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1935/02/27: Joy Morton to Clarence E. Godshalk (3.101477)
Date: February 27 1934Creator: Morton, Joy
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Joy Morton, in Phoenix, to Clarence E. Godshalk. He is pleased that the warmer weather in Chicago has allowed good progress on planting. "It is particularly good to know that you have made a start on the big hill. That will be the beginning of "Arboretum Mountain." We have to make it very impressive, so you can put in as many trees as you have. Conifers, a few poplars and Chinese elms would be alright." After the trees are established the road can be located. He's glad to hear that Jimmy is over his chicken pox. Tell Kerth to write about the farm conditions. They will return to Chicago by April.
Extent: 2 sheets
The Morton Arboretum Near Lisle, Illinois (3.106098)
Date: September 27 1934Creator: Kammerer, E. Lowell
Type: Map
Description:Guide map to The Morton Arboretum that is included in an issue of the Bulletin of Popular Information (Vol. 9, No. 9). Guide map details Arboretum roads, plant collections, buildings and points of interest. Key indicates proposed roads, native woodland, and forestry plots.
The remaining pages of the booklet include a biography of Joy Morton, a description of the Arboretum, a map showing how to reach the Arboretum, and a list of the Board of Trustees and lead staff members.
Extent: 14 pages
1934/01/11: Walter E. Eickhorst to Norma Bryan (3.109151)
Date: January 11 1934Creator: Eickhorst, Walter
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Walter E. Eickhorst to Norma Bryan. He is mailing her a cut of a group of Arboretum photos used by Tuf-Tread Corporation in one of their publications. Keep it with the other cuts. He is enclosing a letter from Mrs. Vernon S. Watson with her updated address.
Extent: 1 sheet
1934/01/22: Clarence E. Godshalk to Norma Bryan (3.109152)
Date: January 22 1934Creator: Godshalk, Clarence E.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Clarence E. Godshalk to Norma Bryan regarding financial account changes.
Extent: 1 sheet
1934/02/08: Norma Bryan to W. Y. Dow (3.109155)
Date: February 8 1934Creator: Bryan, Norma A.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Norma Bryan to W. Y. Dow. Mr. Godshalk has given her some expense items to be charged to Mr. Morton.
Extent: 1 sheet
1934/02/10: W. Y. Dow to Norma Bryan (3.109156)
Date: February 10 1934Creator: Dow, W. Y.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from W. Y. Dow to Norma Bryan continuing the discussion about the $482.55 excess of the $10,000 operating capital.
Extent: 1 sheet
1934/02/10: [Norma Bryan] to Clarence E. Godshalk (3.109159)
Date: February 10 1934Creator: Bryan, Norma A.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Norma Bryan to Clarence E. Godshalk. Enclosed are letters from Mrs. L. M. Stewart, of Osceola Avenue, Chicago, wife of one of the men in the Morton Salt office. She would like someone from the Arboretum to speak to the Chicago and Cook County Federation of Women's Organizations and, separately, to the Edison Park Women's Club.
Extent: 1 sheet
1934/02/06: [Norma Bryan] to Clarence E. Godshalk (3.109160)
Date: February 6 1934Creator: Bryan, Norma A.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Norma Bryan to Clarence E. Godshalk. She is answering his letter of January 22, 1934.
Extent: 1 sheet
1934/02/06: [Norma Bryan] to Clarence E. Godshalk (3.109161)
Date: February 6 1934Creator: Bryan, Norma A.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Norma Bryan to Clarence E. Godshalk asking for employee wage information.
Extent: 1 sheet
1934/01/29: [Norma Bryan] to Walter E. Eickhorst (3.109162)
Date: January 29 1934Creator: Bryan, Norma A.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Norma Bryan to Walter E. Eickhorst, in reply to his letter of January 23. The Standard Photo Service, 605 North Michigan, Chicago was the firm who developed the negatives from which the cuts were made for the last picture bulletin.
Extent: 1 sheet
1934/01/23: Walter E. Eickhorst to Norma Bryan (3.109163)
Date: January 23 1934Creator: Eickhorst, Walter
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Walter E. Eickhorst to Norma Bryan. He requests the name of the firm that printed the negatives from which the cuts were made for the last picture bulletin. Because of the quality of them, he would like future printing to be done by that company.
Extent: 1 sheet
1943/07/24: Clarence E. Godshalk to Mrs. George Smith (3.109408)
Date: July 24 1934Creator: Godshalk, Clarence E.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Clarence E. Godshalk to Mrs. George Smith of Belmont, Illinois sending condolences for the death of George Smith.
Extent: 1 sheet
Pansy (3.24633)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustration of a large pansy flower and three detail views, including floral diagram, reverse of flower, and center, accompanied by descriptive text. Background sketches along the left side include a house, a heart, and a church, center bottom includes three women and two girls sitting in a circle drinking tea, and center right includes flowers and an elf. Sketches depict various pansy folklore.
Upper left text lists various names this flower goes by - herb trinity, pink of my John, heart's ease, step-mother, kit run in the street, kiss me at the garden gate, cuddle me to you, kiss me quick or PANSY
Top right floral diagram illustration identifies sepal, petal, stamen, pistil, nectar sac
Bottom left illustration (reverse of flower) identifies sepal, petal, nectar sac
Bottom right illustration identifies stigma, pistil and stamens, nectar sac
Extent: 1 sheet
Jeffersonia Diphylla (3.24637)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Large illustration of a Twinleaf plant with detailed views of seed pods, seed, stamen, and pistil details with identifying text. Background images include Monticello at center left, and silhouettes of two small scenes at top right, the top showing a man giving a lecture or speech with the word "Poter" or "Peter" partially erased, the bottom showing a man and a women planting or gardening.
Illustrations as depicted from left to right:
- 2 stamens, one closed, one opened
- 1 pistil
- 1 large illustration of Twinleaf with three sets of leaves and 1 flower
- 1 seed-pod closed
- 1 seed-pod open
- 1 seed
Extent: 1 sheet
Owl Pellets Galore (3.24640)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Document
Description:Four pages of type-written text for Owl Pellets Galore by May Theilgaard Watts, an account detailing the process of searching for and examining long-eared owl pellets with Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts.
Accompanied by artwork titled Under the Roost of the Long-Eared Owls.
Extent: 4 sheets
Under the Roost of the Long-Eared Owls (3.24641)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Four illustrations depicting long-eared owls and their pellets. Captions accompany each individual illustration. The drawings illustrate the story OWL PELLETS GALORE by May Theilgaard Watts, Naturalist at The Morton Arboretum.
Upper left text: UNDER the ROOST of the LONG-EARED OWLS
Illustrations with captions, from left to right, top to bottom:
- Drawing of an owl pellet
- Caption: An owl pellet
- Drawing of forest floor, including rhododendron
- Caption: When rhododendron leaves uncurl we find pellets.
- Drawing of rodent bone findings
- Caption: Each pellet reveals parts of a small rodent.
- Drawing of two owls in a tree
- Caption: They seem to grow taller as we approach.
Extent: 1 sheet
Three Seasons of Bloom in the Prairie (3.24642)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustration of 23 prairie plants shown in a chart formation categorized by Fall, Summer, and Spring from top to bottom, and from high prairie to low prairie from left to right. Identifying text appears beneath each illustration, some of which is on strip of board attached to the bottom with tape.
Header: THREE SEASONS of BLOOM in the PRAIRIE
Text, top right: the individual plants represent colonies of varying sizes
Plants as depicted from top to bottom, left to right:
- Fall
- big bluestem
- blazing star
- Indian grass
- wild rye
- switch grass
- saw-toothed sunflower
- prairie dock
- cord grass
- Summer
- lead plant
- New Jersey tea
- flowering spurge
- stiff goldenrod
- black-eyed Susan
- Culver's root
- tall meadow rue
- Sullivant's milkweed
- Spring:
- bird's-foot violet
- blue-eyed grass
- puccoon
- downy phlox
- wild strawberry
- Canada anemone
- yellow star grass
Extent: 1 sheet
Landscape with Houses and Trees (3.24647)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustration of a hilly landscape with five houses, pasture, fences, farm land, a lake, a stream, a bridge, roads, a water wheel, and many trees. Trees are drawn to indicate general shape and each tree is identified. NATURE STUDY GUILD is stamped in purple on piece of board and glued at top right.
Trees depicted:
White pine -- Spruce -- Austrian pine -- Pear -- Sassafras -- Sumac -- Black willows -- Box elder --
Apple -- Red cedar -- Norway pine -- Yellow birch -- Black walnut -- Sour gum -- White cedar -- Poison sumac -- Tamarack -- White ash -- Chestnut oak -- Blue ash -- Red oak -- Beech -- Shagbark hickory -- Mockernut hickory -- Red maple -- Pignut hickory -- Wafer ash -- River birch -- Buckeye --
Shingle oak -- Bur oak -- Linden -- Cherry birch -- Shadbush -- Hill's oak -- White oak -- Sugar maple -- Black locust -- Black cherry -- Large-toothed poplar -- Cottonwood -- Waahoo -- Trembling aspen -- Witch-hazel -- Flowering dogwood -- Ironwood -- Chestnut -- Pin cherry -- Choke cherry -- Wild crab -- Wild plum -- Redbud -- Water beech -- Balm of Gilead -- Red mulberry -- Tulip tree -- Sycamore -- Bitternut hickory -- Slippery elm -- Butternut -- Swamp white -- Kentucky coffee tree -- Red ash -- Honey locust -- Hawthorne -- Lombardy poplars -- European alder -- Black ash -- Osage orange hedge -- Ailanthus -- Paw-paw -- Hackberry -- White birch -- American elm -- Catalpa -- Norway maple -- Weeping willow -- White wilow -- Pin oak -- Horse chestnut -- Mountian ash -- Pussy willow -- Fir -- Ginkgo -- Silver maple -- Scotch pine -- Silver poplar
Extent: 1 sheet
One of the first black topping road jobs done in the Arboretum (3.2939)
Date: 1930sType: Photographic image
Description:Man and machine blacktopping roads. One of the first black topping road jobs done in the Arboretum.
Extent: 1 photograph
Three men (Roy Burnside at right) moving huge root balled tree (3.2949)
Date: 1930sType: Photographic image
Description:Three men (Roy Burnside at right, others unknown) moving huge root balled tree
Extent: 1 photograph
Eight men (Roy Burnside at bottom left seated) seated on and around root balled tree on sled in winter snow (3.2950)
Date: 1930sType: Photographic image
Description:Eight men (Roy Burnside at bottom left seated) seated on and around root balled tree on sled in winter snow
Extent: 1 photograph
Balled roots of tree on sled with pulley and chain in winter for tree transplanting (3.2953)
Date: 1930sType: Photographic image
Description:Balled roots of tree on sled with pulley and chain in winter for tree transplanting
Extent: 1 negative
Crabapples being transplanted with frozen balls (3.2956)
Date: 1930sType: Photographic image
Description:Crabapple trees with frozen balls for transplanting in winter
Extent: 1 negative
Gravel road curving through trees (3.2972)
Date: 1930sCreator: Oates, Howard Arthur
Type: Photographic image
Description:Gravel road curving through trees
Extent: 1 photograph
View from big oak area east of Lakeview Drive looking over Lake Marmo & Spruce Hill to Tate Woods in distance (3.3014)
Date: 1930sType: Photographic image
Description:View from big oak area east of Lakeview Drive looking over Lake Marmo & Spruce Hill to Tate Woods in distance
Extent: 1 photograph
Meadow Road as it comes out of woods, looking southeast (3.3015)
Date: 1930 – 1935Type: Photographic image
Description:Meadow Road as it comes out of woods, looking southeast
Extent: 1 photograph
The Waterfall (3.3031)
Date: 1930sCreator: Hartshorn, Ken
Type: Photographic image
Description:The Waterfall - the rapids built in DuPage River to raise water level in Lake Jopamaca. These were made from concrete with stones set in while soft. Later replaced by dam with gates to control water level. Used to see large northern pike go up over the rapids in Spring
Extent: 1 photograph
Lake Marmo, looking southeast (3.3033)
Date: 1930sType: Photographic image
Description:Lake Marmo, looking southeast, bridge and dam in the distance
Extent: 1 photograph
Footbridge over Lake Jopamaca leading into Ozarks Collection (3.3038)
Date: 1930sType: Photographic image
Description:Footbridge over Lake Jopamaca leading into Ozarks Collection
Extent: 1 photograph
Winter Scene (3.3068)
Date: 1934Creator: Streator, Sidney V.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Winter Scene
Extent: 1 photograph
Concrete bridge (3.3082)
Date: 1930sCreator: Streator, Sidney V.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Concrete bridge
Extent: 1 photograph
View Of Meadow Through Trees (3.3083)
Date: 1930sCreator: Streator, Sidney V.
Type: Photographic image
Description:View Of Meadow Through Trees
Extent: 1 photograph
View of Thornhill (3.31060)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustration of view up the hill to the Thornhill Education Center at The Morton Arboretum, with bare trees and mushrooms in foreground, clouds and trees behind building in background, and an ink border.
Illustration used as image for printed notecards.
Extent: 1 sheet
Joy Morton, formal portrait (3.31648)
Date: circa 1920 – 1939Creator: Moffett Russell
Type: Photographic image
Description:Formal portrait of Joy Morton in his later years.
Extent: 1 photograph
Man using corn binder in field at Lisle Farms (3.31688)
Date: 1930sType: Photographic image
Description:Lisle Farms Early Operations - Man using corn binder in field at Lisle Farms
Extent: 1 negative filmstrip
Harvesting crops in field at Lisle Farms (3.31690)
Date: 1930sType: Photographic image
Description:Lisle Farms Early Operations - Farming equipment in field harvesting crops
Extent: 1 negative filmstrip