Davey Tree Expert Company records

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Historical Note: Founded by John Davey and his son Martin L. Davey, the Davey Tree Expert Company was incorporated on February 4, 1909. In the original articles of incorporation, the purpose of the new company was stated as the, "...care, preservation, cultivation, propagation, and sale of trees, shrubs and vines, and the practice of landscape architecture." In addition, the company established one of the first formal, professional schools for tree surgery in the country.

Detailed History of the Davey Tree Company

Scope and Content: This collection is comprised of company reports, correspondence, financial statements, stockholder information, and copies of the Davey Bulletin. In addition, Box 22 contains photographs relating to the history and operations of the company. Files are arranged alphabetically by broad subject. Within the same subject, items are ordered chronologically.

Box 20--Davey Bulletin, Reports, Correspondence
Folder---Contents

1. Davey Industrial Park: Brochure: 1966
2. Davey Industrial Park: Correspondence:1966
3. Davey Industrial Park: Kent Industry Brochure/ East Ohio Gas: 1966
4. Davey Industrial Park: Park Proposal: 1966
5. Davey Investment Company: Financial Condition Statements:1930s-1980s
6. Davey Tree Company: Activity Report: March 31, 1962
7. Davey Tree Company: Activity Report: April 7, 1962
8. Davey Tree Company: Activity Report: April 14,1962
9. Davey Tree Company: Activity Report: April 21,1962
10. Davey Tree Company: Activity Report: April 28, 1962
11. Davey Tree Company: Activity Report: May 5, 1962
12. Davey Tree Company: Activity Report: May 12,1962
13. Davey Tree Company: Activity Report: May 19,1962
14. Davey Tree Company: Advertisement/ Akron Beacon Journal: July 21, 1925 (oversized)
15. Davey Tree Company: Advertisement Painting/ Correspondence: 1920s
16. Davey Tree Company: Advertisement Painting/ Correspondence: 1930s
17. Davey Tree Company: Advertisement Painting/ Correspondence:1940s
18. Davey Tree Company: Advertisement Painting/ List: 1920's - 1930s
19. Davey Tree Company: Advertisement Painting/ Photographs: 1940s
20. Davey Tree Company: Annual Reports: 1960s
21. Davey Tree Company: Annual Reports: 1970s
22. Davey Tree Company: Annual Reports: early 1980s
23. Davey Tree Company:Blank Checks: undated
24. Davey Tree Company: Board of Directors: 1960-61, 1977-78
25. Davey Tree Company: Correspondence: 1940s
26. Davey Tree Company: Correspondence: 1961-62
27. Davey Tree Company: Correspondence: 1970's
28. Davey Tree Company: Davey Bulletin: August 1, 1918
29. Davey Tree Company: Davey Bulletin: 1926-28
30. Davey Tree Company: Davey Bulletin: 1937
31. Davey Tree Company: Davey Bulletin: 1946
32. Davey Tree Company: Davey Bulletin: 1948
33. Davey Tree Company: Davey Bulletin: 1972
34. Davey Tree Company: Davey Bulletin: 1973
35. Davey Tree Company: Davey Bulletin: 1974
36. Davey Tree Company: Davey Bulletin: 1977
37. Davey Tree Company: Davey Bulletin: 1978
38. Davey Tree Company: Davey Bulletin: 1979
39. Davey Tree Company: Davey Bulletin: 1980
40. Davey Tree Company: Davey Bulletin: 1981
41. Davey Tree Company: Davey Bulletin: 1983
42. Davey Tree Company: Davey Bulletin: 1984
43. Davey Tree Company: Davey Foundation: 1961-62
44. Davey Tree Company: Executive Committee Meeting: 1961
45. Davey Tree Company: Executive Committee Meeting:1962-63

Box 21--Financial Statements, Stockholder Letters
Folder---Contents

1. Davey Tree Company: Financial Conditions: 1950s
2. Davey Tree Company: Financial Statements: 1961-62
3. Davey Tree Company: Instruction Booklets/ Exam Questions: 1969
4. Davey Tree Company: Inter-Company Correspondence: January-May 1962
5. Davey Tree Company: Invitations/ Various Parties: 1950, 1962
6. Davey Tree Company: Management Committee Reports:
7. Davey Tree Company: Management Executive Committee: 1977-78
8. Davey Tree Company: McGraw-Hill Booklet: 1958
9. Davey Tree Company: Memorandums: 1962
10. Davey Tree Company: News Clips: 1968, 1970-71
11. Davey Tree Company: Overseas Investments/ South America: 1970s
12. Davey Tree Company: Oversized/ John Davey Material: various dates
13. Davey Tree Company: Poems/ Trees: undated
14. Davey Tree Company: Preservation of Our Trees: 1912
15. Davey Tree Company: Radio Programs: 1930-32
16. Davey Tree Company: Real Estate Interests/ Shareholders: 1960s
17. Davey Tree Company: Reports: 1920-37
18. Davey Tree Company: Safeguarding Your Tree/ Series: 1962
19. Davey Tree Company: Songs: 1920's
20. Davey Tree Company: Stock Option Plan/ Employees: 1973
21. Davey Tree Company: Stockholder Letters/ Pirtle and Cole: 1960s
22. Davey Tree Company: Stockholder Letters/ Sell Stock: 1953
23. Davey Tree Company: Stockholders/ Class A and B: 1909-1964
24. Davey Tree Company: Stockholders/ Class A and B: 1923-1942
25. Davey Tree Company:Stockholders: Class A and B: 1942-1957
26. Davey Tree Company: Stockholders: Davey Family: various dates
27. Davey Tree Company: Stockholders/ Meetings: 1960s
28. Davey Tree Company: Stockholders/ Meetings: 1970-78
29. Davey Tree Company: Stockholders/ Meetings: early 1980s
30. Davey Tree Company: Ten Commandments of Safety: undated
31. Davey Tree Company: Writings on Nature: undated

Box 22--Photographs
Folder---Contents

1. Photograph: Chemical Spraying/ Brush Control: late 1940s
2. Photograph: Chemical Spraying/ DDT: circa 1950
3. Photograph: Chemical Spraying/ Early Equipment: undated
4. Photograph: Company Annual Picnic (oversized): July 4, 1947
5. Photograph: Davey Institute of Tree Surgery/ Class: 1911
6. Photograph: Davey Institute of Tree Surgery/ Classroom: early 1900s
7. Photograph: Davey Institute of Tree Surgery/Classroom: early 1900s
8. Photograph: Davey Institute of Tree Surgery/ Building: early 1900s
9. Photograph: Early Brush Chipper: circa 1950
10. Photograph: Martin L. Davey Inspecting Tree: early 1900s
11. Photograph: Martin L. Davey Inspecting Tree: early 1900s
12. Photograph: Martin L. Davey Inspecting Tree: early 1900s
13. Photograph: Martin L. Davey/ Kent Sign: undated
14. Photograph: Martin L. Davey/ Portrait: early 1900s
15. Photograph: Martin L. Davey Jr./ Alexander M. Smith: 1970
16. Photograph: Paul H. Davey/ Portrait: January 1960
17. Photograph: Sales Convention/ Group Portrait: January 1947
18. Photograph: Tree Butchery: undated
19. Photograph: Tree Crew/ New York: 1919
20. Photograph: Tree Crew: early 1900s
21. Photograph: Tree Crew: early 1900s
22. Photograph: Tree Crew: early 1900s
23. Photograph: Tree Crew: early 1900s
24. Photograph: Tree Crew/ Portrait: early 1900s
25. Photograph: Tree Crew: undated
26. Photograph: "Tree Doctor"/ Book by John Davey: undated
27. Photograph: Tree Moving: late 1920s
28. Photograph: Tree Moving Crew: undated
29. Photograph: Tree Moving Crew: undated
30. Photograph: Tree Removal/ Dutch Elm Disease: March 1930
31. Photograph: Tree Surgery/ Washington D.C.: early 1900s
32. Photograph: Tree Surgery/ Washington D.C.: early 1900s
33. Photograph: Tulip Poplar/ Planted by George Washington: undated
34. Photograph: W.P. Shidd and Bud Linnis (?): May 1927
35. Photograph Set: Equipment: undated
36. Photograph Set: Machinery: undated
37. Photograph Set: Meetings: 1960s
38. Photograph Set: Office Personnel: 1919-1960s
39. Photograph Set: Tree Surgery/ Tree Care: early 1900s
40. Photograph Set: Tree Surgery: undated
41. Photograph Set: Tree Surgery: undated
42. Photograph Set: Tree Surgery: undated
43. Photograph Set: Tree Surgery: undated
44. Photograph Set: Tree Surgery/ "C" Series: undated
45. Photograph Set: Tree Surgery/ Before and After Shots: undated
46. Photograph Set: Tree Surgery/ "D" Series: undated
47. Photograph Set: Tree Surgery/ "F" Series: undated
48. Photograph Set: Various Individuals: early 1900s
49. Reproduction: "Floral and Landscape Educator": undated
50. Reproduction: John Davey Introduction: undated
51. Reproduction: Restoration Band of America: undated
52. Reproduction: Sales Convention/ Davey Tree Company: undated
53. Reproduction: Tree Repair/ Dental Analogy: undated
54. Reproduction: Tree Surgeon/ Portrait: undated
55. Series Photographs: Brush Chippers: undated
56. Series Photographs: Brush Hog: undated
57. Series Photographs: Brush Master: undated
58. Series Photographs: Equipment: undated
59. Series Photographs: Pole Sawing and Pruning: undated
60. Series Photographs: Power Saws: undated
61. Series Photographs: Railroad Spraying: undated
62. Series Photographs: Sky Work: undated
63. Series Photographs: Spraying Equipment: undated
64. Series Photographs: Stump Boring: undated
65. Series Photographs: Stump Removal: undated
66. Series Photographs: Training: undated
67. Series Photographs: Vehicles/ Various Types: undated

Scope and Content: This box also contains a numbered series of photographs: 1 through 104: undated (images of equipment and daily operations at the Davey Tree Expert Company)

Box 22A: Photographic Album, circa 1909

Physical Location: This album is boxed separately and is housed on-site in Special Collections & Archives.

Scope and Content: A small photograph album created by John Davey containing 24 mounted photographs of tree surgery work performed by Davey and his staff on the property of George Lander, Jr (Greenwich, CT), and on other properties and estates in New Jersey and New York, including the Paconian Hills estate of Rockefeller. The entire album includes hand-written notations and captions by Davey. Album is accompanied by dealer's description.

Acquisition Information: This item was purchased by Special Collections and Archives as an addition to the Evangeline Davey Smith collection.

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