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.
The Morton Arboretum Quarterly V. 26 No. 04 (3.34537)
Date: December 21 1990 – March 20 1991Type: Serial
Extent: 16 pages
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
1991/03/08: George H. Ware to Qing-Ru Zhao [sic] (3.65625)
Date: March 8 1991Creator: Ware, George
Type: Document
Description:Letter from George H. Ware of The Morton Arboretum to Qing-Ru Zhao [sic] extending an invitation to conduct cooperative research and translation services with The Morton Arboretum.
Extent: 1 sheet
The Morton Arboretum Quarterly V. 27 No. 01 (3.34538)
Date: March 21 – June 20 1991Type: Serial
Extent: 16 pages
Recent and Proposed Conservation Projects of The Morton Arboretum (3.5891)
Date: January 1991Creator: Hootman, Rick
Type: Map
Description:Map developed for a grant proposal to the Institute of Museum Services (IMS).
Includes key for proposed project areas, recent projects identifies areas of open water and marsh.
Proposed Project Areas: 1)Fischer Research Tract 2) Pin Oak Collection 3) Planted Berms 4) Honey Locust, Green Ash, Tulip Tree, American Elm Collections
Recent Projects: Conservation Nursery (1984), Ecosystems Survey (1985), East Woods, Prairie, Soil Survey (1986)
Extent: 1 sheet
Resume, visit extension, and other documents relating to visiting researcher Qingru Zhao (Chinju Chao) Associate Professor, Senior Forestry Researcher (3.65634)
Date: circa 1991Type: Document
Description:A set of documents primarily consisting of a resume, academic credentials, and application to extend a visa for visiting graduate student Qingru Zhao with The Morton Arboretum.
Extent: 11 sheets
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
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
The Morton Arboretum Quarterly V. 27 No. 03 (3.34540)
Date: September 21 – December 20 1991Type: Serial
Extent: 16 pages
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
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
The Morton Arboretum Quarterly V. 27 No. 04 (3.34541)
Date: December 21 1991 – March 20 1992Type: Serial
Extent: 16 pages
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
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.
Lakeside Daisy near Endangered Species area (3.4475)
Date: 1991Creator: Nachel, Jim
Type: Photographic image
Description:Lakeside Daisy near Endangered Species area
Extent: 1 photograph
Conservation Project Support: Final Performance Report, Institute of Museum Services (3.67140)
Date: May 31 1991Creator: Donnelly, Gerard T.
Type: Document
Description:Final Services Report to the Institute of Museum Services from the Morton Arboretum for conservation project support. The report contains a project description, participants, and a financial status report.
Extent: 9 sheets
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
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
Research intern banding a bird for Chris Whelan bird population study (3.4504)
Date: 1991Creator: Nachel, Jim
Type: Photographic image
Description:Research intern banding a bird for Chris Whelan bird population study
Extent: 1 photograph
1991/05/28: George Ware to Dr. Donnelly (3.56105)
Date: May 28 1991Creator: Ware, George
Type: Document
Description:Memo from George Ware to Dr. Donnelly discussing suggested routes for a bike path through The Morton Arboretum.
Extent: 1 sheet
The Morton Arboretum Annual Report, 1991 (3.67158)
Date: 1991Type: Serial
Description:This Annual Report reviews the achievements and progress of work at The Morton Arboretum during 1991.
This document can be viewed digitally or in-person. To make an in-person appointment or to request digital access, contact the Sterling Morton Library staff by following the link here.
Extent: 38 pages
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.
Acer pensylvanicum (striped maple), bark (3.38046)
Date: July 1991Creator: Nachel, Jim
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer pensylvanicum (striped maple), closeup detail of smooth green bark with vertical white stripes
Extent: 1 slide
The Care of Trees giving The Morton Arboretum a check for Dr. Gary Watson's research on roots (3.4061)
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
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
1991/10/04: George Ware to Suzanne Malec (3.56304)
Date: October 4 1991Creator: Ware, George
Type: Document
Description:Facsimile of an abstract and research paper sent to Suzanne Malec of the Open Land Project. The paper, Trees for Restricted Spaces was written by George Ware and discusses the genetic, topographic, and edaphic factors to take into consideration when selecting urban trees.
Extent: 8 sheets
Dilip Das teaching youth outdoors (3.32240)
Date: 1991Creator: Nachel, Jim
Type: Photographic image
Description:Dilip Das teaching youth outdoors
Extent: 1 photograph
1991/11/07: Robert D. Marquard to George Ware (3.38227)
Date: November 7 1991Creator: Marquard, Robert D.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Robert D. Marquard of The Holden Arboretum to George Ware thanking him for his pleasant experience visiting The Morton Arboretum and interacting with the plant exploration consortium, Tom Elias, and the research staff.
Extent: 1 sheet
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
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
1991/05/31: Gao Ren to George Ware (3.38233)
Date: May 31 1991Creator: Ren, Gao
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Gao Ren to George Ware thanking him for the book "Ecosystem Management for Parks and Wilderness", his visit to ShanXi, and informing him that he will be sending him seeds.
Extent: 2 sheets
Kirsten Spravka and Gary Watson in cherry picker doing research near crown of tree (3.4539)
Date: 1990sType: Photographic image
Description:Kirsten Spravka and Gary Watson in cherry picker doing research near crown of tree
Extent: 1 photograph