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Morton Arboretum Prairie Restoration Project: 1960-1980, Raymond F. Schulenberg (3.104345)
Date: 1980sCreator: Schulenberg, Ray
Type: Document
Description:A formerly bound series of documents pertaining to the development of the Schulenberg Prairie. The physical copy of the artifact was formerly in a three-ring binder, but has since been placed in acid free folders, organized by the original tabs represented in the binder.
A table of contents for the pdf version provided in this record is as follows:
Before 1962: Pages 1-3
1962: Pages 4-19
1963: Pages 20-69
1964: Pages 70-106
1965: Pages 107-123
1966: Pages 124-125
1967: Pages 126-196
1968: Pages 197-230
1969: Pages 231-246
1970: Pages 247-264
1971: Pages 265-268
1972: Pages 269-275
After 1972: Pages 276-288
After 1980: Pages 289-315
Extent: 315 pages
Morton Arboretum Research Building - Site Plan - Proposed Well-Pump Location (3.104930)
Date: January 8 1980Creator: Keiser Associates
Type: Plan
Description:Sheet A2-1 with drawings in red pen with the proposed location for the well pump and new lath house.
Extent: 1 sheet
Morton Arboretum Research Building - Site Plan (3.104931)
Date: January 14 1980Type: Plan
Description:Sheet A2-1
Extent: 1 sheet
[New Research Building, Morton Arboretum, Lisle, Illinois] (3.104932)
Date: January 17 1980Creator: Keiser Associates
Type: Plan
Description:Sheets A2-1, A3-1, A3-2, A6-1, A6-2.
Includes revisions made in red pen.
Extent: 5 sheets stapled
Is Horticulture Too Ornamental? (3.10821)
Date: December 21 1979 – March 20 1980Creator: Beatty, Russell A.
Type: Article
Quiet Season (3.10822)
Date: December 21 1979 – March 20 1980Type: Article
Making Ice at the Arboretum (in the Good old Days) (3.10823)
Date: December 21 1979 – March 20 1980Creator: Godshalk, Clarence E.
Type: Article
The Flower Language Books of the Nineteenth Century (3.10826)
Date: March 21 – June 20 1980Creator: Seaton, Beverly
Type: Article
The Outpost Wild Garden: a Volunteer Project in Practical Horticulture (3.10827)
Date: March 21 – June 20 1980Type: Article
Excerpt from My Summer in a Garden (3.10828)
Date: March 21 – June 20 1980Creator: Warner, Charles Dudley, 1829-1900.
Type: Article
The Ecology of Water – Three Views of Man’s Role (3.10830)
Date: June 21 – September 20 1980Creator: Larkin, Joe
Type: Article
The Future of Water in DuPage County (3.10831)
Date: June 21 – September 20 1980Creator: Etter, Alfred G.
Type: Article
The Ecology of Wastewater: Part of a Total Integrating System (3.10832)
Date: June 21 – September 20 1980Creator: Hall, Marion Trufant
Type: Article
The Ecology of Wastewater at the Morton Arboretum (3.10833)
Date: June 21 – September 20 1980Creator: Hall, Marion Trufant, Liby, Dennis
Type: Article
The Prairie Enters History (3.10835)
Date: September 21 – December 20 1980Creator: MacPhail, Ian
Type: Article
The Flora of Chicago: Tenacity & Enterprise (3.10836)
Date: September 21 – December 20 1980Creator: Rowlatt, Ursula, Swink, Floyd
Type: Article
Research Notes (3.10837)
Date: September 21 – December 20 1980Type: Article
People & Projects (3.10838)
Date: September 21 – December 20 1980Type: Article
The Lookout: Stalking the Yellow-Throated Turtle (3.10839)
Date: September 21 – December 20 1980Type: Article
Woody Plant Collections at the Morton Arboretum: A Historical Perspective (3.10841)
Date: December 21 1980 – March 20 1981Creator: Schulenberg, Ray
Type: Article
Special Care of the Morton Arboretum’s Woody Plant collections (3.10842)
Date: December 21 1980 – March 20 1981Creator: Barnett, David P.
Type: Article
Research Notes (3.10843)
Date: December 21 1980 – March 20 1981Type: Article
1980/08/08: Mike Spravka to George Ware (3.108562)
Date: August 8 1980Type: Document
Description:Note on Silver Maple plantings.
Extent: 1 sheet
Pansy (3.24633)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustration of a large pansy flower and three detail views, including floral diagram, reverse of flower, and center, accompanied by descriptive text. Background sketches along the left side include a house, a heart, and a church, center bottom includes three women and two girls sitting in a circle drinking tea, and center right includes flowers and an elf. Sketches depict various pansy folklore.
Upper left text lists various names this flower goes by - herb trinity, pink of my John, heart's ease, step-mother, kit run in the street, kiss me at the garden gate, cuddle me to you, kiss me quick or PANSY
Top right floral diagram illustration identifies sepal, petal, stamen, pistil, nectar sac
Bottom left illustration (reverse of flower) identifies sepal, petal, nectar sac
Bottom right illustration identifies stigma, pistil and stamens, nectar sac
Extent: 1 sheet
Owl Pellets Galore (3.24640)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Document
Description:Four pages of type-written text for Owl Pellets Galore by May Theilgaard Watts, an account detailing the process of searching for and examining long-eared owl pellets with Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts.
Accompanied by artwork titled Under the Roost of the Long-Eared Owls.
Extent: 4 sheets
Under the Roost of the Long-Eared Owls (3.24641)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Four illustrations depicting long-eared owls and their pellets. Captions accompany each individual illustration. The drawings illustrate the story OWL PELLETS GALORE by May Theilgaard Watts, Naturalist at The Morton Arboretum.
Upper left text: UNDER the ROOST of the LONG-EARED OWLS
Illustrations with captions, from left to right, top to bottom:
- Drawing of an owl pellet
- Caption: An owl pellet
- Drawing of forest floor, including rhododendron
- Caption: When rhododendron leaves uncurl we find pellets.
- Drawing of rodent bone findings
- Caption: Each pellet reveals parts of a small rodent.
- Drawing of two owls in a tree
- Caption: They seem to grow taller as we approach.
Extent: 1 sheet
Three Seasons of Bloom in the Prairie (3.24642)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustration of 23 prairie plants shown in a chart formation categorized by Fall, Summer, and Spring from top to bottom, and from high prairie to low prairie from left to right. Identifying text appears beneath each illustration, some of which is on strip of board attached to the bottom with tape.
Header: THREE SEASONS of BLOOM in the PRAIRIE
Text, top right: the individual plants represent colonies of varying sizes
Plants as depicted from top to bottom, left to right:
- Fall
- big bluestem
- blazing star
- Indian grass
- wild rye
- switch grass
- saw-toothed sunflower
- prairie dock
- cord grass
- Summer
- lead plant
- New Jersey tea
- flowering spurge
- stiff goldenrod
- black-eyed Susan
- Culver's root
- tall meadow rue
- Sullivant's milkweed
- Spring:
- bird's-foot violet
- blue-eyed grass
- puccoon
- downy phlox
- wild strawberry
- Canada anemone
- yellow star grass
Extent: 1 sheet
The Morton Arboretum Quarterly V. 15 No. 04 (3.34491)
Date: December 21 1979 – March 20 1980Type: Serial
Extent: 16 pages
The Morton Arboretum Quarterly V. 16 No. 01 (3.34492)
Date: March 21 – June 20 1980Type: Serial
Extent: 16 pages
The Morton Arboretum Quarterly V. 16 No. 02 (3.34493)
Date: June 21 – September 20 1980Type: Serial
Extent: 16 pages
The Morton Arboretum Quarterly V. 16 No. 03 (3.34494)
Date: September 21 – December 20 1980Type: Serial
Extent: 16 pages
The Morton Arboretum Quarterly V. 16 No. 04 (3.34495)
Date: December 21 1980 – March 20 1981Type: Serial
Extent: 16 pages
1980/07/02: John Armstrong to George Ware (3.37489)
Date: July 2 1980Creator: Armstrong, John
Type: Document
Description:Letter from John Armstrong of Layfayette Redevelopment Commission to George Ware requesting information on street tree selection for the City of Lafayette's urban forestry program. Interest in data from the Arboretum's Street Tree Demonstration Plot.
Extent: 1 sheet
[Research Building][Automatic Fire Protection Plans] (3.5473)
Date: October 14 1980Creator: David E. McDaniel Co.
Type: Plan
Description:Collection has copy with sheets numbered 3, 4, 5, and 6. Architectural plans used here are those prepared by B. O. C. Heating & Air Conditioning Co., Chicago, Illinois (STRU:D I (b) 1) (3.5523).
Extent: 4 sheets stapled