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Title: | Voth, Paul D. Papers |
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Dates: | 1884-1989 |
Size: | 35 linear feet (56 boxes) |
Repository: |
Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center |
Abstract: | Paul Dirks Voth was a University of Chicago alumni (S.M. 1930, Ph.D. 1933) and faculty member of the Department of Botany. This collection represents Voth's work as a botanist, educator, horticulturist, and historian of the University of Chicago's Department of Botany. Included in this collection is laboratory data, lecture notes, drafts, publications, teaching materials and student work, administrative and personal correspondence, photographs, and films. |
Series VIII, Boxes 54-56, are restricted for 80 years from date of record creation. These boxes contain student recommendation letters, grades and transcripts.
The remainder of the collection is open for research, with no restrictions
Series VII contains 16-millimeter filmstrips, microfilms, and film negative rolls. Researchers will need to consult with staff before requesting these items.
When quoting material from this collection, the preferred citation is: Voth, Paul D. Papers, [Box #, Folder #], Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library.
Paul Dirks Voth was a University of Chicago alumni (S.M. 1930, Ph.D. 1933) and faculty member of the Department of Botany. Born in Gotebo, Oklahoma, on June 12, 1905, Voth was raised in Mennonite communities. He graduated from Bethel College in 1929, and studied at the Rocky Mountain Biological Station in Crested Butte, Colorado, pursuing graduate study in botany at University of Chicago.
Voth was known for his research on the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha, working with his students to determine requirements for nutrition and cultivation of this species. He was also particularly interested in lichens and Hemerocallis (daylilies). He traveled widely for both teaching and research purposes: In 1938, his family traveled to Barro Colorado Island in the Panama Canal Zone, where he conducted an intensive study of tropical vegetation. In 1951, he traveled to the Arctic Research Laboratory in Point Barrow, Alaska, where he researched plants growing in permanently frozen substrate.
Teaching was an important part of Voth's academic career. In 1940, he was awarded the Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. He served on university committees to develop undergraduate programs in the biological sciences, as well as teacher education programs. He developed textbooks, films, and laboratory material for high school teaching, and taught summer biology institutes for gifted high school students.
In addition to his faculty and administrative duties in the Department of Botany, Voth had a keen interest in the department's history, particularly the activities of early faculty such as Henry C. Cowles, Charles J. Chamberlain and Ezra J. Kraus.
Outside the university, Voth served as associate editor of Botanical Gazette from 1960-1974, and was a botanical consultant for encyclopedia publishers and educational film producers. He belonged to numerous professional organizations, serving as Secretary-Treasurer of the American Bryological Society (1939-1941) and Chairman of the Teaching Section of the Botanical Society of America (1950), as well as administrative positions with the Illinois State Academy of Science. Voth was active in community gardening and neighborhood beautification programs, an avid daylily breeder, and speaker at meetings of garden clubs and other organizations.
After retiring from the faculty of University of Chicago, Voth continued to teach at Northern Illinois University in the 1970s. Voth died in 1992, survived by his wife Selma ("Sally") J. Graber, two children, and several grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
This collection represents Voth's work as a botanist, educator, horticulturist, and historian of the University of Chicago's Department of Botany. Included in this collection is laboratory data, lecture notes, drafts, publications, teaching materials and student work, administrative and personal correspondence, photographs, and films. Voth's organization of his papers is strongly conditioned by his interest in documenting teaching and research in the Department of Botany; his own secondary notes and analyses of the collection are found throughout the collection.
Series I: Correspondence, contains incoming and outgoing letters and memoranda, including both professional and personal material. Related reports, notes, publications and publicity material are often included with correspondence.
Correspondence spans the years 1953-1972 and is arranged alphabetically.
Series II: Education, includes material from Paul Voth's study in college and graduate school, as well as some of his continuing education activities. Subseries 1: Bethel College, contains lab books, notes and other material from courses Voth took during college. Subseries 2: University of Chicago, contains syllabi, reading lists, lecture notes, lab books, term papers, and other material from Voth's graduate education, as well as some material from lectures he attended for later professional development. Voth continued to collect material from the same or similar courses after he himself had completed the course, so later material is often found alongside his own coursework.
Series III: Teaching, documents Voth's teaching activities at the university level, as well as his work as an educator for high school and community groups. Subseries 1: University of Chicago, contains material from botany and biology courses that Voth taught from the 1930s-1960s. Voth also collected material from related courses taught by other faculty members, and often filed these along with material from his own courses. Dissertations and theses that Voth supervised are also included. Subseries 2: Northern Illinois University, contains material for biology classes Voth taught in the 1970s. Subseries 3: High School Programs, contains material that Voth used for teaching in special programs for gifted high school students.
Series IV: Research and Writing, represents Voth's wide range of research interests. Subseries 1: Scientific, contains laboratory notebooks, experiment data, drafts of papers, publications, notes, correspondence and photographs documenting Voth's scientific research. Subseries 2: Historical, contains Voth's research on the history of science, and most notably the history of the Department of Botany at the University of Chicago. This subseries contains extensive original material that Voth collected, as well as his secondary writing and research material. Of particular interest are his collections of biographical information about faculty and students. Subseries 3: Educational, includes drafts and notes for textbooks, filmstrip scripts, encyclopedia articles, and other material related to research and writing in college, high school and community education.
Series V: University Administration, documents Voth's participation on university committees and governing bodies, as well as day-to-day administrative activities. Subseries 1: University of Chicago, contains correspondence, reports, meeting minutes, and publicity material spanning the years 1940-1970. Contained in this subseries is Voth's file on campus protests in the 1960s, including broadsides, statements, and publications from student groups and administration in the wake of the 1969 Marlene Dixon sit-in. Subseries 2: Northern Illinois University, contains a small amount of material related to laboratory management and reporting of professional activities.
Series VI: Personal, contains manuscripts, correspondence and other material documenting Voth's hobbyist activities and personal life. Included here are materials related to garden clubs and other community organizations; his memoirs of childhood and student experiences; and copies of his curriculum vitae, career summaries, and other biographical documents.
Series VII: Artifacts, Oversize and Audio-Visual Material, contains a variety of formats, much of it documenting Voth's research and travel. Subseries 1: Artifacts and Oversize Material, contains diagrams, architectural records, supply samples, and other material transferred from Series III, IV and V. Subseries 2: 16-Millimeter Films, contains a copy of an educational film in which Voth was involved, in addition to eight reels of film taken during Voth's research in Alaska.
Subseries 3: Photographs, includes prints, negatives and transparencies from the 1930s-1960s, including images of research and travel. Subseries 4: Slides, includes several individually organized slide files from the 1930s-1960s.
Series VIII, Restricted, contains student recommendation letters, grades and transcripts. Materials in this series are restricted for 80 years from date of record creation.
The following related resources are located in the Department of Special Collections:
Coulter, John Merle. Papers
Cowles, Henry Chandler. Papers
Noé, Adolf Carl. Papers
Olmsted, Charles E. Papers
University of Chicago. Department of Botany. Records
Series I: Correspondence |
This series contains professional and personal correspondence of Paul D. Voth, including letters and memoranda generated through his research, administrative activities, teaching, and personal interests. His correspondents included students, colleagues at University of Chicago and other institutions, university administrators, and personal friends. Related reports, notes, publications and publicity material are often included with correspondence.
This series contains incoming and outgoing correspondence spanning the years 1937-1978. The alphabetical headings typically correspond to either correspondent names or subjects. Unsorted correspondence is found at the end of the subseries.
While Voth maintained this material specifically as a correspondence file, letters and memoranda are also found alongside other material elsewhere in the collection, particularly Series III, IV, V and VI.
Box 1 Folder 1 | A, 1944-1951 |
Box 1 Folder 2 | American Institute of Biological Sciences, 1960-1961 |
Box 1 Folder 3-4 | B, 1939-1969 |
Box 1 Folder 5 | Book reviews, 1960-1968 |
Box 1 Folder 6 | Botanical Gazette, 1965-1971 |
Box 1 Folder 7-8 | Botany Club, 1955-1972 |
Box 1 Folder 9-10 | C, 1943-1973 |
Box 1 Folder 11 | Chapman, J. David, 1979 |
Box 2 Folder 1 | Chicago, University of, Collegiate Division of Biology, 1965-1971 |
Box 2 Folder 2 | Chicago, University of, Committee on Undergraduate Education, 1959-1965 |
Box 2 Folder 3 | Chicago, University of, Council of the University Senate, 1957-1970 |
Box 2 Folder 4 | Chicago, University of, Department of Biology, 1969 |
Box 2 Folder 5 | Chicago, University of, Department of Biology, M.A. in Teaching, 1959-1969 |
Box 2 Folder 6 | Chicago, University of, Planning and Executive Committee of the Graduate School of Education, 1969 |
Box 2 Folder 7 | Conant, George H., 1944-1951 |
Box 2 Folder 7 | Drozd, Mary Jane, 1979 |
Box 2 Folder 9 | E, 1949-1969 |
Box 2 Folder 10 | Electron microscopy, circa 1960s-1970s |
Box 2 Folder 11-13 | F-L, 1944-1973 |
Box 2 Folder 14 | Greenhouses, 1972-1975 |
Box 2 Folder 15 | H, 1965-1975 |
Box 3 Folder 1 | Hemerocallis, 1958-1968 |
Box 3 Folder 2 | I, 1964-1975 |
Box 3 Folder 3 | Illinois Dunesland Preservation Society, 1954-1969 |
Box 3 Folder 4 | Indiana Dunes, 1964-1971 |
Box 3 Folder 5 | J, 1955-1969 |
Box 3 Folder 6 | Jones, Regnal, 1966 |
Box 3 Folder 7-8 | K-L, 1946-1975 |
Box 3 Folder 9 | Larson, Paul, 1953-1959 |
Box 3 Folder 10 | M, 1947-1975 |
Box 4 Folder 1 | Manuscript reviews, 1941-1980 |
Box 4 Folder 2 | Mc, 1954-1973 |
Box 4 Folder 3 | N, 1944-1975 |
Box 4 Folder 4 | National Science Foundation, 1963-1966 |
Box 4 Folder 5-7 | O-P, 1942-1973 |
Box 4 Folder 8 | Publications, 1955-1969 |
Box 4 Folder 9 | Publications, comments on reprints, 1965-1969 |
Box 4 Folder 10 | Publishers, 1937-1944 |
Box 4 Folder 11 | R, 1956-1969 |
Box 4 Folder 12 | Rouffa, Albert S., 1978 |
Box 4 Folder 13 | S, 1943-1973 |
Box 5 Folder 1 | Studhalter, R., 1932-1936 |
Box 5 Folder 2-3 | T-Z, 1955-1969 |
Box 5 Folder 4 | Yung, Chi-Tung, 1944-1971 |
Box 6 Folder 1-11 | Unsorted, 1932-1974 |
Series II: Education |
The material in this series documents Paul Voth's education in college and graduate school, as well as some of his continuing education activities.
Subseries 1: Bethel College, contains lab books, notes and other material from courses Voth took during college.
Subseries 2: University of Chicago, contains syllabi, reading lists, lecture notes, lab books, term papers, and other material from Voth's graduate education, as well as some material from lectures he attended for later professional development. It is notable that Voth continued to collect material from the same or similar courses after he himself had completed the course - in some cases, material from biology classes taught in the 1950s is found along with Voth's own coursework from the 1930s. This subseries is organized by course number, with copies of Voth's master's and doctoral theses at the end. Names of courses and instructors are included when identified.
Subseries 1: Bethel College |
Box 7 Folder 1-2 | Biology courses, circa 1928 |
Box 7 Folder 3-4 | Ornithology courses, 1928 |
Subseries 2: University of Chicago |
Box 7 Folder 5 | Botany 201, Plant Anatomy, Herbert E. Hayward, 1930 |
Box 7 Folder 6-7 | Botany 212, Elementary Plant Physiology, Charles A. Shull, 1929 |
Box 8 Folder 1-3 | Botany 237, Applied Ecology, Henry C. Cowles, 1932 |
Box 8 Folder 4-5 | Botany 240, General Plant Pathology, 1930-1941 |
Box 8 Folder 6 | Botany 250, General Plant Genetics, Merle C. Coulter, 1933 |
Box 9 Folder 1 | Botany 310, Morphology of Algae, John M. Beal, 1932-1938 |
Box 9 Folder 2-3 | Botany 312, Special Morphology of Bryophytes, William J. G. Land, 1929 |
Box 9 Folder 4 | Botany 313, Morphology of Pteridophytes, William J.G. Land, 1929 |
Box 9 Folder 5 | Botany 314, Morphology of Gymnosperms, Ezra J. Kraus, 1931 |
Box 9 Folder 6 | Botany 315, Morphology of Angiosperms, Ezra J. Kraus, 1930-1943 |
Box 10 Folder 1-2 | Botany 317-318, Cytology, John M. Beal, 1933-1951 |
Box 10 Folder 3-5 | Botany 321-322, General Plant Physiology, Scott V. Eaton, 1930 |
Box 10 Folder 6-7 | Botany 333, Geographical Botany (Hawaiian Islands), Henry C. Cowles, 1929 |
Box 11 Folder 1-2 | Botany 335, Forest Ecology, George D. Fuller, 1931 |
Box 11 Folder 3 | Botany 339, Bioecology, John Philips, 1937 |
Box 11 Folder 4-5 | Botany 340, Plant Pathology, George K.K. Link, 1932 |
Box 11 Folder 6 | Botany 401, Structure of Economic Plants, Ezra J. Kraus, 1933 |
Box 11 Folder 7 | Botany 427, Plant Nutrition, Charles A. Shull, 1933 |
Box 12 Folder 1 | Botany 430, Experimental Ecology, Paul Houdek, circa 1930s |
Box 12 Folder 2 | New Factors in Plant Physiology, lecture series, F.W. Went, 1948 |
Box 12 Folder 3-4 | A Study of the Juvenile Stages of Pteris Longifolia, M.S. dissertation, 1930 |
Box 12 Folder 5 | A Study of the Vegetative States of Ephedra, Ph.D. dissertation, 1933 |
Series III: Teaching |
This series documents Voth's teaching activities at the university level, as well as his work as an educator for high school and community groups.
Subseries 1: University of Chicago, contains syllabi, exams, assignments, lecture notes, publications, reading lists, research data, and other material from botany and biology courses that Voth taught from the 1930s-1960s. Voth also collected material from related courses taught by other faculty members, and often filed these along with material from his own courses. Material is arranged according to course number; dissertations and theses that Voth supervised are collected at the end of the subseries. Names and numbers of courses are given when identified.
Subseries 2: Northern Illinois University, contains teaching material for biology classes Voth taught in the 1970s, as well as course evaluations and organizational material for class trips.
Subseries 3: High School Programs, contains material that Voth used for teaching in special programs for gifted high school students. Other material related to high school programs and education research is found in Series IV: Subseries 3 and Series V: Subseries 1.
Oversize material from this series has been transferred to Series VII.
Subseries 1: University of Chicago |
Box 12 Folder 6 | Botany, Second-Year College Sequence, 1934 |
Box 12 Folder 7-11 | Botany 101, 1916-circa 1950s |
Box 13 Folder 1-10 | Botany 202, 1948-1967 |
Box 14 Folder 1-7 | Botany 204, 1921-circa 1960s |
Box 14 Folder 8-9 | Botany 206, Systematic Botany, 1915-1950 |
Box 14 Folder 10 | Botany 214, circa 1960s |
Box 14 Folder 11-12 | Botany 299, circa 1960s |
Box 14 Folder 13-15 | Botany 310, Algae, 1948-1967 |
Box 15 Folder 1-9 | Botany 310, Algae, 1956-1967 |
Box 15 Folder 10 | Botany 312, Morphology of Bryophytes, 1936-1948 |
Box 16 Folder 1-10 | Botany 312, Morphology of Bryophytes, 1937-1968 |
Box 17 Folder 1-6 | Botany 312, Morphology of Bryophytes, 1949-1966 |
Box 17 Folder 7-12 | Botany 313, 1940-1968 |
Box 17 Folder 13 | Botany 314, 1942-1969 |
Box 17 Folder 14 | Botany 330, 1960 |
Box 17 Folder 15 | Biology I, 1966 |
Box 17 Folder 16 | Biology 105, Elementary Botany, 1967 |
Box 18 Folder 1 | Biology 199, 1969 |
Box 18 Folder 2-8 | Biology 201, Plant Biology, 1947-1966 |
Box 19 Folder 1-4 | Biology 201, Plant Biology, 1963-1966 |
Box 19 Folder 5 | Biology 210, 1961 |
Box 19 Folder 6 | Biology 211, 1963-1971 |
Box 19 Folder 7-8 | Biology 272, 1969-1970 |
Box 20 Folder 1 | Biology 313B, 1953-1969 |
Box 20 Folder 2-3 | Biology 329, 1969 |
Box 20 Folder 4 | Biology 428, 1970 |
Box 20 Folder 5-9 | Dissertations and theses, 1952-1970 |
Box 21 Folder 1-4 | Dissertations, 1940-1967 |
Box 22 Folder 1 | Dissertations, 1940-1967 |
Subseries 2: Northern Illinois University |
Box 23 Folder 1-9 | Lecture notes, teaching material and student research, 1946-1966 |
Subseries 3: High School Programs |
Box 24 Folder 1 | Biology 211, 1973 |
Box 24 Folder 2 | Biology 689, 1966-1973 |
Box 24 Folder 3 | Course evaluations, circa 1968-1970 |
Box 24 Folder 4 | Class trips to Field Museum, 1972-1974 |
Box 24 Folder 5-7 | National Science Foundation, Summer Institute of Modern and Field Biology, 1963-1966 |
Box 24 Folder 8 | University of Chicago, Program for Teachers and Gifted Students from Outstanding High Schools, 1963-1966 |
Series IV: Research and Writing |
Material in this series represents Voth's wide range of research interests, which was not limited to botany or the biological sciences.
Subseries 1: Scientific, is organized by subject, with headings corresponding to either botanical subjects or locations in which Voth conducted his research. To locate all material related to a given subject, it is necessary to check both types of headings (for example, research on Marchantia polymorpha is also found under the heading "Alaska," where Voth conducted research on this species). Material in this subseries includes laboratory notebooks, experiment data, drafts of papers, publications, notes, and related correspondence and photographs.
Unsorted material is included at the end of the subseries.
Subseries 2: Historical, contains Voth's research on the history of science, and most notably the history of the Department of Botany at the University of Chicago. This subseries contains extensive original material that Voth collected, as well as his secondary writing and research material. Voth formed biographical files on individual faculty members, in which he collected correspondence from subjects and their colleagues, personal papers, publications, and biographical writings. He compiled lists and directories of students in the department, along with related correspondence, publications and student work. This subseries also includes material related to the administrative history of the department, including correspondence of faculty and staff; historically significant reports, memoranda, and publications. Voth's observations and analyses are found throughout.
Subseries 3: Educational, includes drafts and notes for textbooks, filmstrip scripts, encyclopedia articles, and other material related to research and writing in college, high school and community education. This subseries includes material related to high school programs and teacher training programs in which Voth was involved, as well as drafts of lectures and speeches to garden clubs and other lay botanical organizations. Material related to teaching and administration of high school science programs is also found in Series III: Subseries 3, and Series V: Subseries 1. Material related to garden clubs is also found in Series VI.
Other material documenting Voth's research is found in Series I and VII. Oversize material from this series has been transferred to Series VII.
Subseries 1: Scientific |
Box 25 Folder 1-13 | Alaska research, 1948-1956 |
Box 25 Folder 14-15 | Alaska research, administration, 1950-1952 |
Box 26 Folder 1-4 | Alaska research, administration, 1951-1967 |
Box 26 Folder 5-10 | Alaska research, equipment and instrumentation, 1951-1955 |
Box 26 Folder 11 | Alaska research, methodology, circa 1952 |
Box 26 Folder 12 | Alaska research, "Biology of Marchantia Polymorpha and Associated Plants in the Alaskan Arctic," reports, 1951 |
Box 26 Folder 13 | Alaska, preparations for speech, 1951 |
Box 26 Folder 14 | Alaska, Newsletter on Microenvironment, 1957 |
Box 26 Folder 15 | Alaska, photographs of laboratory personnel, circa 1951 |
Box 26 Folder 16-17 | Barro Colorado Island research, 1938-1959 |
Box 27 Folder 1 | Barro Colorado Island research, "Conduction of Rainfall by Plant Stems in a Tropical Rain Forest," 1939 |
Box 27 Folder 2 | Barro Colorado Island, index of herbarium, 1938 |
Box 27 Folder 3-6 | Bryophytes, 1944-1962 |
Box 27 Folder 7-8 | Bryophytes, bryological and lichenological forays, 1949-1975 |
Box 27 Folder 9 | Bryophytes of Illinois bibliography, 1939-1947 |
Box 27 Folder 10 | Guadalcanal, analysis of captured Japanese food, 1942 |
Box 27 Folder 11-16 | Hemerocallis, circa 1920s-1968 |
Box 28 Folder 1-15 | Hemerocallis, 1954-1970 |
Box 28 Folder 16 | Hemerocallis, Robert A. Griesbach, "The Nature of Dormancy Seed Germination in Hemerocallis," dissertation, 1955 |
Box 29 Folder 1 | Hemerocallis, exposure of seeds to stratosphere in air balloon flight, 1950-1952 |
Box 29 Folder 2 | Hemerocallis, genetics, 1948-1952 |
Box 29 Folder 3 | Hemerocallis, Botany Garden, 1963-1970 |
Box 29 Folder 4 | Hemerocallis, Ellis Avenue Garden, 1962-1967 |
Box 29 Folder 5 | Hemerocallis, Wychwood, 1950-1951 |
Box 29 Folder 6-13 | Lichens, 1931-1971 |
Box 30 Folder 1-6 | Lichens, circa 1971-1972 |
Box 30 Folder 7 | Lichens, substances, circa 1971 |
Box 30 Folder 8 | Lichens and animals, 1971 |
Box 30 Folder 9 | Lichens, antibiotic uses, 1971 |
Box 30 Folder 10 | Lichens, chemistry, 1972 |
Box 30 Folder 11 | Lichens, deleterious effects, 1971 |
Box 30 Folder 12 | Lichens, economic uses, circa 1971 |
Box 30 Folder 13 | Lichens, global value, circa 1971 |
Box 30 Folder 14 | Lichens, haustoria, circa 1971 |
Box 30 Folder 15 | Lichens on Mars, circa 1970s |
Box 30 Folder 16 | Lichens as fodder, circa 1970s |
Box 30 Folder 17 | Lichens, physiology, circa 1971 |
Box 30 Folder 18 | Lichens, bibliographic summation, circa 1971 |
Box 31A Folder 1-17 | Marchantia, 1937-1960 |
Box 31 Folder 1-7 | Marchantia, circa 1937-1960 |
Box 31 Folder 8 | Marchantia, "Effect of Temperature Fluctuations on Substrates in the Greenhouse," 1954 |
Box 31 Folder 9 | Marchantia, "Voth-Gentile Experiment on Effect of Boron and Potassium Permanganate on Leaf Area and Dry Weight of Marchantia Polymorpha," 1954 |
Box 31 Folder 10 | Marchantia, "Environmental and Other Factors Controlling Vegetative Reproduction in Marchantia," 1960 |
Box 31 Folder 11-12 | Marchantia, burning of peat soils, 1929-1947 |
Box 31 Folder 13 | Marchantia, statistics, 1947-1951 |
Box 32 Folder 1 | Marchantia, ammonia experiment, circa 1950s |
Box 32 Folder 2 | Marchantia, fungus infestation, 1947 |
Box 32 Folder 3 | Marchantia, National Science Foundation proposal, 1955-1956 |
Box 32 Folder 4 | Marchantia, photographs, circa 1970 |
Box 32 Folder 5 | Marsilia, 1952 |
Box 32 Folder 6 | Mimosa, 1967 |
Box 32 Folder 7-9 | Pteridophytes, 1939-1956 |
Box 32 Folder 10 | Zamiaceae, 1989 |
Box 32 Folder 11-21 | Unsorted material, 1911-circa 1980s |
Box 33 Folder 1-3 | Unsorted material, circa 1950s-1970s |
Subseries 2: Historical |
Box 33 Folder 4-12 | Department of Botany, 1926-1981 |
Box 34 Folder 1-8 | Department of Botany, 1952-1983 |
Box 34 Folder 9-11 | Department of Botany faculty, 1929-1981 |
Box 34 Folder 12 | Department of Botany, biographical files, 1900-1970 |
Box 35 Folder 1-4 | Department of Botany faculty, reprints, 1884-circa 1960s |
Box 35 Folder 5-11 | Department of Botany faculty, biographical files, circa 1900-1970
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Box 36 Folder 1-9 | Department of Botany faculty, biographical files, circa 1900-1970
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Box 37 Folder 1-7 | Department of Botany faculty, biographical files, circa 1900-1970
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Box 37 Folder 8 | Department of Botany, women Ph.D.s, circa 1970s |
Box 37 Folder 9 | Department of Botany, Chinese graduates, circa 1982 |
Box 37 Folder 10-14 | Department of Botany, graduates and Ph.D.s, circa 1960s-1980s |
Box 38 Folder 1-2 | Department of Botany, student achievements, circa 1960s-1970s |
Box 38 Folder 3-6 | Department of Botany, Shigeo Yamanouchi, 1908-1965 |
Box 38 Folder 7 | Department of Botany, Sir Eric Ashby, 1969 |
Box 38 Folder 8 | Department of Botany, J.E. House, 1937-1978 |
Box 38 Folder 9 | Department of Botany, newsletters, 1940-1953 |
Box 38 Folder 10 | Department of Botany, qualifying exams, circa 1960s |
Box 38 Folder 11 | Botany Garden, 1969 |
Box 38 Folder 12 | Department of Biology, newsletter, 1978 |
Box 38 Folder 13 | Bird Haven, 1951-1968 |
Box 38 Folder 14 | Mackwoods Gardens, 1956-1964 |
Box 38 Folder 15 | Wychwood, 1940-1969 |
Subseries 3: Educational |
Box 38 Folder 16-17 | National Science Foundation, Programs for Education in the Sciences, 1962-1963 |
Box 39 Folder 1-3 | High School Biology, circa 1963-1966 |
Box 39 Folder 4 | Laboratory Exercises in Plant Biology, 1971-1972 |
Box 39 Folder 5 | World Book Encyclopedia, 1970 |
Box 39 Folder 6-7 | Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1957-1961 |
Box 39 Folder 8-9 | Britannica Films, 1955-1961 |
Box 39 Folder 10 | International Film Bureau, 1973-1979 |
Box 39 Folder 11 | Coronet Films, 1969 |
Box 39 Folder 12-13 | Television appearances, 1952-1957 |
Box 40 Folder 1 | "Green Organisms," 1966 |
Box 40 Folder 2-3 | "Photosynthesis," circa 1966 |
Box 40 Folder 4-5 | "Reproduction," circa 1964 |
Box 40 Folder 6 | "Original Research as a Component of an Undergraduate Course in Botany," 1963 |
Box 40 Folder 7 | "Demonstrating Mineral-Nutrient Deficiencies with Regnellidium Diphyllum," 1956 |
Box 40 Folder 8 | Morton Arboretum, 1946-1972 |
Box 40 Folder 9 | "Control of Reproduction in a Lower Green Plant," 1967 |
Box 40 Folder 10 | Plant enumeration, 1944 |
Box 40 Folder 11-12 | Garden clubs, 1947-1951 |
Box 40 Folder 13-16 | Unsorted material, 1938-circa 1970s |
Series V: University Administration |
This series documents Voth's participation on university committees and governing bodies, as well as day-to-day administrative activities.
Subseries 1: University of Chicago, contains correspondence, reports, meeting minutes, and publicity material spanning the years 1940-1970. Contained in this subseries is Voth's file on campus protests in the 1960s, including broadsides, statements, and publications from student groups and administration in the wake of the 1969 Marlene Dixon sit-in. This subseries is organized chronologically, with unsorted material found at the end.
Subseries 2: Northern Illinois University, contains a small amount of material related to laboratory management and reporting of professional activities.
Administrative correspondence and related documents are also found in Series I. Oversize material from this series has been transferred to Series VII.
Subseries 1: University of Chicago |
Box 41 Folder 1 | College programs, 1940-1941 |
Box 41 Folder 2 | Fiberglas equipment purchasing and analysis, 1941-1942 |
Box 41 Folder 3 | University re-organization, 1944 |
Box 41 Folder 4 | Academic freedom, 1944 |
Box 41 Folder 5 | Microscope replacement, 1957-1961 |
Box 41 Folder 6 | Undergraduate curriculum, 1958-1963 |
Box 41 Folder 7 | Botanist career education, 1958-1966 |
Box 41 Folder 8 | College faculty meetings, 1959 |
Box 41 Folder 9 | Committee on the B.A. in Biology, 1960-1961 |
Box 41 Folder 10 | Classroom and space needs, 1962 |
Box 41 Folder 11 | Teaching assistants, 1963-1965 |
Box 41 Folder 12 | Joseph D. Novak, 1964 |
Box 41 Folder 13 | Biology Collegiate Division, Curriculum Committee, 1967-1970 |
Box 42 Folder 1-5 | Graduate School of Education, M.A. in Teaching program and Michigan State University Training of Teacher Trainers Program, 1967-1969 |
Box 42 Folder 6-10 | Administration Building sit-in and disciplinary actions, 1969 |
Box 43 Folder 1 | University Record, 1968-1969 |
Box 43 Folder 2 | Biology Collegiate Division, 1970-1971 |
Box 43 Folder 3-5 | Unsorted material, 1938-1979 |
Subseries 2: Northern Illinois University |
Box 43 Folder 6 | Laboratory equipment, circa 1950s-1970s |
Box 43 Folder 7 | Professional activities, circa 1970s |
Box 43 Folder 8 | Lectures and speeches, circa 1970s |
Series VI: Personal |
This series contains manuscripts, correspondence and other material documenting Voth's hobbyist activities and personal life. Included here are materials related to garden clubs and other community organizations; his memoirs of childhood and student experiences; and copies of his curriculum vitae, career summaries, and other biographical documents.
Box 43 Folder 9 | Selma Voth, 1933 |
Box 43 Folder 10 | Positions offered and sought, 1933-1963 |
Box 43 Folder 11-14 | Garden clubs, 1941-1977 |
Box 43 Folder 15 | Alaska travel, 1951-1953 |
Box 43 Folder 16 | Wychwood, 1958 |
Box 43 Folder 17 | Crank letters, 1960-1984 |
Box 44 Folder 1-2 | DeKalb, Illinois, community activities, 1974 |
Box 44 Folder 3 | Childhood memoirs, 1977 |
Box 44 Folder 4 | University of Chicago memoirs, 1977 |
Box 44 Folder 5 | Alaskan ecology, 1979 |
Box 45 Folder 1-5 | Biographical statements and c.v.s, circa 1960s-1980s |
Series VII: Artifacts, Oversize, and Audio-Visual Material |
This series contains oversize material, artifacts, and audio-visual material in a variety of formats. Much of this material documents Voth's research and travel.
Subseries 1: Artifacts and Oversize Material, contains diagrams, architectural records, supply samples, and other material transferred from Series III, IV and V.
Subseries 2: 16-Millimeter Films, contains a copy of an educational film in which Voth was involved, in addition to eight reels of film taken during Voth's research in Alaska. The films have not been reviewed and their accessibility is not known.
Subseries 3: Photographs, includes prints, negatives and transparencies from the 1930s-1960s. Most of the photographs are of experiments and other research; however, Voth also collected many photographs of his travel in Alaska around 1951, including images of landscapes and indigenous communities. Voth organized many of the Alaskan photographs into distinct sets of images, while other photographs are sorted only by subject. A formal portrait of Voth is also included in this subseries.
Subseries 4: Slides, includes several individually organized slide files from the 1930s-1960s. Most of the slide files are organized by location, and many images of Alaska are again included.
Subseries 1: Artifacts and Oversize Material |
Box 46 Folder 1 | Research and writing, scientific, Marchantia, samples of Fiberglas cloth, 1939 |
Box 46 Folder 2 | Teaching, University of Chicago, Botany 313, 1917-1942 |
Box 46 Folder 3 | Teaching, unidentified diagrams, undated |
Box 46 Folder 4 | Administration, University of Chicago, Botany Building, 1963 |
Box 46 Folder 5 | Administration, University of Chicago, Gates-Blake Hall basement rehabilitation |
Subseries 2: 16-Millimeter Films |
Box 47 | Alaska research, eight film reels, circa 1951 |
Box 47 | Plant Nutrients and Growth, Coronet Films, 1969 |
Subseries 3: Photographs |
Box 47 Folder 1 | Identified and unidentified, circa 1930s-1960s
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Box 48 Folder 1-9 | Alaska, sets 1-9, 1951 |
Box 48 Folder 10-11 | Alaska, 1951 |
Box 49 Folder 1-4 | Alaska, Point Barrow, 1951 |
Box 49 Folder 5 | Thermistors, circa 1954 |
Box 49 Folder 6 | Hemerocallis, circa 1950s |
Box 49 Folder 7 | Regnellidium, circa 1954 |
Box 49 Folder 8 | Barro Colorado Island, circa 1938 |
Box 49 Folder 9 | Wychwood, 1946-1949 |
Box 49 Folder 10 | Paul D. Voth, portrait, 1952 |
Box 49 Folder 11-13 | Marchantia, 1947-1952 |
Subseries 4: Slides |
Box 50 | Alaska, five slide files, circa 1951 |
Box 50 | Wychwood, two slide files, circa 1946-1948 |
Box 51 | Marchantia, slide file, circa 1940 |
Box 51 | Bethel College lecture, slide file, 1986 |
Box 51 | Chicago, conservation of trees, circa slide file, 1950 |
Box 51 | Indiana Dunes, circa slide file, 1954 |
Box 51 | Holland, Michigan, circa slide file, 1941 |
Box 51 | Regnellidium, hemerocallis and other subjects, slide file, circa 1950s-1960 |
Box 52 | Alaska, slide file, circa 1951 |
Box 52 | Alaska, unsorted slides, circa 1951 |
Box 52 | Chicago, slide file, circa 1949-1959 |
Box 52 | Native flora, circa 1950s |
Box 53 | Point Barrow, Alaska, lantern slides, circa 1951 |
Box 53 | Barro Colorado Island, lantern slides, circa 1938 |
Box 53 | Texas, lantern slides, undated |
Box 53 | 2,4-D soil, lantern slides, undated |
Series VIII: Restricted |
Box 54 Folder 1-6 | Letters of Recommendation, 1953-1972 |
Box 55 Folder 1-7 | Student Papers, 1944-1961 |
Box 56 Folder 1-12 | Student Papers, 1961-1975 |