Rita Hassert oral history interview, 2022 June 22. (3.102431)
Date: June 22 2022Type: Audio
Description:A digital recording of an oral history interview with Rita Hassert, Library Collections Manager of the Sterling Morton Library. This interview was conducted by Kristin Arnold and took place on June 22, 2022 in the conference room of the library at The Morton Arboretum. This is the first of two interviews.
The interview focuses on Hassert's experiences before and during her employment at The Morton Arboretum, which began in 1986. Topics include her early memories of the Arboretum and the library, the library's collection of nursery catalogs, the Chamber Concert Series and other Arboretum events she helped coordinate, the Employee Giving Committee, and her involvement with the Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries.
Rita Hassert oral history interview, 2022 August 10 (3.102504)
Date: August 10 2022Type: Audio
Description:A digital recording of an oral history interview with Rita Hassert, library collections manager of the Sterling Morton Library. This interview was conducted by Kristin Arnold and took place on August 10, 2022 in the conference room of the library at The Morton Arboretum. This is the second of two interviews.
The interview focuses on Hassert's observations of how the Sterling Morton Library has developed during her employment at The Morton Arboretum, which began in 1986. Topics include changes to the library's physical space, such as the construction of the Special Collections addition and the library's collections. Hassert also discusses library exhibits and events, like the Leafing Through The Pages book discussion group as well as major projects such as the retrospective cataloging project and the launch of ACORN (Arboretum COllections and Resources Nexus).
Arboretum News and Notes (3.10569)
Date: September 21 – December 20 1969Type: Article
Viburnum Portraits by Margaret Stones (3.10636)
Date: September 21 – December 20 1972Creator: MacPhail, Ian
Type: Article
Notes from the Sterling Morton Library (3.10645)
Date: December 21 1972 – March 20 1973Creator: MacPhail, Ian
Type: Article
Notes on the Morton Arboretum Library (3.10674)
Date: December 21 1973 – March 20 1974Creator: MacPhail, Ian
Type: Article
Branches: Newsletter of the Volunteers of the Morton Arboretum, Spring 1988 (3.107035)
Date: 1988Creator: Stowell, Gladys, Engle, Martha
Type: Serial
Description:This digitized issue of the Spring 1988 Branches Newsletter contains the following articles: a history of the rare book collection housed on shelves below the library and started by Joy Morton with contributions by Charles Sprague Sargent of the Arnold Arboretum in Boston and later Suzette Davidson; the crab apple collection of 50 species and the Du Page Environmental Awareness Center under the direction of Bill Borden founded to address the rapid growth of Du Page county and address issue such as waste disposal, air and water quality, land use and energy conservation. Volunteer opportunities, classes, trainings, and new volunteers.
Extent: 6 pages
Branches: Newsletter of the Volunteers of The Morton Arboretum, Summer 1992 (3.107051)
Date: 1992Type: Serial
Description:This digitized issue of the Summer 1992 Branches Newsletter contains articles on the following: Hatch Meadow and the transplanting project of Green Ash trees; and two Arboretum authors, Ian MacPhail and Charles Lewis and their books, Rearranging the World and Green Nature/Human Nature. The first book is a study of the work of the scientists at New Harmony, Indiana; Charles-Alexander Lesueur, Thomas Say, Andre Michaux and Francois Andre Michaux and the second is about the relationship between people and nature. Volunteer opportunities, lists of new and continuing volunteers, trainings, classes and events are also included.
Extent: ;6 pages
Linnaeus in Lapland Dress: A Puzzling Portrait (3.10807)
Date: December 21 1978 – March 20 1979Creator: MacPhail, Ian
Type: Article
The Prairie Enters History (3.10835)
Date: September 21 – December 20 1980Creator: MacPhail, Ian
Type: Article
Thoreau: A Man for the Coming Times (3.10854)
Date: September 21 – December 20 1981Creator: MacPhail, Ian
Type: Article
The Boatload of Knowledge: New Harmony, Indiana, as a Center of Natural History in the Nineteenth Century (3.10878)
Date: March 21 – June 20 1983Creator: MacPhail, Ian
Type: Article
This is My Book: Oviedo’s La Historia General de las Indias 1535-1557 (3.10914)
Date: March 21 – June 20 1985Creator: MacPhail, Ian
Type: Article
This is My Book II: The Cosmographia of Petrus Apianus, 1545 (3.10926)
Date: December 21 1985 – March 20 1986Creator: MacPhail, Ian
Type: Article
This is My Book III: The Flora Lapponica of Carl Linnaeus, 1737 (3.10950)
Date: March 21 – June 20 1987Creator: MacPhail, Ian
Type: Article
This is My Book IV: L’Heritier de Brutelle’s Stirpes Novae; 1785-1791 (3.10979)
Date: December 21 1988 – March 20 1989Creator: MacPhail, Ian
Type: Article
The Sterling Morton Library Collection of Herbals (3.10994)
Date: December 21 1989 – March 20 1990Creator: MacPhail, Ian
Type: Article
Events, News, & Classes: Autumn 1983 (3.113774)
Date: 1983Type: Serial
Description:A digitized version of the Autumn 1983 Events, News, & Classes Newsletter. This issue features events such as Bluegrass at Thornhill and a Bonsai Exhibit at Thornhill. It also includes behind the scenes gardening information and how volunteers fight tent caterpillars and mentions a problem with deer eating young plants. It also has a list of classes.
Extent: 5 pages
Events, News, & Classes: Autumn 1984 (3.113775)
Date: 1984Type: Serial
Description:A digitized version of the Autumn 1984 Events, News, & Classes Newsletter. This issue features events such as the Yuletide celebration and a lecture about "The Arboretum and Chicago's Architectural Heritage". The Arboretum also received a grant from the National Park Service of the United States Department of Interior to study the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore.
Extent: 5 pages
Events, News, & Classes: Winter 1985 (3.113782)
Date: 1985Type: Serial
Description:A digitized version of the Autumn 1985 Events, News & Classes Newsletter. This issue features events such as a weekend getaway at the arboretum, a seminar on evergreens, and a lecture on plant diseases and human history. Field trips were scheduled for bald eagle watching in Savanna, IL, a Starved Rock State Park trip, and Chicago's Crystal Palaces of Garfield Park and Lincoln Park. Charles C. Haffner, Chairman of the Arboretum's Board of Trustees, received the Sol Feinstone Award, and Charles Lewis, Horticulturalist and Administrator of the Arboretum's Collections Programs, received the "Alice Burlingame Award for Humanitarian Service." The Fragrance Garden opened west of the Thornhill Building and approximately 6,000 people attended the 1984 Fall Festival.
Extent: 5 pages
Events, News, & Classes: Autumn 1986 (3.113783)
Date: 1986Type: Serial
Description:A digitized version of the Autumn 1986 Events, News, & Classes Newsletter. This issue features events such as a talk by Dr. Gary Watson, the Arboretum's root specialist, discussing the importance of roots and a look at a Victorian Christmas with Sunny O'Neil. Field trips included birding along Chicago's lakefront, a waterfowl fall migration in the Palos area, and a trip to the Indiana Dunes. Charles Lewis and Dr. Herbert Schroeder, Environmental Psychologist with the US Forest Service, were participating in an exchange research trip to The Netherlands to establish joint projects.
Extent: 5 pages
Events, News, & Classes: Spring 1986 (3.113784)
Date: 1986Type: Serial
Description:A digitized version of the Spring 1986 Events, News, & Classes Newsletter. This issue features events such as lectures about Tuberous Begonias and plants for troublesome spots. A future trip to Kenya for a field seminar was announced. Field trips include Starved Rock State Park, Warren Woods, and Mississippi Palisades State Park. A field seminar on English gardens and landscapes also took place. The Arboretum announced that library staff would begin cataloging and indexing the rare book collection to make it more accessible.
Extent: 5 pages
Events, News, & Classes: Winter 1986 (3.113786)
Date: 1986Type: Serial
Description:A digitized version of the Winter 1986 Events, News, & Classes Newsletter. This issue features events such as a discussion on the "The Romance of Botanical Names" and "Resource Conservation in an Urban Environment". There was a field trip to watch bald eagles in Savanna, IL. Charles A. Lewis, the Arboretum's Collections Group Administrator, was honored with the G.B. Gunslogson Medal for "the creative use of home gardening in benefiting people-plant relationships and the future of American life" from the American Horticultural Society. The woody plant collections were to be computerized. A new maple, 'Marmo', was introduced. Members were also encourage to write Lt. Governor George Ryan to advocate for the development of a lake on the Danada Forrest Preserve as part of the Briarcliff Flood Control Program.
Events, News, & Classes: Autumn 1988 (3.113791)
Date: 1988Type: Serial
Description:A digitized version of the Autumn 1988 Events, News, & Classes Newsletter. This issue features events such as the Chamber Concert Series and an examination of the work of Francois-Andre Michaux. Clarence Godshalk, Director Emeritus of The Morton Arboretum, passed away on April 20, 1988. Daniel Peterkin, Jr., Trustee of The Morton Arboretum and retired Chairman and President of Morton-Norwich Products Inc. died on May 11, 1988. The Library marked its 25th anniversary. Grants were received from the Nalco Foundation, Dr. Ralph and Marian Falk Medical Research Foundation, A. Montgomery Ward Foundation, and The Institute of Museum Services (IMS).
The Morton Arboretum Quarterly V. 08 No. 04 (3.34580)
Date: December 21 1972 – March 20 1973Type: Serial
Description:
- A Taste of Wilderness: Arboretum Teens Explore the Manistee (49-53)
- Notes from the Sterling Morton Library (54-55)
- Arboretum News and Notes (56)
- Climatological Summary (56)
- Charles C. Deam (1865-1953): An Uncommon Common Man (57-58)
- Excerpts from Letters written by Charles Clemon Deam to Floyd Swink between 1947 and 1951 with comments by Floyd Swink (59-62)
- Floyd Swink: Typist Turned Taxonomist (62-64)
Extent: 16 pages
Membership Tea event in the Sterling Morton Library, Ian MacPhail addressing members (3.4205)
Date: 1992Type: Photographic image
Description:Membership Tea event in the Sterling Morton Library, Ian MacPhail addressing members
Extent: 1 photograph
Membership Tea event in the Sterling Morton Library, Ian MacPhail addressing members (3.4206)
Date: 1992Type: Photographic image
Description:Membership Tea event in the Sterling Morton Library, Ian MacPhail addressing members
Extent: 1 photograph
Sterling Morton Library 25th Anniversary, featured speaker with Arboretum staff and trustee in the May T. Watts Reading Garden (3.4208)
Date: 1988Type: Photographic image
Description:Sterling Morton Library 25th Anniversary, featured speaker with Arboretum staff and trustee in the May T. Watts Reading Garden
(L to R): Marion Hall, Charles Haffner, Michael Stieber, Ian MacPhail, James Wells (featured speaker, Newberry Library), Harry Weese, Carol Doty
Extent: 1 photograph
Sterling Morton Library Staff (3.4211)
Date: circa 1988Type: Photographic image
Description:Sterling Morton Library Staff
(L to R): Michael Stieber, Rita Hassert, Ian MacPhail, Peter Wang
Extent: 1 photograph
Sterling Morton Library Staff (3.4260)
Date: 1990sType: Photographic image
Description:Sterling Morton Library Staff
(Seated L to R): Ian MacPhail, Merv Runner
(Standing L to R): Peter Wang, Nancy Hart, Michael Stieber, Rita Hassert
Extent: 1 photograph
Ian MacPhail looking at periodicals in the Sterling Morton Library (3.4274)
Date: 1988Type: Photographic image
Description:Ian MacPhail looking at periodicals in the Sterling Morton Library
Extent: 1 photograph
Laura Parker and Ian MacPhail lecturing for a Lunching and Learning class (3.4355)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Laura Parker and Ian MacPhail lecturing for a Lunching and Learning class
Laura Parker and Ian MacPhail lecturing for a Lunching and Learning class (3.4356)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Laura Parker and Ian MacPhail lecturing for a Lunching and Learning class
Laura Parker and Ian MacPhail lecturing for a Lunching and Learning class (3.4357)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Laura Parker and Ian MacPhail lecturing for a Lunching and Learning class
Laura Parker and Ian MacPhail lecturing for a Lunching and Learning class (3.4358)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Laura Parker and Ian MacPhail lecturing for a Lunching and Learning class