A Twelve-Month Invitation to The Morton Arboretum 1996 (3.96918)
Date: 1996Creator: Irving, Gary, Kohout, John, Nachel, Jim, Stickney, William S.
Type: Document
Description:A twelve-month wall calendar for the year 1996 featuring images of The Morton Arboretum and calligraphy created by Timothy R. Botts.
Featured images:
January: Oak Collection, Arboretum entrance
February: Snow-laden bridge, Schulenberg Prairie
March: May T. Watts Reading Garden, Skunk Cabbage
April: Spring wildflowers, Large-flowered trillium
May: Sargent's cherry trees in bloom, Star magnolia blooms
June: Irises and peonies along Joy Path, Fragrance Garden
July: Schulenberg Prairie, Butterfly weed
August: Tree collection, Woodlands
September: Thornhill Education Center,
October: Japanese maple, Northern dropseed
November: Woodland trail, Frosty leaves
December: Ground Cover Garden, Acorn finial at entrance gate
February: Snow-laden bridge, Schulenberg Prairie
March: May T. Watts Reading Garden, Skunk Cabbage
April: Spring wildflowers, Large-flowered trillium
May: Sargent's cherry trees in bloom, Star magnolia blooms
June: Irises and peonies along Joy Path, Fragrance Garden
July: Schulenberg Prairie, Butterfly weed
August: Tree collection, Woodlands
September: Thornhill Education Center,
October: Japanese maple, Northern dropseed
November: Woodland trail, Frosty leaves
December: Ground Cover Garden, Acorn finial at entrance gate
Acer rubrum (red maple), habit, spring (3.38146)
Date: April 1988Creator: Irving, Gary
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer rubrum (red maple), full view of smaller sapling in early spring with mostly bare branches except for bright red developing flowers, tree is situated on well-maintained grounds with other trees in the background
Extent: 1 slide
Acer saccharum (sugar maple), fall color (3.37932)
Date: October 1988Creator: Irving, Gary
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer saccharum (sugar maple), upward-looking view of multiple trees with pale green, yellow and orange fall color
Extent: 1 slide
Administration and Research Center, Spring (3.91506)
Date: 2000 – 2003Creator: Irving, Gary
Type: Photographic image
Description:View from the Hedge Collection toward the Administration and Research Center entrance in spring.
Adona McDonald (3.5075)
Creator: Irving, Gary
Type: Photographic image
Description:Adona McDonald
Extent: 1 photograph
Aesculus parviflora Walt. (bottlebrush buckeye), flowers (3.82682)
Date: June 1987Creator: Irving, Gary
Type: Photographic image
Description:Aesculus parviflora Walt. (bottlebrush buckeye), close view of a single bottlebrush buckeye panicle, with lower flowers just beginning to open. Other panicles in the background are muted.
Extent: 1 slide
Aesculus pavia L. (red buckeye), branches (3.82725)
Date: May 1988Creator: Irving, Gary
Type: Photographic image
Description:Aesculus pavia L. (red buckeye), side view of a red buckeye shrub. The leaves look a bit chlorotic, and the leaf coverage is not as dense as is typical.
Extent: 1 slide
Aesculus pavia L. (red buckeye, scarlet buckeye, firecracker plant), branches with inflorescence and leaves (3.82720)
Date: May 1988Creator: Irving, Gary
Type: Photographic image
Description:Aesculus pavia L. (red buckeye, scarlet buckeye, firecracker plant)
View of a portion of a red buckeye shrub, with glossy green leaves and some red inflorescences. It is unclear if the leaf free branches/trunk in the background are part of the buckeye, or another tree/shrub specimen. The shrub is sited in a park like area.
Extent: 1 slide
Anemone patens var. multifida Pritz. (pasqueflower), close-up of multiple white flowers, stems and leaves (3.99137)
Date: April 1989Creator: Irving, Gary
Type: Photographic image
Description:Anemone patens var. multifida Pritz. (pasqueflower), close-up of multiple white flowers, stems and leaves with dried plant material and dirt in background.
Extent: 1 slide
Anemone patens var. multifida Pritz. (pasqueflower), flowers (3.99152)
Date: April 1969Creator: Irving, Gary
Type: Photographic image
Description:Anemone patens var. multifida Pritz. (pasqueflower), flowers with old plant material in background
Extent: 1 slide
Anemone patens var. multifida Pritz. (pasqueflower), flowers (3.99153)
Date: April 1989Creator: Irving, Gary
Type: Photographic image
Description:Anemone patens var. multifida Pritz. (pasqueflower), flowers with dried plant material and dirt in background
Extent: 1 slide
Anemone patens var. multifida Pritz. (pasqueflower), habit (3.99139)
Date: April 1989Creator: Irving, Gary
Type: Photographic image
Description:Anemone patens var. multifida Pritz. (pasqueflower), habit; close-up of plant with white flowers, stems and leaves with dried plant material and dirt in background.
Extent: 1 slide
Arboretum staff or volunteer working on plant beds along brick path to Administration building (3.61942)
Date: May 1988Creator: Irving, Gary
Type: Photographic image
Description:Arboretum staff or volunteer working on plant beds along brick path to Administration building
Extent: 1 slide
Asclepias tuberosa L. (butterfly weed), habit (3.103858)
Date: June 1988Creator: Irving, Gary
Type: Photographic image
Description:Asclepias tuberosa L. (butterfly weed), habit, orange flowers with stems and leaves in foreground, prairie and sky in background
Extent: 1 slide
Beth Shimp, portrait (3.5120)
Creator: Irving, Gary
Type: Photographic image
Description:Beth Shimp, portrait
Extent: 1 photograph
Betula L. (birch) several leafless white-barked birches (3.105472)
Creator: Irving, Gary
Type: Photographic image
Description:Betula L. (birch) several leafless white-barked birches, Meadow Lake and other trees in background
Extent: 1 slide
Bill Borden, portrait (3.4841)
Date: 1988Creator: Irving, Gary
Type: Photographic image
Description:Bill Borden, portrait
Extent: 1 photograph
Bob Betz leading group tour of Schulenberg Prairie (3.3582)
Date: 1987Creator: Irving, Gary
Type: Photographic image
Description:Bob Betz (far right) leading group tour of Schulenberg Prairie
Charles Lewis and Sherry (Rubino) Lewis at center left
Extent: 1 photograph
Carol Doty, portrait (3.94923)
Date: 1988Creator: Irving, Gary
Type: Photographic image
Description:Photographic portrait of Carol Doty, employee of The Morton Arboretum.
Craig Johnson, portrait (3.5011)
Date: 1988Creator: Irving, Gary
Type: Photographic image
Description:Craig Johnson, portrait
Extent: 1 photograph
Dick Wason, seated portrait (3.5200)
Date: 1989Creator: Irving, Gary
Type: Photographic image
Description:Dick Wason, seated portrait
Extent: 1 photograph
Dr. Gary Watson outside, using Licor photosynthesis system (3.5203)
Creator: Irving, Gary
Type: Photographic image
Description:Dr. Gary Watson outside, using Licor brand portable photosynthesis system to study effects of root pruning on foliage growth
Extent: 1 photograph
Edge of the Marsh Pokagon State Park Indiana (3.18553)
Date: 1995Creator: Irving, Gary
Type: Photographic image
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).
Events, News, & Classes: Spring 1988 (3.113792)
Date: 1988Type: Serial
Description:A digitized version of the Spring 1988 Events, News, & Classes Newsletter. This issue features events such as the lecture "Cry Havoc! Weeds! (Part 1) and the field seminar "Spring Nature Photography in the Southern Appalachians." The judging for the 1987 Illinois Landscape Architecture Award was held at the Arboretum. The DuPage Environmental Awareness Center (DEAC) was opened to raise environmental awareness in the DuPage County region. Dr. David E. Davis, a noted mammalogist retired after a distinguished career, made a gift to the Arboretum for an endowed research chair, the Emily Rodgers Davis Chair, to accomplish research in plant-animal inter-relationships within the Arboretum and other areas of geographic interest to us.
Events, News, & Classes: Winter 1988 (3.113794)
Date: 1988Type: Serial
Description:A digitized version of the Autumn 1988 Events, News, & Classes Newsletter. This issue features events such as the lecture "Plant Diseases and Human History" and Valentine projects with pressed flowers. The decision was made to discontinue the Arboretum's maple syrup-making program due to competition from other area events. A portion of the collection was impacted by flooding. Peter Van Der Linden and Gary Irving joined the staff. A grant was received from The Cooperative College Botany Program, and Charles A. Lewis received a special award in recognition of his "outstanding contributions to the founding of the New York City Housing Authority's Garden Competition," and for continuing service to the Authority's ongoing Garden program.
Gary Irving in the field with camera equipment (3.5002)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Gary Irving in the field with camera equipment
Extent: 1 photograph
Gary Irving with camera on a trail (3.5003)
Date: 1987Type: Photographic image
Description:Gary Irving with camera on a trail
Extent: 1 photograph
Gary Irving, portrait (3.5001)
Date: 1989Type: Photographic image
Description:Gary Irving, portrait
Extent: 1 photograph
Grounds worker with lawn mower near tall grass in the fall (3.59098)
Creator: Irving, Gary
Type: Photographic image
Description:Grounds worker with lawn mower near tall grass in the fall
Extent: 1 slide
John Sosnowski working in Ground Cover Garden (3.5125)
Creator: Irving, Gary
Type: Photographic image
Description:John Sosnowski working in Ground Cover Garden, alongside Cushman parked on Ground Cover Garden path
Extent: 1 photograph
Kirsten Spravka and Gary Watson in cherry picker near crown of tree doing research (3.4538)
Date: 1990sCreator: Irving, Gary
Type: Photographic image
Description:Kirsten Spravka and Gary Watson in cherry picker near crown of tree doing research
Extent: 1 photograph
Li-Cor portable photosynthesis system in the field, measuring chlorosis (3.4537)
Date: 1980sCreator: Irving, Gary
Type: Photographic image
Description:Li-Cor portable photosynthesis system in the field, measuring chlorosis
Extent: 1 photograph
Linda Miller, portrait (3.5072)
Creator: Irving, Gary
Type: Photographic image
Description:Linda Miller, portrait
Extent: 1 photograph
Magnolia kobus var. borealis (northern Japanese magnolia), flowers and branches detail (3.63717)
Date: April 1988Creator: Irving, Gary
Type: Photographic image
Description:Magnolia kobus var. borealis (northern Japanese magnolia), section of tree showing dense branches covered with large white flowers, some petals on ground, people walking in nearby grassy area toward bare trees in background
Extent: 1 slide