Olmsted, Frederick Law 1822-1903 creator mixed material monographic eng 24,000 73 1 60 23 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. Open to research. Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material. 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 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, Carl Nicolaus 1814-1887 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 631.4/7 HOD 1982 Olmsted, Gideon, 1749-1845 Olmsted, John, 1791-1873 mm 77035121 hdl:loc.mss/collmss.ms000067 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms001019 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms001019.3 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/collmss.ms000067 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms001019 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms001019.3 Open to research. Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material. DLC 770819 20220407085922.0 5801770 eng