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1962/06/14: Homer Buck to Clarence Godshalk (3.107137)
Date: June 14 1962Creator: Godshalk, Clarence E.
Type: Document
Description:A letter from Homer Buck, associate aquatic biologist with the State Natural History Survey Division in Urbana, regarding its stocking of fish in Lake Marmo and sampling of the fish population in Arbor Lake. the document spells out the success (or failure) of the project and potential next steps for the following year. Clarence Godshalk's brief reply is also included. A single page with the stocking of largemouth bass and brown bullheads is included in Buck's letter.
Extent: 4 pages
Two plans for The Morton Arboretum, Sterling Morton Library Reading Garden (3.24603)
Date: 1962Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Two sketched horseshoe-shaped plans for the Sterling Morton Library Reading Garden, including suggestions for planting, furniture, exposures, layout and features.
Center text between the two sketches: An impractical plan for an an outdoor reading room adjoining the new library - no scale - M.T. Watts fecit
Bottom right corner text below Plan #2: Any exposure - M.T. Watts suggestor demeritus
Plan #1 suggestions:
- Grass throughout
- Along south side of garden:
- Library
- Eye of the librarian watching over entire garden
- Seat in the sun and for a cold day on both sides of the glass doors
- Circular platform with 2 steps going into garden so that there can be a lecture platform
- Espaliered Pears for the walls on both sides of the glass doors
- Along east side of garden
- Book tree - expendable, paper-bound books for free browsing
- Some tall things to make long shadows in the afternoon
- Table for small group
- Along west side of garden
- White pine to say "Sh..." for the librarian
- Sweetbrier rose to make smell of applesauce
- Wall with perhaps some niches, and /or some good tiles
- Seats connected by small tables but no togetherness
- Book tree - expendable, paper-bound books for free browsing
- Along north side of garden
- Thorny things
- Wall fountain dribbling quietly
- Mossy north wall with ferns at its base
Text at top of plan: I like this better (one can read in the rain)
- Wall lining entire garden
- Cloister - walk along wall lining entire garden - paved old brick? (detailed sketch of interior below garden sketch, including books for browsers and vine)
- Along south side of garden:
- Wall fountain in the shape of a lion's head drooling contentedly
- Doors to Library on both sides of the wall fountain
- Along east side of garden:
- Ground covers
- Vine
- Along west side of garden
- Ground covers
- Vine
- 1 step up
- Along north side of garden
- Steps on both sides to make raised platform for book talks
- Beech tree because books are all named for it
- Ferns under beech tree
Extent: 1 sheet
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
Plan for The Morton Arboretum, Sterling Morton Library Reading Garden-north end (3.24634)
Date: 1962Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Sketches of plans for the north-facing end of the Sterling Morton Library Reading Garden showing a wall, tables and chairs, book tree and pool. Also includes suggestions for planting.
Sketches divided into 3 sections:
Section 1: Sketch of sitting area with roof along north-end garden wall
Notations written:
- Above left side of roof: An inconspicuous prism to throw a rainbow into the garden occasionally
- Above chair: gray painted aluminum
- Next to pole for roof support: iron
- Next to right side of roof: The white pine outside the wall has wind chimes somewhere in its branches
- Above side view of roof sketch: slate (or tin) wall
- Below sketch of sitting area: The north-facing end of the Reading Garden??
Notations written:
- Far left of the book tree sketch: The sunny wall at the other end could have a wall fountain, and a mobile hung from a tree to make interesting moving shadows, - or espaliered pears
- Just below book shelves on the left: sectional to allow for tree growth
- To the right of top portion of tree (above shelving): Not a honey locust Not a pin oak [crossed out]
- Next to top right of shelving: concealed shades for rain
- Next to bottom right of shelving: hooks for shades
Notations written:
- Far top left corner: pine
- Top left next to bench and table: ferns
- Far bottom left corner: sweetbrier roses to send the smell of new summer applesauce into the garden
- Next to bottom middle planting area across from pool: Poison Ivy [crossed out] Euonymus planting to keep people away from the opening, and for fall color
- Above top right corner: Plantsmen tile strip all around wall
Extent: 1 sheet
Suggestion for The Morton Arboretum, Sterling Morton Library Reading Garden wall (3.24635)
Date: 1962Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Sketch of proposed Sterling Morton Library Reading Garden wall with tiles near the top featuring the names of prominent botanical figures alternating with tiles featuring different plants.
Text written in bottom left corner:
A suggestion for a row of tiles as a part of the wall of the Reading Garden. Probably they should be soft tan with the picture tiles in black and the name in a red-brown?
Five names on tiles alongside plant tiles toward top of wall:
Carolus Linnaeus
Andre Michaux
Pierre Joseph Redouté
Le Notre
Kristian Konrad Sprengel
Extent: 1 sheet
Owl Pellets Galore (3.24640)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Document
Description:Four pages of type-written text for Owl Pellets Galore by May Theilgaard Watts, an account detailing the process of searching for and examining long-eared owl pellets with Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts.
Accompanied by artwork titled Under the Roost of the Long-Eared Owls.
Extent: 4 sheets
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
Three Seasons of Bloom in the Prairie (3.24642)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustration of 23 prairie plants shown in a chart formation categorized by Fall, Summer, and Spring from top to bottom, and from high prairie to low prairie from left to right. Identifying text appears beneath each illustration, some of which is on strip of board attached to the bottom with tape.
Header: THREE SEASONS of BLOOM in the PRAIRIE
Text, top right: the individual plants represent colonies of varying sizes
Plants as depicted from top to bottom, left to right:
- Fall
- big bluestem
- blazing star
- Indian grass
- wild rye
- switch grass
- saw-toothed sunflower
- prairie dock
- cord grass
- Summer
- lead plant
- New Jersey tea
- flowering spurge
- stiff goldenrod
- black-eyed Susan
- Culver's root
- tall meadow rue
- Sullivant's milkweed
- Spring:
- bird's-foot violet
- blue-eyed grass
- puccoon
- downy phlox
- wild strawberry
- Canada anemone
- yellow star grass
Extent: 1 sheet
Bulletin of Popular Information V. 37 Index (3.32685)
Date: December 1962Type: Serial
Description:
- Index Volume 37
Extent: 8 pages
Bulletin of Popular Information V. 37 No. 01 (3.32686)
Date: January 1962Creator: Kammerer, E. Lowell
Type: Serial
Description:
- Twelve Desirable Native Woody Plants Of Milder Climates Which Have Proved Reliably Hardy At The Morton Arboretum
Extent: 6 pages
Bulletin of Popular Information V. 37 No. 02-03 (3.32687)
Date: February – March 1962Creator: Kammerer, E. Lowell
Type: Serial
Description:
- Coniferous Evergreens, Landscape Indispensables
Extent: 12 pages
Bulletin of Popular Information V. 37 No. 04 (3.32688)
Date: April 1962Creator: Kammerer, E. Lowell
Type: Serial
Description:
- Some Deciduous Trees Whose Winter Interest Is Immune To Climatic Vagaries
Extent: 4 pages
Bulletin of Popular Information V. 37 No. 05 (3.32689)
Date: May 1962Creator: Kammerer, E. Lowell
Type: Serial
Description:
- The Shrubs Of Spring
Extent: 6 pages
Bulletin of Popular Information V. 37 No. 06 (3.32690)
Date: June 1962Creator: Kammerer, E. Lowell
Type: Serial
Description:
- Cotoneasters
Extent: 4 pages
Bulletin of Popular Information V. 37 No. 07 (3.32691)
Date: July 1962Creator: Kammerer, E. Lowell
Type: Serial
Description:
- Spireas
Extent: 4 pages
Bulletin of Popular Information V. 37 No. 08 (3.32692)
Date: August 1962Creator: Kammerer, E. Lowell
Type: Serial
Description:
- Trees Of The Morton Arboretum (Deciduous) XIV
Extent: 4 pages
Bulletin of Popular Information V. 37 No. 09 (3.32693)
Date: September 1962Creator: Kammerer, E. Lowell
Type: Serial
Description:
- More Low Growing Woody Plants For Consideration
Extent: 4 pages
Bulletin of Popular Information V. 37 No. 10 (3.32694)
Date: October 1962Creator: Kammerer, E. Lowell
Type: Serial
Description:
- Mountain Ashes (Sorbus)
Extent: 6 pages
Bulletin of Popular Information V. 37 No. 11-12 (3.32695)
Date: November – December 1962Creator: Kammerer, E. Lowell
Type: Serial
Description:
- A Garden Of Flowering Trees For Continuous Bloom
Extent: 8 pages
[Sterling Morton Library Studies] (3.5458)
Date: circa 1962Type: Plan
Description:Floor plans and projected exterior and interior layouts of the Sterling Morton Library.
Extent: 5 sheets, stapled
A Proposed Septic System for Gate House, The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, Illinois (3.5461)
Date: 1960sCreator: Tyznik, Anthony
Type: Plan
Extent: 1 sheet
Plan of Director's Residence, Morton Arboretum (3.5493)
Date: 1960sCreator: Godshalk, Clarence E.
Type: Plan
Description:Structure built in southwestern portion of the Arboretum for Clarence.E. Godshalk as a retirement home.
Extent: 6 sheets stapled
House for Mrs. Suzette Morton Zurcher, Lisle, Illinois [contract set] (3.5507)
Date: March 1962Creator: Arthur Myhrum & Edward H. Bennett, Jr.
Type: Plan
Description:Residence constructed in the Sterling Pond area on a parcel of land originally within the Slusser Farm. Includes revisions made in April and May 1962.
Extent: 10 sheets
Caretaker's House for Mrs. Morton Zurcher, Lisle, Illinois [revision] (3.5508)
Date: March 1962Creator: Myhrum, Arthur
Type: Plan
Description:Structure constructed in the Sterling Pond area on a parcel of land originally within the Slusser farm.
Includes revisions and an extra sheet showing a roof plan that was drawn December 20, 1971.
Extent: 4 sheets in binder
General Specifications, House for Mrs. Suzette M. Zurcher, Lisle, Illinois (3.5509)
Date: March 1962Type: Plan
Description:General specifications. [March] 1962.
Extent: 24 sheets
[Stairway Plan at Front of Administration Building] (3.5513)
Date: 1960sCreator: Tyznik, Anthony
Type: Plan
Description:Pencil notes on sheet 1.
Extent: 2 sheets, stapled
Lisle Twp.[portion of] Sec. 1, 2, 3 [and] 4, T. 38N., R. 10E. of the 3rd P. M. (3.5844)
Date: 1960sCreator: DuPage County
Type: Map
Description:Presumably copies made from DuPage County plat maps. Dates for various revisions are added in ms. Shows names of many property owners and prices of various land tracts. For Section 1 the following quarter sections are covered: the SW, the NW, and the NE; for Section 2: the NW and NE; for Section 3: the NW and the NE; and for Section 4: the NE only.
Extent: 8 sheets
Plat of Survey of That Part of Assessment Plat no. 2, Lands Belonging to… for Northern Illinois Gas Co. (3.6074)
Date: December 4 1962Creator: Schmitt, Albert C.
Type: Map
Extent: 1 sheet
Nuckoll's Plat of Lots 1 & 2 of Part of the Southeast Quarter of Section Thirty-three (33), Township Thirty-nine (39) North, Range Ten (10) East of the Third Principal Meridian, in DuPage County, Illinois (3.6089)
Date: May 2 1962Creator: Steinbrecher, Harold F.
Type: Map
Extent: 1 sheet
Morton Memorial Library (3.6380)
Date: June 8 1962Creator: Harry Weese & Associates
Type: Plan
Description:Sheets numbered A1-11, S1-5, M1-4, E1-3.
c. 3 is missing sheets M1-4.
Extent: 24 sheets, stapled
1962/05/16: Louis P. Martin to Mr. Kammerer (3.64964)
Date: May 16 1962Creator: Martin, Louis
Type: Document
Description:Request for a report outline from the Education Committee for the AABGA meeting to be held on May 31, from Martin. A response from Lowell's office stating he is out and will respond as soon as he returns.
Extent: 5 pages
[Landscape plan for Mrs. Suzette Morton Zurcher residence] (3.6521)
Date: circa 1962Type: Plan
Extent: 1 sheet
Morton Memorial Library [Sheet A2 with added marks] (3.6678)
Date: June 8 1962Creator: Harry Weese & Associates
Type: Plan
Description:A2 with added marks.
Extent: 1 sheet
Friends of our Native Landscape, Spring Bulletin, 1962 (3.67261)
Date: 1962Type: Serial
Description:This document can be made available at the Sterling Morton Library. To make an appointment, contact the Sterling Morton Library staff by following the link here.
Extent: 12 pages
Friends of our Native Landscape, Fall Bulletin, 1962 (3.67262)
Date: 1962Type: Serial
Description:This document can be made available at the Sterling Morton Library. To make an appointment, contact the Sterling Morton Library staff by following the link here.
Extent: 12 pages