09181cpcaa2201309 i 4500 5801770 OSt 20220407085922.0 cr ||||||||||| 770819|||||||||||| eng mm 77035121 ms 62004663 ms 77001559 su 77035121 mm 84004911 MSS35121 lcmd DLC eng dacs HU DLC L lcmd 631.4/7 HOD 1982 0579D Oversize 1:1 Small backlog (Unprocessed ac. 23,027) Small backlog (Unprocessed ac. 23,171) Microfilm 16,498-51N-51P Microfilm 16,922-9N-9P Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903. 35506 Frederick Law Olmsted papers, 1777-1952 (bulk 1838-1903). 24,000 items. 73 containers plus 1 oversize. 60 microfilm reels. 23 linear feet. Arranged in eight series. Series 1: Journals, 1777-1888; Series 2: Correspondence, 1838-1928; Series 3: Subject File, 1857-1952; Series 4: Speeches and Writings File, 1839-1903; Series 5: Miscellany, 1837-1952; Series 6: 1975 Addition, 1821-1924; Series 7: 1996 Addition, 1880-1881; and Series 8: Oversize, 1886. 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. Frederick Law Olmsted Papers at the Library of Congress available through the Library of Congress Web site at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/collmss.ms000067 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. 35507 Bowles, Samuel, 1826-1878 Correspondence. 35508 Brace, Charles Loring, 1826-1890 Correspondence. 35509 Burnham, Daniel Hudson, 1846-1912 Correspondence. 35510 Cleveland, H. W. S. (Horace William Shaler), 1814-1900 Correspondence. 35511 Curtis, George William, 1824-1892 Correspondence. 35512 Dana, Charles A. (Charles Anderson), 1819-1897 Correspondence. 35513 Frémont, John Charles, 1813-1890. 35514 Godkin, Edwin Lawrence, 1831-1902 Correspondence. 35515 Green, A. H. (Andrew Haswell) 1820-1903 Correspondence. 35516 Hale, Edward Everett, 1822-1909 Correspondence. 35517 James, William, 1842-1910 Correspondence. 35518 King, Clarence, 1842-1901 Correspondence. 35519 Kingsbury, Frederick John, 1823-1910 Correspondence. 35520 Knapp, Frederick Newman, 1821-1889 Correspondence. 35521 McKim, Charles Follen, 1847-1909 Correspondence. 35522 Norton, Charles Eliot, 1827-1908 Correspondence. 35523 Olmsted family. 35524 Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1870-1957 Correspondence. 35525 Olmsted, John Charles, 1852-1920 Correspondence. 35526 Olmsted, John Hull, 1825-1857 Correspondence. 35527 Reid, Whitelaw, 1837-1912 Correspondence. 35528 Richardson, H. H. (Henry Hobson), 1838-1886 Correspondence. 35529 Riotte, Carl Nicolaus, 1814-1887 Correspondence. 35530 Schurz, Carl, 1829-1906 Correspondence. 35531 Strong, George Templeton, 1820-1875 Correspondence. 35532 Vanderbilt, George Washington, 1862-1914 Correspondence. 35533 Vaux, Calvert, 1824-1895 Correspondence. 35534 Villard, Henry, 1835-1900 Correspondence. 35535 Waring, George E. (George Edwin), 1833-1898 Correspondence. 35536 Wormeley, Katherine Prescott Correspondence. 35537 Olmsted and Vaux (Firm) 35538 Frederick Law Olmsted (Firm) 35539 F.L. and J.C. Olmsted (Firm : 1884-1889) 35540 F.L. Olmsted and Company. 35541 Olmsted, Olmsted, and Eliot. 35542 F.L. and J.C. Olmsted (Firm : 1897-1898) 35543 Olmsted Brothers. 35544 United States Capitol (Washington, D.C.) 35545 United States Sanitary Commission. 35546 World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.) 35547 City planning. 8190 Exhibitions Illinois Chicago. 35548 Landscape architecture. 10217 Landscape architecture New York (State) New York. 35549 Landscape architecture Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.) 35550 Landscape architecture Washington (D.C.) 35551 Gold mines and mining California Mariposa. 35552 Parks Design and construction. 35553 Privateering History 18th century. 35554 Regional planning. 14229 Slavery Southern States. 35555 California Gold discoveries. 35556 Central Park (New York, N.Y.) History. 35557 Mariposa (Calif.) History. 35558 Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.) History. 35559 United States History Revolution, 1775-1783 Naval operations. 35560 United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Health aspects. 35561 Landscape architects. itoamc Olmsted, Gideon, 1749-1845. Gideon Olmsted papers. 35562 Olmsted, John, 1791-1873. John Olmsted papers. 35563 Frederick Law Olmsted Papers at the Library of Congress Frederick Law Olmsted Papers at the Library of Congress http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/collmss.ms000067 Finding aid http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms001019 Finding aid (PDF) http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms001019.3 7 cbc orignew u ncip 19 y-manuscri ddc BOOKS 0 34535 34535 0 0 ddc 0 0 NFIC 004 004 GEN 2022-04-07 0 631.4/7 HOD 1982 WGCFNRL00018716 2022-04-07 00:00:00 1 2022-04-07 BOOKS