Drainage Swale Topography and Pipeline Cross-sections Along North Edge of Tollway Berm: Centennial Grove to Crabapples (3.6101)
Date: 1989Creator: Allen, Kimberly
Type: Map
Description:Preliminary survey of swale and drain pipe along north end of tollway berms. This was modified in 1991 with the installation of drain tiles. Copy 2 is original elevation numbers and topographic plot (3 sheets).
Extent: 3 sheets
1989/07/11: Chao Ching Ju to George H. Ware (3.64167)
Date: November 7 1989Creator: Qingru, Zhao
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Chao Ching Ju to George H. Ware discussing possible dates and scenarios for a Chinese group to visit the United States and an American group to visit China.
Extent: 1 sheet
Visitor Center Parking Lot [topographic] Survey (3.5271)
Date: March 20 1989Creator: Hootman, Rick
Type: Map
Extent: 1 sheet
Cross-sections and Elevations of the Cactus Pit [preliminary to development of the Endangered Species Habitat] (3.6102)
Date: July 17 1989Creator: Hootman, Rick
Type: Map
Extent: 1 sheet
1989/04/17: George H. Ware to Zhang Qi Wen [sic] (3.63452)
Date: April 17 1989Creator: Ware, George
Type: Document
Description:Letter from George H. Ware to Zhang Qiwen thanking her for the information regarding her work for the University of Toronto and inviting her to visit the Morton Arboretum in June or July.
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
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
Platanus occidentalis (sycamore), seeds (3.37418)
Date: 1980sCreator: Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:Platanus occidentalis (sycamore), detail of seeds on ground
Extent: 1 slide
South Farm Land Use [and topographic survey] (3.5273)
Date: February 13 1989Creator: Kelsey, Pat
Type: Map
Description:First issued Dec.30,1988 showing the South Farm area and building layout; the collection lacks this issuance. Collection has issuance dated Feb.13,1989 on which true elevation points determined upon by Richard G. Hootman have been added. A subsequent copy of the map (3.5275) showing additions dated February 14, 1989 and March 3, 1989 is also represented in the collections. Contour lines linking elevation points and benchmark indicators were added by P.D.Kelsey under date of Feb. 14 and a subsurface drainage installation was added by R.G.Hootman under date of March 3.
Extent: 1 sheet
Cactus Pit Cross Sections (3.5748)
Date: 1989Creator: Tyznik, Anthony
Type: Plan
Description:This plan was developed into the Endangered Species Pit located to the east of Meadow Lake.
Extent: 1 sheet
Proposed, Initial, and Final Grades Along Crabapple Lake Swale (3.6103)
Date: July 1989Creator: Allen, Kimberly
Type: Map
Extent: 1 sheet
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
South Farm Land Use [and topographic survey] (3.5275)
Date: February 14 – March 3 1989Creator: Kelsey, Pat
Type: Map
Description:First issued Dec.30,1988 showing the South Farm area and building layout; the collection lacks this issuance. Collection has issuance dated Feb.13,1989 on which true elevation points determined upon by Richard G. Hootman have been added. This copy of the map also shows additions dated February 14, 1989 and March 3, 1989 is also represented in the collections. Contour lines linking elevation points and benchmark indicators were added by P.D.Kelsey under date of Feb. 14 and a subsurface drainage installation was added by R.G.Hootman under date of March 3.
Extent: 1 sheet
Topographic Map of Willoway Creek Area Along Schulenberg Prairie by K.A. Altvatter, Richard G. Hootman, and Patrick D. Kelsey [preliminary] (3.6104)
Date: 1989Creator: Allen, Kimberly
Type: Map
Description:# 810 (3.6038) is stamped PRELIMINARY, but it is a duplicate of copy 1, # 876 (3.6104) which is not marked as preliminary. Recorded # 810 as a duplicate in this record.
Extent: 1 sheet
The Visitor Center Parking Lot Modification, The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, Illinois (3.6826)
Date: circa 1989Creator: Tyznik, Anthony
Type: Plan
Extent: 1 sheet
Oriental printing, fantasy and art papers / imported and stocked by Andrews/Nelson/Whitehead, Inc. (3.23401)
Date: 20th centuryType: Book
Extent: [1] leaf, [4] p., [120] leaves : samples, some color 10 x 21 cm.
Plat of Survey Showing the Location of Certain Buildings Under Construction on The Morton Arboretum Property in Lisle, Illinois (3.33786)
Date: December 7 1989Creator: Steinbrecher Jr., Harold F.
Type: Map
Extent: 1 sheet
Arbor Day, two men and three children planting tree with surrounding crowd (3.3937)
Date: 1980sType: Photographic image
Description:Arbor Day, two men and three children planting tree with surrounding crowd
Extent: 1 photograph
Topographic Map of Willoway Creek Area Along Schulenberg Prairie by K.A. Altvatter, Richard G. Hootman, and Patrick D. Kelsey (3.6105)
Date: 1989Creator: Allen, Kimberly
Type: Map
Description:Individual location elevations.
Extent: 1 sheet
1989/04/17: Chao Ching Ju to George H. Ware (3.63688)
Date: April 17 1989Creator: Qingru, Zhao
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Chao Ching Ju, Associate Professor at the Chinese Academy of Forestry to George H. Ware detailing participants and proposed itineraries in regards to the exchange visits of American and Chinese dendrologists.
Extent: 3 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
Arbor Day, tree planting (3.3938)
Date: 1980sType: Photographic image
Description:Arbor Day, tree planting, group of visitors shoveling dirt around tree next to gravel walkway
Extent: 1 photograph
Topographic Map of Willoway Creek Area Along Schulenberg Prairie by K.A. Altvatter, Richard G. Hootman, and Patrick D. Kelsey [ink on mylar] (3.6106)
Date: 1989Creator: Allen, Kimberly
Type: Map
Description:Copy 3 is an ink on mylar topographic map 220 cm x 92 cm (scale is 1 inch = 20 feet).
Extent: 1 sheet
1989/10/05: George H. Ware to Zhao Qing Ru (3.65040)
Date: October 5 1989Creator: Ware, George
Type: Document
Description:Letter from George H. Ware to Zhao Qing Ru discussing the resumption of discussions regarding the exchange visits between Chinese foresters and dendrologists and American botanists and dendrologists from The Morton Arboretum.
Extent: 2 sheets
Arbor Day, elm planting ceremony in Chicago (3.3939)
Date: 1980sCreator: Larkin, Joe
Type: Photographic image
Description:Arbor Day, elm planting ceremony in Chicago, children shoveling dirt around planted tree
Extent: 1 photograph
Several employees participating in controlled burn in forested area (3.4508)
Date: 1980sType: Photographic image
Description:Several employees participating in controlled burn in forested area
Extent: 1 photograph
1989/05/02: Chao Ching Ju to George H. Ware (3.63691)
Date: May 2 1989Creator: Qingru, Zhao
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Chao Ching Ju to George H. Ware stating that Zhao Qingru is the official Chinese Phonetic Alphabet version of their name that must be used on official invitations to facilitate the issuance of visas.
Extent: 1 sheet
[Arboretum Property Conveyance] (3.7089)
Date: 1980sType: Map
Description:Plat map with property conveyed by Arboretum to others marked in ink, with document numbers.
Extent: 1 sheet
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
Employee in forested area participating in controlled burn, smoke to the left (3.4509)
Date: 1980sType: Photographic image
Description:Employee in forested area participating in controlled burn, smoke to the left
Extent: 1 photograph
1989/05/03: Professor Joel W. Carter to Professor Chao Ching Ju (3.63692)
Date: May 3 1989Creator: Carter, Joel W.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Professor Joel W. Carter of California State Polytechnic University to Professor Chao Ching Ju of the Chinese Academy of Forestry discussing issues with upcoming visits and expressing support for the publication of Ju's book on China's nature preserves.
Extent: 1 sheet
[Arboretum Property Conveyance] (3.7090)
Date: 1980sType: Map
Description:Plat map with property conveyed by Arboretum to others marked in ink, with document numbers. Various areas outlined in red.
Extent: 1 sheet
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.
Pat Kelsey (left) and Rick Hootman using the Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer to test for heavy metal and salt contaminants in the lab (3.4518)
Date: 1980sCreator: Kohout, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Pat Kelsey (left) and Rick Hootman using the Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer to test for heavy metal and salt contaminants in the lab
Extent: 1 photograph
1989/02/10: Michael T. Rains to Gerald W. Adelmann (3.56338)
Date: February 10 1989Creator: Rains, Michael T.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Michael T. Rains of the United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service to Gerald W. Adelmann of the Open Lands Project complimenting the Neighborwoods project and proposing joint efforts to develop holistic approaches to urban forestry by integrating ecology, art, city planning, global warming, and other current issues with the City Beautiful Movement.
Extent: 2 sheets
A Landscape Development Plan for the Tollway Berm - West Section [10/1989] (3.6526)
Date: October 1989Creator: Tyznik, Anthony
Type: Plan
Extent: 2 sheets