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Arboretum Landscape Teaching Aid Series: An Old Bridge (3.19501)
Date: 1940 – 1960Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Primarily textual teaching aid depicting Arboretum landscape. This material describes a bridge that was left on what are now the Arboretum grounds, as well as part of the story of the Morton Arboretum's origins.
[Illustration of the bridge] Header: AN OLD BRIDGE was left behind when the HIGHWAY cut through [illustration of the highway]
Text and illustrations from top to bottom:
- [Depicted in stylized scroll] The Record: The old bridge still bears a plate with the date. It rested for many years. Now the Arboretum uses it. (but No Buses, please)
- Interpreting the record: The old bridge must have served many a surrey, and hayrack, and cattle being driven to market, and horses going to the Saturday Horse Fair at Naperville. This was the bridge that Joy Morton crossed on the day of the event described here [to the right of this text is pasted material from the May 1952 "Service Bulletin," Vol. 21, No. 2, including the front cover illustration depicting an antique vehicle and two men putting out a brush fire and partial text describing how Joy Morton found the location where he had his home Thornhill built.]
Extent: 1 sheet
Bridge and dam across DuPage River (west branch) (3.2979)
Date: 1950sCreator: Miller, W. L.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Bridge and dam across DuPage River (west branch)
Bridge and dam with gates designed by Clarence Godshalk to control water level of Lake Jopamaca.
Replaced the artificial concrete & stone rapids built in 1930's. This bridge/gate taken out around 1980
Extent: 1 photograph
Wooden bridge covered in snow over DuPage River dam (3.33571)
Date: 1958Type: Photographic image
Description:Wooden bridge covered in snow over DuPage River dam
Extent: 1 negative
Wooden bridge across DuPage River dam in winter (3.33572)
Date: 1958Type: Photographic image
Description:Wooden bridge across DuPage River dam in winter
Extent: 1 negative
DuPage River foam at sluice gates reaching top of footbridge (3.33993)
Date: October 1957Type: Photographic image
Description:DuPage River foam at sluice gates reaching top of footbridge
Extent: 1 negative
DuPage River foam at sluice gates and footbridge (3.33995)
Date: October 1957Type: Photographic image
Description:DuPage River foam at sluice gates and footbridge
Extent: 1 negative