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Lecture by Ray Schulenberg: The Story of The Morton Arboretum Prairie Restoration (3.31580)
Date: September 11 1987Type: Audio
Description:Lecture titled "The Story of The Morton Arboretum Prairie Restoration" given by Ray Schulenberg as part of the 25th Anniversary Celebration of The Morton Arboretum Prairie.
Extent: 1 audio cassette
Lunching & Learning with Suzette Morton Davidson: A Morton Family Album - Personal Reminiscences of the Morton Family (3.31581)
Date: January 19 1978Type: Audio
Description:Lunching and Learning program presented by Suzette Morton Davidson on the topic of Morton family history. Introduction by Charles Lewis.
Extent: 1 audio cassette
Lunching & Learning with Clarence Godshalk: Evolution of the Arboretum - From Farm to Arboretum (3.31582)
Date: January 25 1978Type: Audio
Description:Lunching and Learning program presented by Clarence Godshalk as he describes the evolution of the Arboretum, from farm land to Arboretum.
Extent: 1 audio cassette
Nature School for Teachers, May T. Watts addressing a group of teachers (3.33869)
Date: October 1939Type: Photographic image
Description:May T. Watts speaks to a large group of teachers attending her accredited 14-week course at The Morton Arboretum. The teachers are sitting and standing on a grassy area, taking notes as they listen. An approaching vehicle appears on the roadway through the trees in the background.
Extent: 1 photograph
Nature School for Teachers, May T. Watts speaking to teachers (3.33877)
Date: October 1939Type: Photographic image
Description:May T. Watts speaks to a large group of teachers attending her accredited 14-week course at The Morton Arboretum. The teachers are sitting and standing on a grassy area, taking notes as they listen. A departing vehicle appears on the roadway through the trees in the background.
Extent: 1 photograph
Nature School for Teachers, group listening to May T. Watts (3.33878)
Date: October 1939Type: Photographic image
Description:May T. Watts speaks to a large group of teachers attending her accredited 14-week course at The Morton Arboretum. The teachers are sitting and standing on a grassy area, taking notes as they listen.
Extent: 1 photograph
Nature School for Teachers, May T. Watts with large group in a clearing (3.33879)
Date: October 1939Type: Photographic image
Description:May T. Watts speaking to a large group of teachers attending her accredited 14-week course at The Morton Arboretum. The group of teachers sit and stand on a grassy area in a circle as they listen and take notes.
Extent: 1 photograph
May T. Watts conducting a class at The Morton Arboretum (3.33923)
Date: February 1960Type: Photographic image
Description:May T. Watts conducts a class at The Morton Arboretum Outpost as she holds a large-format piece of artwork depicting outlines of leaf shapes. Helen Turner is seated beside her. The class is being held in a room that appears to have a large brick fireplace with a chalkboard on its mantel.
Extent: 1 photograph
May T. Watts having a picnic lunch with her class (3.33924)
Date: March 1960Type: Photographic image
Description:May T. Watts is seated at a picnic table with a group of people taking one of her classes at The Morton Arboretum.
Extent: 1 photograph
May T. Watts teaching an art class at The Morton Arboretum (3.34045)
Date: 1940 – 1950Type: Photographic image
Description:May T. Watts teaching an outdoor art class to a group of students at The Morton Arboretum.
Extent: 1 photograph
May T. Watts, Mary Moulton, Helen Turner, Alice Goodrich, and Edna Jones with a class in the Redwood Building (3.34051)
Date: circa 1948 – 1959Type: Photographic image
Description:May T. Watts with a class in the Redwood Building at The Morton Arboretum. Helen Turner and Mary Moulton appear in the back row on the left, Alice Goodrich is in the front row wearing a hat, and Edna Jones is on the far right.
Extent: 1 slide
May T. Watts conducting a class on The Morton Arboretum grounds (3.34063)
Date: circa 1958Type: Photographic image
Description:May T. Watts surrounded by a group participating in a class on the grounds of The Morton Arboretum.
Extent: 1 slide
May T. Watts with a Wednesday morning class, observing trees (3.34082)
Date: 1952Type: Photographic image
Description:May T. Watts with participants in a Wednesday morning class observing trees at The Morton Arboretum.
Extent: 1 slide
Mothers and Children's course: Participants outdoors with May T. Watts (3.34130)
Date: 1952Type: Photographic image
Description:A group of mothers and children attend a class with May T. Watts on the grounds of The Morton Arboretum.
Extent: 1 slide
Mothers and Children's course: Participants perform with May T. Watts (3.34131)
Date: 1952Type: Photographic image
Description:A group of mothers and children attend a class with May T. Watts on the grounds of The Morton Arboretum. All of the participants are wearing headbands with feather and many also appear to be playing simple instruments, including Watts.
Extent: 1 slide
Mothers and Children's course: Participants interact with May T. Watts (3.34132)
Date: 1952Type: Photographic image
Description:A group of mothers and children attend a class with May T. Watts on the grounds of The Morton Arboretum.
Extent: 1 slide
Two workshop participants creating nature crafts (3.34138)
Date: 1952Type: Photographic image
Description:Participants in a Morton Arboretum workshop with May T. Watts create nature crafts with leaves and paint.
Extent: 1 slide
Prize-winning duck decoy (3.34358)
Date: 1960sType: Photographic image
Description:An exhibit featuring a prize-winning duck decoy on display at Thornhill Education Center. The decoy has a large red ribbon affixed to it with a single leaf image at the center and the words DIVING DUCKS printed along one side. Other words and images on the ribbon are not legible.
Below the the decoy, a label reads in part:
- - by Robert Kerr, Smiths Falls, Ontario / _ _ _ second prize in the _ _ _ _ contest in 1966.
Extent: 1 slide
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. 05 No. 01 (3.34566)
Date: March 21 – June 20 1969Type: Serial
Description:
- Gardening with Ground Cover Plants (1-5)
- Ground Covers for Northern Illinois (6-13)
- Saucer Magnolia, Magnolia soulangiana: Magnolia Family (Magnoliaceae) (14-15)
- Climatological Summary/Arboretum News and Notes (16)
Extent: 16 pages
The Morton Arboretum Quarterly V. 08 No. 02 (3.34578)
Date: June 21 – September 20 1972Type: Serial
Description:
- Ropes on the Fox (17-22)
- In Memoriam: Mary K. Moulton 1913-1972 (23-24)
- Hortus Botanicus: the Botanic Garden & the Book (24)
- Adventures Afield: A Brief History (25-26)
- Field Course in the Rocky Mountains (27-29, 32)
- Sugar Maple, Acer saccharum: Maple Family (Aceraceae) (30-31)
- Climatological Summary (32)
Extent: 16 pages
The Morton Arboretum Quarterly V. 08 No. 04 (3.34580)
Date: December 21 1972 – March 20 1973Type: Serial
Description:
- A Taste of Wilderness: Arboretum Teens Explore the Manistee (49-53)
- Notes from the Sterling Morton Library (54-55)
- Arboretum News and Notes (56)
- Climatological Summary (56)
- Charles C. Deam (1865-1953): An Uncommon Common Man (57-58)
- Excerpts from Letters written by Charles Clemon Deam to Floyd Swink between 1947 and 1951 with comments by Floyd Swink (59-62)
- Floyd Swink: Typist Turned Taxonomist (62-64)
Extent: 16 pages
Lowell Kammerer instructing Arboretum landscape class (3.3554)
Date: 1950sType: Photographic image
Description:Lowell Kammerer instructing Arboretum landscape class
Extent: 1 slide
Tussie Mussie at a Lunch and Learning program (3.36036)
Date: 1975Type: Photographic image
Description:A close-up view of a woman holding a Tussie Mussie while attending a Lunch and Learning program in the dining room at The Morton Arboretum.
Extent: 1 photograph
Lowell Kammerer instructing in Landscape Model class (3.37635)
Date: 1940sType: Photographic image
Description:Lowell Kammerer instructing in Landscape Model class
Extent: 1 photograph
Late summer art class at lily pond near Administration Building (3.3952)
Date: 1986Type: Photographic image
Description:Late summer art class at lily pond near Administration Building, women sketching near pond
Extent: 1 photograph
Late summer art class at lily pond near Administration Building (3.3953)
Date: 1986Type: Photographic image
Description:Late summer art class at lily pond near Administration Building, women sketching near pond, Nancy Hart standing over student to the left
Extent: 1 photograph
Education class walking in the woods, led by Kris Bachtell and Karla Patterson (3.4071)
Date: 1985Creator: Kohout, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Education class walking in the woods, led by Kris Bachtell (left) and Karla Patterson (center)
Extent: 1 photograph
Bill Hess and class in Botany Lab examining specimens (3.4073)
Date: 1987Creator: Brown, Ray
Type: Photographic image
Description:Bill Hess and class in Botany Lab examining specimens with microscopes
Extent: 1 photograph
Craig Johnson speaking to Education Guides about Thornhill restoration (3.4076)
Date: 1992Type: Photographic image
Description:Craig Johnson speaking to Education Guides about Thornhill restoration
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 with Junior Forestry class outdoors (3.4079)
Date: 1952Type: Photographic image
Description:May Watts with Junior Forestry class outdoors
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
Alice Burkman leading school group of children (3.4126)
Date: 1970sType: Photographic image
Description:Alice Burkman leading school group of children
Extent: 1 photograph
Guest speakers, Chris Whelan and Rita Mesquita, in the Research Building (3.4278)
Date: 1990Type: Photographic image
Description:Guest speakers for Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazonia, Chris Whelan and Rita Mesquita (University of Georgia), in the Research Building
Lecture topics of guest speakers: 1)Natural History on the Amazon Basin 2) The Reproductive Biology of Clusia Grandiflora
Extent: 1 photograph