Staging Center, The Morton Arboretum [Thornhill Picnic Shelter] (3.117042)
Date: March 13 1992Type: Plan
Extent: 8 sheets
Notecards: Views of the Arboretum (3.27751)
Date: 1940 – 1960Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Print
Description:Nine notecards showing 5 different views of The Morton Arboretum. Notecards are black ink etchings on cream paper, folded, with a deckle edge, accompanied by nine matching cream envelopes with a deckle edge and housed in a two-sided, gray leatherette portfolio with an orange paper tie. All notecards are blank with the exception of one which has a letter written inside.
Text in blue on front of the portfolio: THE MORTON ARBORETUM LISLE, ILLINOIS
Title on the bottom left and The Morton Arboretum on the bottom right of each notecard:
- From the hedge collection [1 card]
- Illustration depicts stone steps leading up to hedge collection and evergreen trees
- Along a small stream [3 cards]
- Illustration depicts a stream, bridge, tress, and shrubbery in winter
- Thornhill Building [2 cards]
- Illustration depicts view up the hill to the Thornhill building, with bare trees and mushrooms in foreground, clouds and trees behind building in background
- Along walk to Thornhill Building [2 cards, one containing correspondence regarding plans for a field trip]
- Illustration depicts trees and flowers in forest
- White oak [1 card]
- Illustration depicts a winter white oak in forest with shrubbery
Extent: 9 notecards with envelopes
West Side Thornhill Drive Old Japanese Garden (3.3010)
Date: July 1990Type: Photographic image
Description:West Side Thornhill Drive Old Japanese Garden
Extent: 1 photograph
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
Aerial view of entire West Side in winter (3.3149)
Date: 1970sCreator: Knoedler, Bob
Type: Photographic image
Description:Aerial view of entire West Side in winter
Extent: 1 photograph
Lunching & Learning with Clarence Godshalk: Evolution of the Arboretum - From Farm to Arboretum (3.31582)
Date: January 25 1978Type: Audio
Description:Lunching and Learning program presented by Clarence Godshalk as he describes the evolution of the Arboretum, from farm land to Arboretum.
Extent: 1 audio cassette
Site Improvement Plans for The Morton Arboretum P-19 Expansion Parking (3.32048)
Date: March 7 2003Creator: Christopher B. Burke, Engineering West, Ltd.
Type: Plan
Description:Plans for parking at Thornhill.
Extent: 12 sheets, bound
Shrub and Tree Planting Plans--Thornhill Grounds [July 1992] (3.33807)
Date: July 29 – 31 1992Creator: Tyznik, Anthony
Type: Plan
Description:Sheet 1: Shrub Planting Plan
Sheet 2: Tree Planting Plan
Extent: 2 sheets
Thornhill Education Center, entrance, interior view (3.3418)
Date: 1940sType: Photographic image
Description:Thornhill Education Center, entrance, interior view
Extent: 1 photograph
Thornhill Education Center, reception hall (3.3419)
Date: 1940sType: Photographic image
Description:Thornhill Education Center, reception hall
Extent: 1 photograph
Thornhill Education Center, exterior, depicting Founder's Room bay (3.3420)
Date: 1960sCreator: Korling, Torkel
Type: Photographic image
Description:Thornhill Education Center, exterior, depicting Founder's Room bay
Extent: 1 photograph
Thornhill Education Center, front exterior, side view (3.3421)
Date: 1960sCreator: Korling, Torkel
Type: Photographic image
Description:Thornhill Education Center, front exterior, side view
Extent: 1 photograph
Thornhill Education Center, back exterior (3.3422)
Date: after 1956Type: Photographic image
Description:Thornhill Education Center, back exterior
Extent: 1 photograph
Thornhill Education Center, back exterior (3.3423)
Date: after 1956Type: Photographic image
Description:Thornhill Education Center, back exterior
Extent: 1 photograph
Raintree Fountain and visitors, outside Thornhill Education Center (3.3425)
Creator: Beach & Barnes
Type: Photographic image
Description:Raintree Fountain and visitors, outside Thornhill Education Center
Extent: 1 photograph
Raintree Fountain, in memory of Carolyn Morton (3.3426)
Creator: Beasley, Michael
Type: Photographic image
Description:Raintree Fountain, in memory of Carolyn Morton
Outside entrance of Thornhill Education Center
Extent: 1 photograph
General Information and Guide Map of The Morton Arboretum (3.34268)
Date: 1942Type: Map
Description:Doublesided brochure with general information and a guide map of The Morton Arboretum.
Guide map details Arboretum roads, trails, parking, plant collections, buildings and points of interest. Vegetation illustrated throughout map. Three stylized trees under compass showing directions north, south, east, west as well as scale indicator above top center of map.
Reverse side provides general information about the Arboretum, rules and regulations, outstanding features, buildings, Arboretum publications, and location.
Extent: 1 sheet
A Guide Map of The Morton Arboretum (3.34269)
Date: 1969Creator: Tyznik, Anthony
Type: Map
Description:A guide map of The Morton Arboretum created by Tony Tyznik in 1969. The background is a dark green with the inner Arboretum being a light green and Arboretum roads highlighted in solid orange and checkered orange lines.
Extent: 1 sheet
Map & Visitor Guide, The Morton Arboretum (3.34271)
Date: 1982 – 1986Type: Map
Description:Double-sided brochure, Map & Visitor Guide for The Morton Arboretum
Map details Arboretum roads, trails, plant collections, buildings and boundaries. Includes photographs of various Arboretum buildings with descriptive information.
Reverse side provides general information about the Arboretum, trails for walking and hiking, driving through the Arboretum, areas and collections of special interest, native plant communities, wildlife at the Arboretum, regulations, facilities and services, and information on membership. A section of the map is enlarged to identify landmarks around the Visitor Center, Administration Building, and Thornhill Education Center.
Extent: 1 sheet
Raintree Fountain (3.3428)
Creator: Hedrich-Blessing
Type: Photographic image
Description:Raintree Fountain
Extent: 1 photograph
Thornhill Education Center, lecture hall with audience (3.3430)
Date: 1960sCreator: Korling, Torkel
Type: Photographic image
Description:Thornhill Education Center, lecture hall with audience
Extent: 1 photograph
Morton Residence at Thornhill, sections of house identified as they are today (3.3432)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Morton Residence at Thornhill, sections of house identified as they are today as Thornhill Education Center including Godshalk Hall, Founder's Room, and the section demolished in 1941
Extent: 1 photograph
Prize-winning duck decoy (3.34358)
Date: 1960sType: Photographic image
Description:An exhibit featuring a prize-winning duck decoy on display at Thornhill Education Center. The decoy has a large red ribbon affixed to it with a single leaf image at the center and the words DIVING DUCKS printed along one side. Other words and images on the ribbon are not legible.
Below the the decoy, a label reads in part:
- - by Robert Kerr, Smiths Falls, Ontario / _ _ _ second prize in the _ _ _ _ contest in 1966.
Extent: 1 slide
Thornhill Education Center, doors in reception hall (3.3437)
Date: 1940sCreator: Hedrich-Blessing
Type: Photographic image
Description:Thornhill Education Center, doors in reception hall
Extent: 1 photograph
Thornhill Education Center, back patio (3.3438)
Creator: Helmick, William K.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Thornhill Education Center, back patio
Extent: 1 photograph
The Morton Arboretum Quarterly V. 01 No. 01 (3.34462)
Date: March 21 – June 20 1965Type: Serial
Description:
- Remarkable Deciduous Trees of The Morton Arboretum: West Side of the Arboretum (1-4)
- Calendar of Spring Flora Interest (5)
- Crataegus crus-galli L. Cockspur Thorn: (Rosaceae) Rose Family (6-8)
- Thornhill (9-11)
- Arboretum News and Notes (12-13)
- From the Sterling Morton Library (14-15)
- Spring Events (16)
Extent: 16 pages
Shrub Planting - Thornhill Grounds - The Morton Arboretum [Oct 1992] (3.35379)
Date: October 28 1992Creator: Tyznik, Anthony
Type: Plan
Extent: 1 sheet
Oikos II Conference, proof sheet #1 (3.36025)
Date: March 4 1967Type: Photographic image
Description:A proof sheet of 12 images from the 2nd annual Oikos Conference on ecology. The conference, themed "Planning for People: Landscape and Cityscape," was held in the Thornhill Building at The Morton Arboretum. The images on the proof sheet depict conference presentations, exhibits, and participants, including several of speaker Dr. Hugh H. Iltis, botony professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Extent: 1 sheet
Oikos II Conference, proof sheet #2 (3.36026)
Date: March 4 1967Type: Photographic image
Description:A proof sheet of 12 images from the 2nd annual Oikos Conference on ecology. The conference, themed "Planning for People: Landscape and Cityscape," was held in the Thornhill Building at The Morton Arboretum. The images on the proof sheet depict conference presentations, exhibits, and participants, including speaker Dr. Hugh H. Iltis, botony professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and May T. Watts.
Extent: 1 sheet
Oikos II Conference, proof sheet #3 (3.36027)
Date: March 4 1967Type: Photographic image
Description:A proof sheet of 12 images from the 2nd annual Oikos Conference on ecology. The conference, themed "Planning for People: Landscape and Cityscape," was held in the Thornhill Building at The Morton Arboretum. The images on the proof sheet depict conference presentations, exhibits, and participants, including speaker Dr. Hugh H. Iltis, botony professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, speaker William J. Johnson, landscape architect with Johnson, Johnson and Roy, and May T. Watts.
Extent: 1 sheet
Oikos II Conference, proof sheet #4 (3.36028)
Date: March 4 1967Type: Photographic image
Description:A proof sheet of 12 images from the 2nd annual Oikos Conference on ecology. The conference, themed "Planning for People: Landscape and Cityscape," was held in the Thornhill Building at The Morton Arboretum. The images on the proof sheet depict conference presentations, exhibits, and participants, including speaker Dr. Hugh H. Iltis, botony professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, speaker William J. Johnson, landscape architect with Johnson, Johnson and Roy, and May T. Watts.
Extent: 1 sheet
Oikos II Conference, proof sheet #5 (3.36029)
Date: March 4 1967Type: Photographic image
Description:A proof sheet of 12 images from the 2nd annual Oikos Conference on ecology. The conference, themed "Planning for People: Landscape and Cityscape," was held in the Thornhill Building at The Morton Arboretum. The images on the proof sheet depict conference presentations, exhibits, and participants, including speaker Dr. Hugh H. Iltis, botony professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, speaker William J. Johnson, landscape architect with Johnson, Johnson and Roy, and May T. Watts.
Extent: 1 sheet
Oikos II Conference, proof sheet #6 (3.36030)
Date: March 4 1967Type: Photographic image
Description:A proof sheet of 9 images from the 2nd annual Oikos Conference on ecology. The conference, themed "Planning for People: Landscape and Cityscape," was held in the Thornhill Building at The Morton Arboretum. The images on the proof sheet depict conference presentations, exhibits, and participants, including speaker Dr. Hugh H. Iltis, botony professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, speaker William J. Johnson, landscape architect with Johnson, Johnson and Roy, and May T. Watts. One of the images has been cut from the sheet and is not housed with the item.
Extent: 1 sheet
Oikos II Conference, May T. Watts and Hugh H. Iltis (3.36033)
Date: March 4 1967Type: Photographic image
Description:May T. Watts stands with Dr. Hugh H. Iltis at the 2nd annual Oikos Conference on ecology. The conference, themed "Planning for People: Landscape and Cityscape," was held in the Thornhill Building at The Morton Arboretum.
Extent: 1 photograph
Oikos II Conference, May T. Watts speaking with participants (3.36034)
Date: March 4 1967Type: Photographic image
Description:May T. Watts speaks with two other participants at the 2nd annual Oikos Conference on ecology. The conference, themed "Planning for People: Landscape and Cityscape," was held in the Thornhill Building at The Morton Arboretum.
Extent: 1 photograph
Oikos II Conference, May T. Watts attending a presentation (3.36035)
Date: March 4 1967Type: Photographic image
Description:May T. Watts sitts with fellow participants at the 2nd annual Oikos Conference on ecology. The conference, themed "Planning for People: Landscape and Cityscape," was held in the Thornhill Building at The Morton Arboretum.
Extent: 1 photograph