Serial
Description:
- Index Vol. 14
Extent: 8 pages