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Bulletin of Popular Information V. 39 No. 07 (3.32714)
Date: July 1964Creator: Kammerer, E. Lowell
Type: Serial
Description:
- Winter Injury, 1963-64
Extent: 6 pages
Bulletin of Popular Information V. 39 No. 08 (3.32715)
Date: August 1964Creator: Kammerer, E. Lowell
Type: Serial
Description:
- Midsummer Notes
Extent: 4 pages
Bulletin of Popular Information V. 39 No. 09 (3.32716)
Date: September 1964Creator: Kammerer, E. Lowell
Type: Serial
Description:
- Some Crabapples With Showy Early Fruit
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
Bulletin of Popular Information V. 39 No. 11 (3.32718)
Date: November 1964Creator: Kammerer, E. Lowell
Type: Serial
Description:
- Variable Autumn Foliage Interest Among Our Trees
Extent: 4 pages
Bulletin of Popular Information V. 39 No. 12 (3.32719)
Date: December 1964Creator: Kammerer, E. Lowell
Type: Serial
Description:
- Shrubs With Decorative Bark
- Notice to Subscribers
Extent: 4 pages
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
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
Bulletin of Popular Information V. 39 Index (3.32708)
Date: December 1964Type: Serial
Description:
- Volume 39 Index
Extent: 8 pages
Bulletin of Popular Information V. 39 No. 01 (3.32709)
Date: January 1964Creator: Kammerer, E. Lowell
Type: Serial
Description:
- Conifers Of The Morton Arboretum XIII
Extent: 4 pages
Bulletin of Popular Information V. 39 No. 02-03 (3.32710)
Date: February – March 1964Creator: Kammerer, E. Lowell
Type: Serial
Description:
- Striving For The Japanese Effect In Chicago Area Gardens, With Emphasis On Suitable Plant Material
Extent: 12 pages
Zurcher-Morton Arboretum Trustees Assessment Plat of Part of Lots Two (2), Three (3), and Four (4) in Owner's Assessment Plat of Parts of Sections 33 and 34, Milton Township and Part of Sections 3 and 4, Lisle Township, According to the Plat Thereof Recorded July 25, 1935 as Document 360768 in DuPage County, Illinois (3.5395)
Date: September 9 1964Creator: Steinbrecher, Harold F.
Type: Map
Description:The area surveyed, totalling 10.8 acres, is located in the Leask Lane area, a part of the Slusser farm. This is a partially unsigned copy.
Extent: 1 sheet
Bulletin of Popular Information V. 39 No. 04 (3.32711)
Date: April 1964Creator: Kammerer, E. Lowell
Type: Serial
Description:
- Before You Buy
Extent: 6 pages
Bulletin of Popular Information V. 39 No. 05 (3.32712)
Date: May 1964Creator: Kammerer, E. Lowell
Type: Serial
Description:
- Korean Azalea, Sargent Cherry, Spring Cherry, Prunus 'Hally Jolivette' And Withers Pink Charm Redbud
Extent: 4 pages
Bulletin of Popular Information V. 39 No. 06 (3.32713)
Date: June 1964Creator: Kammerer, E. Lowell
Type: Serial
Description:
- Spring Observations (1964)
Extent: 4 pages
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
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
Morton Arboretum [Aerial Photograph and] Conservation Plan Map, Kane-DuPage Soil Conservation District. (3.5416)
Date: June 1964Creator: U.S. Soil Conservation Service
Type: Map
Description:Photomosaic produced from aerial photographs believed to have been taken in the 1940s. "Photo nos. BWS-8N-11, 8N-12, 8N-13, 4N-63, 4N-64, 4N-65, 4N-66, &4N-67." The photograph has been marked in ink with water features and major highways.
Extent: 1 sheet
Lisle Twp.[portion of] Sec. 1, 2, 3 [and] 4, T. 38N., R. 10E. of the 3rd P. M. (3.5844)
Date: 1960sCreator: DuPage County
Type: Map
Description:Presumably copies made from DuPage County plat maps. Dates for various revisions are added in ms. Shows names of many property owners and prices of various land tracts. For Section 1 the following quarter sections are covered: the SW, the NW, and the NE; for Section 2: the NW and NE; for Section 3: the NW and the NE; and for Section 4: the NE only.
Extent: 8 sheets
Soil and Capability Map (3.6773)
Date: June 1964Creator: U.S. Soil Conservation Service
Type: Map
Description:Kane-DuPage Soil Conservation District and Soil Conservation Service. Map shows Arboretum with soil capabilities drawn in.
Extent: 1 sheet on board
A Proposed Septic System for Gate House, The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, Illinois (3.5461)
Date: 1960sCreator: Tyznik, Anthony
Type: Plan
Extent: 1 sheet
Plan of Director's Residence, Morton Arboretum (3.5493)
Date: 1960sCreator: Godshalk, Clarence E.
Type: Plan
Description:Structure built in southwestern portion of the Arboretum for Clarence.E. Godshalk as a retirement home.
Extent: 6 sheets stapled
[Stairway Plan at Front of Administration Building] (3.5513)
Date: 1960sCreator: Tyznik, Anthony
Type: Plan
Description:Pencil notes on sheet 1.
Extent: 2 sheets, stapled
[Ozark Bridge] (3.6266)
Date: 1964Type: Plan
Description:Note on back: "Ozark Bride [sic], 1964"
Extent: 2 sheets
AABGA Quarterly Newsletter, 1964 (3.64956)
Date: July 1964Type: Document
Description:Quarterly newsletter describing cold hardiness with tables and charts for corresponding plants.
Extent: 1 booklet
AABGA Membership List, 1964 (3.64957)
Date: August 1964Type: Document
Description:Document lists new and deleted member names.
Extent: 2 pages
1964/02/11: Clarence Godshalk to Wirt Morton (3.84733)
Date: February 11 1964Creator: Godshalk, Clarence E.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Clarence Godshalk to Wirt Morton letting him know that he cannot find any books written about the Morton Salt Co. He is sending a copy of "Chicago's Highways Old and New" authored by Joy Morton. Miss Kerr, who edits the Morton Salt "Spout" is in the process of writing a book about Morton Salt. She will be contacting him. P.S. Suzette says there is a book about Morton Salt, "The Fifth Element."
Extent: 1 page
Easter Sunday, 1964: Suzette Morton Zurcher to Clarence E. Godshalk (3.85899)
Date: April 1964Creator: Davidson, Suzette Morton
Type: Document
Description:A postcard from Beirut sent from Suzette Morton Zurcher to Clarence E. Godshalk. She mentions not seeing any of the scarce cedars yet but being aware of some in a garden in Washington, D.C. She still has to Jordan, Persia and Greece still to come. She plans to return to "Cricket Hill" at night on April 17 with no gate keys and asks not to be locked out.
1964/08/27: Suzette Zurcher to Lake Forester (3.85900)
Date: August 27 1964Creator: Davidson, Suzette Morton
Type: Document
Description:A letter from Suzette Morton Zurcher to the Lake Forester expressing her displeasure of the city's decision to replace a missing bridge with landfill.
1964/08/31: Frances J. Lyon to Suzette Zurcher (3.85901)
Date: August 31 1964Creator: Davidson, Suzette Morton
Type: Document
Description:A letter from Frances J. Lyon to Suzette Zurcher thanking her for the trip to the Arboretum and going over fees for his editorial services. A small sheet of paper addressed to Clarence Godshalk from Suzette Zurcher provides a little further context.
1964: Suzette Zurcher to Arboretum Family (3.85902)
Date: 1964Creator: Davidson, Suzette Morton
Type: Document
Description:A card from Suzette Zurcher to her Arboretum family expressing regret for being unable to attend the Arboretum's Christmas party.
Suggested Patio Garden - Residence of Dr. and Mrs. David Shoch (3.97712)
Date: February 1964Creator: Johnson, Marshall L.
Type: Plan
Description:1070 Hohlfelder Road
Glencoe, Illinois
Extent: 1 sheet
Screen Suggestions for Dr. Shoch Residence (3.97713)
Date: May 1964Creator: Johnson, Marshall L.
Type: Plan
Description:1070 Hohlfelder Road
Glencoe, Illinois
Extent: 1 sheet
Patio Garden Planting - Residence of Dr. and Mrs. David Shoch (3.97714)
Date: October 1964Creator: Johnson, Marshall L.
Type: Plan
Description:1070 Hohlfelder Road
Glencoe, Illinois
Extent: 1 sheet
A Planting Plan - Patio Area Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas L. Turkevich (3.98043)
Date: April 1964Creator: Johnson, Marshall L.
Type: Plan
Description:264 Donlea Road
Barrington, Illinois
Extent: 1 sheet