(2000): Elm Planting Photographs [copies - Various 4] (3.102426)
Type: Document
Description:Various photocopied photographs received by George Ware of David Elms provided by The Morton Arboretum. The top picture is of Lebanon High School students planting an Elm. The middle picture is of Elms outside Lake Forest Country Club. These pictures are from around the year 2000.
Extent: 1 sheet; two-sided
A Planting Plan for the Home Grounds of Mr. and Mrs. John Brunner (3.97419)
Date: July 1942Creator: Johnson, Marshall L.
Type: Plan
Description:Buckley Hills Subdivision - 2122 Miraflores Avenue
Waukegan, Illinois
Extent: 1 sheet
A Plat Plan - Jerome J. Gordon - Home Grounds (3.97987)
Date: September 1960Creator: Johnson, Marshall L.
Type: Plan
Description:corner of Hibbard Road and Pine Street
Winnetka, Illinois
Extent: 1 sheet
A Salt Mine in Tennessee (1.9205)
Type: Document
Can't Wash Dishes with Akron's Water (1.9158)
Type: Document
Clonal population structure of the federal threatened Mead’s milkweed, as determined by RAPD analysis, and its conservation implications as part of "Seeds for the Future Roots of the Past: Proceedings of the Seventh North American Prairie Conference" (3.31532)
Date: 2002Creator: Bowles, Marlin L.
Type: Article
Description:A digitized chapter of Clonal population structure of the federal threatened Mead’s milkweed, as determined by RAPD analysis, and its conservation implications as part of "Seeds for the Future Roots of the Past: Proceedings of the Seventh North American Prairie Conference"
Deal Is Closed (1.9119)
Type: Document
Making Salt (1.9164)
Type: Document
Restoration Status of the Federal Threatened Mead's Milkweed (Asclepias meadii) in Illinois and Indiana as part of "Proceedings of the Northern Illinois Prairie Workshop" (3.114777)
Date: 2001Type: Book
Description:The digitized document in this record is the chapter: Restoration Status of the Federal Threatened Mead's Milkweed (Asclepias meadii) in Illinois and Indiana, which is a part of the full document "Proceedings of the Northern Illinois Prairie Workshop".
Spiraea and Cornus Group [planting guide] Morton Arboretum [Spiraea and other rose family shrubs preliminary plan] (3.5701)
Date: 1920sCreator: Teuscher, Henry
Type: Plan
Description:Planting plan for Spiraea and other rose family shrubs.
Extent: 1 sheet
"A bit of the main road". Bamboo Grove and shrine in the distance (3.8190)
Date: August 11 1908Creator: Wilson, Ernest Henry, 1876-1930.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Tree-lined street with people.
Extent: 1 photograph
"A bit of the road" (3.7979)
Date: July 1 1910Creator: Wilson, Ernest Henry, 1876-1930.
Type: Photographic image
Description:road passing through a natural tunnel with man carrying bales of things. Entrance to natural tunnel through which road passes. Alt. 2500 ft.
Extent: 1 photograph
"A study in architecture" (3.7984)
Date: July 2 1910Creator: Wilson, Ernest Henry, 1876-1930.
Type: Photographic image
Description:walled complex with wooded hills behind. Castle of rich family named T'ao. Woods of Pinus massoniana Lamb. Behind. Alt. 3000 ft.
Extent: 1 photograph
"A study in architecture". Village temple at Kung-ching chiang (3.8011)
Date: August 10 1910Creator: Wilson, Ernest Henry, 1876-1930.
Type: Photographic image
Description:temple. Alt. 1900 ft.
Extent: 1 photograph
"EVERY STATE ITS OWN WOODY ORNAMENTALS" article included in letter to Mr. Godshalk from Phelps Wyman (3.107347)
Date: January 23 1932Type: Document
Description:Article on woody ornamental plants by Phelps Wyman as part of a letter sent to Mr. Godshalk regarding the inquiry about these plants at The Morton Arboretum's location in the Midwest. Sent as supportive documentation, reprinted from Landscape Architecture, October 1931 isue.
Extent: 1 page
"For Honor of the Bench!" (1.9142)
Type: Document
"Fungus may be at the root of wilting, dying trees" [news clipping] (3.104801)
Date: June 8 1993Type: Document
Description:An article from the Chicago Tribune dated Tuesday, June 8, 1993, quoting Gary Watson and Tom Green of The Morton Arboretum who suggest verticillium wilt as the cause of recent tree stress in the DuPage County, IL area.
Extent: 2 sheets
"God's Acre" (3.7986)
Date: July 3 1910Creator: Wilson, Ernest Henry, 1876-1930.
Type: Photographic image
Description:tombs in grove of trees. Tombs nestling midst grove of Cupressus funebris Endl. Tree 60-70 ft. high. Alt. 3000 ft.
Extent: 1 photograph
"God's Acre". Memorial stones to memory of Taoist priests (3.8008)
Date: February 6 1910Creator: Wilson, Ernest Henry, 1876-1930.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Man standing among memorial stones. Pinus massoniana Lamb. Behind
Extent: 1 photograph
"Indispensables". Men laden with sandals made from bamboo fibre and bamboo sheaths used in making soles for women's shoes (3.8056)
Date: August 31 1910Creator: Wilson, Ernest Henry, 1876-1930.
Type: Photographic image
Description:two men carrying loads of sandals. other onlookers. Alt. 5800 ft.
Extent: 1 photograph
"Marco Polo Bridge", built of blocks of red sandstone (3.8199)
Date: August 24 1908Creator: Wilson, Ernest Henry, 1876-1930.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Bridge over marshy river with person to left. Outside East Gate, Chentu Fu
Extent: 1 photograph
"Moorland and crag" with tomb of man murdered by unknown bandits (3.8038)
Date: August 23 1910Creator: Wilson, Ernest Henry, 1876-1930.
Type: Photographic image
Description:tomb on hillside. From alt. 13,200 ft.
Extent: 1 photograph
"Pai-lu" memorial arch to the memory of a virtuous widow - a common wayside feature in the west (3.8189)
Date: August 10 1908Creator: Wilson, Ernest Henry, 1876-1930.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Ornate memorial arch with dog beneath and people to right.
Extent: 1 photograph
"Peh-la" (Insect white wax) on Fraxinus (3.9053)
Date: September 1 1908Creator: Wilson, Ernest Henry, 1876-1930.
Type: Photographic image
Description:tree habit by rice paddy.
Extent: 1 photograph
"Peh-tsai" , the so-called Shantung cabbage (Brasaica chinensis) (3.8060)
Date: February 15 1911Creator: Wilson, Ernest Henry, 1876-1930.
Type: Photographic image
Description:cabbage.
Extent: 1 photograph
"Presettlement Barrens in the Glaciated Prairie Region of Illinois" as part of the Proceedings of the North American Conference on Savannas and Barrens (3.113799)
Date: October 1994Creator: Bowles, Marlin L., McBride, Jenny
Type: Article
Description:A digitized chapter of the 1994 North American Conference on Savannas and Barrens Proceedings written by Marlin L. Bowles and Jeanette L. McBride.
Full proceedings from the conference can be found online here.
"Skull of Wild Cow" (Budorcas taxicolor, Hodg. Var. tibetana, M. Edwards) and Serow (Nemorrhaedus milne-edwardsii, David?) (3.8288)
Creator: Wilson, Ernest Henry, 1876-1930.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Two cow skulls. shot, Tachien lu and Wa-shan
Extent: 1 photograph
"Skull of Wild Cow" (Budorcas taxicolor, Hodg. Var. tibetana, M. Edwards) and Serow (Nemorrhaedus milne-edwardsii, David?) (3.8287)
Creator: Wilson, Ernest Henry, 1876-1930.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Two cow skulls. shot, Tachien lu and Wa-shan
Extent: 1 photograph
"The Gate of Thibet". Stone bridge immediately outside Tachien-lu (3.8168)
Date: July 27 1908Creator: Wilson, Ernest Henry, 1876-1930.
Type: Photographic image
Description:stone bridge over river with building beside and hills beyond.
Extent: 1 photograph
"The Harvard" wrecked near Na-chi Hsien (3.8248)
Date: December 25 1908Creator: Wilson, Ernest Henry, 1876-1930.
Type: Photographic image
Description:boat grounded on riverbank with many onlookers in background. Yangtsze River
Extent: 1 photograph
'If I Were An Omnipotent President" (3.101775)
Type: Document
Description:Undated chain letter, with 13 points, signed by "A True American". To be copied and sent to 10 of your friends.
Extent: 1 sheet
(1.) Erebus strix (3.31502)
Creator: Denton, Sherman F. (Sherman Foote), 1856-1937.
Type: Specimen
Description:Scientific name has since changed to Thysania agrippina
Species from the Noctuidae family
Part of the Noctuoidea superfamily (owlet moths and kin)
Common name: great owl-moth, white witch
Extent: 1 moth specimen