Summer or wood duck = Anas sponsa. L. (3.29192)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Audubon, John James, 1785-1851.
Type: Painting
Extent: 1 print : commercial reproduction, color image 74 x 49 cm., on sheet 82 x 56 cm.
Group of men and women around table in birding class. Tom Simpson, Arboretum staff member, seated at table. (3.44217)
Date: 1990sType: Photographic image
Description:Group of men and women around table in birding class
Extent: 1 photograph
John Hendricksen presenting check in Hedge Garden for Gary Watson's research into root damage caused by construction activities (3.4540)
Date: 1990sType: Photographic image
Description:John Hendricksen presenting check in Hedge Garden for Gary Watson's research into root damage caused by construction activities
(L to R): Gerry Donnelly, Gary Watson, Larry Hall, John Hendricksen, Christopher Dunn
Extent: 1 photograph
The Morton Arboretum [topographic map] [Revised] (3.5488)
Date: 1990Creator: Sidwell Company
Type: Map
Description:Topographic data produced from aerial photography orginally made Dec.16,1985 (SURV:A III (c) 2); updated for the revision on April 25,1990. True elevations given. Includes Hidden Lake leased land.
Extent: 5 sheets
A Landscape Planting Plan for the South Lawn of Thornhill, The Morton Arboretum (3.6129)
Date: circa 1990Creator: Tyznik, Anthony
Type: Plan
Extent: 1 sheet
Arboretum employees gathered for tree planting (3.61966)
Date: May 1990Creator: Nachel, Jim
Type: Photographic image
Description:Arboretum employees gathered for tree planting.
Left to right: unidentified person, Rita Hassert, Charles Lewis, unidentified person, Helen Langrill, Fay Wheatman, Duane Henry, Kris Bachtell, John Sosnowski, Susan Klatt, unidentified person, Lynne Kalata
Extent: 1 slide
Research Department Computer Software and Hardware Sharing Requirements (3.39927)
Date: October 10 1990Type: Document
Description:A series of 12 documents outlining existing computer equipment and an explanation of information needs, desired software, hardware, and applications within the Arboretum's Research Department for Marlin Bowles, Webb Crowley, Tom Green, Richard Hootman, Patrick Kelsey, Elizabeth Shimp, Mike Spravka, Gary Watson, Fay Wheatman, Chris Whelan, Gerould Wilhelm, and Linda Wetstein.
Extent: 12 sheets
Salt study, evergreens on berm along freeway (3.4554)
Date: 1990Type: Photographic image
Description:Salt study, evergreens on berm along freeway
Extent: 1 photograph
Woody Plant Collections, The Morton Arboretum, Map & Guidelines for Locating Plants [1990] (3.5822)
Date: 1990Creator: The Morton Arboretum
Type: Document
Description:Informational leaflet published by The Morton Arboretum, printed on both sides of single folded sheet, with text describing the Woody Plant Collections, the catalog, how to use the map and grid on reverse side, and how to read plant labels.
Extent: 1 sheet
1990/12/10: George Ware to Dr. Gerard Donnelly (3.66980)
Date: December 10 1990Creator: Ware, George
Type: Document
Description:A set of two documents. The first is a memo from George Ware to Dr. Gerard Donnelly regarding the possibility of hosting Dr. Zhao Qing-ru [Qingru] as a visiting scholar. The second document is a list of the twelve possible benefits for the exchange visits with Chinese botanists.
Extent: 2 sheets
Woody Plant Collections, The Morton Arboretum [Collections Grid, by Ronald M. Coulter and Nancy Hart Stieber, 1990, overlays for vegetation, trails, grid, and landmarks] (3.5824)
Date: 1990Creator: Coulter, Ronald M.
Type: Map
Description:An updated map used in the informational leaflet titled: Woody Plant Collections of The Morton Arboretum, Map & Guidelines for Locating Plants
This version is a set of four mylar overlays, separating vegetation, trails, grid layout, and landmarks/collections.
Extent: 4 sheets
Charles Lewis and Rita Hassert planting young tree (3.61968)
Date: May 1990Creator: Nachel, Jim
Type: Photographic image
Description:Charles Lewis and Rita Hassert planting young tree
Extent: 1 slide
Institute of Museum Services Conservation Project 1989 (Hidden Lake) First Interim Report (3.67089)
Date: May 1990Type: Document
Description:A copy of Institute of Museum Services Conservation Project 1989 (Hidden Lake) First Interim Report that includes three pages of draft responses.
Extent: 5 sheets
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
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
The Morton Arboretum Quarterly V. 25 No. 04 (3.34533)
Date: December 21 1989 – March 20 1990Type: Serial
Extent: 16 pages
Members' Cooperative Research Program, plants in boxes in Research Building basement (3.4427)
Date: 1990Type: Photographic image
Description:Members' Cooperative Research Program, plants in boxes in Research Building basement
Extent: 1 photograph
Woody Plant Collections, The Morton Arboretum [Collections Grid, by Ronald M. Coulter and Nancy Hart Stieber, 1990, base map of roads and parking lots] (3.5825)
Date: 1990Creator: Coulter, Ronald M.
Type: Map
Description:An updated map used in the informational leaflet titled: Woody Plant Collections of The Morton Arboretum, Map & Guidelines for Locating Plants
This version only shows base map of roads and parking lots.
Extent: 1 sheet
Rita Hassert with potted young tree kneeling by soil at planting hole (3.61969)
Date: May 1990Creator: Nachel, Jim
Type: Photographic image
Description:Rita Hassert with potted young tree kneeling by soil at planting hole
Extent: 1 slide
The Morton Arboretum [topographic map] [Revised] (3.7125)
Date: 1990Creator: Sidwell Company
Type: Map
Description:Topographic data produced from aerial photography orginally made Dec.16,1985 (SURV: A III (c) 2) ; updated for the revision on April 25,1990. True elevations given. Includes Hidden Lake leased Plan.
Marked up by Marcus de la Fleur in preparation for a collections master plan. The library has the resultant plan in the archives on CD, 2001.
Extent: 5 sheets
Jeffersonia Diphylla (3.24637)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Large illustration of a Twinleaf plant with detailed views of seed pods, seed, stamen, and pistil details with identifying text. Background images include Monticello at center left, and silhouettes of two small scenes at top right, the top showing a man giving a lecture or speech with the word "Poter" or "Peter" partially erased, the bottom showing a man and a women planting or gardening.
Illustrations as depicted from left to right:
- 2 stamens, one closed, one opened
- 1 pistil
- 1 large illustration of Twinleaf with three sets of leaves and 1 flower
- 1 seed-pod closed
- 1 seed-pod open
- 1 seed
Extent: 1 sheet
The Morton Arboretum Quarterly V. 26 No. 01 (3.34534)
Date: March 21 – June 20 1990Type: Serial
Extent: 16 pages
The Care of Trees giving The Morton Arboretum a check for Dr. Gary Watson's research on roots (3.4060)
Date: 1990sType: Photographic image
Description:The Care of Trees giving The Morton Arboretum a check for Dr. Gary Watson's research on roots
(L to R): Larry Hall (Vice President, The Care of Trees), Gary Watson, Gerry Donnelly
Extent: 1 photograph
The Morton Arboretum Inventory & Collections & Cultural Names (3.44609)
Date: April 25 1990Creator: Sidwell Company
Type: Map
Description:Four topographical maps with drawn area boundaries and area names written in marker. Page 5 is missing.
Extent: 4 Sheets
[Aerial photograph of the Morton Arboretum] (3.5849)
Date: April 25 1990Creator: Sidwell Company
Type: Photographic image
Description:An initial set of photographs used by the Sidwell Company to develop its topographic map of the Arboretum, a revision that was issued in 1990 (SURV: A III (c) 2 1990) . " Project: T90-028." (See related objects link.) Collections grid is identified by white crosses set out on the Arboretum grounds.
Extent: 12 sheets in envelope
Rita Hassert digging hole for potted young tree on hill (3.61970)
Date: May 1990Creator: Nachel, Jim
Type: Photographic image
Description:Rita Hassert digging hole for potted young tree on hill
Extent: 1 slide
Evaluating Vegetative Communities by Edaphic Conditions at the West Chicago Prairie, West Chicago, Illinois (3.62622)
Date: 1990Creator: Hootman, Rick, Kelsey, Pat, Lampa, Wayne
Type: Article
Celtis occidentalis (hackberry), emerging flowers and leaves (3.64024)
Date: May 1990Creator: Nachel, Jim
Type: Photographic image
Description:Celtis occidentalis (hackberry), closeup section of slender twig showing several tiny green flower clusters and new pale green leaves
Extent: 1 slide
1990/02/08: George H. Ware to Ms. Barbara Drazin (3.67126)
Date: February 8 1990Creator: Ware, George
Type: Document
Description:Letter from George H. Ware of the Morton Arboretum to Ms. Barbara Drazin at the Institute of Museum Services containing necessary documents to complete the application process for a 1990 Conservation Project Grant.
Extent: 2 sheets
The Morton Arboretum Quarterly V. 26 No. 02 (3.34535)
Date: June 21 – September 20 1990Type: Serial
Extent: 16 pages
American Association of Botanical Gardens and Arboreta (AABGA) group meeting at The Morton Arboretum Herbarium Conference Room (3.3866)
Date: November 1990Type: Photographic image
Description:American Association of Botanical Gardens and Arboreta (AABGA) group meeting at The Morton Arboretum Herbarium Conference Room, discussion at table, Peter Raven speaking to group
L to R: Peter Raven (Director, Missouri Botanical Garden), Roy Taylor (Director, Chicago Botanic Garden), Harold Pellett (Landscape Horticulturist, University of Minnesota Landscape Arboretum), Gerry Donnelly (President & CEO, The Morton Arboretum), Eliot Paine (Director, Holden Arboretum)
Extent: 1 photograph
The Care of Trees giving The Morton Arboretum a check for Dr. Gary Watson's research on roots (3.4061)
Date: 1990sType: Photographic image
Description:The Care of Trees giving The Morton Arboretum a check for Dr. Gary Watson's research on roots
(L to R): Larry Hall (Vice President, The Care of Trees), Gary Watson, Gerry Donnelly
Extent: 1 photograph
Research crew operating a hydropneumatic elutriation root washing system in laboratory (3.4497)
Date: 1990sCreator: Kohout, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Research crew operating a hydropneumatic elutriation root washing system in laboratory
L to R: Web Crowley, Tony Sanda (volunteer), Gary Watson, Jack Dieckmann (volunteer)
Extent: 1 photograph
Arboretum employees planting trees on berm with Crabapple Lake in background (3.59107)
Date: May 1990Creator: Nachel, Jim
Type: Photographic image
Description:Arboretum employees planting trees on berm with Crabapple Lake in background
People depicted: Helen Langrill (kneeling, center), Doug Monroe and George Ware (standing together with shovels to the right)
Extent: 1 slide
Two staff members removing paper pot from newly planted tree (3.61945)
Date: May 1990Creator: Nachel, Jim
Type: Photographic image
Description:Two staff members removing paper pot from newly planted tree
Extent: 1 slide