Browsing by year: has image:
1956/09/22: Clarence E. Godshalk to Sterling Morton (3.104994)
Date: August 22 1956Creator: Godshalk, Clarence E.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Clarence E. Godshalk to Sterling Morton, updating him on construction. The fire door between the existing building and the new building will not be delivered in time for the dedication. The rest will be ready for [September] 27th. Laboratory work is nearly complete. The service drive to the greenhouses and the service entrance to the new wing is complete. The overhead door installers will be trying a new spring to solve that problem at South Farm. Mr. Price has finished trimming, removing and relocating 427 trees for $520. Godshalk details the amounts paid to Ralph Miller, Sharpless and Price for this work. The Toll Road Commission bore three test holes where the lake would be. They struck rock at 28 feet and the soil is silt and gravel. They struck water at 9 feet, so the new lake might fill on its own with water to the level of the river. Howard Fisher will check with experts. The men are removing Dutch elm trees as fast as they show signs. He comments that the beetles are likely carried by the wind. He is anxious for the labs to be finished so he can begin some experiments. Argonne Laboratory might partner with them to trace circulation in trees with radioactive materials.
Extent: 2 sheets
1956/11/24: Clarence E. Godshalk to Sterling Morton (3.105002)
Date: November 24 1956Creator: Godshalk, Clarence E.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Clarence E. Godshalk to Sterling Morton. He suggests having the Christmas Party on Thursday afternoon, December 13, "unless your recent upset amounts to much." Mrs. Morton and the Zurchers are invited, as well as any Trustees available. They would have the meal at noon, followed by Morton's program. He will wait to hear from Morton before proceeding with plans.
Extent: 1 sheet
Berberis circumserrata (C.K.Schneid.) C.K.Schneid. (cut-leaved barberry), leaves on branches (3.105216)
Date: October 1956Type: Photographic image
Description:Berberis circumserrata (C.K.Schneid.) C.K.Schneid. (cut-leaved barberry), pink and gray-green leaves on branches
Extent: 1 slide
Berberis koreana Palib. (Korean barberry), fall color (3.105224)
Date: October 1956Type: Photographic image
Description:Berberis koreana Palib. (Korean barberry), red fall color of leaves
Extent: 1 slide
Berberis koreana Palib. (Korean barberry), branches (3.105231)
Date: June 1956Type: Photographic image
Description:Berberis koreana Palib. (Korean barberry), shrub with many flowering branches, yellow flowers, green leaves
Extent: 1 slide
1956/08/20: Clarence Godshalk to Mr. Howard T. Fisher and Associates (3.107127)
Date: August 20 1956Creator: Godshalk, Clarence E.
Type: Document
Description:A letter from Clarence Godshalk to Mr. Howard T. Fisher and Associates regarding the creation of Arbor Lake.
Extent: 1 sheet
1956/05/02: C. E. Godshalk to E. A. Simmons (3.107186)
Date: May 2 1956Creator: Godshalk, Clarence E.
Type: Document
Description:Letter explaining that the delay of payment in the amount of $19,492.40 was due to the delay in erection. The material was lying on the ground for weeks and had no value. The bill is now OK'd for payment, as things are going along nicely.
Extent: 1 page
1956/02/02: C. E. Godshalk to Howard L. White (3.117166)
Date: February 2 1956Creator: Godshalk, Clarence E.
Type: Document
Description:Letter requesting pricing of a chain link fencing material six feet high with leaning brackets for the top with three barbed wires.
Extent: 1 page
1956/01/23: C. E. Godshalk to Edward Kluckhohn (3.117167)
Date: January 23 1956Creator: Godshalk, Clarence E.
Type: Document
Description:A letter regarding the moving and transplanting of trees, detailing the difficulty of moving large trees successfully and complimenting how well the machinery works.
Extent: 3 pages
1956/01/23: C. E. Godshalk to Annie L. Glidden (3.117169)
Date: January 23 1956Creator: Godshalk, Clarence E.
Type: Document
Description:A letter in response to the observation of the growth of The Morton Arboretum since it's inception in 1921.
Extent: 1 page
1956/02/09: C. E. Godshalk to Otto Johnson (3.117171)
Date: February 9 1956Creator: Godshalk, Clarence E.
Type: Document
Description:A letter thanking Mr. Johnson for the cans he sent for a research project that is just starting at The Morton Arboretum.
Extent: 1 page
1956/03/02: C. E. Godshalk to Barbara Patterson (3.117173)
Date: March 2 1956Creator: Godshalk, Clarence E.
Type: Document
Description:A letter in answer to a request to have someone speak to the group coming to visit from Skokie Park District.
Extent: 1 page
1956/03/09: C. E. Godshalk to C. A. Karshunke (3.117175)
Date: March 9 1956Creator: Godshalk, Clarence E.
Type: Document
Description:A letter in response to the request for watering guidance for re-planting trees. The Arboretum has re planted many trees and usually does not water frozen root balls at the time of re planting, with little loss. Listed exceptions during the different times of year are noted and specific in detail. The Arboretum is hoping to do more research in this area.
Extent: 2 pages
1956/03/23: C. E. Godshalk to Roger B. Thompson (3.117177)
Date: March 23 1956Creator: Godshalk, Clarence E.
Type: Document
Description:A letter in response to request for nature slides.
Extent: 1 page
1956/08/08: C. E. Godshalk to Charles W. Dugan (3.117181)
Date: August 8 1956Creator: Godshalk, Clarence E.
Type: Document
Description:A letter informing Mr. Dugan on the completion of the greenhouse.
1956/10/12: C. E. Godshalk to John C. Wister (3.117183)
Date: October 12 1956Creator: Godshalk, Clarence E.
Type: Document
Description:A letter in response to an inquiry about the council meeting and the visit.
Extent: 1 page
1956/10/25: C. E. Godshalk to Bill Schlademan (3.117185)
Date: October 25 1956Creator: Godshalk, Clarence E.
Type: Document
Description:A letter in response to class trip thank you letter.
Extent: 1 page
1956/10/19 C. E. Godshalk to State Forestry Dept. (3.117186)
Date: October 19 1956Creator: Godshalk, Clarence E.
Type: Document
Description:A letter informing the State Forestry Dept that the Arboretum just received a number of hybrid pines from the U. S. Forest Service to try.
Extent: 1 page
1956/11/16: C. E. Godshalk to Mr. Fluckhohn (3.117187)
Date: November 16 1956Creator: Godshalk, Clarence E.
Type: Document
Description:A letter informing Mr. Fluckhohn that The Morton Arboretum does not make a practice of recommending products.
Extent: 1 page
1956/11/16: C. E. Godshalk to Mr. Kluckhohn (3.117188)
Date: November 16 1956Creator: Godshalk, Clarence E.
Type: Document
Description:A letter regarding the Ford Diesel tractor equipped with a tree digger designed by Edward Kluckhohn. Stating that using the tractor have saved many man hours and does an amazing job.
Extent: 2 pages
Vernal Witch-hazel (3.19477)
Date: 1940 – 1960Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustration of the Vernal witch-hazel plant, including three detailed views and some descriptive text. Background sketches include trees at top and center, and shrubs at center and bottom.
Header: VERNAL WITCH-HAZEL, HAMAMELIS vernalis
Illustrations as depicted, from top to bottom, left to right:
- a single pistil, labeled PISTIL
- two stamens, front view and side view, labeled STAMEN
- a single twig in bloom
- a flower
Extent: 1 sheet
Skunk Cabbage (3.19478)
Date: 1940 – 1960Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustration of the skunk cabbage plant with environment, including three detailed views of flowering parts. Background sketches include a willow tree, cattails, and skunk cabbage in and near water.
Header: SKUNK CABBAGE
Illustrations as depicted, from top to bottom, left to right:
- enlarged view of the spathe
- enlarge view of a single flower
- enlarged view of the spadix
Extent: 1 sheet
Emergent Plant Series: #1, Submerged Plant Stage (3.19485)
Date: 1950sCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Part of a series of numbered illustrations about the stages of pond growth. This material includes an aerial view of a pond with trees and hills in background, and a cross-section view of five types of submerged aquatic plants attached to pond bottom.
Header: SUBMERGED PLANT STAGE / PLANTS ATTACHED TO BOTTOM / only their flowers reach the surface
Drawings and text from top to bottom, left to right:
- pond and surrounding landscape
- cross-section:
- WATER WEED--Elodea canadensis
- EEL GRASS--Vallisneria spiralis
- PONDWEED--Potamogeton crispus
- HORNWORT--Ceratophyllum demersum
- WATER MILFOIL--Myriophyllum spicatum
Extent: 1 sheet
Emergent Plant Series: #2, Floating-Leaf Plant Stage (3.19486)
Date: 1950sCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Part of a series of numbered illustrations about the stages of pond growth. This material includes an aerial view of a pond showing some plants at the surface of its bay with trees and hills in background, and a cross-section view of aquatic plants attached to pond bottom, with leaves and flowers of shallower plants extended to water's surface.
Header: FLOATING-LEAF PLANT STAGE / PLANTS ATTACHED TO BOTTOM / leaves and flowers floating at surface
Drawings and text from top to bottom, left to right:
- pond and surrounding landscape
- cross-section [divided into 4 sections]:
- FLOATING LEAF ZONE
- water lily
- cow lily
- SUBMERGED PLANT ZONE
- water weed
- eel grass
- pondweed
- hornwort
- water milfoil
- SUBMERGED PLANT STAGE
- FLOATING LEAF ZONE
- FLOATING LEAF ZONE
Extent: 1 sheet
Emergent Plant Series: #3, Emergent-Plant Stage (3.19487)
Date: 1950sCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Part of a series of numbered illustrations about the stages of pond growth. This material includes an aerial view of a pond showing some plants at the surface of its edges and its bays with trees and hills in background, and a cross-section view of aquatic plants attached to pond bottom, with leaves and flowers of shallower plants extended up to and above the water's surface.
Header: EMERGENT-PLANT STAGE / PLANTS UPRIGHT / only roots and base under water
Drawings and text from top to bottom, left to right:
- pond and surrounding landscape
- cross-section [divided into 6 sections]:
- EMERGENT ZONE
- cat-tails
- arrowhead
- bur reed
- pickerel weed
- bullrush
- FLOATING-LEAF ZONE
- SUBMERGED-PLANT ZONE
- SUBMERGED-PLANT ZONE
- FLOATING-LEAF ZONE
- EMERGENT ZONE
- EMERGENT ZONE
Extent: 1 sheet
Emergent Plant Series: #4, Pioneer Tree Stage (3.19488)
Date: 1950sCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Part of a series of numbered illustrations about the stages of pond growth. This material includes an aerial view of a pond showing trees and plants at its edges and bays with additional trees and hills in the background, and a cross-section view of aquatic plants attached to pond bottom, with leaves and flowers of shallower plants extended up to and above the water's surface.
Header: PIONEER TREE STAGE / WILLOWS ARE FIRST
Drawings and text from top to bottom, left to right:
- pond and surrounding landscape
- cross-section [divided into 4 sections]:
- Tree Zone
- willow
- silver maple
- Emergent plant one
- Floating leaf zone
- Submerged plant zone
- Tree Zone
Extent: 1 sheet
Emergent Plant Series: #5, Lowland Forest Stage (3.19489)
Date: 1950sCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Part of a series of numbered illustrations about the stages of pond growth. This material includes an aerial view of a pond showing trees and plants at its edges and bays with additional forest trees and hills in the background, and illustrations of trees and a cross-section view of aquatic plants attached to pond bottom.
Header: LOWLAND FOREST STAGE / TREES THAT TOLERATE WET FEET
Drawings and text from top to bottom, left to right:
- pond and surrounding landscape
- cross-section [divided into 9 sections]:
- LOWLAND FOREST ZONE
- elm
- ash
- hackberry
- linden
- PIONEER TREE ZONE
- EMERGENT-PLANT ZONE
- FLOATING-LEAF ZONE
- SUBMERGED PLANT ZONE
- FLOATING-LEAF ZONE
- EMERGENT-PLANT ZONE
- PIONEER TREE ZONE
- LOWLAND FOREST ZONE
- LOWLAND FOREST ZONE
Extent: 1 sheet
Emergent Plant Series: #6, Climax Forest Stage (3.19490)
Date: 1950sCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Part of a series of numbered illustrations about the stages of pond growth. This material includes a view of a pond in the center with forest trees and hills in the background, and a cross-section of illustrations of forest trees, and trees and emergent plants of the water's edge.
Header: CLIMAX FOREST STAGE / THE PERMAMENT FOREST of the REGION
Drawings and text from top to bottom, left to right:
- pond and surrounding landscape
- cross-section [divided into 7 sections]:
- CLIMAX FOREST
- red oak
- white oak
- hickory
- LOWLAND FOREST ZONE
- elm
- ash
- hackberry
- linden
- PIONEER TREE ZONE
- willow
- silver maple
- EMERGENT ZONE
- cat-tails
- arrowhead
- bur reed
- pickerel weed
- bull-rush
- PIONEER TREE ZONE
- LOWLAND FOREST ZONE
- CLIMAX FOREST
- CLIMAX FOREST
Extent: 1 sheet
Four Oaks (3.19491)
Date: 1940 – 1959Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustrations of four oaks: Chinkapin oak, Swamp white oak, White oak and Bur oak. Each tree is illustrated by silhouette, and is accompanied by an outline of its leaf and drawings of its twig with a winter bud and its acorn.
upper left: Quercus muehlenbergii, Chinkapin oak
upper right: Quercus bicolor, Swamp white oak
lower left: Quercus alba, White oak
lower right Quercus macrocarpa, Bur oak
Extent: 1 sheet
Arboretum Landscape Teaching Aid Series: The Great Ice Sheet (3.19496)
Date: 1940 – 1960Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Primarily textual teaching aid depicting Arboretum landscape. This material shows how the Arboretum Hills were pushed from Canada and Wisconsin.
Header: THE GREAT ICE SHEET brought THE ARBORETUM HILLS from Canada to Wisconsin
Text and illustrations from top to bottom:
- [Depicted in stylized scroll with an illustration of a body of water between two hills] The Record: The Arboretum hills are made of unsorted clay, sand, gravel and boulders.
- Interpreting the record:
- 1) Ice-deposited material is an unsorted material [arrow pointing right to illustration of ice-deposited material] Water-deposited material is sorted into layers [arrow pointing right to illustration of water-deposited material] The Arboretum hills are made of material dumped by the melting ice.
- 2) Granite boulders are found in this material. No granite bed-rock is found within 200 miles of here.
- 3) Rocks frozen into a glacier are flattened and scratched like this [arrow pointing left to illustration of a rock] (see rock at end of table) Water-borne rocks are rounded and smoothed.
Extent: 1 sheet
Arboretum Landscape Teaching Aid Series: A River Emerged From Under A Glacier (3.19497)
Date: 1940 – 1960Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Primarily textual teaching aid depicting Arboretum landscape. This material shows the origin of gravel pits at the Arboretum.
Header: A RIVER EMERGED FROM UNDER A GLACIER
Text and illustrations from top to bottom:
- [Depicted in stylized scroll with illustration of a steam shovel in gravel pit] The Record: There are several old gravel pits in the Arboretum.
- Interpreting the record:
- 1) A river running under a glacier is confined to a narrow channel, and is, therefore swift. Because of its swiftness it can carry gravel.
- 2) When such a river comes out from under the ice it spreads out and slows down. Slow moving water can carry only fine material. Therefore the river dropped its heavy material.
- 3) When men found these places they dug the gravel out.
Extent: 1 sheet
Arboretum Landscape Teaching Aid Series: A Fence Long Gone Marked A Boundary (3.19498)
Date: 1940 – 1960Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Primarily textual teaching aid depicting Arboretum landscape. This material shows how a fence once marked a boundary through a forest.
Header: A fence (long gone) marked a boundary through a forest (long gone)
Text and illustrations from top to bottom:
- [Depicted in stylized scroll] The Record:
- 1. A long row of trees: red oaks, white oaks, and ironwood [an illustration of a row of trees]
- 2. the soil profile on both sides of this row [arrow pointing right to illustration of a cross-section of soil]
- Interpreting the record:
- 1) Because red oaks and ironwoods belong in rich (mesophytic) woods, and
- 2) because a thin layer of black soil on top of clay is typical of forests in this area (but not of prairies) and
- 3) because there would have been forest-margin trees, like hawthorn, if this fence had edged a forest - We read the record as above [arrow extending upward to header]
Extent: 1 sheet
Arboretum Landscape Teaching Aid Series: An Apple Tree was Planted on a Farm (3.19499)
Date: 1940 – 1960Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Primarily textual teaching aid depicting Arboretum landscape. This material describes the remains of the farm that later became the Arboretum, including an apple tree that still stood at the time.
[Illustration of a farmer with a shovel standing next to a sapling] Header: AN APPLE TREE was planted on a farm, many years ago / The farm later became a part of the Arboretum
Text and illustrations from top to bottom:
- [Depicted in stylized scroll] The Record:
- 1) The old apple tree still stands, at the corner of Spring Road and Oakwood Drive.
- 2) Across the road from the apple tree is a bit of the old well curb.
- 3) Nearby, along Spring Road, is a spring, with a bit of cemented wall that was probably the base of the farmer's spring house. [illustration of a tree]
Extent: 1 sheet
Arboretum Landscape Teaching Aid Series: Confirmation from Old Maps (3.19500)
Date: 1940 – 1960Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Primarily textual teaching aid depicting Arboretum landscape. This material is depicted in the shape of an open book. It shows a drawing of an old map of the farm that later became the Arboretum.
Header: CONFIRMATION from old maps
Text and illustrations from top to bottom, left to right:
- text: An old map shows the location of the farmhouse and the spring house
- map illustration: a road extending from bottom to top, a stream extending from left to right, trees at top and right, and a small patch of farm land at center with a wall and two structures, one labeled "Solomon Mertz" and the other "Spring house"
- text, bottom right: FROM 1874 ATLAS OF DUPAGE COUNTY
Extent: 1 sheet
Arboretum Landscape Teaching Aid Series: An Old Bridge (3.19501)
Date: 1940 – 1960Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Primarily textual teaching aid depicting Arboretum landscape. This material describes a bridge that was left on what are now the Arboretum grounds, as well as part of the story of the Morton Arboretum's origins.
[Illustration of the bridge] Header: AN OLD BRIDGE was left behind when the HIGHWAY cut through [illustration of the highway]
Text and illustrations from top to bottom:
- [Depicted in stylized scroll] The Record: The old bridge still bears a plate with the date. It rested for many years. Now the Arboretum uses it. (but No Buses, please)
- Interpreting the record: The old bridge must have served many a surrey, and hayrack, and cattle being driven to market, and horses going to the Saturday Horse Fair at Naperville. This was the bridge that Joy Morton crossed on the day of the event described here [to the right of this text is pasted material from the May 1952 "Service Bulletin," Vol. 21, No. 2, including the front cover illustration depicting an antique vehicle and two men putting out a brush fire and partial text describing how Joy Morton found the location where he had his home Thornhill built.]
Extent: 1 sheet
Arboretum Landscape Teaching Aid Series: Cut-Over and Grazed Land (3.19502)
Date: 1940 – 1960Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Primarily textual teaching aid depicting Arboretum landscape. This material describes the grazed and cut-over land that was added to the Arboretum, including the effects of fencing out cattle.
[Illustration of a tree stump] Header: CUT-OVER AND GRAZED LAND was added to the Arboretum in 1910 [image of a cow's head with its tongue out]
Text and illustrations from top to bottom:
- [Depicted in stylized scroll] THE RECORD:
- 1. No big trees in this area [illustration of a tree with a large red "X" over it]
- 2. Many stump sprouts [sketch of stump sprouts]
- 3. Many aspens and big-toothed poplars [sketch of aspens and poplars]
- 4. Young oaks, many of the same age [sketch of oaks]
- INTERPRETATION of THE RECORD:
- 1. Aspens and big-toothed poplars grow in sunny places.
- 2. The even age oaks show by their annual rings that they started growing on the year that the Arboretum fenced cows from this area.
- 3. The wild flowers have returned steadily to this area. There was only thistles, milkweed, dandelions, and other tough ones, there when the cattle were fenced out. Now there are trilliums, spring beauties, blood-root, may-apple, and many, many, others.
Extent: 1 sheet