1990/04/24: John F. Dwyer to Marion T. Hall (3.100890)
Date: April 24 1990Creator: Dwyer, John F.
Type: Document
Description:A thank you letter for hybrid elm provided for Arbor day planting in North Park Village, Chicago, IL.
Extent: 1 sheet
Two Oaks and a Texas Madrone ( Quercus texana, Quercus fusiformis, Arbutus x alapensis) (3.101027)
Date: November 1971Creator: Hall, Marion Trufant
Type: Photographic image
Description:Two Oaks and a Texas Madrone (Quercus texana, Quercus fusiformis, Arbutus x alapensis)
View is of a small stand of trees, surrounded by dried grassland, and a rustic barbed wire fence is seen in the background.
Extent: 1 slide
Rita Hassert oral history interview, 2022 June 22. (3.102431)
Date: June 22 2022Type: Audio
Description:A digital recording of an oral history interview with Rita Hassert, Library Collections Manager of the Sterling Morton Library. This interview was conducted by Kristin Arnold and took place on June 22, 2022 in the conference room of the library at The Morton Arboretum. This is the first of two interviews.
The interview focuses on Hassert's experiences before and during her employment at The Morton Arboretum, which began in 1986. Topics include her early memories of the Arboretum and the library, the library's collection of nursery catalogs, the Chamber Concert Series and other Arboretum events she helped coordinate, the Employee Giving Committee, and her involvement with the Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries.
Longwood Visiting Committee, 1986 (3.102559)
Date: 1986Type: Photographic image
Description:A print photograph of the Longwood Visiting Committee taken in 1986.
Extent: 1 photograph
Longwood Visiting Committee, 1980s (3.102560)
Date: 1980sType: Photographic image
Description:A print photograph of the Longwood Visiting Committee taken in the 1980s.
Extent: 1 photograph
A New Director for the Arboretum (3.10489)
Date: September 21 – December 20 1966Type: Article
Ed Hedborn oral history interview, 2022 October 26 (3.104913)
Date: October 26 2022Type: Audio
Description:A recording of an oral history interview with Ed Hedborn, manager of plant records, conducted by Kristin Arnold, archivist. The interview took place on October 26, 2022 in the Sterling Morton Library at The Morton Arboretum.
The interview focuses on Hedborn's experiences and memories of The Morton Arboretum's Collections Program during the curatorship of Ray Schulenberg, which lasted from 1977 to 1987. Topics include Hedborn's early days as plant recorder, the shift of collections focus to wild-collected plants, seed collecting trips through the western United States and Northern Illinois, tracing the history of plants, the computerization of plant records, and the start of Bloom and Color Reports.
As the Twig Is Bent, So Grows the Juniper (3.10495)
Date: December 21 1966 – March 20 1967Creator: Hall, Marion Trufant
Type: Article
The Arboretum as a Cultural Institution (3.10521)
Date: December 21 1967 – March 20 1968Creator: Hall, Marion Trufant
Type: Article
Arboretum News and Notes/ Climatological Summary (3.10530)
Date: March 21 – June 20 1968Type: Article
Immigrant Plants (3.10693)
Date: September 21 – December 20 1974Creator: Hall, Marion Trufant
Type: Article
Branches: Newsletter of the Volunteers of The Morton Arboretum, Winter 1987 (3.107033)
Date: 1987Creator: Stowell, Gladys, Engle, Martha
Type: Serial
Description:This digitized issue of the Winter 1987 Branches Newsletter has articles on the following: the collection of climbing woody vines with a detailed discussion of the clematis collection; a description of the advent of cross country skiing along with the development of the trails and the Early Bird Ski Trail Patrol; a brief treaties on the goals of Joy Morton when he developed the Museum of Trees in the English naturalistic landscape style emphasizing open areas as much as planted area. New volunteers, volunteer opportunities and programs and classes are also discussed.
Extent: 6 pages
Branches: Newsletter of the Volunteers of The Morton Arboretum, Summer 1992 (3.107051)
Date: 1992Type: Serial
Description:This digitized issue of the Summer 1992 Branches Newsletter contains articles on the following: Hatch Meadow and the transplanting project of Green Ash trees; and two Arboretum authors, Ian MacPhail and Charles Lewis and their books, Rearranging the World and Green Nature/Human Nature. The first book is a study of the work of the scientists at New Harmony, Indiana; Charles-Alexander Lesueur, Thomas Say, Andre Michaux and Francois Andre Michaux and the second is about the relationship between people and nature. Volunteer opportunities, lists of new and continuing volunteers, trainings, classes and events are also included.
Extent: ;6 pages
Alfred G. Etter 1919-1978 (3.10793)
Date: March 21 – June 20 1978Creator: Hall, Marion Trufant
Type: Article
Orphans in the Plant World: Examples of Monotypic Families (3.10802)
Date: June 21 – September 20 1978Creator: Swink, Floyd, Hall, Marion Trufant, Hess, William J.
Type: Article
Nature’s Paints and Palette (3.10805)
Date: September 21 – December 20 1978Creator: Hall, Marion Trufant
Type: Article
The Ecology of Wastewater: Part of a Total Integrating System (3.10832)
Date: June 21 – September 20 1980Creator: Hall, Marion Trufant
Type: Article
The Ecology of Wastewater at the Morton Arboretum (3.10833)
Date: June 21 – September 20 1980Creator: Hall, Marion Trufant, Liby, Dennis
Type: Article
Of Trees & People (3.10872)
Date: September 21 – December 20 1982Creator: Hall, Marion Trufant, Ware, George
Type: Article
Biennial Review of Major Programs 1982/1983 (3.10893)
Date: March 21 – June 20 1984Creator: Hall, Marion Trufant
Type: Article
1966/10/15: Marion T. Hall to Frederick C. Pullman (3.109058)
Date: October 15 1966Creator: Hall, Marion Trufant
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Marion T. Hall to Frederick C. Pullman (Northern Trust Company) enclosing three authorized signature cards.
Extent: 1 sheet
John & Kitty Kohout (3.10955)
Date: June 21 – September 20 1987Creator: Hall, Marion Trufant
Type: Article
Biennial Review of Major Programs 1986/1987 (3.10968)
Date: March 21 – September 20 1988Creator: Hall, Marion Trufant
Type: Article
A Farewell Message (3.11002)
Date: June 21 – September 20 1990Creator: Hall, Marion Trufant
Type: Article
Events, News, & Classes: Spring 1985 (3.113780)
Date: 1985Type: Serial
Description:A digitized version of the Spring 1985 Events, News, & Classes Newsletter. This issue features events such as welcoming Spring with classes like Arboretum Spring and The Nature of Spring. There are also several opportunities for birding. Field seminars were offered for Spring in the Southern Appalachians and Isle of Royale Adventure, and field trips were available to Braidwood, IL, Starved Rock State Park, Warren Woods, and Nelson Lake Marsh. The Atlantic Richfield Foundation Grant awarded $125,000 to support the project "City Trees For City People".
Events, News, & Classes: Winter 1987 (3.113790)
Date: 1987Type: Serial
Description:A digitized version of the Winter 1987 Events, News, & Classes Newsletter. This issue features events such as the upcoming Yuletide Celebration, Members' Ski Program, a Winter Ecology Walk, and Winter Bird Walks. There is also a lecture about Learning to Live With Expressways. The Great Lakes Forest Soils Conference, organized by Patrick Kelsey, Arboretum Research Soil Scientist, and Richard Hootman, Research Soil Specialist, took place with topics emphasizing soil development in undisturbed areas and disturbed or urbanized areas of the Arboretum problems associated with the growth of woody plants on "urban" soils; and the management of soils and vegetation in areas disturbed by construction. The Arboretum also received grants from the Institute of Museum Services, The Robert R. McCormick Charitable Trust; Chicago White Metal Charitable Foundation; Burroughs Corporation; AT&T Foundation; Bell Information Systems; Household Finance Corporation; Staley Continental, Inc.; W.W. Grainger, Inc.; The John D. and Catherin T. MacArthur Foundation; the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education; and Allied-Signal Inc.
Of Trees and People (3.114626)
Date: 1982Creator: Hall, Marion Trufant, Ware, George
Type: Article
Description:"This essay has to do with some of the thinking and awareness at the Morton Arboretum about the place of trees in the landscape and the place of landscapes and their trees in our lives, in our society, and in our global environment."
Extent: 6 pages
Tree calligraphy [graphic] / Timothy R. Botts, words by Marion T. Hall. (3.24228)
Date: 1990sCreator: Botts, Timothy R.
Type: Drawing
Extent: 3 drawings : calligraphy, b&w 44 x 37 cm. and 28 x 22cm.
Tree calligraphy [graphic] / Timothy R. Botts, words by Marion T. Hall. (3.24229)
Date: 1990sCreator: Botts, Timothy R.
Type: Drawing
Extent: 3 drawings : calligraphy, b&w 44 x 37 cm. and 28 x 22cm.
Tree calligraphy [graphic] / Timothy R. Botts, words by Marion T. Hall. (3.24230)
Date: 1990sCreator: Botts, Timothy R.
Type: Drawing
Extent: 3 drawings : calligraphy, b&w 44 x 37 cm. and 28 x 22cm.
Narcissus hybrid chart [graphic]. (3.24832)
Date: 1960sType: Drawing
Extent: 1 drawing : pen and ink, b&w 42 x 30 cm.
Species and hybrids in narcissus [graphic]. (3.24833)
Date: 1960sType: Drawing
Extent: 1 drawing : pen and ink, b&w 42 x 30 cm.
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
Dr. Hall On The Arboretum (3.32780)
Type: Audio
Richard Fitzgerald presenting artwork to Dr. Marion Hall (3.33183)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Richard Fitzgerald, assistant vice president at the Bank of Lisle, left, presents the framed original drawings of the Morton Arboretum to Dr. Marion T. Hall, director of the Arboretum
Extent: 1 photograph