Description: Papers of Natalie Alpert (1923-1997; UIUC, 1969), instructor and assistant to the Head of Landscape Architecture (1970-91), including correspondence, memoranda, photographs, course materials, resource materials on construction materials and plants, research notes, conference programs, reports and design plans regarding departmental history, alumni activities, and lecture series; teaching of planting design and the history of landscape design; research on the early history of women landscape architects, including Florence Bell Robinson, Beatrice Horneman, Barbara Fealy, and May McAdams; conferences, committees, and workshops on prairie landscaping and women in landscape architecture; public service activities in Champaign-Urbana; and landscape design of private properties in Champaign-Urbana.