This last section of this digital copy of Manning's History of Walden includes two copies of typed communications found loose at the end of the paper-bound typescript.
This fascinating list records the commercial, personal exploration, and accidental sites of all plants at Walden in 1933, a key to abbreviations in the plant list.
Part 4: first section of Warrne Manning's plant list for his History of Walden (1933), a typescript, and through p. 38. The extensive plant list follows the 61 pp. text.
This plan to accompany the text and plant listing of landscape architect Warren Manning's 1933 History of Walden uses numbers to designate locations of places and plants mentioned and listed.
This picture looks southwest towards the wagon bridge over the Des Plaines River in Half Day.
Attirbuted by James R. Getz, President of the Lake County Historical Society from the 1950s-1980s.
The Wagon Bridge over the Des Plaines River near Half Day, IL Postcard shows how the bridge is supported. In the surrounding area, the land is mainly prairie and wooded.
The picture was taken looking southwest.
Attributed by James R. Getz,…