[Meadow Lake Regrading Project] (3.32037)
Type: Plan
Description:Includes tree names; shows area south of Meadow Lake and proposed road.
Extent: 1 sheet
The Outpost (3.39941)
Type: Plan
Description:Three sheets of plans relating to The Outpost. Sheet one shows trees and shrubs; sheets two and three show only hardscape/paths.
Extent: 3 sheets
[Meadow Lake Regrading Project] (3.32034)
Type: Plan
Description:Includes parking and road renovations; one sheet showing Meadow Lake. Includes grading bondary and slurry wall.
Extent: 1 sheet
[Meadow Lake Regrading Project] (3.32038)
Type: Plan
Description:Includes parking, road renovation, and tree names; shows area south of Meadow Lake and planned road in green ink.
Extent: 1 sheet
Raintree Fountain Pool Construction details (3.39942)
Creator: Mehaffey, Scott A.
Type: Plan
Description:The Raintree Fountain, created by Sylvia Shaw Judson in 1963, was given to The Morton Arboretum by Suzette Morton Davidson (1911-1996) in memory of her sisters Millicent and Caroline. Grandchildren of Arboretum Founder, Joy Morton (1855-1934), these three girls enjoyed frequent visits to "Thornhill Farm", today the site of Thornhill Education Center.
Fountain reinstallation was the combined gift of Arboretum Staff and Volunteers, 2000.
Extent: 1 sheet
[Retaining wall project] (3.31984)
Type: Plan
Description:Shows south edge of The Morton Arboretum along I-88 east of Route 53.
Extent: 1 sheet
[Aerial photographs of Morton Arboretum] (3.6624)
Creator: Sidwell Company
Type: Photographic image
Description:Sheets 1 and 2 include ink notes on tree locations.
From vault 2/99.
Extent: 4 sheets
[Meadow Lake Regrading Project] (3.32035)
Type: Plan
Description:Includes parking and road renovation; shows parts of Meadow Lake, parking lot, entry road, and Route 53.
Extent: 1 sheet
[Meadow Lake Regrading Project] (3.32039)
Type: Plan
Description:Includes parking and road renovations; shows Meadow Lake and parking lot. Includes some handwritten tree names.
Extent: 1 sheet
[Meadow Lake Regrading Project] (3.32036)
Type: Plan
Description:Shows portion of Meadow Lake. Includes grading boundary and slurry wall.
Extent: 1 sheet
[Meadow Lake Regrading Project] (3.32040)
Type: Plan
Description:Includes parking and shows part of Meadow Lake. Shows slurry wall and grading boundary.
Extent: 1 sheet
The Morton Arboretum Master Site Plan (3.39966)
Type: Plan
Description:Aerial view of The Morton Arboretum colored in color pencil.
[Meadow Lake Regrading Project] (3.32033)
Type: Plan
Description:Shows portion of Meadow Lake including slurry wall and grading boundary.
Extent: 1 sheet
[Aerial Photograph of The Morton Arboretum] (3.5412)
Date: 1939Type: Photographic image
Description:The photos are individually identified as follows: BWS-1-72 through BWS-1-75 and BWS-3-11 through BWS-3-14. Each bears the date: 8-24-39; however, empty agricultural fields shown indicate that the exposures would have been made in the spring. The set was purchased in 1990 from the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service (ASCS).
Extent: 8 sheets in envelope
[Aerial photograph of the Morton Arboretum] (3.5413)
Date: circa 1940Creator: Chicago Aerial Survey Co.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Photomosaic print mounted on masonite board.
Extent: 1 sheet
[Aerial Photograph of the Morton Arboretum] (3.6051)
Date: circa 1940Creator: Chicago Aerial Survey Co.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Photomosaic print mounted on masonite board.
Areas outlined in red.
Collection has reduction mounted on masonite (1 inch = 900 feet, 70 cm x 29 cm)
Extent: 1 sheet mounted
[Oblique Aerial Photograph of The Morton Arboretum] (3.6009)
Date: circa 1958Creator: Metro News Photos
Type: Photographic image
Description:Copy 1 is a set of four photos (of various enlargements) set at oblique angles covering much of the Arboretum.
Extent: 4 photos
[Aerial Photograph of the Morton Arboretum and Adjacent Areas pt. 2] (3.5418)
Date: circa 1961Type: Photographic image
Description:The 4 survey photos, taken as stereographic pairs, are identified as follows and show the areas noted: [1] BWS-2BB-204, East half of the Arboretum and Glen Ellyn; [2] BWS-2BB-206, Northwest portion of the Arboretum and Wheaton/Glen Ellyn; [3] BWS-3BB-86, Southeastern portion of the Arboretum and Downers Grove; [4] BWS-3BB-88, Major southern portion of the Arboretum and Lisle.
Part 2
Extent: 1 sheet mounted on posterboard
[Aerial Photograph of the Morton Arboretum and Adjacent Areas pt. 3] (3.5419)
Date: circa 1961Type: Photographic image
Description:The 4 survey photos, taken as stereographic pairs, are identified as follows and show the areas noted: [1] BWS-2BB-204, East half of the Arboretum and Glen Ellyn; [2] BWS-2BB-206, Northwest portion of the Arboretum and Wheaton/Glen Ellyn; [3] BWS-3BB-86, Southeastern portion of the Arboretum and Downers Grove; [4] BWS-3BB-88, Major southern portion of the Arboretum and Lisle.
Part 3
Extent: 1 sheet mounted on posterboard
[Aerial Photograph of the Morton Arboretum and Adjacent Areas pt. 4] (3.5420)
Date: circa 1961Type: Photographic image
Description:The 4 survey photos, taken as stereographic pairs, are identified as follows and show the areas noted: [1] BWS-2BB-204, East half of the Arboretum and Glen Ellyn; [2] BWS-2BB-206, Northwest portion of the Arboretum and Wheaton/Glen Ellyn; [3] BWS-3BB-86, Southeastern portion of the Arboretum and Downers Grove; [4] BWS-3BB-88, Major southern portion of the Arboretum and Lisle.
Part 4
Extent: 1 sheet mounted on posterboard
[Aerial Photograph of the Morton Arboretum and Adjacent Areas pt. 1] (3.5417)
Date: circa 1961Type: Photographic image
Description:The 4 survey photos, taken as stereographic pairs, are identified as follows and show the areas noted: [1] BWS-2BB-204, East half of the Arboretum and Glen Ellyn; [2] BWS-2BB-206, Northwest portion of the Arboretum and Wheaton/Glen Ellyn; [3] BWS-3BB-86, Southeastern portion of the Arboretum and Downers Grove; [4] BWS-3BB-88, Major Southern portion of the Arboretum and Lisle.
Part 1
Extent: 1 sheet mounted on posterboard
[Morton Arboretum and environs] (3.6320)
Date: November 29 1963Creator: Chicago Aerial Survey Co.
Type: Map
Extent: 1 sheet
Soil and Capability Map (3.6773)
Date: June 1964Creator: U.S. Soil Conservation Service
Type: Map
Description:Kane-DuPage Soil Conservation District and Soil Conservation Service. Map shows Arboretum with soil capabilities drawn in.
Extent: 1 sheet on board
Morton Arboretum [Aerial Photograph and] Conservation Plan Map, Kane-DuPage Soil Conservation District. (3.5416)
Date: June 1964Creator: U.S. Soil Conservation Service
Type: Map
Description:Photomosaic produced from aerial photographs believed to have been taken in the 1940s. "Photo nos. BWS-8N-11, 8N-12, 8N-13, 4N-63, 4N-64, 4N-65, 4N-66, &4N-67." The photograph has been marked in ink with water features and major highways.
Extent: 1 sheet
Soil and Woodland Suitability Map (3.6169)
Date: March 1965Creator: U.S. Soil Conservation Service
Type: Map
Description:Uses photo probably from mid 1950s
Extent: 1 sheet
[Aerial photographs of the AT&T property west of the Arboretum] (3.6178)
Date: July 26 1967Creator: Airpix
Type: Map
Description:Outlined areas approximate the location of the Bell Lab, AT&T site.
Extent: 2 photos in folder
Morton Arboretum, DuPage County, Illinois (topographic survey) (3.6635)
Date: November 19 1967Creator: Chicago Aerial Survey Co.
Type: Map
Description:"By stereo-photogrammetric methods. Project 7145."
Some colored marker, grid lines.
Extent: 2 sheets taped
[Aerial Photograph of The Morton Arboretum and Adjacent Areas] (3.6011)
Date: November 19 1967Creator: Chicago Aerial Survey Co.
Type: Photographic image
Description:The five photos in copy 1, taken as stereo pairs, are numbered 1, 2, 4, 5, and 6 and extend from east to west across the Arboretum. A portion of the collections grid is identified by white crosses on the photos.
Extent: 5 sheets