Archives at Späth-Arboretum of Humboldt-Universität
At the Späth-Arboretum of the Humboldt University there are several archival collections of historico-scientific interest:
The card index of Gerd Krüssmann, who worked from 1935 to 1945 at Späth's tree nurseries as a dendrologist and was in charge of the arboretum, served as the basis for the compilaton of his multi-volume standard works "Handbuch der Laubgehölze" and "Handbuch der Nadelgehölze".
The glass photo plate collection of the former Späth nursery, partly at the Späth Arboretum, served to illustrate numerous publications of the nursery.
- Numerous documents and photographs reflect the work of the Institute for Systematic Botany at Humboldt-Universität (since 1969 the Botany and Arboretum Department of the then founded Museum of Natural History at Humboldt-Universität, since 1991 the Institute for Systematik Botany and Arboretum) from 1960 to the 1990s.
An extensive archive of slides contains pictures from scientific excursions and from the living collection, mostly from the period 1960-1990. The large stock of photographs of plants and travel pictures from Cuba, which documents the close cooperation between Humboldt-Universität and the Botanical Garden of Havana since the 1960s, deserves special mention.
Furthermore there are
the registered office and the archive of the German Botanical Society (DBG) at the Späth-Arboretum of Humboldt-Universität.