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Map Showing the Morton Arboretum and the Adjoining Lands Owned by the Joy Morton Estate in DuPage County, Illinois, Compiled from Surveys and Deed Records (3.5707)
Date: September 1 1940Creator: Steinbrecher, Harold F.
Type: Map
Description:This copy shows various woodlands and buildings in colored shading added by Godshalk in the late 1950s. Collection includes maps showing ms. annotations by C.E. Godshalk giving acreages as of March 21, 1965 and notes on purchases and sales of some land areas.
The Commonwealth Edison and Tollway rights-of-way are indicated. A portion of the estate lies outside of the Arboretum boundaries.
Extent: 1 sheet
Morton Arboretum Bird Sanctuary, Lisle, Illinois [woodland cover] (3.5761)
Date: circa 1940Type: Plan
Description:Bird Sanctuary area landscape plan, including woodland cover highlighted on plan. Each of the following identified by a different color: sumac, hawthorn, willow, larch, cattails, shore line, oak, mountain ash, wire fence, arborvitae. The sanctuary is located in the Puffer Marsh area.
Extent: 1 sheet