University of Pennsylvania. Morris Arboretum.

The Morris Arboretum at the University of Pennsylvania is the official Arboretum of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It was formerly owned by Quaker siblings John Thompson Morris (1847-1915) and Lydia Thompson Morris (1849-1932), who acquired the area through the purchase of two large estates and surrounding lands--Compton in 1887 and Bloomfield in 1913. When Lydia died in 1932, she left the gardens to the University of Pennsylvania as the Morris Arboretum. The Arboretum was part of the University's Botany Department until, in 1975, it was established as a separate Interdisciplinary Resource Center.

From the guide to the Morris Arboretum of the University of Pennsylvania Historic Image Collection, Bulk, 1885-1950, 1885-2000, (Morris Arboretum Archives)

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