Northwest Corner of the Slusser Land (The Morton Arboretum) (3.100478)
Date: October 1962Type: Photographic image
Description:A northwest corner acre of what was once the "Slusser Land" at The Morton Arboretum.
Arctostaphylos uva-ursi (L.) Spreng. (bearberry), habit (3.101090)
Date: April 1962Type: Photographic image
Description:Arctostaphylos uva-ursi (L.) Spreng. (bearberry), distant view of a large bed of bearberry, with a metal identifying label on a small post in the middle of the bed. The plant's leaves are jus beginning to turn color.
Extent: 1 slide
Gazebo for Mrs. Suzette Morton Zurcher (3.102471)
Date: June 10 1962Creator: Arthur Myhrum & Edward H. Bennett, Jr.
Type: Plan
Description:Plan for gazebo for Suzette Morton Zurcher's residence, constructed in the Sterling Pond area on a parcel of land originally within the Slusser Farm.
Extent: 1 sheet
Asclepias incarnata L. (swamp milkweed), close-up of fruit (3.103176)
Date: September 1962Type: Photographic image
Description:Asclepias incarnata L. (swamp milkweed), close-up of fruit
Extent: 1 slide
Berberis thunbergii ‘Aurea’ (Golden Japanese barberry), shrub (3.105269)
Date: August 1962Type: Photographic image
Description:Berberis thunbergii ‘Aurea’ (Golden Japanese barberry), golden-leaved shrub, other shrubs and trees and turfgrass in background, plant habit
Extent: 1 slide
Betula nigra L. (river birch), habit (3.105358)
Date: September 1962Type: Photographic image
Description:Betula nigra L. (river birch), multi-trunked tree next to driveway and in front of house
Extent: 1 slide
Betula pumila (bog birch), catkins and leaves on twig (3.105460)
Date: October 1962Type: Photographic image
Description:Betula pumila (bog birch), catkins and leaves on twig
Extent: 1 slide
Betula (birch) white-barked leafless tree (3.105466)
Date: April 1962Type: Photographic image
Description:Betula (birch) white-barked leafless tree
1962/06/14: Homer Buck to Clarence Godshalk (3.107137)
Date: June 14 1962Creator: Godshalk, Clarence E.
Type: Document
Description:A letter from Homer Buck, associate aquatic biologist with the State Natural History Survey Division in Urbana, regarding its stocking of fish in Lake Marmo and sampling of the fish population in Arbor Lake. the document spells out the success (or failure) of the project and potential next steps for the following year. Clarence Godshalk's brief reply is also included. A single page with the stocking of largemouth bass and brown bullheads is included in Buck's letter.
Extent: 4 pages
Letter from Howard Mead to Mertha Fulkerson (3.1637)
Date: April 25 1962Creator: Mead, Howard
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Howard Mead to Mertha Fulkerson
Letter from Alice Drought to Mertha Fulkerson (3.1638)
Date: August 14 1962Creator: Drought, Alice R.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Alice Drought to Mertha Fulkerson
Oriental printing, fantasy and art papers / imported and stocked by Andrews/Nelson/Whitehead, Inc. (3.23401)
Date: 20th centuryType: Book
Extent: [1] leaf, [4] p., [120] leaves : samples, some color 10 x 21 cm.
Fothergilla major [graphic] / N.S. Hart. (3.24067)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 1 drawing : graphite, b&w image 31 x 23 cm. + 1 sheet (28 x 22 cm.).
Fothergilla major [graphic] / N.S. Hart. (3.24097)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 1 drawing : graphite, b&w image 31 x 23 cm. + 1 sheet (28 x 22 cm.).
Crataegus phaenopyrum [graphic] / N. S. Hart. (3.24121)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 1 drawing : graphite, b&w 36 x 28 cm.
Connect the dots place mat and children's menu [graphic] : the Ginkgo Restaurant. (3.24251)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Fairbanks, Elaine Griffin
Type: Drawing
Extent: 1 photomechanical print : art reproduction, b&w 22 x 36 cm.
Tilia americana wreath [graphic] / N.S. Hart. (3.24351)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 1 drawing : pen and ink, b&w image 32 x 25 cm., on board 35 x 28 cm.
Hand lens [graphic] / N.S. Hart. (3.24356)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 1 drawing : pen and ink, b&w image 5 x 5 cm., on sheet 17 x 16 cm.
Willow branches [graphic]. (3.24543)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Hassall, Joan.
Type: Drawing
Extent: 1 drawing : brush and pen, one color 25 x 21 cm.
Two plans for The Morton Arboretum, Sterling Morton Library Reading Garden (3.24603)
Date: 1962Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Two sketched horseshoe-shaped plans for the Sterling Morton Library Reading Garden, including suggestions for planting, furniture, exposures, layout and features.
Center text between the two sketches: An impractical plan for an an outdoor reading room adjoining the new library - no scale - M.T. Watts fecit
Bottom right corner text below Plan #2: Any exposure - M.T. Watts suggestor demeritus
Plan #1 suggestions:
- Grass throughout
- Along south side of garden:
- Library
- Eye of the librarian watching over entire garden
- Seat in the sun and for a cold day on both sides of the glass doors
- Circular platform with 2 steps going into garden so that there can be a lecture platform
- Espaliered Pears for the walls on both sides of the glass doors
- Along east side of garden
- Book tree - expendable, paper-bound books for free browsing
- Some tall things to make long shadows in the afternoon
- Table for small group
- Along west side of garden
- White pine to say "Sh..." for the librarian
- Sweetbrier rose to make smell of applesauce
- Wall with perhaps some niches, and /or some good tiles
- Seats connected by small tables but no togetherness
- Book tree - expendable, paper-bound books for free browsing
- Along north side of garden
- Thorny things
- Wall fountain dribbling quietly
- Mossy north wall with ferns at its base
Text at top of plan: I like this better (one can read in the rain)
- Wall lining entire garden
- Cloister - walk along wall lining entire garden - paved old brick? (detailed sketch of interior below garden sketch, including books for browsers and vine)
- Along south side of garden:
- Wall fountain in the shape of a lion's head drooling contentedly
- Doors to Library on both sides of the wall fountain
- Along east side of garden:
- Ground covers
- Vine
- Along west side of garden
- Ground covers
- Vine
- 1 step up
- Along north side of garden
- Steps on both sides to make raised platform for book talks
- Beech tree because books are all named for it
- Ferns under beech tree
Extent: 1 sheet
Pansy (3.24633)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustration of a large pansy flower and three detail views, including floral diagram, reverse of flower, and center, accompanied by descriptive text. Background sketches along the left side include a house, a heart, and a church, center bottom includes three women and two girls sitting in a circle drinking tea, and center right includes flowers and an elf. Sketches depict various pansy folklore.
Upper left text lists various names this flower goes by - herb trinity, pink of my John, heart's ease, step-mother, kit run in the street, kiss me at the garden gate, cuddle me to you, kiss me quick or PANSY
Top right floral diagram illustration identifies sepal, petal, stamen, pistil, nectar sac
Bottom left illustration (reverse of flower) identifies sepal, petal, nectar sac
Bottom right illustration identifies stigma, pistil and stamens, nectar sac
Extent: 1 sheet
Plan for The Morton Arboretum, Sterling Morton Library Reading Garden-north end (3.24634)
Date: 1962Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Sketches of plans for the north-facing end of the Sterling Morton Library Reading Garden showing a wall, tables and chairs, book tree and pool. Also includes suggestions for planting.
Sketches divided into 3 sections:
Section 1: Sketch of sitting area with roof along north-end garden wall
Notations written:
- Above left side of roof: An inconspicuous prism to throw a rainbow into the garden occasionally
- Above chair: gray painted aluminum
- Next to pole for roof support: iron
- Next to right side of roof: The white pine outside the wall has wind chimes somewhere in its branches
- Above side view of roof sketch: slate (or tin) wall
- Below sketch of sitting area: The north-facing end of the Reading Garden??
Notations written:
- Far left of the book tree sketch: The sunny wall at the other end could have a wall fountain, and a mobile hung from a tree to make interesting moving shadows, - or espaliered pears
- Just below book shelves on the left: sectional to allow for tree growth
- To the right of top portion of tree (above shelving): Not a honey locust Not a pin oak [crossed out]
- Next to top right of shelving: concealed shades for rain
- Next to bottom right of shelving: hooks for shades
Notations written:
- Far top left corner: pine
- Top left next to bench and table: ferns
- Far bottom left corner: sweetbrier roses to send the smell of new summer applesauce into the garden
- Next to bottom middle planting area across from pool: Poison Ivy [crossed out] Euonymus planting to keep people away from the opening, and for fall color
- Above top right corner: Plantsmen tile strip all around wall
Extent: 1 sheet
Suggestion for The Morton Arboretum, Sterling Morton Library Reading Garden wall (3.24635)
Date: 1962Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Sketch of proposed Sterling Morton Library Reading Garden wall with tiles near the top featuring the names of prominent botanical figures alternating with tiles featuring different plants.
Text written in bottom left corner:
A suggestion for a row of tiles as a part of the wall of the Reading Garden. Probably they should be soft tan with the picture tiles in black and the name in a red-brown?
Five names on tiles alongside plant tiles toward top of wall:
Carolus Linnaeus
Andre Michaux
Pierre Joseph Redouté
Le Notre
Kristian Konrad Sprengel
Extent: 1 sheet
Jeffersonia Diphylla (3.24637)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Large illustration of a Twinleaf plant with detailed views of seed pods, seed, stamen, and pistil details with identifying text. Background images include Monticello at center left, and silhouettes of two small scenes at top right, the top showing a man giving a lecture or speech with the word "Poter" or "Peter" partially erased, the bottom showing a man and a women planting or gardening.
Illustrations as depicted from left to right:
- 2 stamens, one closed, one opened
- 1 pistil
- 1 large illustration of Twinleaf with three sets of leaves and 1 flower
- 1 seed-pod closed
- 1 seed-pod open
- 1 seed
Extent: 1 sheet
Owl Pellets Galore (3.24640)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Document
Description:Four pages of type-written text for Owl Pellets Galore by May Theilgaard Watts, an account detailing the process of searching for and examining long-eared owl pellets with Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts.
Accompanied by artwork titled Under the Roost of the Long-Eared Owls.
Extent: 4 sheets
Under the Roost of the Long-Eared Owls (3.24641)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Four illustrations depicting long-eared owls and their pellets. Captions accompany each individual illustration. The drawings illustrate the story OWL PELLETS GALORE by May Theilgaard Watts, Naturalist at The Morton Arboretum.
Upper left text: UNDER the ROOST of the LONG-EARED OWLS
Illustrations with captions, from left to right, top to bottom:
- Drawing of an owl pellet
- Caption: An owl pellet
- Drawing of forest floor, including rhododendron
- Caption: When rhododendron leaves uncurl we find pellets.
- Drawing of rodent bone findings
- Caption: Each pellet reveals parts of a small rodent.
- Drawing of two owls in a tree
- Caption: They seem to grow taller as we approach.
Extent: 1 sheet
Three Seasons of Bloom in the Prairie (3.24642)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustration of 23 prairie plants shown in a chart formation categorized by Fall, Summer, and Spring from top to bottom, and from high prairie to low prairie from left to right. Identifying text appears beneath each illustration, some of which is on strip of board attached to the bottom with tape.
Header: THREE SEASONS of BLOOM in the PRAIRIE
Text, top right: the individual plants represent colonies of varying sizes
Plants as depicted from top to bottom, left to right:
- Fall
- big bluestem
- blazing star
- Indian grass
- wild rye
- switch grass
- saw-toothed sunflower
- prairie dock
- cord grass
- Summer
- lead plant
- New Jersey tea
- flowering spurge
- stiff goldenrod
- black-eyed Susan
- Culver's root
- tall meadow rue
- Sullivant's milkweed
- Spring:
- bird's-foot violet
- blue-eyed grass
- puccoon
- downy phlox
- wild strawberry
- Canada anemone
- yellow star grass
Extent: 1 sheet