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.
1996/09/06: B & B to George Ware (3.38223)
Date: September 6 1996Type: Document
Description:Note congratulating George Ware on receiving the Hutchinson Society Medal. The note is signed with the initials B & B and is on stationary from J.C. Brenton of Des Moines, Iowa.
Extent: 1 sheet
Meadow Lake Reconstruction (3.6723)
Date: 1990sCreator: Mehaffey, Scott A.
Type: Plan
Description:Sheet 1 - scope drawing; Sheet 2 - site context
Extent: 2 sheets
Visitor Center Landscape Improvements (3.32005)
Date: May 7 1996Creator: Mehaffey, Scott A.
Type: Plan
Extent: 1 sheet
Green Nature, Human Nature book signing in Sterling Morton Library, George Ware speaking to Gary Watson and Gerry Donnelly in the May T. Watts Reading Garden (3.4183)
Date: May – June 1996Type: Photographic image
Description:Green Nature, Human Nature book signing in Sterling Morton Library, George Ware speaking to Gary Watson and Gerry Donnelly in the May T. Watts Reading Garden
(L to R): Gerry Donnelly, Gary Watson, George Ware
Extent: 1 photograph
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
Green Nature, Human Nature book signing in Sterling Morton Library, Charles Lewis signing books for guests in May T. Watts Reading Garden (3.4168)
Date: May – June 1996Type: Photographic image
Description:Green Nature, Human Nature book signing in Sterling Morton Library, Charles Lewis signing books for guests in May T. Watts Reading Garden
(L to R): Ann Grimes, Rhonda Snelson, Charles Lewis (seated)
Extent: 1 photograph
1996/10/04: George Ware to Dirk Lohan (3.47518)
Date: October 4 1996Creator: Ware, George
Type: Document
Description:Letter from George Ware to Dirk Lohan discussing Arthurn Nolan Jr.'s interest in the elm hybrid Danada. Mr. Ware states that he will make available 15 Danada elms for the spring planting season.
Extent: 1 sheet
Urban Forestry Laboratory Exercises for Elementary, Middle and High School Students (3.57669)
Date: 1996Creator: Watson, Gary W., Cave, Joseph, Dwyer, John F.
Type: Book
1996/10/18: George Ware to Carl Niermann (3.47519)
Date: October 18 1996Creator: Ware, George
Type: Document
Description:Letter from George Ware to Carl Niermann discussing the condition of the oak trees on his property and the death of one due to increased soil wetness.
Extent: 1 sheet
The Morton Arboretum Quarterly V. 31 No. 04 (3.34561)
Date: December 21 1995 – March 20 1996Type: Serial
Extent: 16 pages
1996/05/03: George Ware to Robert E. Schutzki (3.55936)
Date: May 3 1996Creator: Ware, George
Type: Document
Description:Fax cover sheet and plant breeding abstract from George Ware to Dr. Robert E. Schutzki of Michigan State University concerning elm breeding and improvement at The Morton Arboretum.
Extent: 2 sheets
Summer or wood duck = Anas sponsa. L. (3.29192)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Audubon, John James, 1785-1851.
Type: Painting
Extent: 1 print : commercial reproduction, color image 74 x 49 cm., on sheet 82 x 56 cm.
Members' Cooperative Research Program, Alice Burkman assisting with plant pickup in Research basement (3.47551)
Date: 1990sType: Photographic image
Description:Members' Cooperative Research Program, Alice Burkman assisting with plant pickup in Research basement
Extent: 1 photograph
1996/10/22: Larry Thompson to Raymond Brand (3.56339)
Date: October 22 1996Creator: Thompson, Larry
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Larry Thompson of Wheaton College to Raymond Brand inquiring if he has any knowledge regarding the theory that trees can serve as a barrier to the spread of communicable disease.
The letter contains a handwritten note to Arboretum staff asking for their input, and a handwritten note from Michael Stieber to Ray Brand suggesting he consult an abstract which is no longer with the original document.
Extent: 1 sheet
Group of men and women around table in birding class. Tom Simpson, Arboretum staff member, seated at table. (3.44217)
Date: 1990sType: Photographic image
Description:Group of men and women around table in birding class
Extent: 1 photograph
Existing Conditions and Master Site Plan (3.7055)
Date: 1996Creator: Johnson, Johnson & Roy, Inc.
Type: Plan
Extent: 1 sheet
Bur Oak, Quercus macrocarpa: Beech Family (Fagaceae) (3.11097)
Date: December 21 1995 – March 20 1996Creator: Tyznik, Anthony
Type: Article
Rare Plant Monitoring at Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore as part of "Science and Ecosystem Management in the National Parks" (3.57632)
Date: 1996Creator: Bowles, Marlin L., Halvorson, W. L., Davis, G. E.
Type: Book
Description:The digitized document in this record is the chapter: Rare Plant Monitoring at Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, which is a part of the book "Science and Ecosystem Management in the National Parks".
Meadow Lake Reconstruction [highlighted sections] (3.7095)
Date: 1990sCreator: Mehaffey, Scott A.
Type: Plan
Description:Sheet 1 - scope drawing; Sheet 2 - site context
Contains areas highlighted in marker.
Extent: 2 sheets
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
The Morton Arboretum, Chicagoland's Garden of Trees (3.6299)
Date: 1996Creator: Johnson, Johnson & Roy, Inc.
Type: Map
Description:Map of The Morton Arboretum with explanations for The Master Site Plan and proposed changes in structures, roads, collections, and trails.
Extent: 1 sheet
Ground Cover Garden (conceptual drawing for garden renovation) (3.7130)
Date: circa 1996Creator: Mehaffey, Scott A.
Type: Plan
Description:One photo with a graphite on trace overlay of a conceptual drawing for a Ground Cover Garden renovation.
Extent: 2 sheets
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
Research crew operating a hydropneumatic elutriation root washing system in laboratory (3.4497)
Date: 1990sCreator: Kohout, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Research crew operating a hydropneumatic elutriation root washing system in laboratory
L to R: Web Crowley, Tony Sanda (volunteer), Gary Watson, Jack Dieckmann (volunteer)
Extent: 1 photograph
Elm hybridization, bags on trees, George Ware research project (3.4503)
Date: 1990sCreator: Nachel, Jim
Type: Photographic image
Description:Elm hybridization, bags on trees, George Ware research project
Extent: 1 photograph
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
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
1996/11/11: Zhang Qinghua to George Ware (3.37851)
Date: November 11 1996Creator: Qinghua, Zhang
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Zhang Qinghua to George Ware thanking him for money received and discussing seed lot germination, seed collection for Ulmus, as well as praising his success in experiments and his paper: Little Known Elms from China.
Extent: 1 sheet
1996/03/22: Lorenzo Mittempergher to George Ware (3.39945)
Date: March 22 1996Creator: Mittempergher, Lorenzo
Type: Document
Description:A letter from Lorenzo Mittemphergher, an elm breeder from the Insituto di Patalogia e Zoologia Forestale e Agraria in Firenze, Italy. The letter requests Ulmus seed from trees in the Arboretum, and references an enclosed article he co-authored, "Elm Yellows A Disease To Be Taken Into Consideration When Breeding Elm For Disease Resistance" published in the 8th Congress of the Mediterranean Phytopathological Union, Agadir - Morocco, 1990. There are also handwritten notes on a notepad listing several varieties of Ulmus.
Extent: 4 sheets, 1 notepad
David E. Davis, donor of Emily Rodgers Davis Chair, with Chris Whelan (3.4512)
Date: 1990sType: Photographic image
Description:David Davis, donor of Emily Rodgers Davis Chair, with Chris Whelan
Extent: 1 photograph
Kris Bachtell and Patti Jelen shoveling soil over newly planted tree at Arbor Day employee tree planting (3.55667)
Date: April 1996Creator: Hootman, Rick
Type: Photographic image
Description:Kris Bachtell and Patti Jelen shoveling soil over newly planted tree at Arbor Day employee tree planting. George Ware far left, Peter van der Linden in green hat, Carol Doty in beige jacket, Becky Monroe in blue jacket.
Extent: 1 slide
Hen turkey and young : a study in miniature of plate 6 of the Elephant folio reproduced from the original drawing. (3.31121)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Audubon, John James, 1785-1851.
Type: Painting
Extent: 1 print : commercial reproduction, color 30 x 21 cm.
The Care of Trees giving The Morton Arboretum a check for Dr. Gary Watson's research on roots (3.4060)
Date: 1990sType: Photographic image
Description:The Care of Trees giving The Morton Arboretum a check for Dr. Gary Watson's research on roots
(L to R): Larry Hall (Vice President, The Care of Trees), Gary Watson, Gerry Donnelly
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