The Morton Arboretum [guide map and collections grid] (3.6953)
Date: June 1972Creator: Coulter, Ronald M.
Type: Map
Description:Map used in the "Map & general information" flier, an issuance in the Arboretum's informal series currently titled: Map & visitor guide.
Extent: 1 sheet
Record of concrete marker posts seen on the grounds since 1978 (3.6570)
Type: Map
Description:Record is marked on The 1972 Morton Arboretum guide map and collections grid, by Ronald M. Coulter. Other copies of this map are at LAND:F I (c) 1.
Extent: 1 sheet
The Morton Arboretum [guide map and collections grid, including notes on flooding] (3.6568)
Date: 1982Creator: Coulter, Ronald M.
Type: Map
Description:Approximate limits of DuPage River floodwaters December 3, 1982.
E. Hedborn - December 6, 1982 from field observations of debris and personal observations. Flooding marked in colored marker; ink notes of details.
Extent: 1 sheet
Map and Visitor Guide [of] The Morton Arboretum [by Nancy Hart Stieber and John Sosnowski, landmarks and vegetation portion] (3.6533)
Date: 1984Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Map
Description:Transparencies used in production of the flier showing landmarks/collections and vegetation to be used in the map portion of the informal series titled: Map & Visitor Guide. Updated in 1989 with Crabapple Lake.
Extent: Envelope with 2 items
The Morton Arboretum, DuPage County, Illinois [diazotype] (3.6405)
Date: 1922Creator: O. C. Simonds & Co.
Type: Map
Description:Collection has both blueline and blueprint copies of the map. All copies have been marked in ms. by C.E. Godshalk and others; varying details on planned roads, forestry plots, native woodland cover, and the layout of existing buildings are given. This version show the grid sequence used in the author's enlarged topographic survey (1 inch = 40 feet). (See SURV:A II (b) 1.)
Extent: 1 sheet
A Guide Map of The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, Illinois [1965?] (3.6118)
Date: circa 1965Creator: Tyznik, Anthony
Type: Map
Description:Prepared for the series "Map & Visitor Guide." Possibly the original drawing for 1970 map incorporated into Map & Visitor Guide.
Extent: 1 sheet
Planting plan for the Lake [Marmo area] Morton Arboretum, Lisle, Illinois (3.6109)
Date: 1922Creator: O. C. Simonds & Co.
Type: Plan
Extent: 1 sheet
Topographical Plat of Morton Arboretum, Lisle, Illinois (3.6008)
Date: August 1921Creator: O. C. Simonds & Co.
Type: Map
Description:Topographic survey made 1921-1922. True elevations are given. Collection has varied issuances made during the survey. Final version has title statement centered at top of map. It shows the date as follows: "Aug. 1921 - MCH 1922". Preliminary versions show title in lower righthand corner of map and give Aug. 1921 only as date. Areas surveyed and completion of topographical detail vary in preliminary issuances. Water levels of the East Branch of the Dupage River are indicated for October 11, 1921.
Extent: 1 sheet
A Guide Map of The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, Illinois [1958? with written notes regarding land purchases and use] (3.5997)
Date: circa 1958Creator: Tyznik, Anthony
Type: Map
Description:Probably prepared for collateral use in the Arboretum's informal series titled: Map & Visitor Guide.
Includes misc notes by C.E. Godshalk regarding land purchases and use.
Extent: 1 sheet
A Guide Map of The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, Illinois [1958? with written notes on major planting dates since 1922] (3.5996)
Date: circa 1958Creator: Tyznik, Anthony
Type: Map
Description:Probably prepared for collateral use in the Arboretum's informal series titled: Map & Visitor Guide.
Includes misc notes by C.E. Godshalk on major planting dates since 1922 for various collections and landmarks.
Extent: 1 sheet
A Guide Map of The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, Illinois [1958? with written notes on road development] (3.5995)
Date: circa 1958Creator: Tyznik, Anthony
Type: Map
Description:Probably prepared for collateral use in the Arboretum's informal series titled: Map & Visitor Guide.
Includes misc notes by C.E. Godshalk on road building and lakes.
Extent: 1 sheet
General plan for [the] Morton Arboretum, Lisle, DuPage Co., Illinois (3.5937)
Date: 1922Creator: O. C. Simonds & Co.
Type: Plan
Description:Collection has an added copy covering the west portion of the Arboretum only. Both plans show existing woodland species and projected plantings.
Extent: 1 sheet
Map and Visitor Guide [of] The Morton Arboretum [by Nancy Hart Stieber and John Sosnowski enlarged sections of landmarks and vegetation] (3.5821)
Date: 1984Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Map
Description:Enlarged sections of landmarks and vegetation of the map portion of the Map & Visitor Guide created for production. Updated in 1989 with Crabapple Lake.
Extent: Folio of 12 items
Map and Visitor Guide [of] the Morton Arboretum [by Nancy Hart Stieber and John Sosnowski, changes to text formatting and missing enlarged map] (3.5820)
Date: 1984Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Map
Description:Recto/verso transparencies depicting the Map & Visitor guide in production, with different text formatting and missing enlarged map on the reverse side of the leaflet. Updated in 1989 with Crabapple Lake.
Extent: 2 sheets
Map and Visitor Guide [of] The Morton Arboretum [by Nancy Hart Stieber and John Sosnowski, various sections broken down into multiple negatives] (3.5819)
Date: 1984Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Map
Description:Seven photographic negatives depicting various sections of the map portion for the production of the Map & Visitor Guide. Updated in 1989 with Crabapple Lake.
Extent: Envelope with 7 film negatives
Map and Visitor Guide The Morton Arboretum [by Nancy Hart Stieber and John Sosnowski] (3.5818)
Date: 1984Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Document
Description:Leaflet created for the informal series titled: Map & Visitor Guide. On the recto of the leaflet an inset map (1 inch=1/2 mile) shows major Arboretum structures and connecting roads; also given is a summary of the Arboretum's history, public facilities and services, and regulations. Updated in 1989 with Crabapple Lake.
Extent: 1 sheet printed on both sides
Woody Plant Collections, The Morton Arboretum [Collections Grid by Ronald M. Coulter and Anthony Tyznik, version not used] (3.5816)
Date: 1982Creator: Coulter, Ronald M.
Type: Map
Description:A preliminary and/or provisional version of the Woody Plant Collections Guide Map which was never formally issued. The map developed by Coulter and Nancy Hart Stieber in 1982 was issued as the Arboretum's guide to woody plant collections.
Extent: 1 sheet
The Morton Arboretum [guide map and collections grid] Revised 1976 (3.5795)
Date: March 1976Creator: Coulter, Ronald M.
Type: Map
Description:An updated version of the 1972 issuance of the same title.
Extent: 1 sheet
The Morton Arboretum Map & General Information, 1972 [guide map and collections grid printed on back] (3.5787)
Date: June 1972Creator: Coulter, Ronald M.
Type: Document
Description:Copy of The Morton Arboretum Map & General Information leaflet, an issuance in the Arboretum's informal series currently titled: Map & visitor guide, printed on both sides. Guide map and collections grid printed on back of sheet.
Extent: 1 sheet
A Guide Map of The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, Illinois [1970, printed in color] (3.5785)
Date: April 1970Creator: Tyznik, Anthony
Type: Map
Description:Map appears on the verso of the "General Information" flier, an issuance in the Arboretum's informal series titled: Map & Visitor Guide.
Extent: 1 sheet
A Guide Map of The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, Illinois [1958?] (3.5782)
Date: circa 1958Creator: Tyznik, Anthony
Type: Map
Description:Probably prepared for collateral use in the Arboretum's informal series titled: Map & Visitor Guide.
Extent: 1 sheet
A Guide Map of The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, Illinois [1958? with updates] (3.5781)
Date: circa 1958Creator: Tyznik, Anthony
Type: Map
Description:Probably prepared for collateral use in the Arboretum's informal series titled: Map & Visitor Guide. The map has been updated by mounting a small mylar sheet on the left margin. The addition shows the Sterling Pond and nearby areas. Roads, lakes, and parking have been colored in colored pencil.
Extent: 1 sheet
A Guide Map of The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, Illinois [1958? with roads and parking colored] (3.5780)
Date: circa 1958Creator: Tyznik, Anthony
Type: Map
Description:The map was probably designed for collateral use in the Arboretum's informal series titled: Map & visitor guide. Roads showing direction of traffic and parking areas have been colored in with colored pencil.
Extent: 1 sheet
The Morton Arboretum General Information [1950? with additional area drawn in on guide map] (3.5779)
Date: circa 1950Type: Document
Description:Copy of The Morton Arboretum General Information leaflet, with Guide Map, an issuance in the Arboretum's informal series currently titled: Map & visitor guide, printed on both sides. Guide map printed on back of sheet and includes additional area drawn in pencil including Shrub Collection, Hedges, Nursery, Brush, and Pasture.
Extent: 1 sheet
Plan of development for Morton Arboretum, Joy Morton, founder, Lisle, Illinois. [#13] (3.5775)
Date: 1925Type: Map
Description:Map designed to form part of an informational leaflet, Map & visitor guide, the Morton Arboretum. This map includes a legend identifying physical features and plant collections.
"This map shows plantings from April 1st 1921 to May 1st 1925. Future plantings to be made are not shown. C.E. Godshalk, Supt." printed as note included in map.
"Blackline prints and photostats #13 pictures 1925" written in ink on back of map. "Morton Arboretum "Plan of Development" #13" written on duplicate.
Extent: 1 sheet
Plan of Development for Morton Arboretum, Joy Morton, Founder, Lisle, Illinois. [with 6 photographs printed above map] (3.5773)
Date: 1925Type: Map
Description:Map designed to form part of an informational leaflet, Map & visitor guide, the Morton Arboretum. This map includes a legend identifying physical features and plant collections and six photos of Arboretum views and specimen at the top of the map.
"This map shows plantings from April 1st 1921 to May 1st 1925. Future plantings to be made are not shown. C.E. Godshalk, Supt." printed as note included in map.
Extent: 1 sheet
Plan of Development for Morton Arboretum, Joy Morton, Founder, Lisle, Illinois. [colored] (3.5772)
Date: 1925Type: Map
Description:Map designed to form part of an informational leaflet, Map & visitor guide, the Morton Arboretum. This map includes a legend identifying physical features and plant collections, some areas colored with color pencil.
"This map shows plantings from April 1st 1921 to May 1st 1925. Future plantings to be made are not shown. C.E. Godshalk, Supt." printed as note included in map.
"Early colored map of section A & B of Arb" and "Sections A & B about 1925, note roads on east side at this time" written in ink on back of map.
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
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
Planting plan for the Lake [Marmo area] Morton Arboretum, Lisle, Illinois (3.5640)
Date: 1922Creator: O. C. Simonds & Co.
Type: Plan
Extent: 1 sheet
Planting plan for the Lake [Marmo area] Morton Arboretum, Lisle, Illinois (3.5639)
Date: 1922Creator: O. C. Simonds & Co.
Type: Plan
Extent: 1 sheet
General plan for [the] Morton Arboretum, Lisle, Illinois, DuPage Co. , Illinois (3.5638)
Date: 1922Creator: O. C. Simonds & Co.
Type: Map
Description:Collection has an added copy covering the west portion of the Arboretum only. Both plans show existing woodland species and projected plantings
Extent: 1 sheet
The Morton Arboretum and Joy Morton properties in DuPage County (3.5618)
Date: May 1934Creator: Kammerer, E. Lowell
Type: Map
Description:Shows lands within the Arboretum boundaries, giving original ownership, acreages, roadways, and some data on woodland cover: as well as Morton properties outside of northern Arboretum boundaries.
Extent: 1 negative
The Morton Arboretum and Joy Morton Properties in DuPage County (3.5304)
Date: May 1934Creator: Kammerer, E. Lowell
Type: Map
Description:Shows lands within the Arboretum boundaries, giving original ownership, acreages, roadways, and some data on woodland cover; as well as Morton properties outside of northern Arboretum boundaries. Includes handwritten notes in pencil.
"Arboretum & Lisle Farms, Color coded; Late 40s" written in marker on back.
Extent: 1 sheet
The Morton Arboretum and Joy Morton Properties in DuPage County (3.5303)
Date: May 1934Creator: Kammerer, E. Lowell
Type: Map
Description:Shows lands within the Arboretum boundaries, giving original ownership, acreages, roadways, and some data on woodland cover; as well as Morton properties outside of northern Arboretum boundaries.
Extent: 1 sheet
The Morton Arboretum and Joy Morton properties in DuPage County (3.5302)
Date: May 1934Creator: Kammerer, E. Lowell
Type: Map
Description:Shows lands within the Arboretum boundaries, giving original ownership, acreages, roadways, and some data on woodland cover; as well as Morton properties outside of northern Arboretum boundaries.
Extent: 1 sheet