1996/12/09: Unknown sender to Judy Zuk (3.56340)
Date: December 9 1996Type: Document
Description:Letter from unknown sender from The Morton Arboretum to Judy Zuk, Awards Committee Chair of The American Association of Botanical Gardens and Arboreta, to support the nomination of George Ware for the AABGA Award of Merit. Letter appears to be a draft and the second page is missing.
Extent: 1 sheet
Nancy Stevenson presents Alice Burlingame Humanitarian Services Award to Charles Lewis (3.4066)
Date: 1984Type: Photographic image
Description:Nancy Stevenson of the National Council for Therapy and Rehabilitation through Horticulture Awards Committee presents the Alice Burlingame Humanitarian Services Award to Charles Lewis of The Morton Arboretum, as Alice Burlingame looks on
Extent: 1 photograph
William Buckingham presenting a National Centennial Award to Web Crowley and George Ware (3.4064)
Date: 1990Type: Photographic image
Description:William Buckingham (Manager for Illinois National Wether Service) presenting a National Centennial Award to Web Crowley and George Ware
(L to R): George Ware, Web Crowley, William R. Buckingham
Extent: 1 photograph
George Ware receiving Gold Seal Award from National Council of State Garden Clubs (3.5211)
Type: Photographic image
Description:George Ware receiving Gold Seal Award from National Council of State Garden Clubs
L to R: Mrs. C. Manning Smith (President, National Council of State Garden Clubs), Dr. George Ware, Laverne Laycock (President, Garden Clubs of Illinois)
Extent: 1 photograph
May T. Watts on stage at Swarthmore College (3.36050)
Date: 1972Type: Photographic image
Description:May T. Watts on an outdoor stage with other academics at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, on the occasion of receiving the Arthur Hoyt Scott Award. Since 1930, the award has been given annually to an organization or an individual who has made an outstanding national contribution to the science and the art of gardening.
Extent: 1 photograph
May T. Watts receiving an award (3.36039)
Date: 1971Type: Photographic image
Description:May T. Watts receives a citation from Illinois State Representative J. Glenn Schneider at her home in Naperville, Illinois.
Extent: 1 photograph
Prize-winning duck decoy (3.34358)
Date: 1960sType: Photographic image
Description:An exhibit featuring a prize-winning duck decoy on display at Thornhill Education Center. The decoy has a large red ribbon affixed to it with a single leaf image at the center and the words DIVING DUCKS printed along one side. Other words and images on the ribbon are not legible.
Below the the decoy, a label reads in part:
- - by Robert Kerr, Smiths Falls, Ontario / _ _ _ second prize in the _ _ _ _ contest in 1966.
Extent: 1 slide
1996/09/06: B & B to George Ware (3.38223)
Date: September 6 1996Type: Document
Description:Note congratulating George Ware on receiving the Hutchinson Society Medal. The note is signed with the initials B & B and is on stationary from J.C. Brenton of Des Moines, Iowa.
Extent: 1 sheet
2000/04/17: Donald A. Rakow to George Ware (3.37854)
Date: April 17 2000Creator: Rakow, Donald A.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Donald A. Rakow of Cornell Plantations to George Ware announcing that he will receive the Award of Merit from the American Association of Botanical Gardens and Arboreta in recognition of his contributions to the field of ornamental horticulture and public gardens.
Extent: 1 sheet
George Ware receiving Chevron Co. check for $8,000 supporting paper by Chris Whelan and Marlin Bowles (3.5216)
Type: Photographic image
Description:George Ware receiving Chevron Co. check for $8,000 supporting paper by Chris Whelan and Marlin Bowles
Extent: 1 photograph