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082 _a631.4/7 HOD 1982
090 _a0579D
090 _aOversize 1:1
090 _aSmall backlog (Unprocessed ac. 23,027)
090 _aSmall backlog (Unprocessed ac. 23,171)
090 _bMicrofilm 16,498-51N-51P
090 _bMicrofilm 16,922-9N-9P
100 1 _aOlmsted, Frederick Law,
_d1822-1903.
_935506
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.
351 _aArranged 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.
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 _aFrederick Law Olmsted Papers at the Library of Congress available through the Library of Congress Web site at
_uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/collmss.ms000067
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.
_935507
600 1 0 _aBowles, Samuel,
_d1826-1878
_vCorrespondence.
_935508
600 1 0 _aBrace, Charles Loring,
_d1826-1890
_vCorrespondence.
_935509
600 1 0 _aBurnham, Daniel Hudson,
_d1846-1912
_vCorrespondence.
_935510
600 1 0 _aCleveland, H. W. S.
_q(Horace William Shaler),
_d1814-1900
_vCorrespondence.
_935511
600 1 0 _aCurtis, George William,
_d1824-1892
_vCorrespondence.
_935512
600 1 0 _aDana, Charles A.
_q(Charles Anderson),
_d1819-1897
_vCorrespondence.
_935513
600 1 0 _aFrémont, John Charles,
_d1813-1890.
_935514
600 1 0 _aGodkin, Edwin Lawrence,
_d1831-1902
_vCorrespondence.
_935515
600 1 0 _aGreen, A. H.
_q(Andrew Haswell)
_d1820-1903
_vCorrespondence.
_935516
600 1 0 _aHale, Edward Everett,
_d1822-1909
_vCorrespondence.
_935517
600 1 0 _aJames, William,
_d1842-1910
_vCorrespondence.
_935518
600 1 0 _aKing, Clarence,
_d1842-1901
_vCorrespondence.
_935519
600 1 0 _aKingsbury, Frederick John,
_d1823-1910
_vCorrespondence.
_935520
600 1 0 _aKnapp, Frederick Newman,
_d1821-1889
_vCorrespondence.
_935521
600 1 0 _aMcKim, Charles Follen,
_d1847-1909
_vCorrespondence.
_935522
600 1 0 _aNorton, Charles Eliot,
_d1827-1908
_vCorrespondence.
_935523
600 3 0 _aOlmsted family.
_935524
600 1 0 _aOlmsted, Frederick Law,
_d1870-1957
_vCorrespondence.
_935525
600 1 0 _aOlmsted, John Charles,
_d1852-1920
_vCorrespondence.
_935526
600 1 0 _aOlmsted, John Hull,
_d1825-1857
_vCorrespondence.
_935527
600 1 0 _aReid, Whitelaw,
_d1837-1912
_vCorrespondence.
_935528
600 1 0 _aRichardson, H. H.
_q(Henry Hobson),
_d1838-1886
_vCorrespondence.
_935529
600 1 0 _aRiotte, Carl Nicolaus,
_d1814-1887
_vCorrespondence.
_935530
600 1 0 _aSchurz, Carl,
_d1829-1906
_vCorrespondence.
_935531
600 1 0 _aStrong, George Templeton,
_d1820-1875
_vCorrespondence.
_935532
600 1 0 _aVanderbilt, George Washington,
_d1862-1914
_vCorrespondence.
_935533
600 1 0 _aVaux, Calvert,
_d1824-1895
_vCorrespondence.
_935534
600 1 0 _aVillard, Henry,
_d1835-1900
_vCorrespondence.
_935535
600 1 0 _aWaring, George E.
_q(George Edwin),
_d1833-1898
_vCorrespondence.
_935536
600 1 0 _aWormeley, Katherine Prescott
_vCorrespondence.
_935537
610 2 0 _aOlmsted and Vaux (Firm)
_935538
610 2 0 _aFrederick Law Olmsted (Firm)
_935539
610 2 0 _aF.L. and J.C. Olmsted (Firm : 1884-1889)
_935540
610 2 0 _aF.L. Olmsted and Company.
_935541
610 2 0 _aOlmsted, Olmsted, and Eliot.
_935542
610 2 0 _aF.L. and J.C. Olmsted (Firm : 1897-1898)
_935543
610 2 0 _aOlmsted Brothers.
_935544
610 2 0 _aUnited States Capitol (Washington, D.C.)
_935545
610 2 0 _aUnited States Sanitary Commission.
_935546
611 2 0 _aWorld's Columbian Exposition
_d(1893 :
_cChicago, Ill.)
_935547
650 0 _aCity planning.
_98190
650 0 _aExhibitions
_zIllinois
_zChicago.
_935548
650 0 _aLandscape architecture.
_910217
650 0 _aLandscape architecture
_zNew York (State)
_zNew York.
_935549
650 0 _aLandscape architecture
_zNiagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.)
_935550
650 0 _aLandscape architecture
_zWashington (D.C.)
_935551
650 0 _aGold mines and mining
_zCalifornia
_zMariposa.
_935552
650 0 _aParks
_xDesign and construction.
_935553
650 0 _aPrivateering
_xHistory
_y18th century.
_935554
650 0 _aRegional planning.
_914229
650 0 _aSlavery
_zSouthern States.
_935555
651 0 _aCalifornia
_xGold discoveries.
_935556
651 0 _aCentral Park (New York, N.Y.)
_xHistory.
_935557
651 0 _aMariposa (Calif.)
_xHistory.
_935558
651 0 _aNiagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.)
_xHistory.
_935559
651 0 _aUnited States
_xHistory
_yRevolution, 1775-1783
_xNaval operations.
_935560
651 0 _aUnited States
_xHistory
_yCivil War, 1861-1865
_xHealth aspects.
_935561
656 7 _aLandscape architects.
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700 1 _aOlmsted, Gideon,
_d1749-1845.
_tGideon Olmsted papers.
_935562
700 1 _aOlmsted, John,
_d1791-1873.
_tJohn Olmsted papers.
_935563
740 0 _aFrederick Law Olmsted Papers at the Library of Congress
856 4 1 _3Frederick Law Olmsted Papers at the Library of Congress
_uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/collmss.ms000067
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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