07663cpcaa2201141 a 4500 mm 77035121 DLC 20260227111618.0 cr ||||||||||| 770819|||||||||||| eng mm 77035121 ms 62004663 ms 77001559 su 77035121 mm 84004911 DLC DLC DLC dacs L lcmd Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903. Frederick Law Olmsted papers, 1777-1952 (bulk 1838-1903). 24,000 items. 73 containers plus 1 oversize. 60 microfilm reels. 23 linear feet. Open to research. Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material. Correspondence, letterbooks, journals, drafts of articles and books, speeches and lectures, biographical and genealogical data, business papers, legal and financial papers, scrapbooks, printed material, maps, drawings, and other papers encompassing Olmsted's career and private life. The papers focus on Olmsted's career as a landscape architect, specifically as a designer of parks and the grounds of private estates and public buildings and as a city and regional planner. Includes material pertaining to his designs chiefly of Central Park in New York, N.Y., of the area surrounding Niagara Falls, N.Y., of the U.S. Capitol grounds, Washington, D.C., and of the grounds of the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Ill., 1893. Material pertains, in part, to work undertaken by Olmsted and the firms of Olmsted and Vaux (1858), Frederick Law Olmsted (1858-1884), F.L. and J.C. Olmsted (1884-1889), F.L. Olmsted and Company (1889-1893), Olmsted, Olmsted, and Eliot (1893-1897), F.L. and J.C. Olmsted (1897-1898), and Olmsted Brothers (1898-1961). Also documents Olmsted's writings, his investigation of slavery in the South (1850s), his role as general secretary of the U.S. Sanitary Commission during the Civil War, and his work as superintendent of John C. Frémont's gold mining estates in Mariposa, Calif. Olmsted family papers include a journal and other papers of Gideon Olmsted documenting his adventures as a privateer during the Revolutionary war; journals kept by Frederick Law Olmsted's father, John, recording activities of the Olmsted family as well as local and national events; and correspondence of John Olmsted (father), John Hull Olmsted (brother), Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. (son), and John Charles Olmsted (nephew). Correspondents include Henry W. Bellows, Samuel Bowles, Charles Loring Brace, Daniel Hudson Burnham, H. W. S. Cleveland, George William Curtis, Charles A. Dana, Edwin Lawrence Godkin, A. H. Green, Edward Everett Hale, William James, Clarence King, Frederick John Kingsbury, Frederick Newman Knapp, Charles Follen McKim, Charles Eliot Norton, Whitelaw Reid, H. H. Richardson, Charles N. Riotte, Carl Schurz, George Templeton Strong, George Washington Vanderbilt, Calvert Vaux, Henry Villard, George E. Waring, Jr., and Katherine Prescott Wormeley. Microfilm edition of material received through 1975 available, nos. 16,498 & 16,922. Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1975 (no. 16,498) and 1977 (no. 16,922). Landscape architect. Collection material in English. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms001019 Bellows, Henry W. (Henry Whitney), 1814-1882 Correspondence. Bowles, Samuel, 1826-1878 Correspondence. Brace, Charles Loring, 1826-1890 Correspondence. Burnham, Daniel Hudson, 1846-1912 Correspondence. Cleveland, H. W. S. (Horace William Shaler), 1814-1900 Correspondence. Curtis, George William, 1824-1892 Correspondence. Dana, Charles A. (Charles Anderson), 1819-1897 Correspondence. Frémont, John Charles, 1813-1890. Godkin, Edwin Lawrence, 1831-1902 Correspondence. Green, A. H. (Andrew Haswell) 1820-1903 Correspondence. Hale, Edward Everett, 1822-1909 Correspondence. James, William, 1842-1910 Correspondence. King, Clarence, 1842-1901 Correspondence. Kingsbury, Frederick John, 1823-1910 Correspondence. Knapp, Frederick Newman, 1821-1889 Correspondence. McKim, Charles Follen, 1847-1909 Correspondence. Norton, Charles Eliot, 1827-1908 Correspondence. Olmsted family. Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1870-1957 Correspondence. Olmsted, John Charles, 1852-1920 Correspondence. Olmsted, John Hull, 1825-1857 Correspondence. Reid, Whitelaw, 1837-1912 Correspondence. Richardson, H. H. (Henry Hobson), 1838-1886 Correspondence. Riotte, Charles N. Correspondence. Schurz, Carl, 1829-1906 Correspondence. Strong, George Templeton, 1820-1875 Correspondence. Vanderbilt, George Washington, 1862-1914 Correspondence. Vaux, Calvert, 1824-1895 Correspondence. Villard, Henry, 1835-1900 Correspondence. Waring, George E. (George Edwin), 1833-1898 Correspondence. Wormeley, Katherine Prescott Correspondence. Olmsted and Vaux (Firm) Frederick Law Olmsted (Firm) F.L. and J.C. Olmsted (Firm : 1884-1889) F.L. Olmsted and Company. Olmsted, Olmsted, and Eliot. F.L. and J.C. Olmsted (Firm : 1897-1898) Olmsted Brothers. United States Capitol (Washington, D.C.) United States Sanitary Commission. World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.) City planning. Exhibitions Illinois Chicago. Landscape architecture. Landscape architecture New York (State) New York. Landscape architecture Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.) Landscape architecture Washington (D.C.) Gold mines and mining California Mariposa. Parks Design and construction. Privateering History 18th century. Regional planning. Slavery Southern States. California Gold discoveries. Central Park (New York, N.Y.) History. Mariposa (Calif.) History. Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.) History. United States History Revolution, 1775-1783 Naval operations. United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Health aspects. Landscape architects. itoamc Olmsted, Gideon, 1749-1845. Gideon Olmsted papers. Olmsted, John, 1791-1873. John Olmsted papers. Finding aid http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms001019 Finding aid (PDF) http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms001019.3 39460 39460