Ray Schulenberg Near Railroad Tracks (3.100476)
Date: July 1974Creator: Kohout, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Ray Schulenberg observing plants near a set of railroad tracks.
Ray Schulenberg Watering Prairie Seedlings (3.100479)
Creator: Godshalk, Clarence E.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Ray Schulenberg watering prairie seedlings in a greenhouse.
Prairie Seedlings in a Greenhouse (3.100480)
Date: May 17 1970Creator: Schulenberg, Ray
Type: Photographic image
Description:Prairie seedlings growing in a greenhouse.
Ray Schulenberg Banding Plants (3.100483)
Date: May 1963Creator: Godshalk, Clarence E.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Ray Schulenberg in a greenhouse banding plants.
Ray Schulenberg Watering Seedlings in Greenhouse (3.100485)
Date: December 1973Creator: Godshalk, Clarence E.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Ray Schulenberg watering seedlings in a greenhouse.
Prairie Seedlings in a Greenhouse (3.100486)
Date: May 17 1970Creator: Schulenberg, Ray
Type: Photographic image
Description:Prairie seedlings in a planting box in a greenhouse.
Jack Stitt and Bob Read Planting (3.100491)
Date: June 1967Creator: Schulenberg, Ray
Type: Photographic image
Description:Jack Stitt and Bob Read on a wooden board planting into the ground.
Sand Barren (left) and Direct Seeded Area (right) (3.100494)
Date: June 1963Creator: Godshalk, Clarence E.
Type: Photographic image
Description:A sand barren to the left and a direct seeded are to the right with Ray Schulenberg standing in between them.
Ray Schulenberg Weeding (3.100495)
Date: June 1963Type: Photographic image
Description:Ray Schulenberg crouched on a plank trying to weed direct seeded prairie.
First Year's Planting in Sand Barren (3.100500)
Date: September 1963Creator: Godshalk, Clarence E.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Ray Schulenberg standing in a sand barren containing the first year's planting.
Ray Schulenberg in "The Acre" (3.100502)
Date: October 1963Creator: Godshalk, Clarence E.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Ray Schulenberg in the first year's planting of "The Acre".
Ray Schulenberg and Helpers Planting Prairie with Nesbit Drill (3.100507)
Date: June 1971Type: Photographic image
Description:Ray Schulenberg with three helpers planting prairie with a Nesbit drill on a tractor.
Ray Schulenberg Planting (3.100508)
Date: June 1971Type: Photographic image
Description:Ray Schulenberg planting in the prairie with a Nesbit drill.
Ray Schulenberg and Bob Betz Riding Nesbit Drill (3.100510)
Date: 1980Type: Photographic image
Description:Ray Schulenberg (left) and Bob Betz (right) riding a Nesbit drill while seeding at Fermilab.
Ray Schulenberg in the Prairie (3.100519)
Date: June 1979Creator: Armstrong, Patricia K.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Ray Schulenberg in the Prairie as part of the MAPRP.
Tools in Truck Bed (3.100520)
Date: July 1967Type: Photographic image
Description:An assortment of tools in a truck bed. The tools were likely used for work on the prairie.
Schulenberg Prairie Interpretive Sign (3.100604)
Date: September 7 2003Creator: Armstrong, Patricia K.
Type: Photographic image
Description:A photograph of an interpretive Schulenberg Prairie sign at The Morton Arboretum.
Ray Schulenberg, 1998 (3.100613)
Date: August 29 1998Creator: Armstrong, Patricia K.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Ray Schulenberg in a prairie circa 1998.
Ed Hedborn oral history interview, 2022 June 08 (3.101320)
Date: June 8 2022Type: Audio
Description:A recording of an oral history interview with Ed Hedborn, manager of plant records, conducted by Matt Lobdell, head of collections and curator. The interview took place on June 8, 2022 in the Cudahy Room in the Administration and Research Center at The Morton Arboretum.
The interview focuses on Hedborn's early experiences at The Morton Arboretum (late 1960s-1970s) including visiting the Arboretum as a student, his summer job working with Ray Schulenberg in the prairie, his work as an herbarium assistant, becoming the Arboretum's plant recorder, and memories of Walter Eickhorst.
How to Plant a Prairie Sign (3.102756)
Date: June 10 2022Creator: Lima, Dulcey
Type: Photographic image
Description:Landscape orientation of a sign in the Schulenberg Prairie that describes with pictures "How to Plant a Prairie".
Woody Plants of the Morton Arboretum (3.103318)
Date: 1972Type: Book
Description:This handlist is an index, listing alphabetically by genus and species all the scientific names under which living woody plants are currently being grown out-of-doors at the Morton Arboretum, Lisle, Illinois, U.S.A.
Includes a fold-out map at the back of the book.
Extent: xiii, 250 p.
Summary of Morton Arboretum Prairie Work, 1963-1968 (3.104179)
Date: 1968Creator: Schulenberg, Ray
Type: Document
Description:A five-paged document written by Ray Schulenberg in 1968 from a talk given at the Prairie Symposium at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois on September 14, 1968.
Extent: 5 pages
The Morton Arboretum Naturalist Guides: Schulenberg Prairie Training Seminar: September 21, 2000-1:00 p.m.: Prairie History Fact/Summary Sheet (3.104181)
Date: 2000Creator: Johnson, Craig B.
Type: Document
Description:A four-paged fact sheet describing Ray Schulenberg and the Schulenberg Prairie.
Extent: 4 pages
Natural Area Management and the Prairie Planting at The Morton Arboretum for the course Introduction to Natural Areas Management: The Morton Arboretum, 11.July.98 (3.104182)
Date: 1998Creator: Schulenberg, Ray
Type: Document
Description:An eight-paged document from a Natural Areas Management Course at The Morton Arboretum. The document, written by Ray Schulenberg, describes the creation of the Schulenberg Prairie.
Extent: 8 pages
Morton Arboretum Prairie Restoration Project: 1960-1980, Raymond F. Schulenberg (3.104345)
Date: 1980sCreator: Schulenberg, Ray
Type: Document
Description:A formerly bound series of documents pertaining to the development of the Schulenberg Prairie. The physical copy of the artifact was formerly in a three-ring binder, but has since been placed in acid free folders, organized by the original tabs represented in the binder.
A table of contents for the pdf version provided in this record is as follows:
Before 1962: Pages 1-3
1962: Pages 4-19
1963: Pages 20-69
1964: Pages 70-106
1965: Pages 107-123
1966: Pages 124-125
1967: Pages 126-196
1968: Pages 197-230
1969: Pages 231-246
1970: Pages 247-264
1971: Pages 265-268
1972: Pages 269-275
After 1972: Pages 276-288
After 1980: Pages 289-315
Extent: 315 pages
Old Man of the Prairie: An Interview with Ray Schulenberg (3.104571)
Date: 1997Creator: Egan, Dave
Type: Article
Description:A prairie restoration pioneer reflects on a half-century of work.
Morton Arboretum History (3.104851)
Date: January 8 1973Type: Audio
Description:Recording of a lecture given by Ray Schulenberg on the history of The Morton Arboretum beginning around 1832. Topics covered include early Lisle settlement, J. Sterling Morton, Joy Morton's salt business, the establishment of the Arboretum, the hiring of early Arboretum staff (Clarence Godshalk, Henry Teuscher, John van Gemert), farming operations at the Arboretum, the passing of Joy Morton, Jean Morton Cudahy and Sterling Morton as chairman of the trustees, the woody plant collections, and the education program.
Ed Hedborn oral history interview, 2022 October 26 (3.104913)
Date: October 26 2022Type: Audio
Description:A recording of an oral history interview with Ed Hedborn, manager of plant records, conducted by Kristin Arnold, archivist. The interview took place on October 26, 2022 in the Sterling Morton Library at The Morton Arboretum.
The interview focuses on Hedborn's experiences and memories of The Morton Arboretum's Collections Program during the curatorship of Ray Schulenberg, which lasted from 1977 to 1987. Topics include Hedborn's early days as plant recorder, the shift of collections focus to wild-collected plants, seed collecting trips through the western United States and Northern Illinois, tracing the history of plants, the computerization of plant records, and the start of Bloom and Color Reports.
Prairie in a Post-Prairie Era (3.10508)
Date: June 21 – September 20 1967Creator: Schulenberg, Ray
Type: Article
Baccharis salicina Torr. & Gray (willow baccharis), habit (3.105131)
Date: August 27 1985Creator: Schulenberg, Ray
Type: Photographic image
Description:Baccharis salicina Torr. & Gray (willow baccharis), habit
Baccharis salicina Torr. & Gray (willow baccharis), flowers and leaves (3.105135)
Date: August 27 1985Creator: Schulenberg, Ray
Type: Photographic image
Description:Baccharis salicina Torr. & Gray (willow baccharis), flowers and leaves
Extent: 1 slide
The Arboretum Landscape – A Sesquicentennial Perspective (3.10548)
Date: December 21 1968 – March 20 1969Creator: Schulenberg, Ray
Type: Article
Introduced Woody Plants in the Flora of the Chicago Region (3.10565)
Date: September 21 – December 20 1969Creator: Swink, Floyd, Schulenberg, Ray
Type: Article
Notes on the Morton Arboretum Herbarium (3.10660)
Date: June 21 – September 20 1973Creator: Schulenberg, Ray
Type: Article
Ed Hedborn oral history interview, 2023 January 25 (3.107010)
Date: January 25 2023Type: Audio
Description:A recording of an oral history interview with Ed Hedborn, manager of plant records, conducted by Kristin Arnold, archivist. The interview took place on January 25, 2023 in the Sterling Morton Library at The Morton Arboretum.
The interview focuses on Hedborn's experiences and memories of The Morton Arboretum's Collections Program during the curatorship of Peter van der Linden, which lasted from 1987 to 1998. Topics include the Arboretum's collections, the evaluation and rehabilitation of collections, the construction of the North-South Tollway (I-355), salt studies, plant labels, seed collecting, and the Arbor Day Plant Sale.
Branches: Newsletter of the Volunteers of The Morton Arboretum, Summer 1985 (3.107025)
Date: 1985Creator: Kaskey, Marjorie, Stowell, Gladys
Type: Serial
Description:This digitized issue of the Summer 1985 Branches Newsletter includes: an article on the history of the Sand Beds, which with the help of Tony Tyznik and Ray Schulenberg, were enlarged at this time using Lake Michigan Dune sand and plantings of cacti, bearberry, Paulownia or the empress tree and opuntia fragilis; an article about the original wild turkey flock started by the Godsalks in the 1960s and including an illustration of a wild turkey by Clarence Godstalk; and a feature on a Du Page county award given to the Arboretum for it's outstanding volunteer program. Educational and program opportunities, new volunteers and volunteer team features as well as upcoming volunteer opportunities are also included.
Extent: 6 pages