[Thornhill Forecourt] (3.44231)
Date: 1990sCreator: Mehaffey, Scott A.
Type: Drawing
Description:Concept drawing of the forecourt in front of the Thornhill Education Center. Includes drawing of the Raintree Fountain.
[Planting plans for Courtland Street and Palmer Street [cartographic material] / O.C. Simonds]. (3.24871)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Simonds, O. C.
Type: Plan
Extent: 1 plan 98 x 37 cm.
[Administration and Research Center Entrance] (3.57705)
Date: 1990sType: Plan
Description:Perspective drawing of the entrance to the Administration and Research Center which was built in 2000.
[1995]: Jean Chishalm to George Ware and Anne DeGreeter to George Ware (3.100824)
Date: 1995Creator: Chishalm, Jean , Degeeter, Anne
Type: Document
Description:Two requests for information on acquiring David Elms.
Extent: two letters, one sheet
Youthful apple tree [graphic] / Nancy Hart Stieber. (3.24389)
Date: 1995Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 1 drawing : pen and ink, b&w 25 x 25 cm.
Young ferns [graphic] / Clare Leighton. (3.26525)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Leighton, Clare, 1898-1989.
Type: Print
Extent: 1 print : wood engraving, b&w 17 x 13 cm.
Woodland Garden (3.47474)
Date: March 21 – June 20 1995Creator: Kruse, Susan
Type: Plan
Description:Planting plan and plant list for a woodland garden along Joy Path, drawn for a class at University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign LA 253 for Professor Terry Harkness. Includes landscape drawing, a written overview of the site, written design concept, list of plants, and bibliography.
Extent: 1 sheet
Woman walking outside on paved path toward Plant Clinic building (3.59061)
Date: 1995Type: Photographic image
Description:Woman walking outside on paved path toward Plant Clinic building
Extent: 1 slide
Wisteria scroll (3.31487)
Date: 20th centuryType: Painting
Extent: 1 scroll : brush and ink, watercolor ; 27 x 145 cm.
Wisteria and euonymus scroll (3.31485)
Date: 20th centuryType: Painting
Extent: 1 scroll : brush and ink, watercolor ; 28 x 45 cm.
Willow branches [graphic]. (3.24543)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Hassall, Joan.
Type: Drawing
Extent: 1 drawing : brush and pen, one color 25 x 21 cm.
White double peony and monarch butterfly (3.31483)
Date: 20th centuryType: Painting
Extent: 1 painting : gouache, color 18 x 11 cm.
Visitor Center in spring (3.94932)
Date: 1990sType: Photographic image
Description:The Visitor Center in spring.
Vines: Overlooked Treasures of The Morton Arboretum (Part II) (3.11087)
Date: June 21 – September 20 1995Creator: van der Linden, Peter J.
Type: Article
Vines: Overlooked Treasures of The Morton Arboretum (3.11083)
Date: March 21 – June 20 1995Creator: van der Linden, Peter J.
Type: Article
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
View of magnolia tree from Carol Doty's office (3.94925)
Date: 1990sType: Photographic image
Description:View of a magnolia tree in bloom through the window in Carol Doty's office on the second floor of the Administration Building.
Valley View area, Eagle Lake alternative (3.6287)
Date: July 11 1995Creator: Department of Environmental Concerns
Type: Map
Extent: 1 sheet
Union Park, [Chicago [cartographic material] : planting plan] / Jens Jensen. (3.24899)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Jensen, Jens
Type: Plan
Extent: 1 plan 51 x 55 cm.
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
U.S. National Arboretum is working toward sustainable production of pathogen free compost and mulch (3.57544)
Date: 1995Creator: Jacobs, Karel
Type: Article
Trees for Chicago Leaflet (3.106999)
Date: 1995Type: Document
Description:Brochure for a demonstration garden created by the City of Chicago and The Morton Arboretum at the March 11-19, 1995 Chicago Flower and Garden Show to highlight trees, shrubs and groundcovers that thrive in the Chicago city environment with its challenges of extremes in temperature, confined root space, poor soil and pollution. This brochure contains a sampling of the recommended trees. George Ware gave a presentation at the show titled, "Selecting the Best Trees for Chicago".
Extent: 1 sheet folded into thirds
Trees for Chicago - a Landscape Display of Trees, Shrubs, & Groundcovers for the Chicago Region. 1995 Chicago Flower & Garden Show, McCormick Place (3.6218)
Date: March 4 1995Creator: Mehaffey, Scott A.
Type: Plan
Description:Second design for 1995 Chicago Flower & Garden show moved from Navy Pier to McCormick Place.
Extent: 1 sheet
Trees for Chicago - a landscape display of trees, shrubs and groundcovers for the Chicago region. 1995 Chicago Flower & Garden Show, McCormick Place [blueline] (3.6219)
Date: March 4 1995Creator: Mehaffey, Scott A.
Type: Plan
Description:Second design for 1995 Flower & Garden show moved from Navy Pier to McCormick Place
Extent: 1 sheet
Trees are Cool; Shade trees for Chicago - Exhibit Layout [human concept drawing] (3.6234)
Date: November 15 1995Creator: Mehaffey, Scott A.
Type: Plan
Description:Design for the Morton Arboretum and City of Chicago Department of Environment, 1996 Flower and Garden Show - Navy Pier, March 9-17. This version contains a drawing of what the exhibit will look like with people interacting with it.
Extent: 1 sheet
Trees are Cool; Shade Trees for Chicago - Exhibit Layout [full plans] (3.6230)
Date: November 15 1995Creator: Mehaffey, Scott A.
Type: Plan
Description:Design for the Morton Arboretum and City of Chicago Department of Environment, 1996 Flower and Garden Show - Navy Pier, March 9-17. Garden house structure in STRU:A. Sheet 3 is paper copy showing final design revisions.
Extent: 3 sheets
Trees are Cool; Shade Trees for Chicago - Exhibit Layout [color copy with brochure] (3.6235)
Date: November 15 1995Creator: Mehaffey, Scott A.
Type: Plan
Description:Design for the Morton Arboretum and City of Chicago Department of Environment, 1996 Flower and Garden Show - Navy Pier, March 9-17. Garden house structure in STRU:A. Sheet 3 is paper copy showing final design revisions.
Copy 3 is a reduced color copy of the design (brochure for garden attached).
Extent: 1 sheet plus brochure
Tree Care: The Early Years [leaflet] (3.106904)
Date: 1995Type: Document
Description:Program and registration information for a seminar on the needs of trees in their early years of growth held at The Morton Arboretum on February 23, 1996.
Extent: 1 sheet; two-sided; 4 fold brochure format