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Notecards: Views of the Arboretum (3.27751)
Date: 1940 – 1960Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Print
Description:Nine notecards showing 5 different views of The Morton Arboretum. Notecards are black ink etchings on cream paper, folded, with a deckle edge, accompanied by nine matching cream envelopes with a deckle edge and housed in a two-sided, gray leatherette portfolio with an orange paper tie. All notecards are blank with the exception of one which has a letter written inside.
Text in blue on front of the portfolio: THE MORTON ARBORETUM LISLE, ILLINOIS
Title on the bottom left and The Morton Arboretum on the bottom right of each notecard:
- From the hedge collection [1 card]
- Illustration depicts stone steps leading up to hedge collection and evergreen trees
- Along a small stream [3 cards]
- Illustration depicts a stream, bridge, tress, and shrubbery in winter
- Thornhill Building [2 cards]
- Illustration depicts view up the hill to the Thornhill building, with bare trees and mushrooms in foreground, clouds and trees behind building in background
- Along walk to Thornhill Building [2 cards, one containing correspondence regarding plans for a field trip]
- Illustration depicts trees and flowers in forest
- White oak [1 card]
- Illustration depicts a winter white oak in forest with shrubbery
Extent: 9 notecards with envelopes
View of Thornhill (3.31060)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustration of view up the hill to the Thornhill Education Center at The Morton Arboretum, with bare trees and mushrooms in foreground, clouds and trees behind building in background, and an ink border.
Illustration used as image for printed notecards.
Extent: 1 sheet
Thornhill Education Center, back exterior (3.3422)
Date: after 1956Type: Photographic image
Description:Thornhill Education Center, back exterior
Extent: 1 photograph
Thornhill Education Center, back exterior (3.3423)
Date: after 1956Type: Photographic image
Description:Thornhill Education Center, back exterior
Extent: 1 photograph
Four women walking from Thornhill Education Center along spruce lined pathway (3.36389)
Date: May 13 1957Type: Photographic image
Description:Four women walking from Thornhill Education Center along spruce lined pathway
Extent: 1 negative
Founder's Room in Thornhill Education Center (3.37324)
Date: 1950sType: Photographic image
Description:Founder's Room in Thornhill Education Center
View directed at bay and fireplace
Extent: 1 photograph
May Watts leading group of children wearing feather headbands in musical performance on steps outside of Thornhill (3.4077)
Date: 1950sType: Photographic image
Description:May Watts leading group of children wearing feather headbands in musical performance on steps outside of Thornhill
Extent: 1 photograph
May Watts instructing class in Thornhill classroom (3.4078)
Date: 1950sType: Photographic image
Description:May Watts instructing class in Thornhill classroom
Extent: 1 photograph
May Watts instructing class in Thornhill classroom (3.4080)
Date: 1950sType: Photographic image
Description:May Watts instructing class in Thornhill classroom
Extent: 1 photograph
Topographical Map of a Portion of Assessment Plat No. 4, Lands Belonging to Trustees Under the Will of Joy Morton, Deceased, near Lisle, DuPage County, Illinois (3.5255)
Date: January 15 1954Creator: Steinbrecher, Harold F.
Type: Map
Description:Shows designs for a subdivision that was never developed in the Park Blvd. and Main Thornhill Drive area. Elevations are based on an arbitrary benchmark. "Topo of Land South of S(t)romquist, N. of Main Drive, W. Side" in pencil on reverse of map.
Extent: 1 sheet
[Thorndale Apartments] (3.5492)
Date: 1950sCreator: Godshalk, Clarence E.
Type: Plan
Description:Ms. note on verso: "Thorndale Apt. plans by CEG: D-4, 3S480 Park Blvd."
Structure located near Thornhill Education Center. Notes in ink added.
Extent: 3 sheets stapled
Landscape Classroom [Lighting Plan] Thornhill Bldg., The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, Illinois (3.5549)
Date: November 8 1951Creator: Public Service Co.
Type: Plan
Extent: 1 sheet
[Thornhill House] Details of New Metal Windows on South Elevation of Lecture Hall (3.5550)
Date: August 18 1954Creator: Holabird & Root
Type: Plan
Description:Sheet numbered A-1 (Note: Stapled with Morton memorial panels, see STRU: F II (b) 4a( Accession number 1031))
Extent: 1 sheet
Basement Floor Plan [for] Heating Alterations, Joy Morton Memorial Bldg., Morton Arboretum, Lisle, Illinois (3.5552)
Date: March 25 1958Creator: Holabird & Root
Type: Plan
Extent: 1 sheet
Water distribution system revisions for Morton Arboretum, Lisle, Illinois (3.5619)
Date: September 23 1957Creator: Robert E. Hattis Engineers, Inc.
Type: Map
Extent: 1 sheet
Water distribution system revisions for Morton Arboretum, Lisle, Illinois (3.5620)
Date: September 23 1957Creator: Robert E. Hattis Engineers, Inc.
Type: Map
Extent: 1 sheet
Letter Spacing for Marble Memorial Panel for Thornhill House & Administration Bldg. of The Morton Arboretum (3.6254)
Date: August 18 1954Creator: Holabird & Root
Type: Plan
Description:Sheet numbered A-3. Text: In memory of Joy Morton, Founder of the Morton Arboretum. The gift of Margaret Gray Morton. 1942.
Collection includes sheet A-5, Letter Key for Marble Memorial Panel (stapled to this document).
These sheets are both stapled to STRU: F II (b) 4 (3.5550)
Extent: 2 sheets
[Proposed Thornhill Building Renovation Floor Plans] (3.6950)
Date: 1956 – 1959Type: Plan
Description:Plans show tea room and kitchens on first floor, gift shop in basement.
Extent: 2 sheets