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1940s: Director to Gentlemen (3.107126)
Date: 1940sCreator: Holabird, John A.
Type: Document
Description:Correspondence between several people, with Godschalk copied, regarding stocking a new pond at the Arboretum with fish.
Extent: 3 sheets
1946: Itemized Statement of Receipts and Expenses (3.109012)
Date: November 18 1946Creator: The Morton Arboretum
Type: Document
Description:A 2 page listing of Receipts and Expenses, arranged by check number, covering such items as postage, bank fees, stationery costs, subscriptions, donations, and Crab Apple Bulletin.
Extent: 3 sheets
1946/05/21: Leon Croizat to Jean Cudahy (3.109062)
Date: May 21 1946Creator: Croizat, Leon
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Leon Croizat to Jean Morton Cudahy detailing his qualifications as a botanist and listing his references.
Extent: 2 sheets
1946/06/08: C. E. Godshalk to Leon Croizat (3.109063)
Date: June 8 1946Creator: Godshalk, Clarence E.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from C. E. Godshalk to Leon Croizat stating that Mrs. Cudahy passed along his letter to Godshalk.
Extent: 1 sheet
1946/06/17: [Donald Wyman] to C. E. Godshalk (3.109064)
Date: June 17 1946Type: Document
Description:Letter from [Donald Wyman] to C.E. Godshalk stating Leon Croizat's botanical qualifications.
Extent: 1 sheet
1946/06/24: C. E. Godshalk to Leon Croizat (3.109066)
Date: June 24 1946Creator: Godshalk, Clarence E.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from C. E. Godshalk to Leon Croizat updating him on employment information.
Extent: 1 sheet
1946/10/31: C. E. Godshalk to Blue Cross Plan for Hospital Care (3.109071)
Date: October 31 1946Creator: Godshalk, Clarence E.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from C. E. Godshalk to Blue Cross Plan for Hospital Care updating them on a policy.
Extent: 1 sheet
1946/10/31: Clarence E. Godshalk to Blue Cross Plan for Hospital Care (3.109095)
Date: October 31 1946Creator: Godshalk, Clarence E.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Clarence E. Godshalk to Blue Cross Plan for Hospital Care regarding the birth of an employee's child.
Extent: 1 sheet
Letter from Jens Jensen to William Beckstrom (3.1233)
Date: October 8 1946Creator: Jensen, Jens
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Jens Jensen to William Beckstrom
Copy of letter from Jens Jensen to Genevieve Gillette (3.1703)
Date: September 28 1946Creator: Jensen, Jens
Type: Document
Description:Copy of letter from Jens Jensen to Genevieve Gillette
Copy of letter from Jens Jensen to Genevieve Gillette (3.1704)
Date: October 1 1946Creator: Jensen, Jens
Type: Document
Description:Copy of letter from Jens Jensen to Genevieve Gillette
Forest Nature Trail Guide: Forest Nature Trail worksheet (3.24001)
Date: 1946Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Document
Description:Commercial reproduction of the FOREST NATURE TRAIL worksheet planned to accompany The Morton Arboretum Forest Nature Trail Guide booklet. The worksheet was designed to be used along with the trail guide while walking the trail.
Instructions at the top read: FILL BLANKS AT RIGHT WITH LETTER YOU SELECT - Questions based on your observation and the Trail Guide Booklet
Left border is labeled "Posts" and has illustrations of numbered tree stumps 1- 46, ending with a marker that reads "End of Trail".
Left center panel includes text of questions that match up with single posts or groupings of posts to the left.
Right center panel includes letter choices with illustrations and names of various flora and fauna along the trail, such as leaves, rocks, flowers, seeds, animals, animals tracks, needles, and trees.
Right border is labeled "Answers" and has answer boxes to be filled in with appropriate letters, ending with the notation, "If you are successful, this will tell you so".
Extent: 1 sheet
Evergreen Nature Trail Guide: details of evergreens along evergreen trail map and worksheet (3.24010)
Date: 1940sCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Document
Description:Commercial reproduction of the Details of Evergreens Along Evergreen Trail map and work sheet planned to accompany The Morton Arboretum Evergreen Trail Guide booklet.
The illustrated map includes names of plants along the trail as well as numbers referring to explanations in the Guide booklet. Features an inset map of the Arboretum labeled "Detail of Arboretum Map" in bottom left and a work sheet section at top right titled "DETAILS of EVERGREENS along EVERGREEN TRAIL (about half-size)." To the right of the title, instuctions read: "The numbers refer to marked specimens. The spaces are for you to fill with names." Below are illustrations of various Evergreen needle types that replicate the illustrations found in "A KEY TO THE EVERGREENS ALONG THIS TRAIL" on the back cover of the trail guide booklet, separated into four categories: 1) Deciduous 2) Scale-like needles, or awl-shaped needles, or both 3) Separate needles 4) Needles in bundles
Extent: 1 sheet
Forest Nature Trail Guide: Forest Nature Trail worksheet (original) (3.24638)
Date: 1946Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Document
Description:Original illustrations and layout of the FOREST NATURE TRAIL worksheet planned to accompany The Morton Arboretum Forest Nature Trail Guide booklet. Key lines included. The worksheet was designed to be used along with the trail guide while walking the trail.
Instructions at the top read: FILL BLANKS AT RIGHT WITH LETTER YOU SELECT - Questions based on your observation and the Trail Guide Booklet
Left border is labeled "Posts" and has illustrations of numbered tree stumps 1- 46, ending with a marker that reads "End of Trail".
Left center panel includes text of questions that match up with single posts or groupings of posts to the left.
Right center panel includes letter choices with illustrations and names of various flora and fauna along the trail, such as leaves, rocks, flowers, seeds, animals, animals tracks, needles, and trees.
Right border is labeled "Answers" and has answer boxes to be filled in with appropriate letters, ending with the notation, "If you are successful, this will tell you so".
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
Evergreen Nature Trail Guide: evergreen trail map and work sheet (3.24663)
Date: 1940sCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Document
Description:Original illustrations and layout for the Evergreen Trail Map and Work Sheet planned to accompany The Morton Arboretum Evergreen Trail Guide booklet. Signed "by M. T. Watts" in bottom right corner.
Work sheet in top right corner included to test your conifer knowledge. Bottom left list of plants along the trail used in conjunction with worksheet in top right corner.
Illustrated map includes names of plants along the trail as well as numbers referring to explanations in the Guide booklet.
Extent: 1 sheet
Transcript of presentation written for the Illinois Nurserymen's Association (3.64475)
Date: 1920 – 1959Creator: Teuscher, Henry
Type: Document
Description:Talk given to the Illinois Nurserymen's Association describing the Morton Arboretum and it's mission. It stresses the importance of shared information and how the Arboretum is not in competition with the nurseries in the area.
1946/02/27: C. E. Godshalk to Robert Pyle (3.84413)
Date: February 27 1946Creator: Godshalk, Clarence E.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from C. E Godshalk to Robert Pyle stating he has not talked to Mark Morton about the United Horticulture for the United States. Morton is in the process of selling his farms and farm equipment, and he is very busy. When he is free and in the mood to consider something new, he will share the literature Pyle gave him.
Extent: 1 sheet
1946/02/18: Robert Pyle to C. E. Godshalk (3.84414)
Date: February 18 1946Creator: Pyle, Robert
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Robert Pyle (United Horticulture for the United States) to C. E. Godshalk asking him if he has had a chance to talk to Mark Morton about the United Horticulture for the United States. He had hoped to make a trip to Florida, and he plans to write to Mrs. Cudahy.
Extent: 1 sheet
1946/06/08: C. E. Godshalk to Mark Morton (3.84415)
Date: June 8 1946Creator: Godshalk, Clarence E.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from C. E. Godshalk to Mark Morton stating Mr. and Mrs. Cudahy were here yesterday and brought a report recently given by Dr. Merrill of the Arnold Arboretum in which he gives information about Mr. Rehder's book to which the Morton Arboretum contributed. "The Rehder Bibliographic Index" is finished and a bid has been accepted for publication. Funds from the money invested in war bonds was used for this project.
Extent: 1 sheet
[1946]/09/14: Mark Morton to Frank Herrick (3.84416)
Date: September 14 1946Creator: Morton, Mark
Type: Document
Description:Note from Mark Morton to Frank Herrick acknowledging receipt of DuPage Co. Out of Doors [ ]. He said the poems are interesting and to send him ten copies with his bill. He writes to [Team] telling them to read these poems, especially pages 7 & 8.
Extent: 1 sheet
1946/10/01: C. E. Godshalk to Mark Morton (3.84417)
Date: October 1 1946Creator: Godshalk, Clarence E.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from C.E. Godshalk to Mark Morton saying he had seen the write-up about the English Oak in Wheaton published in the Tribune. Godshalk had at one time tried to buy the tree for the Arboretum. The Tribune correspondent had called him with an incorrect location and tree identification. Godshalk corrected his information and told him the Arboretum also has English Oaks on the property, but that fact was not put in the article.
Record includes a newspaper clipping about an English Oak, believed to be 40 years old, that is thriving in the Midwest. Handwritten on clipping: "Godshalk-Did you know about this? MM"
Extent: 2 sheets
1946/03/29: Sterling Morton to C. E. Godshalk (3.84434)
Date: March 29 1946Creator: Morton, Sterling
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Sterling Morton to C. E. Godshalk asking him for labels for a list of trees and shrubs. He notes that in California, Southern hemisphere varieties must be used for winter blooming plants. They have invited Governor Green to visit the Arboretum during blossom season. He believes it is just as well the Arboretum will receive the publicity this visit would engender. Handwritten corrections were made to the listed plants.
Extent: 1 sheet
1946/04/13: C. E. Godshalk to Sterling Morton (3.84435)
Date: April 13 1946Creator: Godshalk, Clarence E.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from C. E. Godshalk to Sterling Morton apologizing for the delay in sending his plant labels. They corrected some of his plant names using the Standardized Plant Names list. The plants at the Arboretum were advanced for the season until several hard freezes checked their growth. The magnolias and the early flowering cherries and pears were most affected. He believes other spring flowering trees will provide an outstanding bloom. The new road is graded, and a contractor will apply the gravel. The spring classes were exceptionally well attended. A winter class on developing a small country place had 245 people enrolled, with at least 150 attending each of the ten sessions. He hopes Morton will be able to see the Arboretum at its best this spring.
Extent: 2 sheets
1946/04/26: Sterling Morton to C. E. Godshalk (3.84436)
Date: April 26 1946Creator: Morton, Sterling
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Sterling Morton to C. E. Godshalk thanking him for the plant labels he sent and saying he has added additional plants for which he will need labels. He is exceedingly interested in the Spring Program at the Arboretum and is sure it is of lasting benefit to many people. He hopes in the future the Arboretum will be able to devote a substantial amount of time to research, perhaps to tree breeding. He discusses possible arrangements for a visit from the governor to the Arboretum asking Godshalk to contact John Chapman at the governor's office.
Extent: 1 sheet
1946/05/02: C. E. Godshalk to Sterling Morton (3.84437)
Date: May 2 1946Creator: Godshalk, Clarence E.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from C. E. Godshalk to Sterling Morton saying he is happy Morton liked the labels. Mrs. Cudahy has told him she has written to Morton stating it would be better for the governor to visit in the fall or the next spring since the season is so advanced. The Arboretum has had one of its most beautiful seasons ever with respect to the crabapples and hawthorns, but the lilacs were severely damaged by a recent frost. He imagines they will be making use of the new road if the weather cooperates. He shall be glad to go around with Morton if Morton lets him know when he plans to visit.
Extent: 1 sheet
1946/06/26: Sterling Morton to C. E. Godshalk (3.84438)
Date: June 26 1946Creator: Morton, Sterling
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Sterling Morton to C. E. Godshalk sending Charles Francis Jenkins' warmest regards to him and Kammerer. Jenkins is president of the Philadelphia Historical Society. R. Norris Williams is the executive head. Morton hopes to get over to the Arboretum next Tuesday.
Extent: 1 sheet
1946/09/19: Sterling Morton to C. E. Godshalk (3.84439)
Date: September 19 1946Creator: Morton, Sterling
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Sterling Morton to C. E. Godshalk enclosing a letter from Fowler McCormick regarding the tractor Godshalk has on order. Has he received the tractor? Morton would like to respond to McCormick's letter.
Extent: 1 sheet
1946/09/20: C. E. Godshalk to Sterling Morton (3.84440)
Date: September 20 1946Creator: Godshalk, Clarence E.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from C. E. Godshalk to Sterling Morton returning a letter from Fowler McCormick that Morton had sent to him. Godshalk is happy that they will soon get the tractor as they can use it this fall. He is also enclosing a copy of the order.
Extent: 1 sheet
1946/09/25: Sterling Morton to C. E. Godshalk (3.84441)
Date: September 25 1946Creator: Morton, Sterling
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Sterling Morton to C. E. Godshalk stating that if the tractor doesn't arrive in a couple of weeks or he doesn't receive specific information from the dealer, let Morton know, and he will contact Mr. McCormick. Morton shall try to get out to the Arboretum this autumn to walk one of the nature trails, but since he is short of help at Lake Forest, his free time is spent out there.
Extent: 1 sheet
1946/10/14: Sterling Morton to C. E. Godshalk (3.84442)
Date: October 14 1946Creator: Morton, Sterling
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Sterling Morton to C. E. Godshalk enclosing a copy of a letter he wrote to Mrs. Cudahy about traffic conditions at the Arboretum. He didn't call on Godshalk since it appeared no one was home. They had an enjoyable walk away from the traffic. Everything seemed in excellent shape despite the drought.
Extent: 1 sheet
1946/10/14: Sterling Morton to Jean Cudahy (3.84443)
Date: October 14 1946Creator: Morton, Sterling
Type: Document
Description:Copy of letter from Sterling Morton to Jean Cudahy making suggestions for improving the roads at the Arboretum by paving them and potentially adding a connection from the old bridge to the main Thornhill entrance drive.
Extent: 1 sheet
1946/10/14: Sterling Morton to Jean Cudahy (3.84444)
Date: October 14 1946Creator: Morton, Sterling
Type: Document
Description:Original letter from Sterling Morton to Jean Cudahy making suggestions for improving the roads at the Arboretum by paving them and potentially adding a connection from the old bridge to the main Thornhill entrance drive. A P.S. states Mr. Baker of Joe's office delivered the package, and Morton will go through it in the next few days. It may contain items to be added to the large leather-covered album from the Arboretum. He's glad Joe is making progress.
Extent: 1 sheet
1946/10/18: C. E. Godshalk to Sterling Morton (3.84445)
Date: October 18 1946Creator: Godshalk, Clarence E.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from C. E. Godshalk to Sterling Morton responding to his suggestions for improving the roads and access to the Arboretum. The traffic officer, Gust, reported that traffic moved faster due to the new crossing of 53, but cars were still backed up on 53 and in the Arboretum on Sunday. Godshalk's trip to the Smokies was very pleasant, and the fall color was far superior there. He enjoyed seeing many plants growing wild there that they pamper at the Arboretum. The new caterpillar tractor with attachments should be delivered to the Arboretum by the middle of next week. He appreciates Morton's help in getting the tractor.
Extent: 2 sheets
1946/10/21: Sterling Morton to C. E. Godshalk (3.84446)
Date: October 21 1946Creator: Morton, Sterling
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Sterling Morton to C. E. Godshalk saying they will talk about the traffic matter the next time he sees Godshalk. He shares his ideas for alleviating traffic congestion on the roads around the Arboretum. He's only been to the Smokies in the spring and found it delightful.
Extent: 1 sheet
1946/04/24: Clarence Godshalk to Mrs. W. A. Rogers (3.84728)
Date: April 24 1946Creator: Godshalk, Clarence E.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Clarence Godshalk to Mrs. W. A. Rogers enclosing two letter from Mrs. Layne of Amsterdam, Holland. She indicates that she used to work for the Mortons and knows the Stantons. She is badly in need of clothing and supplies. We have sent two boxes of clothes and is sending her information to you if you want to help her too.
Extent: 1 page