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Owner's Assessment Plat of Part of Sections 25, 26, 35, and 36, T.39N., R.10E and Section 1, T. 38N., R10E. of 3rd P.M. (3.5276)
Date: July 8 1914Creator: Webster, Arthur L.
Type: Map
Description:Survey shows properties owned by Joy Morton to the north and east of lands subsequently developed into the Arboretum.
Extent: 1 sheet
Map of Thornhill Farm, Joy Morton Owner, DuPage County, Illinois (3.5278)
Date: September 1 1915Creator: Webster, Arthur L.
Type: Map
Description:Shows boundary lines, fence lines, and location of drainage tiles on the farm which extended northward from Warrenville Road over and beyond Butterfield Road. Acreages of individually numbered fields and pasture areas are given. Dated, as well as undated issues of this map are represented in the collections.
Extent: 1 sheet
Map of Thornhill Farm, Joy Morton Owner, DuPage County, Illinois (3.5282)
Date: September 1 1915Creator: Webster, Arthur L.
Type: Map
Description:Shows boundary lines, fence lines, and location of drainage tiles on the farm which extended northward from Warrenville Road over and beyond Butterfield Road. Acreages of individually numbered fields and pasture areas are given. Dated, as well as undated issues of this map are represented in the collections.
Blueprint negative.
Extent: 1 sheet
Thornhill Farm [owned by] Joy Morton, Esq., drawn [and] traced by R.K.Warren (3.5283)
Date: January 1 – 14 1917Creator: Warren, R. K.
Type: Map
Description:Shows fields and other areas comprising Thornhill Farm and adjoining properties.This copy's margins have been cropped and has ms. note: "Crop rotations from records available. Prepared Jan. 14th 1917. Joy Morton." Crops grown on 38 numbered fields variously between 1912-1920 are noted in ms.
Extent: 1 sheet
Thornhill Farm [owned by] Joy Morton, Esq., drawn [and] traced by R.K.Warren (3.5284)
Date: January 1917Creator: Warren, R. K.
Type: Map
Description:Shows fields and other areas comprising Thornhill Farm and adjoining properties. This copy has numerous ms. annotations by C.E.Godshalk regarding tillage and land rentals.
Extent: 1 sheet
Thornhill Farm [owned by] Joy Morton, Esq., drawn [and] traced by R.K.Warren (3.5285)
Date: January 1917Creator: Warren, R. K.
Type: Map
Description:Shows fields and other areas comprising Thornhill Farm and adjoining properties. Ms. annotations on this copy gives acreage of various fields and plots.
Extent: 1 sheet
Thornhill Farm [owned by] Joy Morton, Esq., drawn [and] traced by R.K.Warren (3.5286)
Date: January 1917Creator: Warren, R. K.
Type: Map
Description:Shows fields and other areas comprising Thornhill Farm and adjoining properties. Ms. annotations on this copy gives acreage of various fields and plots.
Extent: 1 sheet
[Morton Property Purchase Map for Section 34, T.39N., R.10E. And N1/2 Section 3, T.39N., R.10E, of the 3rd P.M.] (3.5989)
Date: 1910sType: Map
Extent: 1 sheet
Sketch [of the Thornhill area] for Mr. Joy Morton (3.6006)
Date: January 16 1912Creator: Naperville Nurseries
Type: Plan
Description:Landscape plan for area surrounding Thornhill residence, including Orchard and Rockery
Extent: 1 sheet
Entrance Gate, Estate of Mr. Joy Morton, Lisle, Ill. (3.6024)
Date: December 26 1917Creator: Perkins, F. W.
Type: Plan
Extent: 2 sheets
Entrance Gate, Estate of Mr. Joy Morton, Lisle, Illinois (3.6025)
Date: November 6 1917Creator: Perkins, F. W.
Type: Plan
Extent: 1 sheet
Survey of Part Sec. 25 and 6, T39N, R10E, 3rd p.m. for Joy Morton (3.6373)
Date: September 1917Creator: Webster, Arthur L.
Type: Map
Description:Includes handwritten "Work complete Aug. 21, 1919 shown in red" - plus various measurements in black.
Joy Morton land holding north of Butterfield Road, not a part of Morton Arboretum.
Extent: 1 sheet
Survey of Part Sec. 25 and 6, T39N, R10E, 3rd p.m. for Joy Morton (3.6374)
Date: September 1917Creator: Webster, Arthur L.
Type: Map
Description:"Tile system for Joy Morton (Thoman Farm) May 24, 1919" handwritten - tiling marked in yellow and red, plus measurements in black. Joy Morton land holding north of Butterfield Road, not a part of Morton Arboretum.
Extent: 1 sheet
Ground Plat of Joy Morton's Farm (3.6410)
Date: December 1910Type: Map
Description:Shows fences, boundaries, timber lines. Sheet 2 - ink on trace, same boundaries as sheet 1, with different roads and buildings, pencil notes on crop acreage.
Extent: 2 sheets
Ground Plat of Joy Morton's Farm (3.6411)
Date: December 1910Type: Map
Description:Shows fences, boundaries, timber lines. Blueprint copy of sheet 2 of Acc. # 1188 (3.6410), red pencil note, "Nursery." See link in related objects.
Extent: 1 sheets
Topography and Proposed Drive; Joy Morton's farm (3.6765)
Date: May 1911Creator: James, J. M.
Type: Map
Description:Note on back: "Topographical map of ground east of residence, #19"
Encapsulated and treated by Graphic Conservation Co., 2001--see Shelf List.
Extent: 1 sheet
Topography of Building Site on Joy Morton's Farm (3.6766)
Date: October 1910Creator: James, J. M.
Type: Map
Description:Encapsulated and treated by Graphic Conservation Co., 2001--see Shelf List.
Extent: 1 sheet
Topography from Residence to Joliet Road on Joy Morton's Farm (3.6767)
Date: April 7 1911Creator: James, J. M.
Type: Map
Description:Includes tree locations, fences, trails, and brush. Note: "Joy Morton, Room 720 [illegible]"
Encapsulated and treated by Graphic Conservation Co., 2001--see Shelf List.
Extent: 1 sheet
The American woods. Commercial woods : illustrated by actual specimens : with full text [pt.1] (3.11377)
Date: 1916Creator: Hough, Romeyn Beck, 1857-1924.
Type: Book
Description:Special volumes in Hough's American woods series, "covering the fifty kinds of American woods which the U.S. Census returns report to have been most largely manufactured into lumber during the period of one year--1912"--Preface to volume 1.
Each part consists of a text volume and 25 single leaves with each leaf containing three sections (transverse, radial, and tangential) of a single tree mounted in frames to allow viewing against light. Volume and loose leaves in chemise and slipcase.
The American woods : exhibited by actual specimens and with copious explanatory text [pt.1-3rd ed.] (3.11378)
Date: 1910Creator: Hough, Romeyn Beck, 1857-1924.
Type: Book
Extent: 14 volumes : illustrations, plates of mounted sections, samples ; 26 cm.
The American woods. Commercial woods : illustrated by actual specimens : with full text [pt.2] (3.11380)
Date: 1916Creator: Hough, Romeyn Beck, 1857-1924.
Type: Book
Description:Special volumes in Hough's American woods series, "covering the fifty kinds of American woods which the U.S. Census returns report to have been most largely manufactured into lumber during the period of one year--1912"--Preface to volume 1.
Each part consists of a text volume and 25 single leaves with each leaf containing three sections (transverse, radial, and tangential) of a single tree mounted in frames to allow viewing against light. Volume and loose leaves in chemise and slipcase.
Extent: 14 volumes : illustrations, plates of mounted sections, samples ; 26 cm.
The American woods : exhibited by actual specimens and with copious explanatory text [pt.11] (3.11390)
Date: 1910Creator: Hough, Romeyn Beck, 1857-1924.
Type: Book
Extent: 14 volumes : illustrations, plates of mounted sections, samples ; 26 cm.
The American woods : exhibited by actual specimens and with copious explanatory text [pt.12] (3.11391)
Date: 1911Creator: Hough, Romeyn Beck, 1857-1924.
Type: Book
Extent: 14 volumes : illustrations, plates of mounted sections, samples ; 26 cm.
The American woods : exhibited by actual specimens and with copious explanatory text [pt.13] (3.11392)
Date: 1913Creator: Hough, Romeyn Beck, 1857-1924.
Type: Book
Extent: 14 volumes : illustrations, plates of mounted sections, samples ; 26 cm.
Quercus alba : the veteran of the Ozarks (3.21941)
Date: 1910Creator: Lillibridge, Will, 1878-1909.
Type: Book
Extent: 48 pages, 1 leaf, frontispiece
Quercus alba : the veteran of the Ozarks (3.21942)
Date: 1910Creator: Lillibridge, Will, 1878-1909.
Type: Book
Extent: 48 pages, 1 leaf, frontispiece
Pansy (3.24633)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustration of a large pansy flower and three detail views, including floral diagram, reverse of flower, and center, accompanied by descriptive text. Background sketches along the left side include a house, a heart, and a church, center bottom includes three women and two girls sitting in a circle drinking tea, and center right includes flowers and an elf. Sketches depict various pansy folklore.
Upper left text lists various names this flower goes by - herb trinity, pink of my John, heart's ease, step-mother, kit run in the street, kiss me at the garden gate, cuddle me to you, kiss me quick or PANSY
Top right floral diagram illustration identifies sepal, petal, stamen, pistil, nectar sac
Bottom left illustration (reverse of flower) identifies sepal, petal, nectar sac
Bottom right illustration identifies stigma, pistil and stamens, nectar sac
Extent: 1 sheet
Owl Pellets Galore (3.24640)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Document
Description:Four pages of type-written text for Owl Pellets Galore by May Theilgaard Watts, an account detailing the process of searching for and examining long-eared owl pellets with Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts.
Accompanied by artwork titled Under the Roost of the Long-Eared Owls.
Extent: 4 sheets
Under the Roost of the Long-Eared Owls (3.24641)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Four illustrations depicting long-eared owls and their pellets. Captions accompany each individual illustration. The drawings illustrate the story OWL PELLETS GALORE by May Theilgaard Watts, Naturalist at The Morton Arboretum.
Upper left text: UNDER the ROOST of the LONG-EARED OWLS
Illustrations with captions, from left to right, top to bottom:
- Drawing of an owl pellet
- Caption: An owl pellet
- Drawing of forest floor, including rhododendron
- Caption: When rhododendron leaves uncurl we find pellets.
- Drawing of rodent bone findings
- Caption: Each pellet reveals parts of a small rodent.
- Drawing of two owls in a tree
- Caption: They seem to grow taller as we approach.
Extent: 1 sheet
Three Seasons of Bloom in the Prairie (3.24642)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustration of 23 prairie plants shown in a chart formation categorized by Fall, Summer, and Spring from top to bottom, and from high prairie to low prairie from left to right. Identifying text appears beneath each illustration, some of which is on strip of board attached to the bottom with tape.
Header: THREE SEASONS of BLOOM in the PRAIRIE
Text, top right: the individual plants represent colonies of varying sizes
Plants as depicted from top to bottom, left to right:
- Fall
- big bluestem
- blazing star
- Indian grass
- wild rye
- switch grass
- saw-toothed sunflower
- prairie dock
- cord grass
- Summer
- lead plant
- New Jersey tea
- flowering spurge
- stiff goldenrod
- black-eyed Susan
- Culver's root
- tall meadow rue
- Sullivant's milkweed
- Spring:
- bird's-foot violet
- blue-eyed grass
- puccoon
- downy phlox
- wild strawberry
- Canada anemone
- yellow star grass
Extent: 1 sheet
Men of 1914 : an accurate biographical record of prominent men in all walks of life ... business men, merchants, manufacturers, financiers, statesmen, lawyers, jurists, physicians, educators ; founders, makers and builders of our great republic ... / edited from standard biographical works and original sources. (3.37664)
Date: 1915Type: Book
Extent: viii, 846 pages ; 24 cm
Chicago and the Old Northwest, 1673-1835 : a study of the evolution of the northwestern frontier, together with a history of Fort Dearborn (3.37666)
Date: 1913Creator: Quaife, Milo Milton, 1880-1959.
Type: Book
Extent: vii, 480 pages, [11] leaves of plates : illustrations, map, portraits ; 25 cm
Report on the proposed Sand Dunes National Park, Indiana (3.37838)
Date: 1917Creator: Mather, Stephen Tyng. 1867-1930.
Type: Book
Extent: 113 pages : 2 maps (1 folded) ; 25 cm
The voices of the dunes and other etchings (3.57606)
Date: 1912Creator: Reed, Earl H. (Earl Howell), 1863-1931
Type: Book
Extent: 3 preliminary leaves, 25 plates, 1 leaf 34 x 24 cm
Plant life and evolution (3.60036)
Date: 1911Creator: Campbell, Douglas Houghton, 1859-1953
Type: Book
Extent: iv, 360 pages : illustrations.
Through Shên-kan : the account of the Clark Expedition in north China, 1908-9 (3.60044)
Date: 1912Creator: Clark, Robert Sterling, 1877-1956, Sowerby, Arthur de Carle, 1885-1954.
Type: Book
Extent: iii, [1], 7-8, 247, [1] pages, [64] leaves of plates (6 color mounted) : illustrations, 2 maps (1 folded) ; 26 cm
