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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
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).
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
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
Ian MacPhail, portrait (3.5068)
Date: 1989Type: Photographic image
Description:Ian MacPhail, portrait
Extent: 1 photograph