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Ed Hedborn oral history interview, 2022 June 08 (3.101320)
Date: June 8 2022Type: Audio
Description:A recording of an oral history interview with Ed Hedborn, manager of plant records, conducted by Matt Lobdell, head of collections and curator. The interview took place on June 8, 2022 in the Cudahy Room in the Administration and Research Center at The Morton Arboretum.
The interview focuses on Hedborn's early experiences at The Morton Arboretum (late 1960s-1970s) including visiting the Arboretum as a student, his summer job working with Ray Schulenberg in the prairie, his work as an herbarium assistant, becoming the Arboretum's plant recorder, and memories of Walter Eickhorst.
1933/03/16: [Norma Bryan] to Walter E. Eickhorst (3.101330)
Date: March 16 1933Creator: Bryan, Norma A.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Secretary to Founder (Norma Bryan) to Walter E. Eickhorst stating she is sending the General Information Bulletin envelopes he requested under separate cover.
Extent: 1 sheet
1933/03/07: Walter E. Eickhorst to N. A. Bryan (3.101331)
Date: March 7 1933Creator: Eickhorst, Walter
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Walter E. Eickhorst to N. A. Bryan requesting a supply of General Information Bulletin envelopes. He encloses a sample.
Extent: 1 sheet
1933/08/12: Walter Eickhorst to Norma Bryan (3.101353)
Date: August 12 1933Creator: Eickhorst, Walter
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Walter Eickhorst to Norma Bryan (Secretary to Founder) enclosing original and duplicate invoices for the item she inquired about on August 3.
Extent: 1 sheet
1933/08/15: Walter Eickhorst to Norma Bryan (3.101357)
Date: August 15 1933Creator: Eickhorst, Walter
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Walter Eickhorst to Norma Bryan enclosing the insurance policy that insures C. E. Godshalk's home. The premium has been paid, and Mr. Kerth informed them that all such policies were being kept at her office.
Extent: 1 sheet
1932/12/07: Walter E. Eickhorst to Norma Bryan (3.101391)
Date: December 7 1932Creator: Eickhorst, Walter
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Walter E. Eickhorst to Norma Bryan enclosing a letter from Harold L. Curtiss and asking her to send Curtiss a copy of the Landscape Development Plan which is probably the Arboretum's bulletin (Vol. 5 No. 1) which consists of a map of the Arboretum.
Extent: 1 sheet
1932/12/21: Norma Bryan to Walter E. Eickhorst (3.101392)
Date: December 21 1932Creator: Bryan, Norma A.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Secretary to Founder (Norma Bryan) to Walter E. Eickhorst stating his letter of December 7 has received their prompt attention. She also acknowledges receipt of a check from Jean Cash Scott, Winterest, Iowa and a money order from Harold C. Esper, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.
Extent: 1 sheet
1931/02/23: C. E. Godshalk to Joy Morton (3.101464)
Date: February 23 1931Creator: Godshalk, Clarence E.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from C. E. Godshalk to Joy Morton stating that due to the weather, they are unable to move any large evergreens. They have done some transplanting of small things in Morton's yard and are trimming the dead wood out of his trees. Godshalk is working on planting lists. Mr. George will send the Arboretum 20 geese, 30 mallards, and 3 pairs of wood ducks. Kerth and Godshalk have been making a study of the Eickhorst place. He believes they can have a successful poultry operation there. They plan to raise 2000 baby chicks.
Extent: 2 sheets
[1931]/03: Joy Morton to C. E. Godshalk (3.101465)
Date: March 1931Creator: Morton, Joy
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Joy Morton to C. E. Godshalk telling him about their trip to Palestine, Damascus, Egypt, Italy, and Germany by ship. He agrees with Godshalk's plan to have Eickhorst run a chicken operation. Morton hopes they will finish the spring planting, and they plan to return to Thornhill on May 4.
Extent: 2 sheets
Ed Hedborn oral history interview, 2022 October 26 (3.104913)
Date: October 26 2022Type: Audio
Description:A recording of an oral history interview with Ed Hedborn, manager of plant records, conducted by Kristin Arnold, archivist. The interview took place on October 26, 2022 in the Sterling Morton Library at The Morton Arboretum.
The interview focuses on Hedborn's experiences and memories of The Morton Arboretum's Collections Program during the curatorship of Ray Schulenberg, which lasted from 1977 to 1987. Topics include Hedborn's early days as plant recorder, the shift of collections focus to wild-collected plants, seed collecting trips through the western United States and Northern Illinois, tracing the history of plants, the computerization of plant records, and the start of Bloom and Color Reports.
Miyabe Maple: A Tree Worth Knowing More About (3.10708)
Date: March 21 – June 20 1975Creator: Eickhorst, Walter
Type: Article
Ed Hedborn oral history interview, 2023 March 08 (3.107277)
Date: March 8 2023Type: Audio
Description:A recording of an oral history interview with Ed Hedborn, manager of plant records, conducted by Kristin Arnold, archivist. The interview took place on March 8, 2023 in the Sterling Morton Library at The Morton Arboretum.
The interview focuses on Hedborn's experiences and memories of The Morton Arboretum's Collections Program during the curatorship of Kunso Kim, which lasted from 1998 to 2014, and Matt Lobdell, which lasted from 2014 to 2022. Topics include the development of the Arboretum's collections, online collections catalogs, the Arboretum's grid system, the Collections Master Plan, the building of the Curatorial and Operations Center, working in Plant Clinic, and tribute trees.
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
1934/01/29: [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
Miyabe Maple: A Tree Worth Knowing More About (3.11077)
Date: December 21 1994 – March 20 1995Creator: Eickhorst, Walter
Type: Article
Lecture by Ray Schulenberg: The Story of The Morton Arboretum Prairie Restoration (3.31580)
Date: September 11 1987Type: Audio
Description:Lecture titled "The Story of The Morton Arboretum Prairie Restoration" given by Ray Schulenberg as part of the 25th Anniversary Celebration of The Morton Arboretum Prairie.
Extent: 1 audio cassette
Interview with Walter Eickhorst: collection sites and movement, horticultural developments, and collections purpose during his tenure (3.33431)
Date: February 14 2000Type: Audio
Description:Interview with Walter Eickhorst conducted by Kunso Kim (Curator of Botanical Collections), Marcus de la Fleur (visiting Landscape Architect) , and Tim Boland (Curator of Horticultural Collections).
Topics discussed include reasoning for original site placement of collections and any moving of collections that occurred at The Morton Arboretum, original purpose of specific collections, and horticultural developments during Eickhorst's tenure.
Extent: 2 cassettes
The Morton Arboretum Quarterly V. 11 No. 01 (3.34471)
Date: March 21 – June 20 1975Type: Serial
Description:
- Miyabe Maple: A Tree Worth Knowing More About (1-3)
- Focus: The Nature Study & Camera Club after ten Years (4-8)
- A Tree by Any Other Name…(Or: What is Behind Name Changes?) (9-13, 16)
- Cornelian Cherry Dogwood, Cornus mas: Dogwood Family (Cornaceae) (14-15)
- Climatological Summary (16)
Extent: 16 pages
Walter Eickhorst, at old Thornhill entrance gates (3.3575)
Date: 1977Type: Photographic image
Description:Walter Eickhorst, the grandson of Joy Morton's chauffeur and longtime Arboretum employee, at old Thornhill entrance gates
Extent: 1 photograph
Walter Eickhorst measuring poplar plot (3.37631)
Date: 1930sType: Photographic image
Description:Walter Eickhorst measuring poplar plot
Extent: 1 photograph
Walter Eickhorst measuring poplar plot (3.37632)
Date: 1930sType: Photographic image
Description:Walter Eickhorst (before the war) measuring poplar forestry plot
Extent: 1 photograph
Walter Eickhorst, portrait (3.37634)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Walter Eickhorst, portrait
Extent: 1 photograph
Clarence E. Godshalk's 90th birthday celebration scrapbook: Walter Eickhorst talking with Nancy Eickhorst (3.3804)
Date: January 14 1987Creator: Kohout, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Clarence E. Godshalk's 90th birthday celebration scrapbook
(L to R) Walter Eickhorst talking with Nancy Eickhorst
Extent: 1 photograph
Clarence E. Godshalk's 90th birthday celebration scrapbook: Nancy and Walter Eickhorst (3.3816)
Date: January 14 1987Creator: Kohout, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Clarence E. Godshalk's 90th birthday celebration scrapbook
(L to R) Nancy and Walter Eickhorst
Extent: 1 photograph
American Association of Botanical Gardens and Arboreta (AABGA) group at The Morton Arboretum (3.3865)
Date: May 21 1953Type: Photographic image
Description:American Association of Botanical Gardens and Arboreta (AABGA) group at The Morton Arboretum
Extent: 1 photograph
Arboretum Christmas Party, group lineup (3.4031)
Date: 1956 – 1957Type: Photographic image
Description:Arboretum Christmas Party, group lineup
L to R: Otto Johnson, Ed Westover, Les Plumb, Arnold Berg, Clarence E. Godshalk, E.L. Kammerer, Henry White, Walter Eickhorst
Extent: 1 photograph
George Ware Retirement Party in Founders Room - group on couch (L to R): Nancy Stieber, Walter Eickhorst, Katie Eickhorst, Warren Portzer (3.4656)
Date: 1994Type: Photographic image
Description:George Ware Retirement Party in Founders Room - group on couch (L to R): Nancy Stieber, Walter Eickhorst, Katie Eickhorst, Warren Portzer
Walter Eickhorst, portrait (3.4898)
Date: 1960sType: Photographic image
Description:Walter Eickhorst, portrait
Extent: 1 photograph
Walter Eickhorst at desk (3.4899)
Date: October 1961Type: Photographic image
Description:Walter Eickhorst at desk
Extent: 1 photograph
Genera included in the Morton Arboretum Collection of Woody Plants, 1941 (3.64495)
Date: March 11 1941Creator: Kammerer, E. Lowell
Type: Document
Description:Inventory of woody plants in the Morton Arboretum collections
Extent: 2 pages
1940/02/08: Clarence E. Godshalk to Jean M. Cudahy (3.83863)
Date: February 8 1940Creator: Godshalk, Clarence E.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Clarence E. Godshalk to Jean M. Cudahy updating her: 1) on progress on removing dirt from the lake. 2) He has been eliminating undesirable brush in the west side woods, which he has been "blazing." Also identified trees to be moved to the field north of the Administration Building. 3) Eickhorst's house construction. 4) Evening lecture series. 5) Positive visit in January by Mr. Schramm of Morris Arboretum in Philadelphia.
Extent: 2 sheets
1940/02/29: Clarence E. Godshalk to Jean M. Cudahy (3.83867)
Date: February 29 1940Creator: Godshalk, Clarence E.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Clarence E. Godshalk to Jean M. Cudahy, updating her: 1) Lake Marmo 2) Mr. Eickhorst's house. 3) Repairs at the residence at Mrs. Morton's request. 4) Mrs. Morton's latest heart attack. 5) Leaning up the woods. 6) Mourning doves have been spotted. 7) Preparations for the Flower Show. 8) Details on new stationery. 9) Mark Morton's recent visit. 10) 4-H steers.
Extent: 2 sheets
1941/03/21: Clarence E. Godshalk to Jean M. Cudahy (3.83906)
Date: March 21 1941Creator: Godshalk, Clarence E.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Clarence E. Godshalk to Jean M. Cudahy. With input from E. L. Kammerer, Mrs. Watts, and Eickhorst, he gives detailed suggestion for the new building. He sent a duplicate copy to Holbird & Root. He defines and locates in the building various functions which would be necessary to support the operations of Morton Arboretum.
Extent: 3 sheets
1952/01/16: C. E. Godshalk to Sterling Morton (3.84450)
Date: January 16 1952Creator: Godshalk, Clarence E.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from C. E. Godshalk to Sterling Morton stating that Mr. Eickhorst made Morton's labels and is mailing them to him. Since the Arboretum is enjoying exceptionally mild weather, Mr. Nordine will ship Morton's Metasequoia to him. He received Morton's check for $1.00 for the bulletin subscription for Mr. Landon. In 1951, they had 1091 paid subscriptions. He heard that California is having an exceptional amount of rainfall. The snow in Illinois is melting rapidly, but not causing any floods. Due to the mild weather, the men are working in the woods. Snow and freezing weather are forecast in February, so that should finish the tree moving.
Extent: 1 sheet
1952/05/07: C. E. Godshalk to Sterling Morton (3.84461)
Date: May 7 1952Creator: Godshalk, Clarence E.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from C. E. Godshalk to Sterling Morton regarding Henrietta Riedy's letter to Morton about the high school issue in Lisle. Godshalk spoke to Walter Eickhorst of the Arboretum's staff about the issue since he is on the school board. Lisle students would still go to Downers Grove and Naperville high schools as they do now, but these school districts would have the power to assess tax on the portions of Lisle annexed to their school districts. Godshalk and Eickhorst don't believe there is enough valuation in Lisle to maintain their own high school. He is amused that Henrietta Riedy should write Morton since the Riedys have blocked most efforts to improve Lisle. He enclosed a Public Service Company Bulletin which deals with the Arboretum.
Extent: 2 sheets