[Topographic maps of the United States] Illinois topography… mapped, edited, and published by the Geological Survey in cooperation with State of Illinois Geological Survey (3.6552)
Date: 1922 – 1954Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Type: Map
Description:Sheets 2-6 are same as REF:B I (a) 1 - REF:B II (b) 1. Sheet 1 - Belvedere Quadrangle - Illinois - Wisconsin. Sheet 2 - Herscher Quadrangle. Sheet 3 - Kankakee Quadrangle. Sheet 4 - Momence Quadrangle - Illinois - Indiana. Sheet 5 - Wilmington Quadrangle. Sheet 6 - Yorkville Quadrangle.
Extent: 6 sheets
[Thornhill Building, Showing Heating and Ventilation Details in Basement] (3.5547)
Date: June 20 1942Creator: Northwestern Heating & Plumbing Co.
Type: Plan
Description:"Record Drawing."
Extent: 1 sheet
[Planting plans for Courtland Street and Palmer Street [cartographic material] / O.C. Simonds]. (3.24871)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Simonds, O. C.
Type: Plan
Extent: 1 plan 98 x 37 cm.
[Map of U.S. counties] [cartographic material] / U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census. (3.24845)
Date: 1942Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Type: Plan
Extent: 1 map 62 x 97 cm.
[Map of U.S. counties] Revised (3.5930)
Date: 1942Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Type: Map
Extent: 1 sheet
[Guide Map of The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, Illinois, 1940s?] (3.6814)
Date: 1940sCreator: Godshalk, Clarence E.
Type: Map
Description:Map mounted on cardboard, labels pasted on, no title, "C. Godshalk" on reverse.
Extent: 1 sheet
[A Development Plan for a Residential Community Within the Arboretum] (3.5766)
Date: 1940sCreator: Godshalk, Clarence E.
Type: Plan
Description:A landscape design developed in connection with planning for Arbordale. The community shown here was projected for an area roughly the same as that occupied currently by Arbordale. The plan was drawn on the Lozier/Steinbrecher Assessment plat no. 1 issued Sept. 29, 1934
Authorship is shown in a ms. note written on the map by C.E. Godshalk: "CEG did this."
Extent: 1 sheet
[A development plan for a residential community in the Arboretum] (3.5763)
Date: 1940sCreator: Schafer, Joe
Type: Plan
Description:A landscape design developed in connection with planning for Arbordale. The community shown here was projected for the area south and east of South Farm. The plan was drawn on the Lozier/Steinbrecher Assessment plat no. 1 (Lands Belonging To Trustees Under The Will Of Joy Morton, Deceased) issued Sept. 29, 1934 (See SURV:B III (b) 1). Authorship was assigned by C. E. Godshalk in a ms. note. Additions added in colored pencil.
Extent: 1 sheet
Young ferns [graphic] / Clare Leighton. (3.26525)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Leighton, Clare, 1898-1989.
Type: Print
Extent: 1 print : wood engraving, b&w 17 x 13 cm.
Yellow Pond Lily (3.19469)
Date: 1940sCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Two illustrations of a yellow pond lily, depicting leaves and flowers with identifying text below each image. Image "A" shows the flower about to open on the first day, and image "B" shows the second day with flower fully open.
Header: yellow pond lily
Plants and text as depicted from left to right:
- A - For one day the opening flower offers insects a small entrance, filled with the stigma reader for pollen from a flower like B [arrow pointing right to next column of text]
- B - On the second day the flower opens wide, and its stamens burst with pollen, ready to be carried by insects to a flower like A [arrow pointing left back to text in the first column]
Extent: 1 sheet
Wisteria scroll (3.31487)
Date: 20th centuryType: Painting
Extent: 1 scroll : brush and ink, watercolor ; 27 x 145 cm.
Wisteria and euonymus scroll (3.31485)
Date: 20th centuryType: Painting
Extent: 1 scroll : brush and ink, watercolor ; 28 x 45 cm.
Winter woods with evergreens (3.33440)
Date: 1930 – 1949Type: Photographic image
Description:Winter woods with evergreens
Extent: 1 negative
Winter Buds, #3 (3.19513)
Date: 1940 – 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Large poster depicting 16 types of winter buds, bound in green tape.
Illustrations and text, from left to right, top to bottom:
- honey locust
- black locust
- Osage orange
- hawthorn
- wild crab
- wild plum
- European larch
- ginkgo
- red oak
- white oak
- tulip tree
- sycamore
- Kentucky coffeetree
- tree of heaven
- staghorn sumac
- willow
Extent: 1 sheet
Winter Buds, #2 (3.19512)
Date: 1940 – 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Large poster depicting 12 types of winter buds, bound in green tape.
Illustrations and text, from left to right, top to bottom:
- bitternut hickory
- witch-hazel
- shadbush
- beech
- black walnut
- butternut
- sassafras
- shagbark hickory
- linden
- mountain ash
- sour gum
- silver poplar
Extent: 1 sheet
Winter Buds, #1 (3.19511)
Date: 1940 – 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Large poster depicting 16 types of winter buds, bound in green tape.
Illustrations and text, from left to right, top to bottom:
- white ash
- black ash
- blue ash
- red ash
- sugar maple
- Norway maple
- silver maple
- box-elder
- horse-chestnut
- ohio buckeye
- flowering dogwood
- catalpa
- ironwood
- gray birch
- European white birch
- European alder
Extent: 1 sheet
Willow branches [graphic]. (3.24543)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Hassall, Joan.
Type: Drawing
Extent: 1 drawing : brush and pen, one color 25 x 21 cm.
White double peony and monarch butterfly (3.31483)
Date: 20th centuryType: Painting
Extent: 1 painting : gouache, color 18 x 11 cm.
West end of Lake Marmo in summer (3.37858)
Date: 1930 – 1949Type: Photographic image
Description:West end of Lake Marmo in summer
Extent: 1 negative
Volvaria speciosa (3.29265)
Date: 1920 – 1950Creator: Beggs, Helene Warder, 1882-1970
Type: Painting
Extent: 1 painting : watercolor and graphite 26 x 18 cm.
Volvaria bombycina (3.29264)
Date: 1920 – 1950Creator: Beggs, Helene Warder, 1882-1970
Type: Painting
Extent: 1 painting : watercolor and graphite 26 x 18 cm.
View of Thornhill (3.31060)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustration of view up the hill to the Thornhill Education Center at The Morton Arboretum, with bare trees and mushrooms in foreground, clouds and trees behind building in background, and an ink border.
Illustration used as image for printed notecards.
Extent: 1 sheet
View of open area with trees in distance and water in foreground (3.38259)
Date: 1930 – 1949Type: Photographic image
Description:View of open area with trees in distance and water in foreground
Extent: 1 negative
View of Morton residence on horizon from Ridge Road near Geographical Groups (3.32761)
Date: 1922 – 1949Type: Photographic image
Description:View of Morton residence on horizon from Ridge Road near Geographical Groups
Extent: 1 negative
View looking southeast toward Downers Grove from high point on Forest Road (3.31937)
Date: 1940sType: Photographic image
Description:View looking southeast toward Downers Grove from high point where Forest Road starts curving back. Land just across fence became University of Illinois Research Area
Extent: 1 photograph
View looking northwest from Ridge Road overlook (3.37354)
Date: 1940sType: Photographic image
Description:View looking northwest from Ridge Road overlook and wooden railing
Rogers land in distance
Extent: 1 photograph
View from the Overlook - Geographical Groups, Serbian Spruce (3.3026)
Date: 1940sCreator: Miller, W. L.
Type: Photographic image
Description:View from the Overlook - Geographical Groups, Serbian Spruce
Extent: 1 photograph
View from railing toward forestry plot (3.37875)
Date: 1930 – 1949Type: Photographic image
Description:View from railing toward forestry plot
Extent: 1 negative
View from prairie remnant on Meadow Road looking northwest over Cutten land (3.3027)
Date: 1940sType: Photographic image
Description:View from prairie remnant on Meadow Road looking northwest over Cutten land
Extent: 1 photograph
View from burial plot toward Lisle with tree on right (3.37817)
Date: 1930 – 1949Type: Photographic image
Description:View from burial plot toward Lisle with tree on right
Extent: 1 negative
View between two trees looking northwest from Ozarks (3.37864)
Date: 1930 – 1949Type: Photographic image
Description:View between two trees looking northwest from Ozarks
Extent: 1 negative
Vernal Witch-hazel (3.19477)
Date: 1940 – 1960Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustration of the Vernal witch-hazel plant, including three detailed views and some descriptive text. Background sketches include trees at top and center, and shrubs at center and bottom.
Header: VERNAL WITCH-HAZEL, HAMAMELIS vernalis
Illustrations as depicted, from top to bottom, left to right:
- a single pistil, labeled PISTIL
- two stamens, front view and side view, labeled STAMEN
- a single twig in bloom
- a flower
Extent: 1 sheet
Vegetation eight years after planting (3.34003)
Date: 1930 – 1949Type: Photographic image
Description:Vegetation eight years after planting
Extent: 1 negative
Varbascum banaticum (3.17599)
Date: 1940 – 1942Creator: Snelling, Lilian., Ross-Craig, Stella.
Type: Print
Upper level of the Hedge Garden (3.2931)
Date: 1942Creator: Deardorf, M. S.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Upper level of the Hedge Garden
Extent: 1 photograph
Union Park, [Chicago [cartographic material] : planting plan] / Jens Jensen. (3.24899)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Jensen, Jens
Type: Plan
Extent: 1 plan 51 x 55 cm.