Aerial Photograph of The Morton Arboretum [with collections grid superimposed] (3.5800)
Date: circa 1977Type: Map
Extent: 1 sheet
Magnolia acuminata (cucumbertree), detail of bark and bud (3.63694)
Date: April 1978Creator: Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:Magnolia acuminata (cucumbertree), split image: on the top, a close-up detail of bark that is gray-brown in color and furrowed with straight, flat-topped ridges; on the bottom, a close-up detail of a single large bud, silky gray in color and blunt-tipped.
Extent: 1 slide
Celtis occidentalis (hackberry), fruit and leaves detail (3.64025)
Date: April 1978Creator: Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:Celtis occidentalis (hackberry), closeup of reddish-brown berry-like drupes with longs stalks attached at end of leafstalks, and showing pale green underleaf and broad uneven base of simple green, toothed leaves with pointed tips
Extent: 1 slide
Morton Arboretum [Geographical Group - Balkan, Caucasus, Chinese - tree planting plan , surviving plants in 1978] (3.6581)
Date: circa 1978Creator: Teuscher, Henry
Type: Plan
Description:Photocopy of landscape plan for the area bordering the DuPage River in the eastern portion of the Arboretum, including Geographical Groups "Balkan, Kaukasus, Northern & Eastern China, Western China, Tamarack Swamp, Taxodium Swamp, Woods of the valley of the Amour=River (Sibiria)"
Includes notations identifying what plants from the original planting plan are "alive in 1978"
Extent: 1 sheet
The Lookout (3.10642)
Date: September 21 – December 20 1972Type: Article
small ceramic container with brown under glazed and windblown tree design (3.19833)
Date: 1970sCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Ceramic
Description:small ceramic container with brown under glazed and windblown tree design
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
Larch trees camouflaging power towers near Puffer Lake (3.31909)
Date: January 1972Type: Photographic image
Description:Early plantings of larch near Puffer Lake help camouflage power towers. Rare Kentucky coffee-tree appears in the upper portion of the photo.
Extent: 1 negative
Aerial view of Arbor Lodge (3.3290)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Savage, John S.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Aerial view of Arbor Lodge
Extent: 1 photograph
The Morton Arboretum Quarterly V. 11 No. 02 (3.34472)
Date: June 21 – September 20 1975Type: Serial
Description:
- “Nature City”: Translating the Natural Environment into Urban Language (17-22)
- American Plants in Porcelain Sculpture (23-25)
- I Loved a Frog Pond (26-27)
- Exploring a Pond in summer… (28-29)
- Flowering Dogwood, Cornus florida: Dogwood Family (Cornaceae) (30-31)
- People and Projects/ Climatological Summary (32)
Extent: 16 pages
The Morton Arboretum Quarterly V. 15 No. 01 (3.34488)
Date: March 21 – June 20 1979Type: Serial
Extent: 16 pages
The Morton Arboretum Quarterly V. 09 No. 01 (3.34581)
Date: March 21 – June 20 1973Type: Serial
Description:
- Shall we Have an Out-of-Doors or an Indoor Civilization? : Shall we Plant Trees or Build Buildings? (1-6)
- Trees Are Forever—We Hope (7-9)
- Planting the Centennial Grove (10-11)
- At the Feeder (12-13)
- Persimmon, Diospyros virginiana: Ebony Family (Ebenaceae) (14-15)
- Arboretum News and Notes (16)
- Climatological Summary (16)
Extent: 16 pages
Populus deltoides (eastern cottonwood), dangling fruit clusters (3.37701)
Date: June 1972Creator: Kohout, John, Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:Populus deltoides (eastern cottonwood), detail of two fruit clusters with green, large and slightly pointed capsules dangling from single twig with green leaves
Extent: 1 slide
Acer saccharinum (silver maple), branches hanging over river (3.37900)
Date: March 1977Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer saccharinum (silver maple), DuPage River seen through the branches of a silver maple tree in early spring, branches are mostly bare except for buds developing on twigs
Extent: 1 slide
Acer saccharum (sugar maple), twig and buds (3.37940)
Date: March 1973Creator: Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer saccharum (sugar maple), closeup detail of typical pale brown twig with pointed brownish buds
Extent: 1 slide
Acer saccharum (sugar maple), habit (3.38008)
Date: November 1973Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer saccharum (sugar maple), seen from a distance, full view of tree habit with typical evenly-proportioned egg shape and dense green foliage; tree is situated on open grassy grounds near a gravel path and Meadow Lake near Visitor Center with other trees visible in the background
Extent: 1 slide
Acer platanoides (Norway maple), flowers (3.38072)
Date: April 1971Creator: Kohout, John, Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer platanoides (Norway maple), closeup detail of hanging twig with buds blooming into bright yellow-green flowers clusters
Extent: 1 slide
Acer rubrum (red maple), flowers (3.38137)
Date: April 1976Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer rubrum (red maple), closeup detail of male flower (left) with long stamens extending beyond the pink and yellow petals and pollen on the anthers; and female flower (right) a deep red color with stigma extending out from petals
Extent: 1 slide
Acer spicatum (mountain maple), bark and leaves (3.38193)
Date: May 1977Creator: Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer spicatum (mountain maple), partial view of bark that is slightly grooved and dull brown in color, with dark green leaves that are 3-lobed and heart-shaped at the base
Extent: 1 slide
Arbor Day Centennial, tree planting, Alfred Etter at microphone speaking to crowd (3.38510)
Date: April 22 1972Creator: Beasley, Michael
Type: Photographic image
Description:Arbor Day Centennial, tree planting, Alfred Etter at microphone speaking to crowd
Extent: 1 negative
Arbor Day Centennial, tree planting, Tony Tyznik at microphone speaking to crowd (3.38526)
Date: April 22 1972Creator: Beasley, Michael
Type: Photographic image
Description:Arbor Day Centennial, tree planting, Tony Tyznik at microphone speaking to crowd
Extent: 1 negative
Arbor Day Centennial, afternoon program, Clarence Godshalk at podium speaking to guests seated in tent (3.38562)
Date: April 22 1972Creator: Beasley, Michael
Type: Photographic image
Description:Arbor Day Centennial, afternoon program, Clarence Godshalk at podium speaking to guests seated in tent
Extent: 1 negative
Quercus muehlenbergii (chinkapin oak), section of crown (3.47365)
Date: May 1977Creator: Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:Quercus muehlenbergii (chinkapin oak), section of crown showing contorted branches covered with mostly green leaves and some yellow-brown leaves near trunk, amongst trees in background
Extent: 1 slide
Walking Trails of The Morton Arboretum [base map with trails and landmarks identified] (3.5801)
Date: 1977Creator: Coulter, Ronald M.
Type: Map
Description:Base map with landmarks, trails, parking, collections, etc. identified on map. Additional clear plastic overlay outlines various trails and possible new trails with red and green marker.
Extent: 2 sheets
Carya ovata (shagbark hickory), fruit and bark detail (3.64040)
Date: April 1978Creator: Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:Carya ovata (shagbark hickory), two separate images detailing sections of fruit and trunk, top showing close-up of fragments of fruit with nuts in cross-sections revealing thick fruit husk, ribbed nut, hollow nut shell, nuts and whole seed, and bottom image of mature bark in long flat plates with outwardly curving ends
Extent: 1 slide
Stage 6 of 7 of Seed Maturation: Abies fraseri Poir. (Fraser’s fir), pine cone seed maturation (3.81590)
Date: October 1974Type: Photographic image
Description:Abies fraseri Poir sp. (Fraser’s fir); stage 7 of 7, pine cone seed maturation; one of 5 cones is only a remnant bare stalk, the other cones have opened up and seeds flattening
Extent: 1 slide
Abrus precatorius (rosary pea), leaves, seeds, pods (3.81647)
Date: December 1972Creator: Reynolds, P. J.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Abrus precatorius (rosary pea,) leaves-alternate, petioled, pinately compound, open pods, red seeds with black spot.
Extent: 1 slide
small ceramic gray vase with brown under glaze with row of pansies around vase, bulb-shaped with narrow rim (3.19851)
Date: 1970sCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Ceramic
Description:small ceramic gray vase with brown under glaze with row of pansies around vase, bulb-shaped with narrow rim
Malus sylvestrus = Crab apple / AO Dowden. (3.29538)
Date: 1971Creator: Dowden, Anne Ophelia, 1907-2007
Type: Painting
Extent: 1 art reproduction : half-tone, color 33 x 26 cm.
Puffer Lake with cattails in foreground (3.31910)
Date: January 1972Type: Photographic image
Description:Puffer Lake Bird Sanctuary retains some of its birds, cattails, and water, but power lines dominate the scenery.
Extent: 1 negative
The Morton Arboretum Quarterly V. 11 No. 03 (3.34473)
Date: September 21 – December 20 1975Type: Serial
Description:
- The Rose: Plant and Symbol (33-37)
- Reading May Watts (38-41)
- Wild Plum, Prunus americana: Rose Family (Rosaceae) (42-43)
- The Origin of Halloween (44-45)
- People & Projects/ Climatological Summary (46-47)
- Autumn (48)
Extent: 16 pages
The Morton Arboretum Quarterly V. 15 No. 02 (3.34489)
Date: June 21 – September 20 1979Type: Serial
Extent: 16 pages
The Morton Arboretum Quarterly V. 09 No. 02 (3.34582)
Date: June 21 – September 20 1973Type: Serial
Extent: 16 pages
May T. Watts with Tony Tyznik (3.36045)
Date: July 25 1975Type: Photographic image
Description:May T. Watts appears to be speaking to Tony Tyznik, who is pictured on the right.
Extent: 1 photograph
Platanus occidentalis (sycamore), bud at end of twig (3.37406)
Date: January 1974Creator: Skupien, L.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Platanus occidentalis (sycamore), detail of shiny, dark brown bud and scar at end of single twig
Extent: 1 slide