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100 1 $aOlmsted, Frederick Law,$d1822-1903.
245 00 $aFrederick Law Olmsted papers,$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).
541 $cGift,$aOlmsted family,$d1947-1948, 1968-1969.
541 $cGift,$aLaura Wood Roper,$d1975.
541 $cPurchase,$d1981.
545 0 $aLandscape architect.
546 $aCollection material in English.
555 8 $aRegister published by the Library of Congress, 1963; revised edition, 1976. Revised and expanded finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at$uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms001019
600 10 $aBellows, Henry W.$q(Henry Whitney),$d1814-1882$xCorrespondence.
600 10 $aBowles, Samuel,$d1826-1878$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aBrace, Charles Loring,$d1826-1890$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aBurnham, Daniel Hudson,$d1846-1912$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aCleveland, H. W. S.$q(Horace William Shaler),$d1814-1900$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aCurtis, George William,$d1824-1892$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aDana, Charles A.$q(Charles Anderson),$d1819-1897$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aFrémont, John Charles,$d1813-1890.
600 10 $aGodkin, Edwin Lawrence,$d1831-1902$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aGreen, A. H.$q(Andrew Haswell)$d1820-1903$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aHale, Edward Everett,$d1822-1909$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aJames, William,$d1842-1910$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aKing, Clarence,$d1842-1901$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aKingsbury, Frederick John,$d1823-1910$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aKnapp, Frederick Newman,$d1821-1889$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aMcKim, Charles Follen,$d1847-1909$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aNorton, Charles Eliot,$d1827-1908$vCorrespondence.
600 30 $aOlmsted family.
600 10 $aOlmsted, Frederick Law,$d1870-1957$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aOlmsted, John Charles,$d1852-1920$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aOlmsted, John Hull,$d1825-1857$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aReid, Whitelaw,$d1837-1912$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aRichardson, H. H.$q(Henry Hobson),$d1838-1886$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aRiotte, Charles N.$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aSchurz, Carl,$d1829-1906$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aStrong, George Templeton,$d1820-1875$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aVanderbilt, George Washington,$d1862-1914$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aVaux, Calvert,$d1824-1895$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aVillard, Henry,$d1835-1900$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aWaring, George E.$q(George Edwin),$d1833-1898$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aWormeley, Katherine Prescott$vCorrespondence.
610 20 $aOlmsted and Vaux (Firm)
610 20 $aFrederick Law Olmsted (Firm)
610 20 $aF.L. and J.C. Olmsted (Firm : 1884-1889)
610 20 $aF.L. Olmsted and Company.
610 20 $aOlmsted, Olmsted, and Eliot.
610 20 $aF.L. and J.C. Olmsted (Firm : 1897-1898)
610 20 $aOlmsted Brothers.
610 20 $aUnited States Capitol (Washington, D.C.)
610 20 $aUnited States Sanitary Commission.
611 20 $aWorld's Columbian Exposition$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.
852 $aLibrary of Congress$bManuscript Division$eWashington, D.C. 20540 USA$ndcu$uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mss.home
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