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Arbor Lodge gardens and surrounding landscape, walking path along pruned hedges (3.3244)
Date: 1906 – 1923Type: Photographic image
Description:Arbor Lodge gardens and surrounding landscape, walking path along pruned hedges
Extent: 1 photograph
Morton Residence at Thornhill, exterior, view from west (3.3378)
Date: 1910 – 1922Type: Photographic image
Description:Morton Residence at Thornhill, exterior, view from west, before library wing was added in 1922-1923
Extent: 1 photograph
Arbor Lodge gardens and surrounding landscape, J. Sterling Morton memorial area (3.3245)
Date: 1906 – 1923Type: Photographic image
Description:Arbor Lodge gardens and surrounding landscape, J. Sterling Morton memorial area
Extent: 1 photograph
Aerial view of Arbor Lodge (3.3290)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Savage, John S.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Aerial view of Arbor Lodge
Extent: 1 photograph
Arbor Lodge gardens and surrounding landscape, garden area (3.3246)
Date: 1906 – 1923Type: Photographic image
Description:Arbor Lodge gardens and surrounding landscape, garden area
Extent: 1 photograph
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
Morton Residence at Thornhill, exterior, front view, just after house was built (3.3394)
Date: 1910sCreator: Hildebrand
Type: Photographic image
Description:Morton Residence at Thornhill, exterior, front view, just after house was built
Extent: 1 photograph
Arbor Lodge gardens and surrounding landscape, garden path (3.3247)
Date: 1906 – 1923Type: Photographic image
Description:Arbor Lodge gardens and surrounding landscape, garden path
Extent: 1 photograph
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
Arbor Lodge, partially obstructed view of exterior front and side through trees from lawn (3.3232)
Date: 1906 – 1923Type: Photographic image
Description:Arbor Lodge, partially obstructed view of exterior front and side through trees from lawn
Extent: 1 photograph
Arbor Lodge gardens and surrounding landscape, pruned hedges with trees behind (3.3248)
Date: 1906 – 1923Type: Photographic image
Description:Arbor Lodge gardens and surrounding landscape, pruned hedges with trees behind
Extent: 1 photograph
Arbor Lodge, partially obstructed view of side rotunda portico through trees from lawn (3.3233)
Date: 1906 – 1923Type: Photographic image
Description:Arbor Lodge, partially obstructed view of side rotunda portico through trees from lawn
Extent: 1 photograph
Arbor Lodge gardens and surrounding landscape, brick road curving through trees (3.3249)
Date: 1906 – 1923Type: Photographic image
Description:Arbor Lodge gardens and surrounding landscape, brick road curving through trees
Extent: 1 photograph
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
Arbor Lodge, front rotunda portico (3.3234)
Date: 1906 – 1923Type: Photographic image
Description:Arbor Lodge, front rotunda portico
Extent: 1 photograph
Arbor Lodge gardens and surrounding landscape, path through garden arbors (3.3250)
Date: 1906 – 1923Type: Photographic image
Description:Arbor Lodge gardens and surrounding landscape, path through garden arbors
Extent: 1 photograph
[Morton Property Purchase Map for Section 34, T.39N., R.10E. And N1/2 Section 3, T.39N., R.10E, of the 3rd P.M.] (3.5989)
Date: 1910sType: Map
Extent: 1 sheet
Arbor Lodge, side view of rotunda portico (3.3235)
Date: 1906 – 1923Type: Photographic image
Description:Arbor Lodge, side view of rotunda portico
Extent: 1 photograph
Arbor Lodge entrance drive (3.3251)
Date: 1906 – 1923Type: Photographic image
Description:Arbor Lodge entrance drive
Extent: 1 photograph
Arbor Lodge, close view of rotunda portico (3.3236)
Date: 1906 – 1923Type: Photographic image
Description:Arbor Lodge, close view of rotunda portico
Extent: 1 photograph
Arbor Lodge gardens and surrounding landscape, unpaved road through wooded area (3.3252)
Date: 1906 – 1923Type: Photographic image
Description:Arbor Lodge gardens and surrounding landscape, unpaved road through wooded area
Extent: 1 photograph
Arbor Lodge, partially obstructed view from behind hedges and trees (3.3237)
Date: 1906 – 1923Type: Photographic image
Description:Arbor Lodge, partially obstructed view from behind hedges and trees
Extent: 1 photograph
Arbor Lodge gardens and surrounding landscape, unpaved road lined with trees (3.3253)
Date: 1906 – 1923Type: Photographic image
Description:Arbor Lodge gardens and surrounding landscape, unpaved road lined with trees
Extent: 1 photograph
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.
Arbor Lodge, exterior view from lawn (3.3238)
Date: 1906 – 1923Type: Photographic image
Description:Arbor Lodge, exterior view from lawn
Extent: 1 photograph
Arbor Lodge gardens and surrounding landscape, unpaved road lined with trees, farm on right (3.3254)
Date: 1906 – 1923Type: Photographic image
Description:Arbor Lodge gardens and surrounding landscape, unpaved road lined with trees, farm on right
Extent: 1 photograph
Topography from Residence to Joliet Road on Joy Morton's Farm (3.6767)
Date: April 7 1911Creator: James, J. M.
Type: Map
Description:Includes tree locations, fences, trails, and brush. Note: "Joy Morton, Room 720 [illegible]"
Encapsulated and treated by Graphic Conservation Co., 2001--see Shelf List.
Extent: 1 sheet
Arbor Lodge, exterior view from lawn (3.3239)
Date: 1906 – 1923Type: Photographic image
Description:Arbor Lodge, exterior view from lawn
Extent: 1 photograph
Arbor Lodge gardens and surrounding landscape, unpaved road through wooded area (3.3255)
Date: 1906 – 1923Type: Photographic image
Description:Arbor Lodge gardens and surrounding landscape, unpaved road through wooded area
Extent: 1 photograph
Oriental printing, fantasy and art papers / imported and stocked by Andrews/Nelson/Whitehead, Inc. (3.23401)
Date: 20th centuryType: Book
Extent: [1] leaf, [4] p., [120] leaves : samples, some color 10 x 21 cm.
Arbor Lodge, exterior view from lawn (3.3240)
Date: 1906 – 1923Type: Photographic image
Description:Arbor Lodge, exterior view from lawn
Extent: 1 photograph
Arbor Lodge, rotunda portico leading out to garden (3.3241)
Date: 1906 – 1923Type: Photographic image
Description:Arbor Lodge, rotunda portico leading out to garden
Extent: 1 photograph
Arbor Lodge gardens and surrounding landscape, intersecting walking paths (3.3242)
Date: 1906 – 1923Type: Photographic image
Description:Arbor Lodge gardens and surrounding landscape, intersecting walking paths
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
Arbor Lodge gardens and surrounding landscape, walking path toward garden arbor (3.3243)
Date: 1906 – 1923Type: Photographic image
Description:Arbor Lodge gardens and surrounding landscape, walking path toward garden arbor
Extent: 1 photograph