Horseback riders through Puffer land when road is being constructed (3.2936)
Date: 1927Type: Photographic image
Description:Horseback riders through Puffer land when road is being constructed
Extent: 1 negative
One of the first black topping road jobs done in the Arboretum (3.2939)
Date: 1930sType: Photographic image
Description:Man and machine blacktopping roads. One of the first black topping road jobs done in the Arboretum.
Extent: 1 photograph
Lunching & Learning with Clarence Godshalk: Evolution of the Arboretum - From Farm to Arboretum (3.31582)
Date: January 25 1978Type: Audio
Description:Lunching and Learning program presented by Clarence Godshalk as he describes the evolution of the Arboretum, from farm land to Arboretum.
Extent: 1 audio cassette
Arboretum entrance drive in winter during reconstruction when Route 53 was widened (3.32051)
Date: 1950sType: Photographic image
Description:Arboretum entrance drive in winter during reconstruction when Route 53 was widened
Extent: 1 photograph
Side view of Arboretum entrance drive with trees during reconstruction when Route 53 was widened (3.32052)
Date: 1958 – 1959Type: Photographic image
Description:Side view of Arboretum entrance drive with trees during reconstruction when Route 53 was widened
Extent: 1 photograph
Reconstruction of Arboretum entrance drive in winter when Route 53 was widened showing road curve to left (3.32053)
Date: 1958 – 1959Type: Photographic image
Description:Reconstruction of Arboretum entrance drive in winter when Route 53 was widened showing road curve to left
Extent: 1 photograph
Truck at Arboretum entrance road during recontruction when Route 53 was widened (3.32054)
Date: 1958 – 1959Type: Photographic image
Description:Truck at Arboretum entrance road during recontruction when Route 53 was widened
Extent: 1 photograph
Workers covering freshly sprayed asphalt roadbed with gravel (3.33506)
Date: 1930sType: Photographic image
Description:Workers covering freshly sprayed asphalt roadbed with gravel
Extent: 1 negative filmstrip
Building roads, workers with horse-drawn wagons and equipment (3.33509)
Date: circa 1916Type: Photographic image
Description:Building roads, workers with horse-drawn wagons and equipment
Farmers in those days had to work out their road tax
Extent: 1 negative filmstrip
Area cleared for road, before stumps were blown and bed graded (3.33512)
Date: 1920sType: Photographic image
Description:Area cleared of brush and small trees for road, before stumps were blown and bed graded
Extent: 1 negative
Area cleared for road, before stumps were blown and bed graded (3.33513)
Date: 1920sType: Photographic image
Description:Area cleared of brush and small trees for road, before stumps were blown and bed graded
Extent: 1 negative
Area cleared for road, horses in the distance (3.33514)
Date: 1920sType: Photographic image
Description:Area cleared of brush and small trees for road, before stumps were blown and bed graded
Horses in the distance
Extent: 1 negative
Area cleared of brush and small trees for road (3.33515)
Date: 1920sType: Photographic image
Description:Area cleared of brush and small trees, but before stumps were blown and bed graded
Extent: 1 negative
Area cleared of brush and small trees for road in woods (3.33516)
Date: 1920sType: Photographic image
Description:Area cleared of brush and small trees for road in woods, before stumps were blown and bed graded
Extent: 1 negative
Area cleared for road, before stumps were blown and bed graded (3.33517)
Date: 1920sType: Photographic image
Description:Area cleared of brush and small trees for road, before stumps were blown and bed graded
Extent: 1 negative
1999/12/28: George Ware to Ms. Terry Fawell (3.55484)
Date: December 28 1999Creator: Ware, George
Type: Document
Description:Letter from George Ware to Terry Fawell evaluating property between Avery Coonley School and the DuPage County Forest Preserve with regards to the impact that clearing land for a drive would have on surrounding wetlands and forest.
Extent: 2 sheets
1985/09/19: Frank R. Finch to Geoffrey G. Gilbert (3.67013)
Date: September 19 1985Creator: Finch, Frank R.
Type: Document
Description:Response by the Department of the Army, Chicago District, Corps of Engineers to the law firm McBride, Baker and Coles containing documents relating to a Freedom of Information Act request for information dated September 11, 1985 regarding the proposed North-South Tollway [I-355] in Illinois.
Extent: 31 sheets