Joy Morton's 70th Birthday: Harry Shewell making presentation speech (3.3661)
Date: September 25 1925Type: Photographic image
Description:Harry Shewell presenting gift to Joy Morton during speech with Margaret Gray Morton and guests looking on
*Photograph not included in momento book
Extent: 1 photograph
May T. Watts viewing the landscape (3.36623)
Type: Photographic image
Description:May T. Watts seated on cluster of boulders, viewing the distant landscape below. An unidentified woman is seated to her right.
This image is part of a group of slides that belonged to May T. Watts, related to her book Reading the Landscape.
Extent: 1 slide
Member Stories: Sue Ekins (3.41539)
Type: Video
Description:Long-time member and Perennial Partner Sue Ekins shares her most memorable visit and favorite places at The Morton Arboretum.
Horticultural crew feeding the chipper (3.4156)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Horticultural crew feeding the chipper
(L to R) Ann Teeling, John Swisher, John Sosnowski
Extent: 1 photograph
Green Nature, Human Nature book signing in Sterling Morton Library, George Ware speaking to Gary Watson and Gerry Donnelly in the May T. Watts Reading Garden (3.4183)
Date: May – June 1996Type: Photographic image
Description:Green Nature, Human Nature book signing in Sterling Morton Library, George Ware speaking to Gary Watson and Gerry Donnelly in the May T. Watts Reading Garden
(L to R): Gerry Donnelly, Gary Watson, George Ware
Extent: 1 photograph
Dr. William Hess working in Herbarium (3.4984)
Creator: Brown, Ray
Type: Photographic image
Description:Dr. William Hess working in Herbarium
Extent: 1 photograph
Arboretum two story residential housing at Arbordale, 23W177 Indian Hill, side view of front with car and two people in driveway (3.37045)
Date: 1959Type: Photographic image
Description:Arboretum two story residential housing at Arbordale, 23W177 Indian Hill, side view of front with car and two people in driveway
Extent: 1 negative
Arboretum one story residential housing at Arbordale, 23W217 Indian Hill, side view of front (3.37059)
Date: 1959Type: Photographic image
Description:Arboretum one story residential housing at Arbordale, 23W217 Indian Hill, side view of front
Extent: 1 negative
Berberis thunbergii 'Concorde' (Concorde purple-leaved Japanese barberry), habit (3.71436)
Date: 2005 – 2012Creator: Hagstrom, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Berberis thunbergii 'Concorde' (Concorde purple-leaved Japanese barberry) shrub with green and red leaves and yellow flowers. Wood chips in foreground and background, partial view of two shrubs in background.
Allium tricoccum Ait. (3.53998)
Date: circa 1956Creator: 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
Andropogon gerardi (3.54006)
Creator: 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
Andropogon scoparius Michx. (3.54014)
Date: 1955Creator: 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
Angelica atropurpurea L. (3.54022)
Date: 1956Creator: 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
Aralia nudicaulis (3.54030)
Creator: 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
The Red List of US Oaks (3.54127)
Date: 2017Creator: Westwood, Murphy, Jerome, Diana, Beckman Bruns, Emily, Wenzell, Katherine, Kua, Chai-Shian
Type: Article
Celtis occidentalis (hackberry), flowering twig tip (3.64026)
Date: April 1978Creator: Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:Celtis occidentalis (hackberry), closeup detail of twig tip showing several emerging flower clusters and pale green new leaves
Extent: 1 slide
Botanical Terms Used in Describing Leaves, page 2 (3.19464)
Date: July 1944Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Sheet 2 of 4. Glossary of botanical terms and illustrations used for describing leaves, created to accompany "Botanical Terms Used in Describing Leaves" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information. Illustrations depict various over-lapping leaf silhouettes with additional small sketches of objects to explain each shape in a column on the left, and a glossary of terms describing the leaves in a column on the right. Descriptive text adhered to the board includes details of leaf shapes.
Header: A LEAF SHAPE IS CALLED:
Leaf shapes depicted from top to bottom, left to right:
- OBLONG
- Silhouette of oblong shaped leaf with sketch of radio tube under stem
- OVAL
- Silhouette of oval shaped leaf with sketch of tennis racket under stem
- OVATE
- Silhouette of ovate shaped leaf with sketch of lit candle under stem
- OBOVATE
- Silhouette of obovate shaped leaf with sketch of light bulb under stem
- ELLIPTIC
- Silhouette of elliptic shaped leaf with sketch of an eye at stem
- CORDATE
- Silhouette of cordate shaped leaf with sketch of a playing card at stem
- PELTATE
- Silhouette of peltate shaped leaf with sketch of an umbrella under stem
- RENIFORM
- Silhouette of reniform shaped leaf with sketch of a jelly bean under stem
- DELTOID
- Silhouette of deltoid shaped leaf with sketch of a garden trowel under stem
- HALBERD-SHAPED
- Silhouette of halberd-shaped leaf with sketch of a fish hook under stem
- LANCEOLATE
- Silhouette of lanceolate shaped leaf with sketch of a carrot under stem
- OBLANCEOLATE
- Silhouette of oblanceolate shaped leaf with sketch of a dart at stem
- SPATULATE
- Silhouette of spatulate shaped leaf with sketch a canoe at stem
- LINEAR
- Silhouette of linear shaped leaf with sketch a butter knife at stem
Extent: 1 sheet
Morton Arboretum Map: Preliminary Drawing for Colored Map (3.19480)
Date: 1943Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Preliminary drawing for detailed colored map of Arboretum grounds that was printed in 1943, showing roads, paths, landscaping, shelters, enlargement of some specific features, hedge garden, and center of hedge garden. Blank spaces indicate water and text placement. Tree symbols show exceptional specimens on east and west sides. The Morton Arboretum encompassed 813 acres at time of map. Drawing is in two pieces.
Extent: 2 sheets
Arboretum Landscape Teaching Aid Series: A River Emerged From Under A Glacier (3.19497)
Date: 1940 – 1960Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Primarily textual teaching aid depicting Arboretum landscape. This material shows the origin of gravel pits at the Arboretum.
Header: A RIVER EMERGED FROM UNDER A GLACIER
Text and illustrations from top to bottom:
- [Depicted in stylized scroll with illustration of a steam shovel in gravel pit] The Record: There are several old gravel pits in the Arboretum.
- Interpreting the record:
- 1) A river running under a glacier is confined to a narrow channel, and is, therefore swift. Because of its swiftness it can carry gravel.
- 2) When such a river comes out from under the ice it spreads out and slows down. Slow moving water can carry only fine material. Therefore the river dropped its heavy material.
- 3) When men found these places they dug the gravel out.
Extent: 1 sheet
Tree-mendous Tree Stories, onsite, Charles Vihon (3.64137)
Date: October 22 2018Creator: The Morton Arboretum
Type: Video
Arboretum Landscape Teaching Aid Series: Trees Keep Records (3.19505)
Date: 1940 – 1960Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Primarily textual teaching aid depicting Arboretum landscape. This material describes the biography of a red oak tree with illustrations and text.
Header: TREES KEEP RECORDS [Illustration of a tree writing in a book with a quill pen, saying "it's nothing, really!"]
Text and illustrations from top to bottom, left to right:
- This red oak was planted, probably by a squirrel, the year that Mr. Joy Morton was 14. [Illustration of a squirrel planting an acorn with a shovel and a sketch of a high wheel bike and cyclist in the background, followed by the year 1869]
- It was this large (red ring) in the year that Sterling Morton inaugurated ARBOR DAY. [Illustration of men in top hats and suits planting trees, followed by the year 1872]
- It was this larger (green ring) in the year the Morton Arboretum was founded. [Illustration of a path with trees, followed by the year 1921]
- It grew vigorously in its youth and then slowed down.
Extent: 1 sheet
Arboretum one story residential housing at Arbordale, 4S124 Dorset, rear view (3.37296)
Date: 1959Type: Photographic image
Description:Arboretum one story residential housing at Arbordale, 4S124 Dorset, rear view
Extent: 1 negative
Tree-mendous Tree Stories, onsite, Ona Kozar (3.64145)
Date: October 22 2018Creator: The Morton Arboretum
Type: Video
Cedar Apple Rust: Destroy, Inspect, and Spray (3.19517)
Date: 1940sCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Informational text listing preventative measures to stop the spread of the fungal disease known as cedar apple rust. Text also includes information regarding steps taken at the Arboretum to protect Hawthorns.
Text as depicted, from top to bottom:
1. DESTROY EITHER ONE OF THE TWO HOSTS TO A DISTANCE OF 1 1/2 TO 2 MILES. (One pathologist collected spores in an airplane one-half mile off the ground.)
HERE AT THE ARBORETUM 3000 RED CEDARS WERE DESTROYED TO PROTECT THE HAWTHORNS.
2. INSPECT EACH RED CEDAR FROM GROUND TO TOP EVERY WINTER OR EARLY SPRING. CUT OFF AND BURN ALL CEDAR APPLES.............
3. SPRAY. FOR THE RECOMMENDED SPRAYS FOR BOTH CEDARS AND APPLES SEE CONTROL MEASURES BOOKLET IN THIS ROOM.
Extent: 1 sheet
Arboretum one story residential housing at Arbordale, 23W176 Indian Hill, under construction with ladder and workers (3.37310)
Date: 1958Type: Photographic image
Description:Arboretum one story residential housing at Arbordale, 23W176 Indian Hill, under construction with ladder and workers
Extent: 1 negative
Passport Europe Festival, September 22-23, 2018, event trailer, refresh (3.64157)
Date: August 16 2018Creator: The Morton Arboretum
Type: Video
Trees with Staminate Flowers, Only, in Catkins (3.24610)
Date: 1944Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustrations depicting pistillate and staminate flowers, staminate catkins, fruits, and associated outline of four trees, created to accompany "The Flowers Nobody Knows" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information. Descriptive text identifies coloring, anatomy, and bloom time.
Header: Trees with Staminate Flowers, Only, in Catkins
(depicted from left to right, top to bottom)
- Black walnut -- Juglans nigra
- Shagbark hickory -- Carya ovata
- White oak -- Quercus alba
- Ginkgo -- Ginkgo biloba
Extent: 1 sheet
Fragrance and Flavor in Leaf, Bark, Twig, and Fruit (3.24626)
Date: 1943Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustrations of variety of leaves, buds, plant habits and bark, created to accompany " Fragrance and Flavor in Leaf, Bark, Twig, and Fruit" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information. Includes identifying illustrations of source trees and identifying text in pen and ink.
Divided into five sections, from top to bottom, left to right:
1) FRAGRANCE IN BRUISED LEAVES
- Sweetbriar - fragrance of green apple sauce
- Sweet shrub - scent of strawberries
- Fragrant sumac - aromatic with a trace of lemon
- Bayberry - aromatic with a hint of balsam
- Mother-of-thyme - fragrant, with a suggestion of new lumber
- Jeffrey pine - a sharp tang of orange peel
- Arbor vitae - in hot sun a smell of "wild strawberries with a hint of resin" - Wilder
- Balsam fir - aromatic and spicy
- Sweet cicely - odor of anise, or licorice
- Sassafras - "fragrance of lemon and a thousand spices" - Thoreau
- Sweet bay - a culinary fragrance reminiscent of soups and stews
- Spice-bush - smooth aroma of mingled spices
- Hay-scented fern - fragrance of new-mown hay
- Sweet fern - resinous and spicy
- Southernwood - smooth sweet fragrance
- Chaste tree - mint with a hint of spice
- Cherry birch - cool, smooth flavor of wintergreen
- Yellow birch - mild taste of wintergreen
- Black cherry - taste of bitter almond
- Slippery elm - inner bark pleasantly mucilaginous
- Juniper - a pleasant aromatic taste
- Sumac - a berry on the tongue gives a taste of "Indian lemonade"
- Balm of gilead - resinous and strongly aromatic
- Flowering quince - good to put in a pocket, or with hankerchiefs
Extent: 1 sheet
Plant Health Care Report, Issue 2017.1 (3.37387)
Date: April 7 2017Creator: Yiesla, Sharon
Type: Serial
Plant Health Care Report, Issue 2017.6 (3.37392)
Date: June 16 2017Creator: Yiesla, Sharon
Type: Serial
Forest Nature Trail Guide, page 15 illustrations and layout with preliminary sketches (3.24672)
Date: 1946Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Sheet One: Original illustrations and layout for page 15, including some text, for The Morton Arboretum Forest Nature Trail Guide booklet. Key lines included.
Illustrated stumps with numbers indicate points of interest along trail as seen on trail map.
Tree stump #44: Which oak is this one?
Text handwritten in center panel and identifying characteristics for four types of oak leaves outlined to the right - illustration in the first row is labeled "Are the lobes pointed - or - rounded," the middle row is lableled "deep - or -shallow," the bottom row is labeled "Is the surface leathery or dull".
Tree stump #45: Douglas Fir
Text handwritten in center panel and identifying characteristics for needles and cones illustrated to the right - label "long end bud" points arrow to top center of needles drawing, and label "bracts" points arrow to center left of cone drawing.
Tree stump #46: Honey Locust
Labels handwritten in center panel and identifying characteristics of leaves, thorns, and pods illustrated to the right.
Sheet Two: Preliminary sketch of green-colored illustrations.
Extent: 2 sheets
Evergreen Nature Trail Guide, page 14 illustrations and layout with preliminary sketches (3.24688)
Date: 1940sCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Sheet One: Original illustrations and layout for page 14, excluding text, for The Morton Arboretum Evergreen Nature Trail Guide booklet. Key lines included.
Illustrated stump with number indicates point of interest along trail as seen on trail map.
Tree stump #35: Where Do Evergreens Grow?
Includes identifying characteristics of growth locations and cycles illustrated below in bogs, canyons, sand dunes, bare rock, wind-swept shores, mountains.
Sheet Two: Preliminary sketch of green-colored illustrations.
Extent: 2 sheets
Platanus occidentalis (sycamore), seeds (3.37418)
Date: 1980sCreator: Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:Platanus occidentalis (sycamore), detail of seeds on ground
Extent: 1 slide
Arboretum two story residential housing at Arbordale, 4S114 Lincoln, rear view of house and yard with tree staked in back (3.37447)
Date: 1959Type: Photographic image
Description:Arboretum two story residential housing at Arbordale, 4S114 Lincoln, rear view of house and yard with tree staked in back
Extent: 1 negative
Arboretum one story residential housing at Arbordale, 4S103 Lincoln, side view of rear and newly planted trees (3.37461)
Date: 1959Type: Photographic image
Description:Arboretum one story residential housing at Arbordale, 4S103 Lincoln, side view of rear and newly planted trees
Extent: 1 negative
[World's Fair Direction Map to Arboretum] (3.7176)
Date: circa 1933Creator: Godshalk, Clarence E.
Type: Map
Description:Created for The Century of Progress Exposition, World's Fair Chicago 1933
Map showing roads to The Morton Arboretum, prior to tollways
Extent: 1 sheet