Woody Plant Collections, The Morton Arboretum [Collections Grid by Ronald M. Coulter and Anthony Tyznik, version not used] (3.5816)
Date: 1982Creator: Coulter, Ronald M.
Type: Map
Description:A preliminary and/or provisional version of the Woody Plant Collections Guide Map which was never formally issued. The map developed by Coulter and Nancy Hart Stieber in 1982 was issued as the Arboretum's guide to woody plant collections.
Extent: 1 sheet
Grounds staff person holding bare root tree after tractor with blade attached to the front removed it from ground for transplanting (3.61941)
Date: March 1986Creator: Kohout, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Grounds staff person holding bare root tree after tractor with blade attached to the front removed it from ground for transplanting
Extent: 1 slide
1988/10/25: Chao Ching Ju to Mr. George H. Ware (3.62965)
Date: October 25 1988Creator: Qingru, Zhao
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Chao Ching Ju of the Chinese Academy of Forestry to George H. Ware discussing possible dates for exchange visits.
Extent: 1 sheet
Plan of Perennials, May T. Watts Reading Garden, Morton Arboretum, Lisle, Illinois (3.6585)
Date: March 14 1981Creator: Bloom, John and Sally
Type: Plan
Description:A plan for redeveloping a portion of the Reading Garden. Added plant names in red ink and pencil.
Extent: 1 sheet
1985/07/30: DuPage River Survey Worksheet (3.80503)
Date: July 30 1985Type: Document
Description:Survey of water temperature, dissolved oxygen, and visual observations of current, clarity, and foam content for various sites on the DuPage River dated July 30, 1985.
Extent: 2 sheets
The Morton Arboretum Quarterly V. 19 No. 01 (3.34504)
Date: March 21 – June 20 1983Type: Serial
Extent: 16 pages
The Morton Arboretum Quarterly V. 23 No. 02 (3.34524)
Date: June 21 – September 20 1987Type: Serial
Extent: 16 pages
Populus deltoides (eastern cottonwood), bare tree crown (3.37716)
Date: June 1980Creator: Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:Populus deltoides (eastern cottonwood), bare tree crown
Extent: 1 slide
Acer saccharinum (silver maple), spring (3.37894)
Date: April 1983Creator: Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer saccharinum (silver maple), partial view of tree with bare branches in early spring with buds beginning to develop on twigs, tree is situated near a path with other trees in the background
Extent: 1 slide
Acer saccharum (sugar maple), bark (3.37998)
Date: April 1983Creator: Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer saccharum (sugar maple), closeup detail of plated bark with whitish color
Extent: 1 slide
Acer rubrum (red maple), flowers, spring (3.38121)
Date: April 27 1982Creator: Kohout, John, Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer rubrum (red maple), detail of flowers developing in bright red clusters on twig in spring
Living Collections Accession Number: 910-57
Location on grounds using The Morton Arboretum grid map: N-57/28-11 (Diversity)
Extent: 1 slide
1984/03/21: Harold Davidson to George Ware (3.38289)
Date: March 21 1984Creator: Davidson, Harold
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Harold Davidson of Michigan State University to George Ware inviting him to deliver a presentation similar to the one given at the Northwestern Indiana Nurserymen meeting earlier that year.
Extent: 1 sheet
Arbor Day, two men and three children planting tree with surrounding crowd (3.3937)
Date: 1980sType: Photographic image
Description:Arbor Day, two men and three children planting tree with surrounding crowd
Extent: 1 photograph
Presentation of check for $125,000 to The Morton Arboretum by ARCO (3.4056)
Date: August 3 1984Type: Photographic image
Description:Presentation of check for $125,000 to The Morton Arboretum by ARCO
(L to R): Carlton Norris (ARCO), Byron Turnquest (ARCO), George Ware, and Marion Hall standing outside
Extent: 1 photograph
Several employees participating in controlled burn in forested area (3.4508)
Date: 1980sType: Photographic image
Description:Several employees participating in controlled burn in forested area
Extent: 1 photograph
Root profiles of sugar maples comparing roots in competition with grass and in naturally mulched areas (3.4541)
Date: 1988Type: Photographic image
Description:Root profiles of sugar maples comparing roots in competition with grass and in naturally mulched areas
Extent: 1 photograph
Tony Tyznik studying plant outside (3.5183)
Date: 1980sType: Photographic image
Description:Tony Tyznik studying plant outside
Extent: 1 photograph
Andropogon gerardi (3.54011)
Date: 1981Creator: Schulenberg, Ray
Type: Document
Description:A note card containing handwritten notes (presumably written by Ray Schulenberg) with propagation information on prairie plants.
Extent: 1 Card
Dr. Tom Green and Karla Patterson in cart leading line of people across lawn near Research building for tree planting at Arborfest (3.55500)
Date: April 1986Creator: Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:Dr. Tom Green and Karla Patterson in cart leading line of people across lawn near Research building for tree planting at Arborfest
Extent: 1 slide
1988/08/04: Lana Krzykowski to Floyd Swink (3.56337)
Date: August 4 1988Creator: Krzykowski, Lana
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Lana Krzykowski (Secretary to Edith Nash) to Floyd Swink regarding the Arboretum's possible interest in housing the slide collection of her father, Irwin S. Rosenfels. The slide pictures were taken between 1910 and 1916 in the area surrounding Oak Park.
Extent: 1 sheet
Map and Visitor Guide The Morton Arboretum [by Nancy Hart Stieber and John Sosnowski] (3.5818)
Date: 1984Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Document
Description:Leaflet created for the informal series titled: Map & Visitor Guide. On the recto of the leaflet an inset map (1 inch=1/2 mile) shows major Arboretum structures and connecting roads; also given is a summary of the Arboretum's history, public facilities and services, and regulations. Updated in 1989 with Crabapple Lake.
Extent: 1 sheet printed on both sides
Doris Taylor holding rope while other grounds worker wraps rope around burlaped tree root ball (3.59099)
Date: April 1986Creator: Kohout, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Doris Taylor holding rope while other grounds worker wraps rope around burlaped tree root ball
Extent: 1 slide
A Construction Drawing for the Woody Herb Garden Fence, the Morton Arboretum (3.6150)
Date: 1980sCreator: Tyznik, Anthony
Type: Plan
Description:Shows elevation and plan view
Extent: 1 sheet
1989/12/07: Request for Advance or Reimbursement, Institute of Museum Services (3.67142)
Date: December 31 1989Creator: Hall, Marion Trufant
Type: Document
Description:A reimbursement form from The Institute of Museum Services titled Request for Advance or Reimbursement filled out by Marion T. Hall from The Morton Arboretum. One sheet is a typewritten version and another sheet is a handwritten draft version.
Extent: 2 sheets
Plat of Vacation of Bryant Road in Secs. 35 & 36 - 39-10 (3.6729)
Date: March 21 1983Creator: Steinbrecher Jr., Harold F.
Type: Map
Extent: 1 sheet
Abeliophyllum distichum Nakai (white-forsythia), flowers, branch (3.81502)
Date: April 15 1986Creator: Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:Abeliophyllum distichum Nakai (white-forsythia), bell shaped four petal flower, red-brown stem, leaf buds, closed flower bud, slighr open flower bud
Extent: 1 slide
1987/01/15: DuPage River Survey Worksheet (3.81698)
Date: January 15 1987Creator: Kesich, Paul
Type: Document
Description:Survey of water temperature, dissolved oxygen, and visual observations of current, clarity, and foam content for various sites on the DuPage River dated January 15, 1987.
Extent: 2 sheets
The Morton Arboretum Quarterly V. 19 No. 02 (3.34505)
Date: June 21 – September 20 1983Type: Serial
Extent: 16 pages
The Morton Arboretum Quarterly V. 23 No. 03 (3.34525)
Date: September 21 – December 20 1987Type: Serial
Extent: 16 pages
Acer japonicum (Fullmoon maple), leaves and flower with fruit (3.37529)
Date: May 10 1980Creator: Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer japonicum (Fullmoon maple), closeup of typical leaf - almost circular in shape with many short toothed lobes - and flower cluster with small fruit including wide spreading wings
Extent: 1 slide
Acer saccharum (sugar maple), twig and buds, spring (3.37974)
Date: April 1983Creator: Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer saccharum (sugar maple), closeup detail of the tip of a single pale brown twig with pointed, brownish buds
Extent: 1 slide
Acer rubrum (red maple), fruit, summer (3.38142)
Date: June 1986Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer rubrum (red maple), closeup detail showing two-winged pink and green samara fruit clusters hanging in summer
Extent: 1 slide
1987/04/08: Joe W. White to George Ware (3.38290)
Date: April 8 1987Creator: White, Joe W.
Type: Document
Description:Set of two letters
First letter from Joe W. White of Friends of the Barnwell Center to George Ware inviting him to present a program on the selection, planting, and management of urban trees at the Barnwell Center in Shreveport, Louisiana on February 24, 1988.
Second letter from George Ware to Joe W. White agreeing to present at the Barnwell Center on February 24, 1988.
Extent: 2 sheets
Arbor Day, tree planting (3.3938)
Date: 1980sType: Photographic image
Description:Arbor Day, tree planting, group of visitors shoveling dirt around tree next to gravel walkway
Extent: 1 photograph
Presentation of check for $125,000 to The Morton Arboretum by ARCO (3.4057)
Date: August 3 1984Type: Photographic image
Description:Presentation of check for $125,000 to The Morton Arboretum by ARCO
(L to R): Carlton Norris (ARCO), Byron Turnquest (ARCO), George Ware, and Marion Hall standing outside
Extent: 1 photograph