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Arboretum Landscape Teaching Aid Series: Three Norway Spruces (3.19506)
Date: 1940 – 1960Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Primarily textual teaching aid depicting Arboretum landscape. This material describes the three Norway spruce trees planted by Joy Morton, Wirt Morton, and Sterling Morton, including a pasted Arboretum map of their location on the grounds.
Header: THREE Norway Spruces [image of three stylized trees] were planted by THREE Mortons / JOY MORTON / WIRT MORTON / STERLING MORTON
Text and illustrations from top to bottom:
- [Depicted in stylized scroll] THE RECORD: Three Tall Trees [Illustration of three trees] On Forest Road [followed by an arrow pointing downward to map below]
- map: the 3 spruces [arrow pointing downward to spot on map where trees are located, on Forest Road]. Label in lower right: GUIDE MAP of THE MORTON ARBORETUM LISLE, ILLINOIS
- text below map: *these trees are one answer to the ever occurring question: HOW FAST DO TREES GROW?
Extent: 1 sheet
1945/02/16: Sterling Morton to Joseph Cudahy (3.99604)
Date: February 16 1945Creator: Morton, Sterling
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Sterling Morton to Joseph Cudahy in response to ideas put forth by Clarence E. Godshalk. He is not in favor of having livestock on site. He feels a tea shop would be a nuisance, but necessary. He thinks the Arboretum doesn't need to have flower shows to attract visitors. He would like to get Holabird to plan housing for employees on the grounds. His father liked Henry Ford's ideas for employee farmsteads. Sterling Morton shares his own idea in great detail for scientific research work in trees with a research staff and facilities, much as Arnold Arboretum does in a different climate and soil. He thinks that Godshalk has solved traffic issues, although he's sorry that his father didn't require the state to put in an underpass at the hard road. He and Wirt showed Clements and Hardy around the Arboretum.
Extent: 2 sheets