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Guide Map of The Morton Arboretum (3.106099)
Date: 1936Type: Map
Description:Double-sided brochure with general information and a guide map of The Morton Arboretum.
Guide map details Arboretum roads, trails, parking, plant collections, buildings and points of interest. Sixteen areas on the grounds highlighted in the key and identified with numbers on the map.
Reverse side provides facts about the Arboretum, rules and regulations, and a list of the Board of Trustees and lead staff members.
Extent: 1 sheet
1936/01/27: Mr. Godshalk to Frank Penzkofer (3.107372)
Date: January 27 1936Creator: Godshalk, Clarence E.
Type: Document
Description:Letter congratulating Mr. Penzkofer on his getting his citizenship papers. Stating that the Arboretum has changed a lot since 1928 and hopes he will come back soon. Congratulating him as well on his new position.
Extent: 1 page
1936/01/07: [C. E. Godshalk] to H. W. Gentles (3.107392)
Date: January 7 1936Creator: Godshalk, Clarence E.
Type: Document
Description:Letter informing Mr. Gentles that the first aid course will begin January 15th, and each Wednesday until completed. Mr. Goding states that the price is what we paid in Downer's Grove. Mr. Goding's transportation will be taken care of.
Extent: 1 page
1936/01/11: [C. E. Godshalk] to Mr. Frank Ridgeway (3.107394)
Date: January 11 1936Creator: Godshalk, Clarence E.
Type: Document
Description:Letter to Frank Ridgeway of The Chicago Tribune talking about articles that are written from the Arboretum having been credited to Mr. Godshalk himself. Requesting that the Tribune state that the articles are from The Morton Arboretum rather than from an individual. The effect on the Trustees will be much better when they read the articles.
Extent: 1 page
1936/02/19: [C. E. Godshalk] to Mr. Hatch (3.107398)
Date: February 19 1936Creator: Godshalk, Clarence E.
Type: Document
Description:Letter asking Mr. Hatch if he intends to rent the Mertz land and if so, it is advisable that he do so on a month by month basis. One third of the rent should go to Mr. Morton. The partition suit is going through at once.
Extent: 1 page
1936/02/18: [C. E. Godshalk] to Mr. Ira Ashby (3.107399)
Date: February 18 1936Creator: Godshalk, Clarence E.
Type: Document
Description:Letter regarding Mr. Godshalk plans for Mr. Ira Ashby's ,Thompson Lake home grounds. Explanations regarding the placement of the plants, shrubs and trees are included stating that it is difficult to plan for a location not having been there.
Extent: 2 pages
1936/02/22 [C. E. Godshalk] to Mr. W.Y. Dow (3.107400)
Date: February 22 1936Creator: Godshalk, Clarence E.
Type: Document
Description:Letter regarding Mrs. Cudahy plan to beautify the highway along Route 53. Mrs. Cudahy paid for the planting and materials. It was done under the name of the Lake Forest Garden Club.
Extent: 1 page
1936/03/12 [C. E. Godshalk] to Claribel R. Barnett (3.107402)
Date: March 12 1936Creator: Godshalk, Clarence E.
Type: Document
Description:Letter informing Miss Barnett that the library has just begun to catalogue and arrange over the last few weeks. When it is completed we will prepare an article for you as outlined in your letter.
Extent: 1 page
1936/08/27: [C. E. Godshalk] to Conservation Dept. State of Illinois (3.107405)
Date: August 27 1936Creator: Godshalk, Clarence E.
Type: Document
Description:Letter informing the Conservation department that there have been a lot of fish that have died in the lake at the Arboretum that is four or five acres in extent. There have been about three hundred and fifty blue gills and five bass. We think there may be a fungus. Please advise and we also would like to make an application for another fish planting.
Extent: 1 page
1936/08/14: [C. E. Godshalk] to Mr. F. D. Rogers (3.107408)
Date: August 14 1936Creator: Godshalk, Clarence E.
Type: Document
Description:Letter to Mr. Rogers informing him that he, Mr. Godshalk does indeed want the Fox Terrier puppy. Informing him why he was unable to pick up the puppy at the stated time. He will pick it up on Tuesday night and if not he will phone to let him know.
Extent: 1 page
1936/09/11: [C. E. Godshalk] to Mrs. Phelps Wyman (3.107410)
Date: September 11 1936Creator: Godshalk, Clarence E., Godshalk, Clarence E.
Type: Document
Description:Letter informing Mrs. Wyman that the date for his talk to the Art Institute Garden club will be October 3rd. His talk will be based on the work being done at the Arboretum. The talk may be titled "Planting facts obtained at the Morton Arboretum". Requesting directions on how to get to the meeting in Milwaukee.
Extent: 1 page
1936/04/04: [C. E. Godshalk] to W. Y. Dow (3.108818)
Date: April 4 1936Creator: Godshalk, Clarence E.
Type: Document
Description:Letter in response to inquiry about Mrs. Cudahy's signature. The registered signature is recorded as Mrs. Joseph M. Cudahy.
Extent: 1 page
1936/01/15: [Norma Bryan] to C. E. Godshalk (3.109138)
Date: January 15 1936Creator: Bryan, Norma A.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from [Norma Bryan] to C. E. Godshalk saying Mr. Dow's stenographer is sending envelopes; Bryan has plenty more if these aren't enough. The 1936 subscription list and associated correspondence is waiting in her office along with the other things Godshalk left there. She is enclosing the list, but will hold on to the correspondence along with the other things as it would take a good deal of postage to send them. Six more subscriptions should be added to last year's list. She also encloses letters from Berea College, Mrs. Richard J. Barr, and H.J. Rahmlow.
Extent: 1 sheet
1936/01/31: Evelyn M. Rasch to N. J. Bryan (3.109139)
Date: January 31 1936Creator: Naser, Evelyn M.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Evelyn M. Rasch to N. J. Bryan saying the February Bulletin is almost ready to be sent out, and they do not have any envelopes. The supply sent by Mr. Dow's stenographer just covered the January issue. She would like to know if Bryan has a large supply of envelopes on hand, or if Rasch should order some. Godshalk will be in town next week to see Mr. Dow, so if Bryan has envelopes Godshalk could bring them back to the Arboretum then.
Extent: 1 sheet
1936/02/03: [Norma Bryan] to Evelyn Rasch (3.109140)
Date: February 3 1936Creator: Bryan, Norma A.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from [Norma Bryan] to Evelyn Rasch saying they have a good many Bulletin envelopes; they will be happy to give them to Godshalk. They also have the bound volume of last year's bulletins for him.
Extent: 1 sheet
1936/02/11: [Norma Bryan] to C. E. Godshalk (3.109141)
Date: February 11 1936Creator: Bryan, Norma A.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from [Norma Bryan] to C. E. Godshalk enclosing subscription checks for the Bulletin from R. C. Becker Nursery (Vaughn's, Western Springs), Mrs. Donald P. Bean, Albin Gries (Lands Engineer, Division of Highways, State of Illinois), and Chas F. Irish Co. She sent out a subscription from Henry L. Merkel (Capital City Nurseries, Inc; Des Moines, Iowa). She is uncertain if he would like the 1935 or 1936 Bulletin. If he meant the 1935 issues, she would appreciate Godshalk's returning his subscription to her.
Extent: 1 sheet
1936/02/11: [Norma Bryan] to C. E. Godshalk (3.109142)
Date: February 11 1936Creator: Bryan, Norma A.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from [Norma Bryan] to C. E. Godshalk about the Niagara Parks Commission's (C. Elison Kaumeyer, General Manager) 1935 and 1936 subscriptions to the Bulletin. She also goes on to detail the accounting decisions Dow made with respect to the Bulletin.
Extent: 1 sheet
1936/02/11: [Norma Bryan] to C. E. Godshalk (3.109143)
Date: February 11 1936Creator: Bryan, Norma A.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from [Norma Bryan] to C. E. Godshalk enclosing a letter written to Wheldon & Wesley, Ltd. of London regarding the cost of bringing up-to-date various publications which they should have been sending the Arboretum. She hasn't yet had a reply and asks Godshalk if he has. She believes they should have responded by now; she is now leaving the matter with Godshalk.
Handwritten on letter: "2/17/36 Rec'd Wheldon & Wesley letter of 2/1/1936 & sent it to C. E. Godshalk."
Extent: 1 sheet
1936/04/15: C. E. Godshalk to W. Y. Dow (3.109144)
Date: April 15 1936Creator: Godshalk, Clarence E.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from C. E. Godshalk to W. Y. Dow saying they are sending him the Bulletins he requested under separate cover. He wonders how the Bulletins they send to his office each month should be handled.
Extent: 1 sheet
1936/04/21: Evelyn M. Rasch to Norma Bryan (3.109145)
Date: April 21 1936Creator: Naser, Evelyn M.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Evelyn M. Rasch to Norma Bryan asking if she knows where the cuts used in the printing of the Bulletin when it was done by Keller.
Extent: 1 sheet
Pansy (3.24633)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustration of a large pansy flower and three detail views, including floral diagram, reverse of flower, and center, accompanied by descriptive text. Background sketches along the left side include a house, a heart, and a church, center bottom includes three women and two girls sitting in a circle drinking tea, and center right includes flowers and an elf. Sketches depict various pansy folklore.
Upper left text lists various names this flower goes by - herb trinity, pink of my John, heart's ease, step-mother, kit run in the street, kiss me at the garden gate, cuddle me to you, kiss me quick or PANSY
Top right floral diagram illustration identifies sepal, petal, stamen, pistil, nectar sac
Bottom left illustration (reverse of flower) identifies sepal, petal, nectar sac
Bottom right illustration identifies stigma, pistil and stamens, nectar sac
Extent: 1 sheet
Jeffersonia Diphylla (3.24637)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Large illustration of a Twinleaf plant with detailed views of seed pods, seed, stamen, and pistil details with identifying text. Background images include Monticello at center left, and silhouettes of two small scenes at top right, the top showing a man giving a lecture or speech with the word "Poter" or "Peter" partially erased, the bottom showing a man and a women planting or gardening.
Illustrations as depicted from left to right:
- 2 stamens, one closed, one opened
- 1 pistil
- 1 large illustration of Twinleaf with three sets of leaves and 1 flower
- 1 seed-pod closed
- 1 seed-pod open
- 1 seed
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
Under the Roost of the Long-Eared Owls (3.24641)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Four illustrations depicting long-eared owls and their pellets. Captions accompany each individual illustration. The drawings illustrate the story OWL PELLETS GALORE by May Theilgaard Watts, Naturalist at The Morton Arboretum.
Upper left text: UNDER the ROOST of the LONG-EARED OWLS
Illustrations with captions, from left to right, top to bottom:
- Drawing of an owl pellet
- Caption: An owl pellet
- Drawing of forest floor, including rhododendron
- Caption: When rhododendron leaves uncurl we find pellets.
- Drawing of rodent bone findings
- Caption: Each pellet reveals parts of a small rodent.
- Drawing of two owls in a tree
- Caption: They seem to grow taller as we approach.
Extent: 1 sheet
Three Seasons of Bloom in the Prairie (3.24642)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustration of 23 prairie plants shown in a chart formation categorized by Fall, Summer, and Spring from top to bottom, and from high prairie to low prairie from left to right. Identifying text appears beneath each illustration, some of which is on strip of board attached to the bottom with tape.
Header: THREE SEASONS of BLOOM in the PRAIRIE
Text, top right: the individual plants represent colonies of varying sizes
Plants as depicted from top to bottom, left to right:
- Fall
- big bluestem
- blazing star
- Indian grass
- wild rye
- switch grass
- saw-toothed sunflower
- prairie dock
- cord grass
- Summer
- lead plant
- New Jersey tea
- flowering spurge
- stiff goldenrod
- black-eyed Susan
- Culver's root
- tall meadow rue
- Sullivant's milkweed
- Spring:
- bird's-foot violet
- blue-eyed grass
- puccoon
- downy phlox
- wild strawberry
- Canada anemone
- yellow star grass
Extent: 1 sheet
Landscape with Houses and Trees (3.24647)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustration of a hilly landscape with five houses, pasture, fences, farm land, a lake, a stream, a bridge, roads, a water wheel, and many trees. Trees are drawn to indicate general shape and each tree is identified. NATURE STUDY GUILD is stamped in purple on piece of board and glued at top right.
Trees depicted:
White pine -- Spruce -- Austrian pine -- Pear -- Sassafras -- Sumac -- Black willows -- Box elder --
Apple -- Red cedar -- Norway pine -- Yellow birch -- Black walnut -- Sour gum -- White cedar -- Poison sumac -- Tamarack -- White ash -- Chestnut oak -- Blue ash -- Red oak -- Beech -- Shagbark hickory -- Mockernut hickory -- Red maple -- Pignut hickory -- Wafer ash -- River birch -- Buckeye --
Shingle oak -- Bur oak -- Linden -- Cherry birch -- Shadbush -- Hill's oak -- White oak -- Sugar maple -- Black locust -- Black cherry -- Large-toothed poplar -- Cottonwood -- Waahoo -- Trembling aspen -- Witch-hazel -- Flowering dogwood -- Ironwood -- Chestnut -- Pin cherry -- Choke cherry -- Wild crab -- Wild plum -- Redbud -- Water beech -- Balm of Gilead -- Red mulberry -- Tulip tree -- Sycamore -- Bitternut hickory -- Slippery elm -- Butternut -- Swamp white -- Kentucky coffee tree -- Red ash -- Honey locust -- Hawthorne -- Lombardy poplars -- European alder -- Black ash -- Osage orange hedge -- Ailanthus -- Paw-paw -- Hackberry -- White birch -- American elm -- Catalpa -- Norway maple -- Weeping willow -- White wilow -- Pin oak -- Horse chestnut -- Mountian ash -- Pussy willow -- Fir -- Ginkgo -- Silver maple -- Scotch pine -- Silver poplar
Extent: 1 sheet
One of the first black topping road jobs done in the Arboretum (3.2939)
Date: 1930sType: Photographic image
Description:Man and machine blacktopping roads. One of the first black topping road jobs done in the Arboretum.
Extent: 1 photograph
Three men (Roy Burnside at right) moving huge root balled tree (3.2949)
Date: 1930sType: Photographic image
Description:Three men (Roy Burnside at right, others unknown) moving huge root balled tree
Extent: 1 photograph
Eight men (Roy Burnside at bottom left seated) seated on and around root balled tree on sled in winter snow (3.2950)
Date: 1930sType: Photographic image
Description:Eight men (Roy Burnside at bottom left seated) seated on and around root balled tree on sled in winter snow
Extent: 1 photograph
Balled roots of tree on sled with pulley and chain in winter for tree transplanting (3.2953)
Date: 1930sType: Photographic image
Description:Balled roots of tree on sled with pulley and chain in winter for tree transplanting
Extent: 1 negative
Elms being moved to Hedge Garden in winter (3.2954)
Date: 1935 – 1936Type: Photographic image
Description:Several elm trees with balled roots being moved to Hedge Garden in winter during tree transplanting
Extent: 1 negative
Elms being moved to Hedge Garden in winter (3.2955)
Date: 1935 – 1936Type: Photographic image
Description:Several elm trees with balled roots next to Administration Building being moved to Hedge Garden in winter during tree transplanting
Extent: 1 negative
Crabapples being transplanted with frozen balls (3.2956)
Date: 1930sType: Photographic image
Description:Crabapple trees with frozen balls for transplanting in winter
Extent: 1 negative
Gravel road curving through trees (3.2972)
Date: 1930sCreator: Oates, Howard Arthur
Type: Photographic image
Description:Gravel road curving through trees
Extent: 1 photograph
View from big oak area east of Lakeview Drive looking over Lake Marmo & Spruce Hill to Tate Woods in distance (3.3014)
Date: 1930sType: Photographic image
Description:View from big oak area east of Lakeview Drive looking over Lake Marmo & Spruce Hill to Tate Woods in distance
Extent: 1 photograph
The Waterfall (3.3031)
Date: 1930sCreator: Hartshorn, Ken
Type: Photographic image
Description:The Waterfall - the rapids built in DuPage River to raise water level in Lake Jopamaca. These were made from concrete with stones set in while soft. Later replaced by dam with gates to control water level. Used to see large northern pike go up over the rapids in Spring
Extent: 1 photograph