Undated: Sterling Morton to C. E. Godshalk (3.105040)
Creator: Morton, Sterling
Type: Document
Description:Handwritten note from Sterling Morton to C. E. Godshalk saying they should start calling the new lake Arbor Lake and the village Arbor Dale.
Extent: 1 sheet
1956/08/20: Clarence Godshalk to Mr. Howard T. Fisher and Associates (3.107127)
Date: August 20 1956Creator: Godshalk, Clarence E.
Type: Document
Description:A letter from Clarence Godshalk to Mr. Howard T. Fisher and Associates regarding the creation of Arbor Lake.
Extent: 1 sheet
1958/02/26: Clarence Godshalk to Dr. Harlow B. Mills (3.107128)
Date: February 26 1958Creator: Godshalk, Clarence E.
Type: Document
Description:A letter from Godshalk to Mills regarding the creation and stocking of Arbor Lake, Additionally, questions regarding what toxicant can be applied to the water to kill carp.
Extent: 2 pages
1958/03/03: Harlow B. Mills to Clarence Godshalk (3.107129)
Date: March 3 1958Creator: Mills, Harlow B.
Type: Document
Description:Harlow B. Mills letter to Clarence Godshalk regarding the best material to destroy fish (carp) and whether it is necessary to put in any water plants or supplementary materials for fish food.
Extent: 1 sheet
1958/03/05: Clarence E. Godshalk to Harlow B. Mills (3.107130)
Date: March 5 1958Creator: Godshalk, Clarence E.
Type: Document
Description:A single-paragraph letter from Godshalk to Harlow regarding suggestions for the excavated lake that would become known as Arbor Lake.
Extent: 1 page
1960/04/06: Clarence Godshalk to George W. Bennett (3.107133)
Date: April 6 1960Creator: Godshalk, Clarence E.
Type: Document
Description:A letter from Godshalk to Bennett of Fish & Wildlife in Urbana, Illinois, regarding the latter's recommendations for stocking and managing fish in Arbor Lake. A specific question about how to handle the "large schools of young bullheads" in the lake in the summer of 1959.
Extent: 1 page
1960/08/04: Clarence Godshalk to Homer Buck (3.107134)
Date: August 4 1960Creator: Godshalk, Clarence E.
Type: Document
Description:A letter from Godshalk to Buck and Buck's reply to Godshalk with recommendations for three distinct species of fish to stock in Arbor Lake (and potentially others) that would fare well in the Lisle area.
Extent: 2 pages
1960/09/29: Homer Buck to Clarence Godshalk (3.107135)
Date: September 29 1960Creator: Godshalk, Clarence E.
Type: Document
Description:A proposal from Homer Buck of State Natural History Survey Division to Clarence Godshalk regarding a research project focused on Meadow Lake, Lake Marmo, and Arbor Lake, with Godshalk's response that the proposal as outlined looked good to him.
Extent: 2 pages
1961/01/27: C. E. Godshalk to Dr. George Bennett (3.107136)
Date: January 27 1961Creator: Godshalk, Clarence E.
Type: Document
Description:A letter from Clarence Godshalk to Dr. George W. Bennett regarding the number of fish species caught in Arboretum's Arbor Lake in 1960. The data sheet lists the names of the people who caught the fish, and the size and species of the catches in the months of July and August, 1960.
Extent: 2 pages
1962/06/14: Homer Buck to Clarence Godshalk (3.107137)
Date: June 14 1962Creator: Godshalk, Clarence E.
Type: Document
Description:A letter from Homer Buck, associate aquatic biologist with the State Natural History Survey Division in Urbana, regarding its stocking of fish in Lake Marmo and sampling of the fish population in Arbor Lake. the document spells out the success (or failure) of the project and potential next steps for the following year. Clarence Godshalk's brief reply is also included. A single page with the stocking of largemouth bass and brown bullheads is included in Buck's letter.
Extent: 4 pages
Observations on Arbor Lake (3.10789)
Date: December 21 1977 – March 20 1978Creator: DeSain, Carol
Type: Article
Landscape Features of The Morton Arboretum (3.11007)
Date: September 21 – December 20 1990Creator: Hootman, Rick, Kelsey, Pat
Type: Article
Arbor Lake under construction (3.3013)
Date: 1957Type: Photographic image
Description:Arbor Lake under construction
Extent: 1 photograph
Geese sitting on snow covered Arbor Lake in winter (3.31676)
Date: 1977Type: Photographic image
Description:Geese sitting on snow covered Arbor Lake in winter
Extent: 1 negative
View of Arbor Lake from behind wire fence in winter (3.31677)
Date: 1977Type: Photographic image
Description:View of Arbor Lake from behind wire fence in winter
Extent: 1 negative
Snow covered Arbor Lake with geese, view from behind wire fence in winter (3.31678)
Date: 1977Type: Photographic image
Description:Snow covered Arbor Lake with geese, view from behind wire fence in winter
Extent: 1 negative
Floating ice in Arbor Lake, closeup view (3.31679)
Date: 1977Type: Photographic image
Description:Floating ice in Arbor Lake, closeup view in winter
Extent: 1 negative
Arbor Lake partially obscured by trees with fall color (3.31680)
Creator: Gutenstein, Hanns
Type: Photographic image
Description:Arbor Lake partially obscured by trees with fall color
Extent: 1 slide
Arbor Lake looking toward I-88 area (3.31682)
Date: April 1968Type: Photographic image
Description:Looking across frozen Arbor Lake with geese sitting on ice
Extent: 1 slide
Arbor Lake water abstract (3.31683)
Date: May 1983Type: Photographic image
Description:Abstract reflection of trees with fall color in Arbor Lake
Extent: 1 slide
Distant view of Arbor Lake under construction (3.31684)
Date: 1957Type: Photographic image
Description:Arbor Lake Construction
Extent: 1 slide
Tree reflections on Arbor Lake (3.31685)
Date: January 1984Type: Photographic image
Description:Fall color displayed through tree reflections on Arbor Lake
Extent: 1 slide
Snow-covered Arbor Lake (3.31686)
Date: August 1978Creator: Stickney, William S.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Snow-covered Arbor Lake
Extent: 1 slide
Arbor Lake with staff houses in background (3.31780)
Date: 1959Type: Photographic image
Description:Arbor Lake with staff houses in background
Extent: 1 negative
Arbor Lake with Arbordale housing development in background (3.36466)
Date: 1958Type: Photographic image
Description:Arbor Lake with Arbordale housing development in background
Extent: 1 negative
Arbor Lake partially filled with Arbordale houses in background (3.36468)
Date: 1958Type: Photographic image
Description:Arbor Lake partially filled with Arbordale houses in background
Extent: 1 negative
Arbor Lake excavation, men at work with equipment (3.37472)
Date: 1957Type: Photographic image
Description:Arbor Lake excavation, men at work with equipment
Extent: 1 negative
Arbor Lake excavation, equipment and dump truck (3.37473)
Date: 1957Type: Photographic image
Description:Arbor Lake excavation, equipment and dump truck
Extent: 1 negative
Arbor Lake excavation, man operating equipment in partially filled lake (3.37474)
Date: 1957Type: Photographic image
Description:Arbor Lake excavation, man operating equipment in partially filled lake
Extent: 1 negative
Arbor Lake excavation, man operating equipment to the left of partially filled lake (3.37475)
Date: 1957Type: Photographic image
Description:Arbor Lake excavation, man operating equipment to the left of partially filled lake
Extent: 1 negative
Arbor Lake excavation, man operating equipment in partially filled lake (3.37476)
Date: 1957Type: Photographic image
Description:Arbor Lake excavation, man operating equipment in partially filled lake
Extent: 1 negative
Arbor Lake excavation, mounds of dirt to the left of partially filled lake (3.37477)
Date: 1957Type: Photographic image
Description:Arbor Lake excavation, mounds of dirt to the left of partially filled lake
Extent: 1 negative
Arbor Lake excavation, men and equipment at work (3.37478)
Date: 1957Type: Photographic image
Description:Arbor Lake excavation, men and equipment at work
Extent: 1 negative
Arbor Lake excavation looking southwest (3.37583)
Date: October 1957Creator: Gall, Richard
Type: Photographic image
Description:Arbor Lake excavation looking southwest
Extent: 1 negative
Arbor Lake excavation (3.37584)
Date: October 1957Creator: Gall, Richard
Type: Photographic image
Description:Arbor Lake excavation
Extent: 1 negative
Arbor Lake excavation, men and equipment at work (3.37585)
Date: October 1957Creator: Gall, Richard
Type: Photographic image
Description:Arbor Lake excavation, men and equipment at work
Extent: 1 negative