Family Fair, activity station (3.99591)
Date: 1990sType: Photographic image
Description:Children stand at a table to participate in an educational activity about plants at The Morton Arboretum's Family Fair.
Family Fair (3.99590)
Date: 1990sType: Photographic image
Description:Guests walk around and visit tents at The Morton Arboretum's Family Fair.
Family Fair, families decorate pumpkins (3.99589)
Date: 1990sType: Photographic image
Description:Families sit at a picnic tables decorating pumpkins under the shelter of a tent.
Family Fair, children picking pumpkins (3.99588)
Date: 1990sType: Photographic image
Description:Children select a pumpkin to decorate from a pile of pumpkins at The Morton Arboretum's Family Fair. Event tents on a large, grassy field are visible in the background.
Family Fair, guests walk near Meadow Lake (3.99587)
Date: 1990sType: Photographic image
Description:Guests walk to Meadow Lake during The Morton Arboretum's Family Fair.
Family Fair, guests walk through Ground Cover Garden (3.99586)
Date: 1990sType: Photographic image
Description:Guests walk through the Ground Cover Garden during The Morton Arboretum's Family Fair.
Family Fair, guests walk around Meadow Lake (3.99585)
Date: 1990sType: Photographic image
Description:Guests walk on the path around Meadow Lake during The Morton Arboretum's Family Fair.
Family Fair, guests near Visitor Center (3.99584)
Date: 1990sType: Photographic image
Description:Guests walk near the Visitor Center and Meadow Lake during The Morton Arboretum's Family Fair.
Family Fair, guests walk around Meadow Lake (3.99583)
Date: 1990sType: Photographic image
Description:Guests walk around Meadow Lake near the Visitor Center during The Morton Arboretum's Family Fair.
Family Fair (3.99582)
Date: 1990sType: Photographic image
Description:Guests walk through The Morton Arboretum's Family Fair. In the foreground are people sitting and walking around hay bales. Beyond the hay bales are event tents on a large, grassy field. The Visitor Center is visible in the background.
Family Fair, girl colors a drawing depicting Joy Morton (3.99581)
Date: 1990sType: Photographic image
Description:At The Morton Arboretum's Family Fair, a girl holds a marker while looking at a large sign depicting a drawing of a squirrel and Joy Morton planting a tree. The sign reads "Joy Morton Plants a Tree 1922".
Family Fair, membership and information tent (3.99580)
Date: 1990sType: Photographic image
Description:Guests walk through The Morton Arboretum's Family Fair. A large white tent display signs saying "Membership" and "Information". The Visitor Center is visible in the background.
Family Fair, guests walking through Hedge Garden (3.99579)
Date: 1990sType: Photographic image
Description:Guests walk through the center terrace of the Hedge Garden during The Morton Arboretum's Family Fair.
Family Fair, guests walking through Hedge Garden (3.99578)
Date: 1990sType: Photographic image
Description:Guests stroll through Hedge Garden during The Morton Arboretum's Family Fair. The Four Columns are visible in the background.
Family Fair, activity station (3.99577)
Date: 1990sType: Photographic image
Description:A man holds a child up to place a paper leaf on a tree at an activity station at The Morton Arboretum's family fair. Guests stand near a patio umbrella nearby. Other attendees and large tents are visible in the background.
Family Fair, tree planting (3.99371)
Date: 1990sType: Photographic image
Description:A woman dressed as a tree holds a shovel, helping a child plant a tree. Other children with shovels help pack soil around the tree as well. A large white tent is in the background.
Anemone patens var. multifida Pritz. (pasqueflower), flower (3.99150)
Date: May 1995Creator: Shouba, Jack
Type: Photographic image
Description:Anemone patens var. multifida Pritz. (pasqueflower), single white flower with dead grass in background
Extent: 1 slide
Anemone patens var. multifida Pritz. (pasqueflower), habit and flowers (3.99149)
Date: May 1995Creator: Shouba, Jack
Type: Photographic image
Description:Anemone patens var. multifida Pritz. (pasqueflower), habit with a close-up of flowers and dirt in background
Extent: 1 slide
Flag pole and stone acorn at Arboretum entrance (3.94934)
Date: 1990sType: Photographic image
Description:Ornamental stone acorn finial sits atop the gatepost at the Arboretum's east entrance. A flag pole bears an American flag and a flag with The Morton Arboretum's logo.
May T. Watts Reading Garden fountain (3.94933)
Date: 1990sType: Photographic image
Description:The fountain in the May T. Watts Reading Garden. A wrought iron fence with a sign depicting the garden's name curves behind the fountain.
Visitor Center in spring (3.94932)
Date: 1990sType: Photographic image
Description:The Visitor Center in spring.
Hedge Collection in winter (3.94931)
Date: 1990sType: Photographic image
Description:Snow-covered hedges in the Hedge Collection. The Ground Cover Garden gazebo is visible behind them.
Thornhill Education Center in spring (3.94930)
Date: 1990sType: Photographic image
Description:View of the south side of the Thornhill Education Center and the lawn in spring, looking through magnolia branches in bloom.
Four Columns in spring (3.94929)
Date: 1990sType: Photographic image
Description:The Four Columns in spring, with blossoming trees behind them.
Administration Building (3.94928)
Date: 1990sType: Photographic image
Description:The entrance to the Administration Building in spring.
Ground Cover Garden (3.94927)
Date: 1990sType: Photographic image
Description:A path winds through the Ground Cover Garden. A sign depicting a map of the garden stands adjacent to the path.
Schulenberg Prairie (3.94926)
Date: 1990sType: Photographic image
Description:Schulenberg Prairie in summer, displaying plants such as Silphium terebinthinaceum (prairie dock) and Dalea purpurea (purple prairie-clover).
View of magnolia tree from Carol Doty's office (3.94925)
Date: 1990sType: Photographic image
Description:View of a magnolia tree in bloom through the window in Carol Doty's office on the second floor of the Administration Building.
Armillaria root rot (Armillaria) on Quercus rubra L. (northern red oak) (3.91797)
Date: October 13 1995Creator: Jacobs, Karel
Type: Specimen
Description:A riker mount containing Armillaria root rot (Armillaria) on Quercus rubra L. (northern red oak). Specimen collected in the East Woods at The Morton Arboretum.
These specimens are available for checkout via the Plant Pathology Lab of The Morton Arboretum. For more information, fill out the form here and an Arboretum staff member will contact you.
Spodiopogon sibiricus Trin. (Siberian frost grass), fruit (3.90715)
Date: 1995Creator: Yiesla, Sharon
Type: Photographic image
Description:Spodiopogon sibiricus Trin. (Siberian frost grass), fruit
Spodiopogon sibiricus Trin. (Siberian frost grass), habit (3.90714)
Date: 1995Creator: Yiesla, Sharon
Type: Photographic image
Description:Spodiopogon sibiricus Trin. (Siberian frost grass), habit
Alchemilla mollis (lady’s mantle), flowering plants in landscape bed (3.83213)
Date: May 1995Creator: Bachtell, Kris
Type: Photographic image
Description:Alchemilla mollis (lady’s mantle), yellow flowering plants in landscape bed, curb in foreground, building and road in background, other plants in photo
Extent: 1 slide
Alchemilla mollis (lady’s mantle), flowers (3.83212)
Date: May 1995Creator: Bachtell, Kris
Type: Photographic image
Description:Alchemilla mollis (lady’s mantle), yellow flowers, green palmately compound leaves
Perspective Rendering of Hedge Garden/Pinetum Allee [pencil works on paper] (3.7116)
Date: May 1995Creator: Mehaffey, Scott A.
Type: Plan
Extent: 1 sheet
Meadow Lake Reconstruction [highlighted sections] (3.7095)
Date: 1990sCreator: Mehaffey, Scott A.
Type: Plan
Description:Sheet 1 - scope drawing; Sheet 2 - site context
Contains areas highlighted in marker.
Extent: 2 sheets
Composite Central Area Map (3.7053)
Date: 1994 – 1995Creator: Egelhoff, John, Sullivan, Andrew J.
Type: Map
Description:"Used for central area plan developed by EPD" (Environemental Planning & Design, now Marshall, Tyler, Rausch, LLC). Compiled from Grounds Mapping Project maps.
Extent: 1 sheet