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100 1 _aOlmsted, Frederick Law,
_d1822-1903.
245 0 0 _aFrederick Law Olmsted papers,
_f1777-1952
_g(bulk 1838-1903).
300 _a24,000
_fitems.
300 _a73
_fcontainers plus
_a1
_foversize.
300 _a60
_fmicrofilm reels.
300 _a23
_flinear feet.
506 0 _aOpen to research.
506 _aRestrictions may apply to unprocessed material.
520 8 _aCorrespondence, 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.
520 8 _aThe 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.
520 8 _aOlmsted 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).
520 8 _aCorrespondents 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.
530 _aMicrofilm edition of material received through 1975 available,
_dnos. 16,498 & 16,922.
533 _aMicrofilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division.
_bWashington, D.C. :
_cLibrary of Congress Photoduplication Service,
_d1975 (no. 16,498) and 1977 (no. 16,922).
545 0 _aLandscape architect.
546 _aCollection material in English.
555 8 _aFinding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at
_uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms001019
600 1 0 _aBellows, Henry W.
_q(Henry Whitney),
_d1814-1882
_xCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aBowles, Samuel,
_d1826-1878
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aBrace, Charles Loring,
_d1826-1890
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aBurnham, Daniel Hudson,
_d1846-1912
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aCleveland, H. W. S.
_q(Horace William Shaler),
_d1814-1900
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aCurtis, George William,
_d1824-1892
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aDana, Charles A.
_q(Charles Anderson),
_d1819-1897
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aFrémont, John Charles,
_d1813-1890.
600 1 0 _aGodkin, Edwin Lawrence,
_d1831-1902
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aGreen, A. H.
_q(Andrew Haswell)
_d1820-1903
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aHale, Edward Everett,
_d1822-1909
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aJames, William,
_d1842-1910
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aKing, Clarence,
_d1842-1901
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aKingsbury, Frederick John,
_d1823-1910
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aKnapp, Frederick Newman,
_d1821-1889
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aMcKim, Charles Follen,
_d1847-1909
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aNorton, Charles Eliot,
_d1827-1908
_vCorrespondence.
600 3 0 _aOlmsted family.
600 1 0 _aOlmsted, Frederick Law,
_d1870-1957
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aOlmsted, John Charles,
_d1852-1920
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aOlmsted, John Hull,
_d1825-1857
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aReid, Whitelaw,
_d1837-1912
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aRichardson, H. H.
_q(Henry Hobson),
_d1838-1886
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aRiotte, Charles N.
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aSchurz, Carl,
_d1829-1906
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aStrong, George Templeton,
_d1820-1875
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aVanderbilt, George Washington,
_d1862-1914
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aVaux, Calvert,
_d1824-1895
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aVillard, Henry,
_d1835-1900
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aWaring, George E.
_q(George Edwin),
_d1833-1898
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aWormeley, Katherine Prescott
_vCorrespondence.
610 2 0 _aOlmsted and Vaux (Firm)
610 2 0 _aFrederick Law Olmsted (Firm)
610 2 0 _aF.L. and J.C. Olmsted (Firm : 1884-1889)
610 2 0 _aF.L. Olmsted and Company.
610 2 0 _aOlmsted, Olmsted, and Eliot.
610 2 0 _aF.L. and J.C. Olmsted (Firm : 1897-1898)
610 2 0 _aOlmsted Brothers.
610 2 0 _aUnited States Capitol (Washington, D.C.)
610 2 0 _aUnited States Sanitary Commission.
611 2 0 _aWorld's Columbian Exposition
_d(1893 :
_cChicago, Ill.)
650 0 _aCity planning.
650 0 _aExhibitions
_zIllinois
_zChicago.
650 0 _aLandscape architecture.
650 0 _aLandscape architecture
_zNew York (State)
_zNew York.
650 0 _aLandscape architecture
_zNiagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.)
650 0 _aLandscape architecture
_zWashington (D.C.)
650 0 _aGold mines and mining
_zCalifornia
_zMariposa.
650 0 _aParks
_xDesign and construction.
650 0 _aPrivateering
_xHistory
_y18th century.
650 0 _aRegional planning.
650 0 _aSlavery
_zSouthern States.
651 0 _aCalifornia
_xGold discoveries.
651 0 _aCentral Park (New York, N.Y.)
_xHistory.
651 0 _aMariposa (Calif.)
_xHistory.
651 0 _aNiagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.)
_xHistory.
651 0 _aUnited States
_xHistory
_yRevolution, 1775-1783
_xNaval operations.
651 0 _aUnited States
_xHistory
_yCivil War, 1861-1865
_xHealth aspects.
656 7 _aLandscape architects.
_2itoamc
700 1 _aOlmsted, Gideon,
_d1749-1845.
_tGideon Olmsted papers.
700 1 _aOlmsted, John,
_d1791-1873.
_tJohn Olmsted papers.
856 4 _3Finding aid
_uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms001019
856 4 _3Finding aid (PDF)
_uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms001019.3
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