Populus deltoides (eastern cottonwood), dangling female and male flowers (3.37709)
Date: April 1978Creator: Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:Populus deltoides (eastern cottonwood), two side-by-side images, one detailing emerging greenish yellow female catkin and terminal bud, one image with detail of two dangling red male catkins
Extent: 1 slide
Acer saccharum (sugar maple), flowers and leaves (3.37943)
Date: March 1978Creator: Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer saccharum (sugar maple), closeup detail of a twig with typical pale yellow flowers dangling on long stalks and leaves beginning to form in early spring, against blue backdrop
Extent: 1 slide
Quercus rubra (northern red oak), habit, spring (3.57745)
Date: April 1978Creator: Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:Quercus rubra (northern red oak), round habit, almost bare branches, mature trunk near road and amongst trees
Extent: 1 slide
Asimina triloba (pawpaw), new fruit and leaves detail (3.64009)
Date: April 1978Creator: Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:Asimina triloba (pawpaw), closeup of simple, untoothed, broad green leaf, with narrow base and pointed tip among leaves and a cluster of three pale green and shiny new fruit on a short stem hanging below twig
Extent: 1 slide
Sterling Pond Phytoplankton and Metabolism: The Effects of Stormwater Flushing (3.83043)
Date: May 1978Creator: Rust, William
Type: Document
Description:Research paper that discusses the effect of stormwater flushing on phytoplankton and metabolism of Sterling Pond located within the Sterling Morton Arboretum.
Extent: 12 sheets
Kane County Natural Area Survey (3.62453)
Date: 1978Type: Book
Celtis occidentalis (hackberry), habit, bare branches (3.64039)
Date: April 1978Creator: Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:Celtis occidentalis (hackberry), nearly-complete view of relatively narrow upright habit; branches are bare and contorted with clumps of fine twigs.
Extent: 1 slide
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
Populus deltoides (eastern cottonwood) (3.37718)
Date: April 1978Creator: Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:Populus deltoides (eastern cottonwood), crown of large tree with yellow leaves
Extent: 1 slide
Acer rubrum (red maple), leaves and fruit (3.38127)
Date: 1978Creator: Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer rubrum (red maple), closeup detail of bright green leaves with three triangular lobes and toothed edges and two-winged pink and green samara fruit clusters hanging from twig
Extent: 1 slide
Morton Arboretum TEA Guides (Teaching Environmental Awareness) outside in the snow (3.4133)
Date: 1970sType: Photographic image
Description:Morton Arboretum TEA Guides (Teaching Environmental Awareness) outside in the snow
(Seated L to R): Laurie Skrzenta, Jennie Jendrzejczyk, Vicki Kohlman, Pat Armstrong
(Standing L to R): Carol Irvin, Carol Way, Ann Carlson, Emily Fleishman, Lois Myerholtz, Ester Shaw, Gloria Dobry, Jan McLaughlin, Sally Grunsfeld, Alice Burkman, Sybil Kellogg, Mildred Rahn, Marlene Ralston, Barbara Rutherford, Helen Pierce
Extent: 1 photograph
Tony Tyznik, outdoor portrait (3.5180)
Date: 1970sType: Photographic image
Description:Tony Tyznik, outdoor portrait
Extent: 1 photograph
Quercus rubra (northern red oak), emerging flowers and leaves detail (3.57779)
Date: April 1978Creator: Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:Quercus rubra (northern red oak), close-up section of twig with several yellowish-green hanging catkins and two tiny female flowers in axils of new pale green leaves, and inset image detailing section of female flower with magnified view of fuzzy red spike
Extent: 1 slide
Asimina triloba (pawpaw), habit, spring (3.64017)
Date: April 1978Creator: Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:Asimina triloba (pawpaw), small tree with straight mostly bare branches, some with flowers and new leaves, amongst grasses and trees
Extent: 1 slide
Jeffersonia Diphylla (3.24637)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Large illustration of a Twinleaf plant with detailed views of seed pods, seed, stamen, and pistil details with identifying text. Background images include Monticello at center left, and silhouettes of two small scenes at top right, the top showing a man giving a lecture or speech with the word "Poter" or "Peter" partially erased, the bottom showing a man and a women planting or gardening.
Illustrations as depicted from left to right:
- 2 stamens, one closed, one opened
- 1 pistil
- 1 large illustration of Twinleaf with three sets of leaves and 1 flower
- 1 seed-pod closed
- 1 seed-pod open
- 1 seed
Extent: 1 sheet
Aerial view of Arbor Lodge (3.3290)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Savage, John S.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Aerial view of Arbor Lodge
Extent: 1 photograph
Viola Sobolik in the Sterling Morton Library Main Reading Room (3.4255)
Date: 1970sType: Photographic image
Description:Viola Sobolik in the Sterling Morton Library Main Reading Room
Extent: 1 photograph
Morton Arboretum [Geographical Group - Balkan, Caucasus, Chinese - tree planting plan , surviving plants in 1978] (3.6581)
Date: circa 1978Creator: Teuscher, Henry
Type: Plan
Description:Photocopy of landscape plan for the area bordering the DuPage River in the eastern portion of the Arboretum, including Geographical Groups "Balkan, Kaukasus, Northern & Eastern China, Western China, Tamarack Swamp, Taxodium Swamp, Woods of the valley of the Amour=River (Sibiria)"
Includes notations identifying what plants from the original planting plan are "alive in 1978"
Extent: 1 sheet
Color Slides of Wild Flowers … (3.11520)
Date: 1978Creator: Case, Frederick W.
Type: Photographic image
Magnolia acuminata (cucumbertree), detail of bark and bud (3.63694)
Date: April 1978Creator: Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:Magnolia acuminata (cucumbertree), split image: on the top, a close-up detail of bark that is gray-brown in color and furrowed with straight, flat-topped ridges; on the bottom, a close-up detail of a single large bud, silky gray in color and blunt-tipped.
Extent: 1 slide
Carya ovata (shagbark hickory), fruit and bark detail (3.64040)
Date: April 1978Creator: Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:Carya ovata (shagbark hickory), two separate images detailing sections of fruit and trunk, top showing close-up of fragments of fruit with nuts in cross-sections revealing thick fruit husk, ribbed nut, hollow nut shell, nuts and whole seed, and bottom image of mature bark in long flat plates with outwardly curving ends
Extent: 1 slide
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
Populus deltoides (eastern cottonwood), bark and bud detail (3.37728)
Date: April 1978Creator: Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:Populus deltoides (eastern cottonwood), two side-by-side images, one image detailing greenish bark with deep furrows and ridges, one of brown twig with large reddish pointed bud
Extent: 1 slide
Acer truncatum (Shantung maple), leaves and flowers, spring (3.38201)
Date: May 17 1978Creator: Stickney, William S.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer truncatum (Shantung maple), closeup detail of glossy green leaves and small, pale yellow flowers in upright, rounded clusters called corymbs.
Living Collections Accession Number: 761-50*1
Location on grounds using The Morton Arboretum grid map: B-48 / 96-53 (Display Garden)
Extent: 1 slide
1978/11/27: Marion T. Hall to Jack T. Knuepfer (3.57370)
Date: November 27 1978Creator: Hall, Marion Trufant
Type: Document
Description:A set of two documents.
The first document is a letter from Marion T. Hall to Jack T. Knuepfer outlining the negative impact of ineffective sewage and stormwater management on the Morton Arboretum's land and waterways.
The second document is a flyer promoting a one day conference sponsored by the George Williams College's Institute for Environmental Awareness.
Extent: 4 sheets
Celtis occidentalis (hackberry), mature bark and buds detail (3.64020)
Date: April 1978Creator: Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:Celtis occidentalis (hackberry), two separate images detailing sections of trunk and twig, top showing grayish-brown bark with conspicuous warty knobs, and bottom left image of slender brown twig with two alternate buds at tip
Extent: 1 slide
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
Visitor Center and Restaurant, facing Meadow Lake (3.3359)
Date: 1970sType: Photographic image
Description:Visitor Center and Restaurant, facing Meadow Lake
Extent: 1 photograph
Hen turkey and young : a study in miniature of plate 6 of the Elephant folio reproduced from the original drawing. (3.31121)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Audubon, John James, 1785-1851.
Type: Painting
Extent: 1 print : commercial reproduction, color 30 x 21 cm.
Acer truncatum (Shantung maple), leaves and flowers, spring (3.38202)
Date: May 1978Creator: Stickney, William S.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer truncatum (Shantung maple), closeup detail of glossy green leaves and small, pale yellow flowers in upright, rounded clusters called corymbs.
Living Collections Accession Number: 761-50*1
Location on grounds using The Morton Arboretum grid map: B-48 / 96-53 (Display Garden)
Extent: 1 slide
Quercus rubra (northern red oak), bark, twig and buds detail (3.57793)
Date: April 1978Creator: Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:Quercus rubra (northern red oak), split image: on the left, detail of bark that is dark gray with long, broad, smooth ridges; on the right, detail of several reddish scaly buds near tip of reddish twig with lenticels and bud scars.
Extent: 1 slide
The Morton Arboretum Quarterly V. 13 No. 04 (3.34482)
Date: December 21 1977 – March 20 1978Type: Serial
Extent: 16 pages
Platanus occidentalis (sycamore), hanging fruit and flower balls with leaves on twigs (3.37410)
Date: March 1978Creator: Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:Platanus occidentalis (sycamore), twig with several hanging red and green flower balls, brown seed heads and leaves
Extent: 1 slide
Acer saccharum (sugar maple), winter (3.37927)
Date: April 1978Creator: Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer saccharum (sugar maple), partial view of habit of a tree with bare branches in winter, there is snow on the ground and a line of evergreens in the background
Extent: 1 slide
Northern Illinois Toll Highway Parcel No. E-2-68E [and E-2-68E.1], Sec. 3, T.38N., R.10E. of the 3rd P.M., DuPage County, Illinois (3.6093)
Date: May 1978Creator: Illinois State Toll Highway Authority
Type: Map
Description:Area surveyed, 0.313 acres, is a portion along the East-West Tollway easement in Lot 6 of Petersen-Tate Assessment Plat no. 2.
Extent: 3 sheets
Asimina triloba (pawpaw), buds and bark detail (3.63995)
Date: April 1978Creator: Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:Asimina triloba (pawpaw), close-up showing side-by-side detail of pale brown twig with three small brown buds without scales near tip and section of tree detailing relatively smooth gray bark
Extent: 1 slide