The top photo was taken in 2008 and the bottom photo was taken in 1996. The photos show a change in the number and size of the elm trees on the mall area of the University Park campus of Penn State.

Photo Credit: Greg Grieco

The top photo was taken in 2008 and the bottom photo was taken in 1996. The photos show a change in the number and size of the elm trees on the mall area of the University Park campus of Penn State.

Photo Credit: Greg Grieco

Fall has arrived on the University Park campus where the elms along the mall are turning a bright gold.

Photo Credit: Greg Grieco

Year Taken: 2007

A large American Elm was trucked in for planting on the left-hand side of Old Main in the 1930s. Additional photos and information on this tree's planting are available at http://lorax.opp.psu.edu/archive/OldMainElms.htm

Photo Credit: Penn State University Archives

A photo of the mall area looking down toward College Ave. The road through the campus was closed in 1924. The obelisk is visible on the right-hand side of the road.

Photo Credit: Penn State University Archives

Photo Credit: Greg Grieco

Year Taken: 2008

The Mall from Pattee Library.

Photo Credit: Greg Grieco, Penn State Department of Public Information

Year Taken: 2008

Photo Credit: Greg Grieco

Year Taken: 2008

Photo Credit: Greg Grieco, Penn State Department of Public Information

Year Taken: 2008

English Elms, not American Elms, flank both sides of the Library.

Photo Credit: Greg Grieco, Penn State Department of Public Information

Year Taken: 2008

Trees that strained under the coating of ice they received last week seemed to handle the light coating of snow much more easily today.

Photo Credit: Greg Grieco

Year Taken: 2005

View of Schreyer Lane under the elms.

Photo Credit: Greg Grieco, Penn State Department of Public Information

Year Taken: 2008

The mall looking from the Pattee Library toward College Avenue.

Photo Credit: Greg Grieco, Penn State Department of Public Information

Year Taken: 2008

Photo Credit: Greg Grieco, Penn State Department of Public Information

Year Taken: 2008

Young elms in front of the Carnegie Building.

Photo Credit: Greg Grieco, Penn State Department of Public Information

Year Taken: 2008

The elms behind Old Main.

Photo Credit: Greg Grieco, Penn State Department of Public Information

Year Taken: 2008

The interior portion of the mall area was planted with elms in 1895. Looking toward College Avenue, the Armory is barely visible at right. On the left is site of present-day Schwab Auditorium.

Photo Credit: Penn State University Archives

The road through the Penn State campus at the Allen Street Gates was closed in 1924.

Photo Credit: Penn State University Archives

The mall area by Schwab Auditorium in 1936.

Photo Credit: Penn State University Archives

The lower half of this photo shows the Allen Street Gates at the entrance to Penn State in 1940.

Photo Credit: Penn State University Archives

The Allen Street Gates on the campus of Penn State. The road through campus was closed in 1924.

Photo Credit: Penn State University Archives

Elms on the campus of Penn State.

Photo Credit: Penn State University Archives

Elm trees line the mall area looking toward Pattee Library.

Photo Credit: Penn State University Archives

A mature canopy of elm trees in the early 1940s looking toward Pattee Library.

Photo Credit: Penn State University Archives

Elms were planted in the interior portion of the mall.

Photo Credit: Penn State University Archives

A diseased tree near the Hintz Family Alumni Center -- thought to be the oldest elm tree on Penn State's University Park campus -- had to be removed recently. The elm is believed to have been more than 125 years old, and was one that former Penn State President Milton Eisenhower and his brother, U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower, used as a backdrop both for official portraits and informal photographs.

Photo Credit: Greg Grieco

Year Taken: 2003

A photo of the Carnegie Building looking up toward present-day Pattee and Paterno libraries.

Photo Credit: Penn State University Archives

A large branch fell from an elm near the campus Peace Gardens. The Office of Physical Plant has asked employees to be very mindful of the additional weight from the ice straining branches and to avoid walking under trees until the ice melts. Several areas of the campus have been cordoned off due to condition of tree limbs.

Photo Credit: Julie A. Brink

Year Taken: 2005

Penn State in the fall.

Photo Credit: Penn State Department of Public Information

Photo Credit: Penn State Department of Public Information

Year Taken: 2007

An old photo of Old Main with a lantern in the foreground.

Photo Credit: Penn State University Archives

Mall beside Old Main. Elm trees line the walkway.

Photo Credit: Greg Grieco

Elms line a portion of the mall looking toward Pattee Library.

Photo Credit: Penn State University Archives

Mall area beside Old Main in the fall.

Photo Credit: Greg Grieco

Year Taken: 1996

A truck delivers an American Elm to the front of Old Main in preparation for the tree's planting in the 1930s. Additional photos and information on this tree's planting are available at http://lorax.opp.psu.edu/archive/OldMainElms.htm

Photo Credit: Penn State University Archives

The front of Old Main in the 1930s after an American Elm was planted on the left-hand side of the building. Additional photos and information on this tree's planting are available at http://lorax.opp.psu.edu/archive/OldMainElms.htm

Photo Credit: Penn State University Archives

The mall during winter.

Photo Credit: Jill Shockey

Mall area crowded with students

Photo Credit: Chris Koleno

Students in mall area in back of the Pattee Library and Paterno Library

Photo Credit: Chris Koleno

Penn State arborists discovered a crack forming in one of the twin elm trees that grace the front of Old Main on Penn State's University Park campus recently, and have been working to repair it. Taking advantage of unseasonably warm weather on Monday and Tuesday of this week (March 1 and 2), Drew Beben and Corby Fetterolf made their way up the tree to shore up the trunk and branches. Here, Beben examines the crack.

Photo Credit: Greg Grieco

Year Taken: 2004