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Looking over DuPage Valley from Thornhill residence sunroom through hedges (3.2947)
Date: 1915 – 1916Type: Photographic image
Description:Looking over DuPage Valley from Thornhill residence sunroom through hedges
Extent: 1 photograph
Looking east from archway of Thornhill residence toward main entrance on Park Blvd. (3.3001)
Date: 1916Creator: Henry Fuermann and Sons
Type: Photographic image
Description:Looking east from archway of Thornhill residence toward main entrance on Park Blvd.
Extent: 1 photograph
Looking north toward Thornhill residence, view from lower pond (3.3002)
Date: 1916Creator: Henry Fuermann and Sons
Type: Photographic image
Description:Looking north toward Thornhill residence, view from lower pond
Extent: 1 photograph
Gravel pit with wagons and horses on top of Yackley Hill along Butterfield Road (3.33507)
Date: 1916Type: Photographic image
Description:Gravel pit with wagons and horses on top of Yackley Hill along Butterfield Road
Unusual dump wagons - note boards sticking out in rear. First the wagon side was lifted off, then each board was turned and gravel would dump out. After 1921, dump wagons with hinged bottoms were used.
Extent: 1 negative filmstrip
Building roads, workers with horse-drawn wagons and equipment (3.33509)
Date: circa 1916Type: Photographic image
Description:Building roads, workers with horse-drawn wagons and equipment
Farmers in those days had to work out their road tax
Extent: 1 negative filmstrip
Morton Residence at Thornhill, exterior, view from west (3.3378)
Date: 1910 – 1922Type: Photographic image
Description:Morton Residence at Thornhill, exterior, view from west, before library wing was added in 1922-1923
Extent: 1 photograph
Morton Residence at Thornhill, exterior, front view, just after house was built (3.3394)
Date: 1910sCreator: Hildebrand
Type: Photographic image
Description:Morton Residence at Thornhill, exterior, front view, just after house was built
Extent: 1 photograph
[Plat map of Milton Township, DuPage County, Illinois] (3.5892)
Date: 1910sCreator: DuPage County
Type: Map
Description:Initial land purchases in Milton Township made by Joy and Mark Morton are drawn in ms.
Extent: 1 sheet (wall map on wooden rollers)
Map of DuPage County … showing rural routes and state aid roads (3.5902)
Date: 1910sCreator: Webster, Arthur L.
Type: Map
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
Map of DuPage County…showing rural routes and state aid roads (3.6000)
Date: 1910sCreator: Webster, Arthur L.
Type: Map
Description:This copy has slightly different layout although the map content appears identical on the two copies.
Extent: 1 sheet
Thornhill, Estate of Joy Morton, Esq., Lisle, Illinois (3.6026)
Date: 1910sCreator: Perkins, F. W.
Type: Map
Description:Includes ms. notes by Carol Doty regarding various building modifications, dates.
Extent: 6 sheets in binder