Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) research, pollen grains of (L) Acer saccharum and (R) Rhus glabra (3.4580)
Creator: Crowley Jr., Webster R.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) research, pollen grains of (L) Acer saccharum and (R) Rhus glabra
Shows porous nature of the veiny (reticulate) surface (exine) between the grooves (culpi)
Extent: 1 photograph
Web Crowley at instrument in laboratory (3.4527)
Creator: Kohout, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Web Crowley at instrument in laboratory
Extent: 1 photograph
Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) research, male flowers of (L) Acer pennsylvanicum and (R) Rhus aromatica (3.4576)
Creator: Crowley Jr., Webster R.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) research, male flowers of (L) Acer pennsylvanicum and (R) Rhus aromatica
Lobed intrastaminal disk with remnants of stamens appear in between lobes
Flowers are not complete because parts were removed to show disk
Extent: 1 photograph
Webster Crowley's Arboretum residence at Arbordale, moved from east side (3.38466)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Webster Crowley's Arboretum residence at Arbordale, moved from east side
Extent: 1 photograph
Web Crowley, portrait (3.4870)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Web Crowley, portrait
Extent: 1 photograph
Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) research, pollen grains of (L) Acer pseudoplatanus and (R) Rhus typhina (3.4578)
Creator: Crowley Jr., Webster R.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) research, pollen grains of (L) Acer pseudoplatanus and (R) Rhus typhina
Shows the spaghetti-like ridges (striations) of the surface (exine) between the grooves (colpi)
Extent: 1 photograph
Web Crowley and woman measuring large tree (3.4506)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Web Crowley and woman measuring large tree
Extent: 1 photograph
Clarence Godshalk with Webster Crowley studying Dutch Elm Disease (3.3798)
Date: 1950sType: Photographic image
Description:Clarence Godshalk with Webster Crowley studying Dutch Elm Disease
Extent: 1 photograph
Clarence Godshalk with Webster Crowley studying Dutch Elm Disease (3.3539)
Date: 1950sType: Photographic image
Description:Clarence Godshalk with Webster Crowley studying Dutch Elm Disease
Extent: 1 photograph
1954/01/19: Sterling Morton to Clarence E. Godshalk (3.101907)
Date: January 19 1954Creator: Morton, Sterling
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Sterling Morton to Clarence E. Godshalk. He discusses in detail his thoughts on a proposed demonstration ground for garden equipment. He suggests 50-100 acres. The next step is to ask the Manufacturers Association to determine the numbers for roto-tilling, row planting, hedge trimming, etc. The demonstrations would be popular and a big draw for Morton Arboretum. Tents, pavilions, food concessions would be likely handled by the Manufacturers Association. Entry fees should cover the expenses and a reasonable amount for upkeep between the twice yearly demonstrations. He's pleased that Crowley and Tyznik are helping with the administrative burden. He likes the Porter-Cable clipper for heavier branches. He'll keep the Skilsaw for lighter trimming. He's "enthusiastic about the garden instrument demo," thinking that this practical work is worth more to our population than any number of learned digests on plant genetics.
Extent: 3 sheets
1954/02/02: Clarence E. Godshalk to Sterling Morton (3.101910)
Date: February 2 1954Creator: Godshalk, Clarence E.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Clarence E. Godshalk to Sterling Morton. He further explains the plans for Research Projects and the numbering framework they established to index the projects. It was purposely very broad to accommodate future ideas and plans. He cites examples, hinting at the possible future need for a plant pathologist on staff. They are experimenting with various rates of root cutting and girdling on ash, red oaks, and white oaks, also factoring in a variety of sizes of new holes for transplanting. He looks forward to hearing from Mr. Drury about California tree research. He details their plans for a small Field Day Project to encompass the Chicago area. Winter classes are being taught by Mrs. Watts, Nordine, Kammerer, Tyznik and Godshalk, with 175 attendees on Monday. Using Arboretum men, they planted 11 pine trees at his Lake Forest property, with more planned for Spring. Ted Smith asked for $3.50 for the planting work. A temporary workroom for Crowley and Tyznik was created at South Farm. Godshalk would like to purchase for his Wisconsin cabin, the 1929 Ford, and a small water heater and the heatilator that were salvaged from the old cottage in the bird sanctuary.
Extent: 3 sheets
1954/02/17: C. E. Godshalk to Sterling Morton (3.84470)
Date: February 17 1954Creator: Godshalk, Clarence E.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from C. E. Godshalk to Sterling Morton saying he will take a look at the James King Home for men, then write to Mr. McClave. Due to the mild weather they have been getting, they may be able to do some planting in sod areas. Tyznik, Crowley and Godshalk have started a research project at the old Duel Farm to show people how they can handle woodland properties—keeping one naturalistic, the other one semi-natural. He describes the land around his vacation home in Wisconsin. He looks forward to getting away from people for a while and relax there. He believes Morton covered the subject very well for the proposed booklet. Mrs. Cudahy and the Simonds children believe that the general plan of the Arboretum was worked out by Mr. Simonds. However, Godshalk says not much of the present Arboretum layout is related to Simonds’ original plan. He is enclosing a plan with the things Simonds planned marked in red. Godshalk recalls the spring of 1922 when Simonds shipped 138, 000 plants to the Arboretum without a single planting plan to work with. Simonds plans were for a beautiful park, not an Arboretum. Teuscher, Kammerer and Godshalk all had more to do with the present day Arboretum layout than did Simonds. Godshalk has kept an accurate diary of the Arboretum’s development. Simonds was ultimately fired by Joy Morton.
Extent: 3 sheets
1955/08/15: C. E. Godshalk to Sterling Morton (3.84491)
Date: August 15 1955Creator: Godshalk, Clarence E.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from C. E. Godshalk to Sterling Morton describing his trip after the AABGA convention. He traveled to San Jose stopping at the Calif. Poly. Tech. Inst., the redwoods in Big Sur, and Mr. Hartman's nurseries in San Jose. The next day he visited the Saratoga Foundation seeing the work being done on improving plants. Mr. Raven took Godshalk to Stanford where they saw the plant physiology work being done there. He went on to San Francisco to the Agricultural Research Laboratories where the Arboretum has sent soil and plant samples to be analyzed. He spent the next day in Placerville where they are doing splendid work in hybridizing. On Wednesday, he went to the University of California fruit experiment station in Davis. He talks about the flame photometer being used there; Godshalk would like to get one for the Arboretum which they could use to compare Dutch elm trees. He suggests possibly using unused money in Morton's chairman's fund to purchase it. If they purchase the machine, he will send Mr. Crowley to Davis to learn how to best use it. He briefly updates him on work being done around the Arboretum. He's glad Morton and Mrs. Morton enjoyed his talk. He's grateful to the two of them for their hospitality in California. He'll get busy on testing the crawling sprinklers.
Extent: 4 sheets
1955/08/26: Clarence E. Godshalk to Sterling Morton (3.104967)
Date: August 26 1955Creator: Godshalk, Clarence E.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Clarence E. Godshalk to Sterling Morton. He is pleased to hear that the Arboretum will be getting the Gravely tractor that Morton has tested on his property in Santa Barbara. He hopes that Morton's fall will not trouble him. For a 70 year old man, he says that Morton is doing very well. He reminisces about Joy Morton's 70th birthday party. Godshalk also tells stories of his own father, still doing some farm work at 82. The first floor will be poured soon, brick work after that, and steel men will install framework for the Lecture Room. The men are taking down the old chimney to prepare for removing the roof. He and Web Crowley will see the Beckman Flame Photometer equipment in Chicago. He learned from Dr. Carter of Edgar Rex of the New Jersey State Department of Agriculture who might be doing research "along the line we propose on Dutch Elm Disease and Oak Wilt." Carter was "excited about the prospects of our nutrient studies for the pathologists are about convinced there is little more to be done for Dutch Elm Disease." Ed Baker mentioned a new machine that detects changes in leaf color and structure that he will investigate. The men are getting the building sites prepared at South Farm. Godshalk anticipates a very busy fall.
Extent: 2 sheets
1955/08/28: Sterling Morton to Clarence E. Godshalk (3.104968)
Date: August 28 1955Creator: Morton, Sterling
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Sterling Morton to Clarence E. Godshalk. He describes a way to easily change cutting bars on mowers. Godshalk could borrow a flame photometer from the new Morton Salt lab in Woodstock, [Illinois].
Extent: 2 sheets
1955/09/16: Clarence E. Godshalk to Sterling Morton (3.104971)
Date: September 16 1955Creator: Godshalk, Clarence E.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Clarence E. Godshalk to Sterling Morton. He is enclosing a letter that Webster Crowley received from Dr. Howard who is studying Dutch elm disease. He has nothing yet to be tested at Morton Arboretum. The new roof has been finished at the Administration Building with no water getting in. A great relief for all.
Extent: 1 sheet
1956/01/18: C. E. Godshalk to Sterling Morton (3.84499)
Date: January 18 1956Creator: Godshalk, Clarence E.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from C .E. Godshalk to Sterling Morton updating him on the construction going on around the Arboretum. They should soon know how the plans for the Toll Road will affect the Arboretum. Godshalk would like to interview Gordon Scott for the open position in public relations. Mr. Frye of Arthur Anderson & Company streamlined the bookkeeping. Godshalk then discusses staffing changes he would like to make. He would like to add a record keeping position. He hasn't yet had time to make up an order for plants for Morton's place but will soon do so for an early spring delivery.
Extent: 2 sheets
1957/02/01: Richard J. Campana to C. E. Godshalk (3.105016)
Date: February 1 1957Creator: Campana, Richard J.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Richard J. Campana (Associate Plant Pathologist, State Natural History Survey Division) to C. E. Godshalk thanking him for the cooperation and hospitality shown to him by Godshalk, Gordon Scott, and Web Crowley during the series of lectures on Dutch elm disease. It appears the lectures were a success, and he looks forward to cooperating with The Morton Arboretum in education and research in the near future.
Extent: 1 sheet
1957/02/07: C. E. Godshalk to Sterling Morton (3.86023)
Date: February 7 1957Creator: Godshalk, Clarence E.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from C. E. Godshalk to Sterling Morton stating he would send the requested slides that afternoon or the next day. Godshalk has been busy working with bidders for the toll road who would like to purchase fill from the Arboretum and working to set a price for this fill. It looks like they will get a pretty good sum for the fill. The Arboretum purchased a home from Mr. Mraz and will have it moved to the Arboretum housing project for Crowley. Other houses will also be moved. The plants have been moved to Morton's Lake Forest home. Godshalk has been rethinking his suggestion for charging for admission and classes.
Extent: 2 sheets
1958/02/27: Sarah S. Weitz to The Morton Arboretum (3.93957)
Date: February 27 1958Creator: Weitz, Sarah S.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Sarah S. Weitz to the Morton Arboretum staff asking for information about Shad Blow [Amelanchier] trees and where to buy them. She also inquires about a chemical (DDT) spray for Elm trees to protect against Dutch Elm Disease and whether they advise using it. There is a handwritten note by E. L. Kammerer to 'check with Web.'
1958/03/25: Sterling Morton to Clarence E. Godshalk (3.105036)
Date: March 25 1958Creator: Morton, Sterling
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Sterling Morton to Clarence E. Godshalk. He has copies of the letters that Noel B. Wysong sent to Webster Crowley and Gordon Scott about the material they presented at the National Shade Tree Conference. In California, they have had a lot of rain, making everything very green, but also some flooded roads and slides.
Extent: 1 sheet
Magnolia acuminata (cucumbertree), flowers and leaves detail (3.63705)
Date: September 1964Creator: Crowley Jr., Webster R.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Magnolia acuminata (cucumbertree), closeup of two twig tips with green leaves and flowers, one with pale green tepals slightly open, another without tepals and showing yellow-green and reddish reproductive parts, amongst trees
Extent: 1 slide
The Morton Arboretum Quarterly V. 01 No. 03 (3.34464)
Date: September 21 – December 20 1965Type: Serial
Description:
- Outstanding Plants in Review (1-5)
- Planting a Small Tree (Up to one inch in diameter) (6-7)
- Rhus typhina L. dissecta Rehd. Cutleaf Staghorn Sumac: (Anacardiaceae) Cashew Family (8-9)
- Planning the Arboretum (10-12)
- Talking Turkey (13)
- Arboretum News and Notes (14-16)
(links to these articles can be found below under RELATED OBJECTS)
Extent: 16 pages
Planting a Small Tree (Up to one inch in diameter) (3.10458)
Date: September 21 – December 20 1965Creator: Crowley Jr., Webster R.
Type: Article
1965/09/24: [Evelyn Naser] to Suzette Morton Zurcher (3.85906)
Date: September 24 1965Creator: Naser, Evelyn M.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from [Evelyn Naser] to Suzette Morton Zurcher saying she hopes Mrs. Zurcher is having a wonderful time on her trip and hopes the weather has been nice. At the Arboretum, it has been rainy. Tea room business is poor. Plans for the Fall Festival are going well, but other than counting the reservations for the dinner, they have no way of knowing how many people will attend. The Quarterly and the folders have not yet arrived. She and Tony examined a new water cooler, and they both liked it. The bulletin board project is at a halt until Mrs. Zurcher returns due to a disagreement between Arnie and Naser. Naser believes Mr. Kettleman will do a good job. Mrs. Watts has lined up everyone for the Prairie Path Day on October 23. Twenty-five people will lead walks on various parts of the path for people with different interests. Ray got back last night and is anxious to tell Zurcher about his trip. The health inspectors inspected the Tea Room and had nothing but good words for it. Alma Greene's husband had brain surgery yesterday. It went well, but he is in pain and most uncomfortable. The Jens Jensen exhibit had to be sent on, so Tony is going to Whitnall Park to check out a mushroom exhibit they would be willing to loan the Arboretum; Naser wants an exhibit hung during the Fall Festival in case there is inclement weather.
Extent: 2 sheets
The Morton Arboretum Quarterly V. 01 No. 04 (3.34465)
Date: December 21 1965 – March 20 1966Type: Serial
Description:
- Remarkable Deciduous Trees of The Morton Arboretum: East Side of the Arboretum (1-5)
- Goose Pye for Dinner: Christmas with Some Great Naturalists (6-10)
- Arboretum News and Notes (11)
- Pinus parviflora Siebold and Zuccarini, Japanese White Pine: (Pinaceae) Pine Family (12-13)
- A Greeting to Chicago's New Botanic Garden (14)
- Index Volume One (14-16)
Extent: 16 pages
The Morton Arboretum Quarterly V. 02 No. 01 (3.34508)
Date: March 21 – June 20 1966Type: Serial
Description:
- After Elms - What? (1-7)
- European Alder, Black Alder. Alnus glutinosa: Birch Family (Betulaceae) (8-9)
- An Imported Problem: Dutch Elm Disease, 1918 to 1966 (10-12)
- Christmas Bird Census, 1965 (13-15)
- Climatological Summary (14)
- Arboretum News and Notes (16)
Extent: 16 pages
An Imported Problem: Dutch Elm Disease, 1918 to 1966 (3.10473)
Date: March 21 – June 20 1966Creator: Crowley Jr., Webster R.
Type: Article
The Morton Arboretum Quarterly V. 02 No. 02 (3.34509)
Date: June 21 – September 20 1966Type: Serial
Description:
- Flowering Crabapples You Should Know (17-22)
- Tyrannopolis vs. A Place to Live: The First Oikos Conference (23-25)
- As Nature Shows Them (26-27)
- Pagoda Dogwood, Alternate-leaved Dogwood. Cornus alternifolia: Dogwood Family (Cornaceae) (28-29)
- Arboretum News and Notes/ Climatological Summary (30-32)
Extent: 16 pages
Alnus glutinosa (L.) Gaertn. (European black alder), female flowers (3.83348)
Date: February 1967Creator: Crowley Jr., Webster R.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Alnus glutinosa (L.) Gaertn. (European black alder), pistillate flowers; twigs
Extent: 1 slide
Alnus glutinosa (L.) Gaertn. (European black alder), catkins and fruits (3.83325)
Date: February 1967Creator: Crowley Jr., Webster R.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Alnus glutinosa (L.) Gaertn. (European black alder), current year's male catkins; newly ripening fruits; emerging leaves
Extent: 1 slide
Alnus glutinosa (L.) Gaertn. (European black alder), catkins (3.83328)
Date: February 1967Creator: Crowley Jr., Webster R.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Alnus glutinosa (L.) Gaertn. (European black alder), male catkins; tiny fruits beginning to form at top of slide
Extent: 1 slide
The Morton Arboretum Quarterly V. 03 No. 03 (3.34552)
Date: September 21 – December 20 1967Type: Serial
Description:
- Confusing Viburnums (33-39)
- A Remarkable Plant (40-41)
- Ten Windows (42-45)
- Amur Maple, Acer ginnal: Maple Family (Aceraceae) (46-47)
- Arboretum News and Notes/ Climatological Summary (48)
Extent: 16 pages
The Morton Arboretum Quarterly V. 03 No. 04 (3.34553)
Date: December 21 1967 – March 20 1968Type: Serial
Description:
- The Arboretum as a Cultural Institution (49-53)
- Winter Injury (54-58)
- Climatological Summary (57)
- The Lookout (59)
- Sycamore, Buttonwood, Platanus occidentalis: Sycamore Family (Platanaceae) (60-61)
- Arboretum News and Notes (62)
- Three Year Index: 1965-1967 (62-64)
Extent: 16 pages