East Branch Detention As-Built (3.47234)
Date: February 24 2004Creator: Christopher B. Burke, Engineering West, Ltd.
Type: Map
Description:Topographical Map of the East Branch Detention Basin in 2004.
"Project No. 00-927AA"
Topographical Plat of Morton Arboretum, Lisle, Illinois [preliminary fragment] (3.5242)
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 June 30, 1921.
This copy is essentially a preliminary fragment without title and date.
Extent: 1 sheet
Topographic Map of a Portion of Morton Arboretum in Lisle Township, DuPage County, Illinois (3.5261)
Date: April 10 1970Creator: Steinbrecher Jr., Harold F.
Type: Map
Description:Existing ground cover is identified within the area surveyed. Includes area north of Meadow Lake and east of Visitor Center parking lot.
Extent: 1 sheet
Plat of the SE 1/4 Section 35, T.39N., and NE 1/4 Section 2, T.38N., R.10E of the 3rd P.M..[and] Plat of the S 1/2 Section 36, T.39N., N1/2 Section 1, T.38N., Range 10E of the 3rd P.M. (3.5291)
Date: July 1921Creator: Webster, Arthur L.
Type: Map
Description:Original map comprises two sheets, separately produced and titled, which have been joined without cropping an overlapping area. This composite version with the overlap omitted was subsequently made by C.E. Godshalk, with all other descriptions of the original reproduced. Both versions of this work are represented in the collections. The area surveyed is located in the southeast corner of the Arboretum. Original land owners and acreages of their tracts are given.
Made from C.E.G. copy.
Extent: 1 sheet
Assessment Plat No.4, Lands Belonging to Trustees Under the Will of Joy Morton, Deceased, Milton Township, DuPage County, Illinois (3.5316)
Date: October 1 1934Creator: Lozier, J. S.
Type: Map
Description:Surveys a tract of 41.471 acres along the north boundary of the Arboretum.
Extent: 1 sheet
Stromquist's Assessment Plat of Part of the South East Quarter (SE 1/4) of Section Thirty-four (34) and Part of the South West Quarter of Section Thirty-five (35), Township Thirty-nine (39) North, Range ten (10) East of the Third Principal Meridian in Milton Township, DuPage County, Illinois (3.5349)
Date: July 12 1946Creator: Steinbrecher, Harold F.
Type: Map
Description:Survey of 9.67 acres bordering Route 53 near the northern boundary of the Arboretum and Thornhill.
Includes pencil drawings.
Extent: 1 sheet
Site Development of Residential Housing, Landscaping Research Area & Exhibit, the Morton Arboretum, Lisle, Illinois (3.5384)
Date: September 9 1958Creator: Howard T. Fisher & John D. Randall Associates, Inc.
Type: Map
Description:Labelled "Site Drawing." This lacks detailed data on road, curb, sidewalk, and drainage specifications, as well as measurements of lots and roadways, all of which are contained in Blueprint issued Sept. 12, 1958 (Accession # 153, 3.5383)
Distinctions notwithstanding.
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
Woody Plant Collections, The Morton Arboretum [Collections Grid, by Ronald M. Coulter and Nancy Hart Stieber, 1990, overlays for vegetation, trails, grid, and landmarks] (3.5824)
Date: 1990Creator: Coulter, Ronald M.
Type: Map
Description:An updated map used in the informational leaflet titled: Woody Plant Collections of The Morton Arboretum, Map & Guidelines for Locating Plants
This version is a set of four mylar overlays, separating vegetation, trails, grid layout, and landmarks/collections.
Extent: 4 sheets
Joy Morton DuPage County properties numbered according to date of purchase (3.5990)
Date: August 1934Creator: Kammerer, E. Lowell
Type: Map
Description:Ink drawing with parcels shaded with colored pencil.
Extent: 1 sheet
[Survey of Parts of Sections 34 and 35, Milton Township and Part of Section 3, Lisle Township, DuPage County, Illinois] (3.6368)
Date: September 29 1934Creator: Lozier, J. S.
Type: Map
Description:Portion of Arboretum west of Route 53. Pencil corrections and "Total 204.935 Acres," "3.799 Acres," "9.735 Acres," and "4120 Acres."
Extent: 1 sheet
Composite Central Area Map (3.7053)
Date: 1994 – 1995Creator: Egelhoff, John, Sullivan, Andrew J.
Type: Map
Description:"Used for central area plan developed by EPD" (Environemental Planning & Design, now Marshall, Tyler, Rausch, LLC). Compiled from Grounds Mapping Project maps.
Extent: 1 sheet
Woody Plant Collections, The Morton Arboretum [by Ronald M. Coulter and Nancy Hart Stieber, film negatives] (3.7121)
Date: 1982Creator: Coulter, Ronald M.
Type: Map
Description:Five film negatives of different parts of the final map.
The map appears on the verso of the informational flier titled: Woody Plant Collections of The Morton Arboretum: Map & Guidelines for Locating Plants. On recto of flier a narrative description of the collections is given, together with directions on how to locate plants using the collections grid, and index to the collections. Various sizes and formats of the map only are available in the collection: reproductions on paper and in transparency and photographic negatives (various sizes, scales, and formats).
Extent: 5 negatives
As-Built Compensatory Storage/ Wetland Mitigation Area (3.47235)
Date: October 14 2005Type: Map
Description:Topographic map depicting landscaped areas, floodplains, edge of flagged wetlands, pipe culvert locations.
"Project No. 00-927AA"
Extent: 1 Sheet
Topographic Sketch of Morton Arboretum, Lisle, Illinois (3.5243)
Date: August 1921Creator: O. C. Simonds & Co.
Type: Map
Description:Conceptual oxbow ponds/wetlands along East Branch of the DuPage River are indicated.
Extent: 1 sheet
Morton Arboretum, DuPage County, Illinois (topographic survey) (3.5263)
Date: circa 1970Creator: Chicago Aerial Survey Co.
Type: Map
Description:"By stereo-photogrammetric methods. Project 7145."
Extent: 2 sheets
Plat of the SE 1/4 Section 35, T.39N., and NE 1/4 Section 2, T.38N., R.10E of the 3rd P.M..[and] Plat of the S 1/2 Section 36, T.39N., N1/2 Section 1, T.38N., Range 10E of the 3rd P.M. (3.5292)
Date: July 1921Creator: Webster, Arthur L.
Type: Map
Description:Original map comprises two sheets, separately produced and titled, which have been joined without cropping an overlapping area. This composite version with the overlap omitted was subsequently made by C.E. Godshalk, with all other descriptions of the original reproduced. Both versions of this work are represented in the collections. The area surveyed is located in the southeast corner of the Arboretum. Original land owners and acreages of their tracts are given. This copy has shaded areas that show land Mr. Morton did not own in 1921.
CEG copy
Extent: 1 sheet
Assessment Plat No.5, Lands Belonging to Trustees Under the Will of Joy Morton, Deceased, Milton Township, DuPage County, Illinois (3.5319)
Date: October 1 1934Creator: Lozier, J. S.
Type: Map
Description:Surveys a tract in the northern portion of the Arboretum, no longer within Arboretum boundaries.
Extent: 1 sheet
Morton Arboretum: Warrenville Road North to Administration Building Indicating the Extent of Zoning (3.5367)
Date: circa 1953Creator: Tyznik, Anthony
Type: Map
Description:Additional information in pencil included.
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
Woody Plant Collections, The Morton Arboretum [Collections Grid, by Ronald M. Coulter and Nancy Hart Stieber, 1990, base map of roads and parking lots] (3.5825)
Date: 1990Creator: Coulter, Ronald M.
Type: Map
Description:An updated map used in the informational leaflet titled: Woody Plant Collections of The Morton Arboretum, Map & Guidelines for Locating Plants
This version only shows base map of roads and parking lots.
Extent: 1 sheet
Plat of Survey of Part of the Southeast 1/4 of Section 34 & the Southwest 1/4 of Section 35, Township 39 North, Range 10, East of the Third Principal Meridian, in DuPage County, Illinois. (3.33785)
Date: October 8 1992Creator: Roake & Associates, Inc.
Type: Map
Extent: 1 sheet
Plat of Survey of the Morton Arboretum (3.47242)
Date: June 30 2000Creator: Roake & Associates, Inc.
Type: Map
Description:"Being parts of sections 33, 34, 35 and 36, Township 39 North range 10 East, and parts of sections 1, 2, 3, and 4, Township 38 North range 10 East of the third principal meridian in DuPage County, IL"
Hand-drawn circled area with handwritten note "Project site" on first page.
Extent: 2 Sheets
Topographic Sketch of Morton Arboretum, Lisle, Illinois [handwritten notes] (3.5244)
Date: August 1921Creator: O. C. Simonds & Co.
Type: Map
Description:Native woodland cover is shown by colored shading. Conceptual oxbow ponds/wetlands along East Branch of the DuPage River are indicated. Ms. Note by C.E. Godshalk: "This must have been Mr. Simond's 1st idea…." He has drawn in original Lisle, Illinois Farm buildings.
This copy has notes and markings.
Extent: 1 sheet
A Berm Detail for the Morton Arboretum [of the southern boundary] (3.5269)
Date: 1988Creator: Tyznik, Anthony
Type: Map
Description:Revised version of the Western section issued in June, 1988.
Extent: 1 sheet
Plat of the SE 1/4 Section 35, T.39N., and NE 1/4 Section 2, T.38N., R.10E of the 3rd P.M[and] Plat of the S 1/2 Section 36, T.39N., N1/2 Section 1, T.38N., Range 10E of the 3rd P.M. (3.5294)
Date: July 1921Creator: Webster, Arthur L.
Type: Map
Description:Original map comprises two sheets, separately produced and titled, which have been joined without cropping an overlapping area. This composite version with the overlap omitted was subsequently made by C.E. Godshalk, with all other descriptions of the original reproduced. Both versions of this work are represented in the collections. The area surveyed is located in the southeast corner of the Arboretum. Original land owners and acreages of their tracts are given. Contains curved marks in red for unknown reason.
CEG copy
Extent: 1 sheet
Revised Plat of Section "A," Morton Arboretum (3.5321)
Date: September 29 1934Creator: Lozier, J. S.
Type: Map
Description:Surveys the area west of Route 53 and south of Thornhill, a tract totaling 201.83 acres. The revised plat supersedes an earlier survey by Arthur L. Webster made in 1922 (SURV:B II (b) 1).
Extent: 1 sheet
Plat of Survey of Part of Sections Thirty-three (33) and Thirty-four (34), Township Thirty-nine (39) North, Range Ten (10) East of the Third Principal Meridian, and Part of Sections Three (3) and Four(4), Township Thirty-eight (38) North, Range Ten (10) East of the Third Principal Meridian, in DuPage County, Illinois (3.5388)
Date: November 9 1961Creator: Steinbrecher, Harold F.
Type: Map
Description:First issued Nov. 2, 1961, and annotated in ms., presumably by the surveyor: "Revised 11/9/61." Surveyed area, totaling 6.249 acres, is located in the Leask Lane area.
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
Petersen-Tate Assessment Plat No. 2… (3.6075)
Date: June 30 1948Creator: Steinbrecher, Harold F.
Type: Map
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
[Crabapple Lake] Schemes for Overland Water Flow (3.6737)
Date: February 1988Creator: Tyznik, Anthony
Type: Map
Description:Topographical maps for three schemes. Grading charts for schemes 2 and 3.
Extent: 5 sheets
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
Streambank Stabilization/Willoway Brook at the Morton Arboretum, DuPage County, Illinois (3.7123)
Date: May 25 2001Creator: Earth Tech
Type: Map
Description:Includes bridge plans and tree removal list.
Earth Tech prepared this series of drawings that are stored in the Map Collection with the Burke Engineering Plans for the project. It includes 16 sheets--written at the top in red ink is "Final 25 May '01," signed at the bottom by Melcy Curth Pond, Engineer.
Materials received in the Archives of the Morton Arboretum on July 14, 2006 by Michael T. Stieber, Library Administrator from Kris Bachtell, Director of Collections and Grounds.
Extent: 16 sheets
[World's Fair Direction Map to Arboretum, original drawing] (3.7175)
Date: circa 1933Creator: Godshalk, Clarence E.
Type: Map
Description:Created for The Century of Progress Exposition, World's Fair Chicago 1933
Map showing roads to The Morton Arboretum, prior to tollways
Extent: 1 sheet