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.
Acer saccharinum (silver maple), winter, habit (3.37893)
Date: December 1981Creator: Kohout, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer saccharinum (silver maple), full view of tall tree with completely bare branches in winter, tree is situated in the parkway of a residential area near the street with a house in the background
Extent: 1 slide
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
[Aerial Photograph of] Milton Township, DuPage Co. [Section 35] (3.5434)
Date: April 1981Creator: Northeast Illinois Planning Commission
Type: Photographic image
Description:Survey shows the northern portion of the Arboretum bordering on Wheaton and Glen Ellyn. One sheet is devoted to each of the Sections 33, 34, 35, and 36 of Milton Township in which Arboretum property is located.
This map is section 35.
Extent: 1 sheet
Endangered and Threatened Birds of Illinois Prairies as part of "Proceedings of the Sixth North American Prairie Conference" (3.57630)
Date: 1981Creator: Bowles, Marlin L., Kerr, K., Thom, R. H., Birkenholz, D. E.
Type: Book
Description:The digitized document in this record is the chapter: Endangered and Threatened Birds of Illinois Prairies, which is a part of the full document "Proceedings of the Sixth North American Prairie Conference".
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
Ross Clark (L) and Chad Avery (R) grilling meat on Thornhill lawn at Employee picnic (3.4450)
Date: July 1981Type: Photographic image
Description:Ross Clark (L) and Chad Avery (R) grilling meat on Thornhill lawn at Employee picnic
Extent: 1 photograph
Acer saccharinum (silver maple), twig and flowers (3.37909)
Date: March 1981Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer saccharinum (silver maple), closeup detail of twig with flowers just emerging from buds set against blue backdrop
Extent: 1 slide
A Construction Drawing for the Woody Herb Garden Fence, the Morton Arboretum (3.6150)
Date: 1980sCreator: Tyznik, Anthony
Type: Plan
Description:Shows elevation and plan view
Extent: 1 sheet
Summer or wood duck = Anas sponsa. L. (3.29192)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Audubon, John James, 1785-1851.
Type: Painting
Extent: 1 print : commercial reproduction, color image 74 x 49 cm., on sheet 82 x 56 cm.
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
Acer saccharum (sugar maple), fall color (3.37929)
Date: October 1981Creator: Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer saccharum (sugar maple), partial view of large tree with two people standing beside it looking at the bright orange fall foliage
Extent: 1 slide
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
Arboretum summer grounds workers, group shot (3.59146)
Date: July 1981Creator: Kohout, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Arboretum summer grounds workers, group shot
Doris Taylor in front row kneeling in red shirt.
Extent: 1 slide
Plan of Perennials, May T. Watts Reading Garden, Morton Arboretum, Lisle, Illinois (3.6585)
Date: March 14 1981Creator: Bloom, John and Sally
Type: Plan
Description:A plan for redeveloping a portion of the Reading Garden. Added plant names in red ink and pencil.
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
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
Tony Tyznik studying plant outside (3.5183)
Date: 1980sType: Photographic image
Description:Tony Tyznik studying plant outside
Extent: 1 photograph
Cirsium hillii (3.55800)
Date: October 2 1981Creator: Schulenberg, Ray
Type: Document
Description:A note card containing handwritten notes (presumably written by Ray Schulenberg) with propagation information on prairie plants.
Extent: 1 Card
[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
Fish Boil: group shot of workers indoors (3.4100)
Date: 1980sCreator: Bartuch, Jym
Type: Photographic image
Description:Fish Boil: group shot of workers indoors
Extent: 1 photograph
Pat Kelsey (left) and Rick Hootman using the Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer to test for heavy metal and salt contaminants in the lab (3.4519)
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
Dr. Gary Watson working in lab (3.5202)
Date: 1980sType: Photographic image
Description:Dr. Gary Watson working in lab
Extent: 1 photograph
Acer rubrum (red maple), leaves and fruit, spring (3.38126)
Date: May 5 1981Creator: Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer rubrum (red maple), closeup detail of leaves and two-winged pink and green samara fruit clusters hanging from twig
Living Collections Accession Number: 910-57
Location on grounds using The Morton Arboretum grid map: N-57/28-11 (Diversity)
Extent: 1 slide
Fish boil: large pot on flame with setup (3.4105)
Date: 1980sCreator: Larkin, Joe
Type: Photographic image
Description:Fish boil: large pot on flame with setup
Extent: 1 photograph
Soil scientists, Pat Kelsey (left) and Rick Hootman, at work in lab (3.4523)
Date: 1980sType: Photographic image
Description:Soil scientists, Pat Kelsey (left) and Rick Hootman, at work in lab
Extent: 1 photograph
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
The Morton Arboretum Quarterly V. 16 No. 04 (3.34495)
Date: December 21 1980 – March 20 1981Type: Serial
Extent: 16 pages
Andropogon gerardi (3.54011)
Date: 1981Creator: Schulenberg, Ray
Type: Document
Description:A note card containing handwritten notes (presumably written by Ray Schulenberg) with propagation information on prairie plants.
Extent: 1 Card
A Landscape Development Plan for the Administration Building, the Morton Arboretum [Cotoneaster, Euonymus, Prunus, Hydrangea, Rhodotypos, Hypericum, Viburnum, Microbiota, Hamamelis, Stylophorum, Waldsteinia, Astilbe, Ribes, Juniperus, Lonicera] (3.5952)
Date: 1980sCreator: Tyznik, Anthony
Type: Plan
Description:Including various species from Cotoneaster, Euonymus, Prunus, Hydrangea, Rhodotypos, Hypericum, Viburnum, Microbiota, Hamamelis, Stylophorum, Waldsteinia, Astilbe, Ribes, Juniperus, Lonicera
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
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
The Morton Arboretum Quarterly V. 17 No. 01 (3.34496)
Date: March 21 – June 20 1981Type: Serial
Extent: 16 pages
[Aerial Photograph of] Lisle, Illinois Township, DuPage Co. (3.5425)
Date: April 1981Creator: Northeast Illinois Planning Commission
Type: Photographic image
Description:Survey shows the southern portion of the Arboretum bordering on Warrenville Road and the East-West Tollway. One sheet is devoted to each of the Sections 1, 2, and 3 of Lisle, Illinois Township in which Arboretum property is located.
This map shows section 1.
Extent: 1 sheet
Plan of May T. Watts Reading Garden, Morton Arboretum, Lisle, Illinois [planting plan] (3.59551)
Date: March 14 1981Creator: Bloom, John and Sally
Type: Plan
Description:Landscape and planting plan for May T. Watts Reading Garden, includes plant names of woody plants and groundcovers in pencil
Extent: 1 sheet