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
1932/11/16: C. E. Godshalk to Mr. Koch (3.107369)
Date: November 16 1941Creator: Godshalk, Clarence E.
Type: Document
Description:Letter in response to the invitation to visit the Northwestern University Library garden. Stating that Mr. Kammerer and Mr.Godshalk are very busy with the planting at the Arboretum and at this time they cannot get away to visit, but will perhaps find time in the winter months.
Extent: 1 page
1941/01/20: Clarence E. Godshalk to Wayne H. Laverty (3.109004)
Date: January 20 1941Creator: Godshalk, Clarence E.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Clarence E. Godshalk to Wayne H. Laverty, of University of Chicago Department of Building and Grounds. Enclosing for signature the agreement for the University of Chicago Nursery. Contact him if further discussion is needed. In pencil at top: "Godshalk: Rental of growing area."
Extent: 1 sheet
1941/02/03: W. B. Harrell to Clarence E. Godshalk (3.109005)
Date: February 3 1941Creator: Harrell, W. B.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from W. B. Harrell, Business Manager, University of Chicago, to Clarence E. Godshalk. The annual contract for use of land has been signed and will be returned to you by Mr. Laverty. The use of the land for nursery purposes has enabled us to make progress in planting which otherwise would not be possible.
Extent: 1 sheet
Letter from [Jens Jensen?] to Editor of Capital Times (3.1267)
Date: August 20 1941Type: Document
Description:Letter from [Jens Jensen?] to Editor of Capital Times
Letter from Jens Jensen and Mertha Fulkerson to R.C. DeMange (3.1317)
Date: May 23 1941Creator: Jensen, Jens, Fulkerson, Mertha.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Jens Jensen and Mertha Fulkerson to R.C. DeMange
Letter from Jens Jensen and Mertha Fulkerson to Commissioner Doyle (3.1328)
Date: July 12 1941Creator: Jensen, Jens, Fulkerson, Mertha.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Jens Jensen and Mertha Fulkerson to Commissioner Doyle
Letter from Louis P. Haller to Mertha Fulkerson (3.1465)
Date: March 8 1941Creator: Haller, Louis P.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Louis P. Haller to Mertha Fulkerson
Letter from Frances Kannowski to Mertha Fulkerson (3.1466)
Date: August 22 1941Creator: Kannowski, Frances
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Frances Kannowski to Mertha Fulkerson
Letter from Frances Kannowski to Mertha Fulkerson (3.1467)
Date: August 29 1941Creator: Kannowski, Frances
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Frances Kannowski to Mertha Fulkerson
Letter from Emma Toft to Mertha Fulkerson (3.1468)
Date: September 3 1941Creator: Toft, Emma
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Emma Toft to Mertha Fulkerson
Letter from Frances Kannowski to Mertha Fulkerson (3.1469)
Date: September 29 1941Creator: Kannowski, Frances
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Frances Kannowski to Mertha Fulkerson
Copy of letter from Jens Jensen to Genevieve Gillette (3.1681)
Date: July 24 1941Creator: Jensen, Jens
Type: Document
Description:Copy of letter from Jens Jensen to Genevieve Gillette
Copy of postcard from Jens Jensen to Genevieve Gillette (3.1682)
Date: July 28 1941Creator: Jensen, Jens
Type: Document
Description:Copy of postcard from Jens Jensen to Genevieve Gillette
Copy of letter from Jens Jensen to Genevieve Gillette (3.1683)
Date: September 10 1941Creator: Jensen, Jens
Type: Document
Description:Copy of letter from Jens Jensen to Genevieve Gillette
Letter from Jens Jensen and Mertha Fulkerson to Dwight H. Green (Governor of Illinois) (3.1741)
Date: January 28 1941Creator: Jensen, Jens, Fulkerson, Mertha.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Jens Jensen and Mertha Fulkerson to Dwight H. Green (Governor of Illinois)
Letter from Jens Jensen and Mertha Fulkerson to Mr. Hutchins (Chicago University) (3.1813)
Date: June 12 1941Creator: Jensen, Jens, Fulkerson, Mertha.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Jens Jensen and Mertha Fulkerson to Mr. Hutchins (Chicago University)
Letter from Jens Jensen to Harold Ickes 1941.02.13 (3.1823)
Date: February 13 1941Creator: Jensen, Jens
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Jens Jensen and Mertha Fulkerson to Harold Ickes
Letter from Jens Jensen to Harold Ickes 1941.06.12 (3.1824)
Date: June 12 1941Creator: Jensen, Jens, Fulkerson, Mertha.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Jens Jensen and Mertha Fulkerson to Harold Ickes
Letter from Jens Jensen to Harold Ickes 1941.10.09 (3.1825)
Date: October 9 1941Creator: Jensen, Jens, Fulkerson, Mertha.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Jens Jensen and Mertha Fulkerson to Harold Ickes
Evergreen Nature Trail Guide, cover art (3.19462)
Date: 1940sCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Proof for cover/page 1 including more detailed illustrations and layout with title for the The Morton Arboretum Evergreen Nature Trail Guide booklet. Key lines included.
Depicts illustrated map of trail through Spruces and Firs, Arbor Vitae, Larch, Pines, Junipers, Yew, and Hemlock Collections. Below map, stylized trees and two figures illustrated, standing next to sign "Evergreen Nature Trail".
Text at bottom of illustration: "Trail Begins Here - Parking Number Two - Trail Ends Here"
Extent: 1 sheet
January Calendar (3.19467)
Date: 1940sCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Calendar for the month of January consisting of five rows and seven columns depicting days and dates from Sunday through Saturday, the 1st through the 31st. Each square has a date plus illustration and text, some of which anticipates the coming Spring and some which show reminders of the past year.
Header: January
Text and illustrations, from top to bottom, left to right:
- (Friday, 1) [image of dogwood stems and buds] flowering dogwood is ready for Spring
- (Saturday, 2) [image of hemlock needles and cones] small cones drip from the hemlock tips -
- (Sunday, 3) [image of unidentified stems and fruit]
- (Monday, 4) [image of one chickadee and a birdhouse]
- (Tuesday, 5) [image of two chickadees and a birdhouse] chikca-dees stay to crack their seeds
- (Wednesday, 6) [image of evergreen needles and star magnolia stems and buds] star mag-nolia buds are pale against evergreens
- (Thursday, 7) [image of long-eared owl on branch of Norway spruce] long-eared owls look down from Norway spruce trees
- (Friday, 8) [image of 2 pellets on ground beneath evergreen branch] 2 pellets under an owl roost contain skeletons of 2 deer mice
- (Saturday, 9) [image of small animal bones on ground] when an owl pellet is pulled apart, evidence of sudden death is re-vealed
- (Sunday, 10) [image of euonymus stems and fruit] Euonymus still holds some of the "little hearts bursting with love"
- (Monday, 11) [image of birch stems, cones, and catkins] wind and birds have shattered birch cones but catkins are ready for Spring
- (Tuesday, 12) [image of zumi crabapple stems and fruit] Zumi crabs still hold their fruit
- (Wednesday, 13) [image of one cardinal and a birdhouse] the cardinal is back now that we have sunflower seeds again
- (Thursday, 14) [images of canker-worms on a dogwood twig] on a dogwood twig, canker worms are ready for Spring
- (Friday, 15) [images of evergreens and a hawthorn] hoar frost is on the hawthorns ---
- (Saturday, 16) [image of redbud stems, buds, and fruit] on red-bud, flower buds are ready for next Spring, and pods recall last Spring's flowers
- (Sunday, 17) [image of a bird on a tree branch]
- (Monday, 18) [image of sycamore trunks and branches] sycamore bark
- (Tuesday, 19) [image of trees and a trail] evergreen trail
- (Wednesday, 20) [image of rhododendron stems and leaves] Rhododendron leaves pointing down say it's COLD!
- (Thursday, 21) [image of a white Oak] white oaks hold last summer's leaves on lower branches
- (Friday, 22) [image of a Norway spruce] Norway spruce holds long cones
- (Saturday, 23) [image of pixie-cup lichens through a magnifying glass] there are Pixie-cup lichens in the spruce plot
- (Sunday, 24) [image of two ostrich ferns] the fertile fronds of ostrich fern stand stiff and dark
- (Monday, 25) [image of American cranberry-bush stems and fruit] high-bush cranberry wears puffs of snow
- (Tuesday, 26) [image of winter wren in brush] the winter wren weaves through low brush
- (Wednesday, 27) [image of hazel stems and catkins] hazel catkins feel softer
- (Thursday, 28) [image of vernal witch-hazel and close-up of flower] vernal witch hazel is in bloom
- (Friday, 29) [image of one set of raccoon tracks] raccoon tracks are plentiful after a mild night
- (Saturday, 30) [image of two sets of deer mouse tracks with trail mark between] white-footed deer mouse hops past
- (Sunday, 31) [image of three sets of Junco bird tracks] juncoes hop too
Extent: 1 sheet
Yellow Pond Lily (3.19469)
Date: 1940sCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Two illustrations of a yellow pond lily, depicting leaves and flowers with identifying text below each image. Image "A" shows the flower about to open on the first day, and image "B" shows the second day with flower fully open.
Header: yellow pond lily
Plants and text as depicted from left to right:
- A - For one day the opening flower offers insects a small entrance, filled with the stigma reader for pollen from a flower like B [arrow pointing right to next column of text]
- B - On the second day the flower opens wide, and its stamens burst with pollen, ready to be carried by insects to a flower like A [arrow pointing left back to text in the first column]
Extent: 1 sheet
Some New England Trees (3.19470)
Date: 1940sCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustrations of needles and cones for two types of trees found in New England.
Header: Some New England trees inhabit the mountain tops in the Smokies
Illustrations, top to bottom:
- red spruce
- hemlock
Extent: 1 sheet
An Example of Parallel Species (3.19471)
Date: 1940sCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustrations comparing two parallel species of trees, one in America and one in Europe. Illustrations depict a branch with leaves and fruit.
Header: An example of parallel species
Illustrations from left to right:
- one in southeastern America
- ironwood -- Ostrya virginiana
- one in Europe
- European hornbeam -- Ostrya carpinifolia
Extent: 1 sheet
Three Trees Whose Relatives Are Largely In the Tropics (3.19472)
Date: 1940sCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustrations of three types of leaves layered one on top of the other.
Text at center left: Three trees whose relatives are largely in the tropics
Illustrations from center outward:
- Silver Bell
- Fringe Tree
- Paw-paw
Extent: 1 sheet
A Bur Oak Twig (3.19473)
Date: 1940sCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Detailed illustration of a single bur oak twig with identifying text.
Text: a bur oak twig
Extent: 1 sheet
Four Plants Whose Relatives Are In Eastern Asia (3.19474)
Date: 1940sCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustrations of leaves of four types of plants, including two with flowers.
Upper left text: Four plants whose relatives are in eastern Asia
Plants depicted, from left to right:
- tulip tree
- sweet gum
- Jeffersonia
- May apple
Extent: 1 sheet
Two Cattails (3.19475)
Date: 1940sCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustrations of two cattails with identifying text. Graphite sketches of the plants are visible at each image.
Drawings as depicted from left to right:
- cattail with pistils and stamens identified
- cattail with seeds identified
Extent: 1 sheet
Shortia Galacifolia, Oconee Bells (3.19476)
Date: 1940sCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustration of Oconee bells plant with identifying text, depicting leaves, five flowers, and one bud. Writing in graphite underneath includes identifying text.
Text: Shortia galacifolia - Oconee bells
Extent: 1 sheet