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Frederick Law Olmsted
A Register of His Papers in the Library of Congress
Published register prepared by Daniel Y. Gilham and Mary M. Wolfskill
Revised and expanded by Bradley E. Gernand
1996
Manuscript Division
Library of Congress
Washington, D.C.
Finding aid encoded by Library of Congress
Manuscript Division, 2001
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Table of Contents for Frederick Law Olmsted
Collection Summary
Selected Search Terms
* Names:
* Subjects:
* Occupations:
Administrative Information
* Provenance:
* Processing History:
* Copyright Status:
* Microfilm:
* Preferred Citation:
Biographical Note
Scope and Content Note
Description of Series
* Journals, 1777- 1888, n.d.
* Correspondence, 1838- 1928, n.d.
* Subject File, 1857- 1952, n.d.
* Speeches and Writings File, 1839- 1903, n.d.
* Miscellany, 1837- 1952, n.d.
* 1975 Addition, 1821- 1924, n.d.
* 1996 Addition, 1880- 1881.
* Oversize, 1886, n.d.
Container List
* JOURNALS, 1777- 1888, n.d.
* CORRESPONDENCE, 1838- 1928, n.d.
* SUBJECT FILE, 1857- 1952, n.d.
* SPEECHES AND WRITINGS FILE, 1839- 1903, n.d.
* MISCELLANY, 1837- 1952, n.d.
* 1975 ADDITION, 1821- 1924, n.d.
* 1996 ADDITION, 1880- 1881
* OVERSIZE, 1886, n.d.
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Collection Summary
Creator: Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903
Title: Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted 1777-1952 (bulk 1838-1903)
Size: 24,000 items; 73 containers plus 1 oversize; 23 linear feet; 60
microfilm reels
Repository: Manuscript Division, Library of Congress
Abstract: Landscape architect. Correspondence, letterbooks, journals,
drafts of articles and books, speeches and lectures, biographical and
genealogical data, business papers, scrapbooks, 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.
Selected Search Terms
Names:
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, Charles N.--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
Olmsted, Gideon, 1749-1845. Papers
Olmsted, John, 1791-1873. Papers
World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
Subjects:
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
Occupations:
Landscape architects
Administrative Information
Provenance:
The papers of Frederick Law Olmsted, landscape architect, were given to the
Library of Congress chiefly by members of the Olmsted family. Most of the
papers were received in 1947-1948. In the fall of 1975 Olmsted's
biographer, Laura Wood Roper, gave the Library approximately 3,000 items,
which were added to the Olmsted papers. Two items purchased in 1981 were
transferred from the Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection to the Olmsted
Papers in 1996.
Processing History:
The papers of Frederick Law Olmsted were processed in 1963; additional
material was processed and a revised edition of the register published in
1975. Items acquired in 1981 were processed and the register revised and
expanded in 1996. The Olmsted papers are described in the Library of
Congress Quarterly Journal of Current Acquisitions, vol. 6, Nov. 1948, pp.
8-15.
Copyright Status:
Copyright in the unpublished writings of Frederick Law Olmsted in these
papers and in other collections of papers in the custody of the Library of
Congress has been dedicated to the public.
Microfilm:
A microfilm edition of all but the 1996 addition of these papers is
available on sixty reels from the Library's Photoduplication Service for
purchase subject to the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17,
U.S.C.). This microfilm edition may also be requested on interlibrary loan
through the Library's Loan Division. No more than ten reels may be
requested for each loan period of one month.
Preferred Citation:
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following
information: container number, Frederick Law Olmsted Papers, Manuscript
Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
.
Biographical Note
Date Event
1822 , Apr.
26 Born, Hartford, Conn.
1838 - 1839 Studied topographical engineering with Frederick A. Barton
1844 - 1854 Farmed in Connecticut and New York
1850 Traveled to Europe and Great Britain with his brother, John
Hull Olmsted, and Charles Loring Brace
1852 Published Walks and Talks of an American Farmer in England
(New York: G. P. Putnam. 2 vols.)
1852 - 1854 Toured southern states on a commission from the New York
Times for a series of articles on the effect of slavery on
economic conditions in the South
1855 - 1856 Editor and partner, Dix & Edwards, publishers of Putnam's
Magazine
1856 Published A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States (New York:
Dix & Edwards. 723 pp.)
1857 Published A Journey Through Texas (New York: Dix & Edwards.
516 pp.)
Appointed superintendent, Central Park, New York, N.Y.
1858 Appointed architect in chief, Central Park, New York, N.Y.
Established firm, Olmsted and Vaux ; name soon changed to
Frederick Law Olmsted
1859 Married Mary Cleveland Perkins Olmsted, widow of his
brother John
1860 Published A Journey in the Back Country (New York: Mason
Bros. 492 pp.)
1861 Published The Cotton Kingdom (New York: Mason Bros. 2
vols.) based upon A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States, A
Journey Through Texas, and A Journey in the Back Country
Appointed general secretary, U. S. Sanitary Commission
1863 Became superintendent, John C. Frémont's Mariposa mining
estates, California
1864 Appointed commissioner, Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa
Big Tree Grove, California
1874 Commissioned to design the grounds of the United States
Capitol, Washington, D.C.
1882 Published The Spoils of the Park ([Detroit, Mich.:
publisher unknown]. 57 pp.)
1884 Name of firm changed to F. L. and J. C. Olmsted
1888 Began work on Biltmore, George W. Vanderbilt's estate,
Asheville, N.C.
1889 Name of firm changed to F. L. Olmsted and Co.
1893 Completed landscaping grounds for World's Columbian
Exposition, Chicago, Ill.
Name of firm changed to Olmsted, Olmsted, and Eliot
1897 Name of firm changed to F. L. and J. C. Olmsted
1898 Name of firm changed to Olmsted Brothers ( -1961)
1903 , Aug.
28 Died, Waverly, Mass.
Scope and Content Note
The papers of Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903) span the years 1777 to
1952, with the bulk of the material dated 1838 to 1903. The papers document
Olmsted's varied careers as farmer, journalist, editor, and landscape
architect, as well as his private life. The collection consists of
journals, correspondence, letterbooks, business papers, legal and financial
papers, maps, drawings, reports, speeches, lectures, essays, articles, book
manuscripts, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, and miscellaneous items.
Numerous family papers are also included.
Journals in the collection were kept from 1777 to 1888 by various members
of the Olmsted family. The earliest is by Gideon Olmsted (1749-1845)
describing his adventures as a privateer, with additional papers concerning
his thirty-year suit against the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania claiming
prize money for a vessel he captured in the Revolutionary War. There are
six journals of John Olmsted, father of Frederick Law Olmsted, which record
not only the activities of the Olmsted family, such as trips, expenses,
illnesses, and births and deaths, but also local and national events. These
journals begin in 1825 and continue with several gaps to 1888. The later
entries were made by Mrs. Mary Cleveland Perkins Olmsted after the death of
her husband in 1873. There is little material by Frederick Law Olmsted in
this series with the exception of two journals covering brief periods in
1843 and 1863.
The Correspondence series contains both personal and business letters. A
large number of family letters, particularly from Olmsted's father, John,
and brother, John Hull, dominate the early years while correspondence with
his son, Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., and nephew and stepson, John Charles
Olmsted, is found with increasing frequency in later years. Business
details in these letters relate to John Olmsted's support for his son's
early ventures in farming and publishing and Frederick Law Olmsted's son
and stepson, who exhibited considerable ability as landscape architects and
eventually assumed positions in the family firm.
Correspondence with friends and business associates relates to almost every
phase of Frederick Law Olmsted's professional career, from his commission
in 1852 by the editor of the New York Times, Henry J. Raymond, to
investigate slavery in the South, to his last creative efforts shortly
before his retirement in 1895 in the landscape design of Biltmore, the
North Carolina estate of George W. Vanderbilt. The papers include material
on his brief partnership with the publishers of Putnam's Magazine, his long
association with New York's Central Park, his two years as manager of John
C. Frémont's Mariposa mining estates in California, and his career in city
and regional planning.
For the Civil War period, there are papers documenting Olmsted's work as
general secretary of the United States Sanitary Commission and his
activities relating to former slaves. Other papers related to Olmsted's
work with the Sanitary Commission are housed in the New York Public
Library.
An extensive Subject File is composed for the most part of papers relating
to Olmsted's practice of landscape architecture. It contains correspondence
with clients and partners, instructions to workers, progress reports,
recommendations on projects, drawings, maps, pamphlets, and other material
concerning the numerous parks, private estates, educational institutions,
and public facilities for which he prepared landscape designs. In this
series may be found information concerning the work of Olmsted's firm,
which changed names and composition a number of times between its
establishment in 1858 and Olmsted's retirement in 1895. (See the
Biographical Note for details concerning the firm's history.)
The Speeches and Writings File includes research notes, drafts, and printed
copies of speeches, articles, and other writings, some of them fragmentary.
Although a major topic is landscape architecture, there are writings on
other subjects, including a number of general writings and Olmsted's drafts
and notes for a proposed book on the history of civilization in the United
States. Autobiographical information appears in a manuscript entitled
"Passages in the Life of an Unpractical Man."
The Miscellany series contains biographical material, financial and legal
papers, notebooks, scrapbooks, and membership certificates in various
organizations.
Prominent correspondents include Henry W. Bellows, Samuel Bowles, Charles
Loring Brace, Daniel Hudson Burnham, Horace W. S. Cleveland, George William
Curtis, Charles A. Dana, Edwin Lawrence Godkin, Andrew H. Green, Edward
Everett Hale, William James, Clarence King, Frederick John Kingsbury,
Frederick Newman Knapp, Charles Follen McKim, Charles Eliot Norton,
Whitelaw Reid, Henry H. Richardson, Charles N. Riotte, Carl Schurz, George
Templeton Strong, George Washington Vanderbilt, Calvert Vaux, Henry
Villard, George E. Waring, Jr., and Katharine Prescott Wormeley.
Additions to the Olmsted Papers include correspondence, a diary and
memorandum book, financial papers, reports, genealogical notes, newspaper
clippings, printed matter, and other items dated from 1821 to 1924 but
concentrated in the period of the 1880s and 1890s. The material focuses on
Niagara Falls, New York, and the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago,
as well as adding information on other areas of Olmsted's career.
Collections in the Manuscript Division supplementing the Olmsted Papers
include records of the Olmsted Associates, landscape architects, of
Brookline, Massachusetts, the successor to the firm established by
Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux in 1858 and the files of Laura Wood
Roper, Olmsted's biographer, which contain original Olmsted material and
Olmsted Associates correspondence.
Description of Series
Box Series
BOX 1-2
REEL Journals, 1777 - 1888 , n.d.
1-2
Journals and related material by Frederick Law Olmsted and other
members of the Olmsted family.
Arranged alphabetically by name of family member.
BOX
2-25 Correspondence, 1838 - 1928 , n.d.
REEL
3-23
BOX 2-4 Letterbooks, 1860 - 1865 .
Letters sent, both private and official, and some typed
copies.
Arranged chronologically.
BOX 4-25 General correspondence, 1838 - 1928 , n.d.
Letters sent and received with related material.
Arranged chronologically.
BOX
26-47 Subject File, 1857 - 1952 , n.d.
REEL
24-41
Correspondence, maps, drawings, reports, newspaper clippings, and
printed matter.
Arranged alphabetically by subject and chronologically therein.
BOX
48-55 Speeches and Writings File, 1839 - 1903 , n.d.
REEL
41-47
Handwritten, typewritten, galley proof, and printed copies of
speeches, lectures, articles, essays, reports, and books with
notes and other material.
Arranged chronologically.
BOX
56-61 Miscellany, 1837 - 1952 , n.d.
REEL
47-51
Biographical material, calling cards, clippings, correspondence,
drawings, financial papers, legal papers, notebooks, printed
matter, scrapbooks, and other items.
Arranged alphabetically by type of material or by subject and
thereunder chronologically.
BOX
62-73 1975 Addition, 1821 - 1924 , n.d.
REEL
52-60
Correspondence, a diary and memorandum book, financial papers,
reports, genealogical notes, newspaper clippings, printed matter,
and other items.
Arranged alphabetically by type of material or by subject and
thereunder chronologically or alphabetically.
BOX 73
(NOT 1996 Addition, 1880 - 1881 .
FILMED)
Correspondence.
Arranged chronologically.
BOX OV Oversize, 1886 , n.d.
1
Oversize material organized and described according to the
series, folders, and boxes from which the items were removed.
Container List
Box Contents
JOURNALS, 1777 - 1888 , n.d.
BOX 1 REEL 1 Olmsted, Charlotte, 1864
Olmsted, Frederick Law (1822-1903), 1843, 1863, n.d.
(3 vols.)
Olmsted, Gideon
1777
Claim against Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,
1808-1811
Olmsted, John
1819-1820, 1838
1825-1846 family record, expense, and memorandum
books
(3 vols.)
BOX 2 REEL 1-2 1847-1888
(2 vols.)
Excerpts from journals transcribed by Mary
Cleveland Olmsted, 1822-1873
Olmsted, [John C.?], 1864
CORRESPONDENCE, 1838 - 1928 , n.d.
BOX 1 REEL 2 Letterbooks
13 Jan. 1860-5 June 1861 (private)
BOX 3 17 June 1862-22 May 1863 (official)
17 June 1862-22 May 1863 (typed copies from private
and official letterbooks)
18 June 1862-25 May 1863 (private)
BOX 4 REEL 2-3 19 Oct. 1863-9 Dec. 1864 (Mariposa Co.)
26 Nov. 1863-14 Aug. 1865
REEL 3 General Correspondence
1838-1846
(3 folders)
BOX 5 REEL 4 1847-1854
(11 folders)
BOX 6 REEL 5-6 1855-1859
(12 folders)
BOX 7 REEL 6-7 1860-1862
(8 folders)
BOX 8 REEL 7-8 1862-1863
(6 folders)
BOX 9 REEL 8-9 1864-1865
(8 folders)
BOX 10 REEL 9-10 1865-1866
(8 folders)
BOX 11 REEL 10-11 1867-1868
(8 folders)
BOX 12 REEL 11-12 1869-1870
(9 folders)
BOX 13 REEL 12-13 1871-1872
(9 folders)
BOX 14 REEL 13 1873
(6 folders)
BOX 15 REEL 14 1874
(5 folders)
BOX 16 REEL 14-15 1875-1876
(8 folders)
BOX 17 REEL 15 1876-1877
(7 folders)
BOX 18 REEL 16-17 1878-1880
(9 folders)
BOX 19 REEL 17-18 1880-1881
(11 folders)
BOX 20 REEL 19 1882
(6 folders)
BOX 21 REEL 20 1883-1886
(10 folders)
BOX 22 REEL 21 1887-1889
(10 folders)
BOX 23 REEL 21-22 1890-1891
(8 folders)
BOX 24 REEL 22-23 1892-1894
(9 folders)
BOX 25 REEL 23 1895-1928, n.d.
(8 folders)
SUBJECT FILE, 1857 - 1952 , n.d.
BOX 26 REEL 24 Cemeteries, 1864-1891, n.d.
City and regional planning
General, 1882-1891
Berkeley, Calif., 1865-1866, 1921
Brookline, Mass., 1884-1894
Brooklyn, N.Y., 1868, n.d.
Buffalo, N.Y., 1879
Cambridge, Mass., 1867-1869
New York, N.Y., 1860-1878, n.d.
Staten Island, N.Y., 1870-1888, n.d.
(3 folders)
Summit, N.Y., ca. 1886
BOX 27 REEL 25 Community design
General, 1870-1891
Atlanta, Ga., 1892-1893
Boston, Mass., 1889
Brookline, Mass., 1888
Buffalo, N.Y., 1892
Chicago, Ill., 1868-1874, 1931, n.d.
Cushings Island, Me., 1883
Ginter Park, N.J., 1879
Hyde Park, N.Y., 1888
Irvington, N.Y., 1871
Needham, Mass., 1870
Newport, R.I., 1884-1885
North Adams, Mass., 1885
Perry Park, Colo., 1889-1894
Point Chautauqua, N.Y., 1875-1876
Richmond, Va., 1892
Riverside, Ill., 1868
Tarrytown Heights, N.Y., 1870-1884
Washington, D.C., 1891, n.d.
BOX 28 REEL
25-26 Hospitals, mental, 1860-1887, n.d.
Hotels and clubs
Hot Springs, Ark., 1892-1893
Lake Sunapee, N.H., 1887, 1920-1821
Lookout Mountain, Colo., 1890
Rockaway Point, N.Y., 1879
Saratoga Springs, N.Y., and others, 1874-1888
Mariposa mining estates, Calif., 1861-1865, n.d.
Military buildings and grounds
Jefferson Depot, Jeffersonville, Ind., 1873-1874,
n.d.
Schuylkill Arsenal, Philadelphia, Pa., 1875-1877,
n.d.
West Point, N.Y., 1890
Paris International Exposition, Paris, France, 1878-1879,
n.d.
Parks
General, 1874-1920, n.d.
(2 folders)
Adirondacks, N.Y., 1884-1886
BOX 29 REEL 26 Baltimore, Md., 1876-1879
(3 folders)
Boston, Mass.
General
1869-1886
1887-1895
Undated
BOX 30 REEL 27 Maps
Printed reports, ca. 1879-1895, n.d.
Back Bay, 1878-1885, n.d.
(2 folders)
Franklin Park, 1877-1892, n.d.
Marine Park, 1889
Wood Island Park, 1889
BOX 31 REEL 28 Bridgeport, Conn., 1881-1891, n.d.
Brookline, Mass., 1881-1890, n.d.
Brooklyn, N.Y., 1865-1891, n.d.
(2 folders)
Buffalo, N.Y., 1863-1893, n.d.
(4 folders)
BOX 32 REEL 29 Cambridge, Mass., 1894-1895, n.d.
Chicago, Ill., 1868-1894, n.d.
Cincinnati, Ohio, 1873-1915
Detroit, Mich., 1881-1889, n.d.
(2 folders)
Fall River, Mass., 1870
Hartford, Conn., 1870-1895, n.d.
(2 folders)
Kansas City, Mo., 1892
Louisville, Ky., 1891
Lynn, Mass., 1889 [1892?]
Marquette, Mich., 1891, 1896
Milwaukee, Wis., 1889
Minneapolis, Minn., 1886-1887
BOX 33 REEL 30 Montreal, Que., Canada, 1874-1886, n.d.
(4 folders)
Natural Bridge, Va., 1881
Newark, N.J., 1867
New Britain, Conn., 1870, 1904
Newburgh, N.Y., 1889
Newport, R.I., 1883
BOX 34 REEL 30-31 New York, N.Y. (including Central Park)
1857-1860
(12 folders)
BOX 35 REEL 31 1860-1862
(12 folders)
BOX 36 REEL 32 1863-1874
(6 folders)
BOX 37 REEL 33 1875-1886
(6 folders)
BOX 38 REEL 33-34 1887-1894, n.d.
(7 folders)
Articles, maps, and drawings
(3 folders)
BOX 39 REEL 34-35 New York, N.Y.
Central Park
Annual Report, Board of
Commissioners, 1865-1870
Applications for work, 1860
Salary lawsuit, 1875-1877, n.d.
Zoo
BOX 40 REEL 35 Governor's Island, 1888
Halleck's statue, 1877
Jerome Park, 1888
Manhattan Square, 1878
Morningside, Riverside, and Grant's Tomb,
1873-1889, n.d.
(3 folders)
Tompkins Square, 1876
BOX 41 REEL 36 Niagara, N.Y.
1877-1882
(4 folders)
1883-1893, n.d.
(8 folders) See Oversize
Pawtucket, R.I., 1888
Philadelphia, Pa., 1871-1872, n.d.
Providence, R.I., 1875, 1889
BOX 42 REEL 37 Rochester, N.Y., 1888-1892, n.d.
St. Catharine's, Ont., Canada, 1887
San Francisco, Calif., 1865-1887, 1952
Washington, D.C., 1887
Wilmington, Del., 1890-1895, n.d.
Yosemite Valley, Calif., 1863-1891
Fragments
BOX 43 REEL
37-38 Private estates
Cameron, Roderick, 1889
Choate, Joseph H., 1884
Collins, E. K., 1860-1861
Dorsheimer, William, 1887
Ellis, 1884-1885
Elm Park, ca. 1880
Frelinghuysen, M. G., 1888
Goddard, R. H. T., 1886
Harkness, A., 1888
Howard, 1865
Iselin, C. Oliver, 1889
Jesup, Morris K., 1888-1889, n.d.
Lee, C., ca. 1880
Lietchworth, J., 1879
Loring, William Caleb, 1888, n.d.
McNulty, Arthur, ca. 1877
Phillips, J. C., 1881
Reid, Whitelaw, 1888
Russell, Henry G., 1886
Schlesinger, 1879-1881
Sloane, W. D., 1888
Sturgis, 1885
Sweet Briar, 1921, n.d.
Twombly, 1891
Vanderbilt, Frederick W., 1889
Vanderbilt, George W.
1886-1894
(4 folders)
BOX 44 REEL 38-39 1895, 1898, n.d.
(2 folders)
Webb, W. W., 1886-1889
West, F. T., 1891
Miscellany, 1865-1887, n.d.
Public buildings
Albany, N.Y., state capitol, 1875-1898, n.d.
(3 folders)
Hartford, Conn., state capitol, 1878, n.d.
Kent County, England, boys' home
Malden, Mass., library, 1884
Montgomery, Ala., state capitol, 1889
Orleans County, N.Y., poorhouse
BOX 45 REEL 39-40 Washington, D.C., United States Capitol
Correspondence
Bound, 1874-1877
Unbound, 1874-1889, n.d.
(5 folders)
Reports of the architect, 1865-1884
Drawings
BOX 46 REEL
40-41 Sanitary Commission (United States), 1861-1866, n.d.
Scenic reservations, 1876, 1887
School buildings and grounds
Amherst College, Amherst, Mass., 1870, 1883
California, University of, Berkeley, Calif.,
1865-1866
Colgate University, Hamilton, N.Y., 1883
Columbia University, New York, N.Y., 1893
Groton School, Groton, Conn., 1886
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md., 1876
Lawrenceville School, 1886, n.d.
Maine, University of (formerly the State College of
Agricultural and Mechanic Arts), Orono, Me., 1867
Massachusetts, University of (formerly
Massachusetts Agricultural College), Amherst,
Mass., 1866, n.d.
Stanford University, Stanford, Calif., 1881-1892,
n.d.
Trinity College, Hartford, Conn., 1872, n.d.
Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., 1868
Miscellany
State Charities Aid Association, New York, 1875-1882, n.d.
BOX 47 REEL 41 U. S. Sanitary Commission. See Container 46, Sanitary
Commission
World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Ill., 1889-1893,
1920, n.d.
(3 folders)
World's Fair, New York, N.Y., as site, 1879-1889, n.d.
SPEECHES AND WRITINGS FILE, 1839 - 1903 , n.d.
BOX 48 REEL 1839, "The Lungs of London," Blackwood's Edinburgh
41-42 Magazine (typed copy)
1843, "Real China" (draft and typed copy)
ca. 1848, "A Talk About Public Parks and Gardens,"
Horticulturist (typed copy)
ca. 1849
"Critique on the July Horticulturist,"
Horticulturist (typed copy)
On rural cemeteries, Horticulturist (typed copy)
1850, "The Derby Arboretum," Horticulturist (typed copy)
ca. 1851
"Mr. Downing's Letters From England,"
Horticulturist (typed copy)
"The New-York Park," Horticulturist (typed copy)
1854, 4 Sept., extracts from a letter of Adolf Douai
concerning Germans and slavery in Texas; a plan for the
formation of a free western Texas
ca. 1854, instructions for mountain artillery (notes)
ca. 1857, "A New Song on the New Reservoir," composed by
Hough O'Reilly Gardner
1860, "Nebraska in Germany" (book review)
ca. 1860-1870
"History of Civilization in the United States"
(unpublished book)
Drafts, notes, and fragments
(3 folders)
BOX 49 REEL 42-43
(3 folders)
Drafts and notes of chapter entitled "A
Pioneer Community of the Present Day:
Mariposa"
(6 folders)
1862, on the Negro population of the Sea Islands, argument
addressed to the secretary of the treasury (draft and
typed copy)
ca. 1863, journey in the West (diary-type notes)
BOX 50 REEL 43 ca. 1864
"Manganese-Notes From Prof. Blake's Rept."
(handwritten notes)
"Plan of Narrative for Clarks and Yosemite" (draft)
1866, A Few Things To Be Thought of Before Proceeding To
Plan Buildings for the National Agricultural Colleges (New
York: American News Co. 23 pp.)
ca. 1866-1870, on education and common schools (fragment)
1870, Public Parks and the Enlargement of Towns; Read
Before the American Social Science Association at the
Lowell Institute, Boston, Feb. 25, 1870 (Cambridge, Mass.:
Printed for the American Social Science Association at the
Riverside Press. 36 pp.)
ca. 1870, drafts of preface (unpublished) to Andrew
Jackson Downing's Cottage Residences of Landscape
Gardening
1871, disposition regarding Blake's stone breaker (draft)
1873, "The Eucalyptus, or Fever Tree," letter to the
editor, Druggist (clipping)
1875
Notes on activities, June-Sept. 1875
"Park," American Cyclopaedia (clipping and notes)
ca. 1875
"Observations on Future of New York" (notes)
"Passages in the Life of an Unpractical Man"
(draft)
1876
"Mr. Olmsted on Landscape Gardening," letter to the
editor, Garden, 12 Aug. (clipping)
Tree museum, draft of proposal to the Board of
Commissioners, New York, N.Y.
1877
"Landscape Gardening," Johnson's New Universal
Cyclopaedia (clipping)
Draft of "New York State Capitol Address" read
before the Senate Finance Committee, Albany, N.Y.,
6 Mar.
1879, on Riverside Park, New York, N.Y., corrected notes
BOX 51 REEL 44 Brookline, Mass., draft
ca. 1880, "Influence," draft and typed copy
ca. 1880-1890
On gardening, landscape architecture, etc., notes
and fragments
(5 folders)
BOX 52 REEL 45 "Relation of Architecture to Landscape
Architecture: Use and Misuse of Landscape
Architecture Terms" (typed lecture to architecture
students)
Lectures to architecture students (notes and
fragments)
(5 folders)
1881, A Consideration of the Justifying Value of a Public
Park; Prepared at the Request of the American Social
Science Association and Read at Its Meeting in Saratoga,
1880 (Boston: Tolman & White, Printers. 20 pp.) (2 copies)
1882
"Forestry Notes," The Gardener's Monthly and
Horticulturist, June 1882 (clipping)
The Spoils of the Park; With a Few Leaves From the
Deep-Laden Note-Books of "A Wholly Unpractical Man"
(cover only)
"Trees in Streets and in Parks," Sanitarian, Sept.
1882 (clipping)
BOX 53 REEL
45-46 1887, "On Gardening," Art Review (clipping)
1888
"Description of a Plan for a Park at Pawtucket, R.
I." (fragment)
"Plan for a Small Homestead," Garden and Forest, 2
May (clipping)
"Terrace and Veranda, Back and Front," Garden and
Forest, 6 June (clipping)
"Foreign Plants and American Scenery," letter to
the editor of Garden and Forest, 24 Oct. (clipping)
1889, Observations on the Treatment of Public Plantations,
More Especially Relating to the Use of the Axe (Boston: T.
R. Marvin, Printers. 24 pp.) with J. B. Harrison
ca. 1889-1892, "...Architectural Fitness..." (typescript)
1890
Excerpt from "Among the Euganean Hills" by John
Addington Symonds, Fortnightly Review
"Landscape," letter to the editor, American
Florist, 15 Jan.
1891, "Architects and Architects," American Architect, 25
July (typed copy)
1892, "The Proposed New Street From Holborn to the Strand"
by Lewis W. Leeds, Builder, 13 Aug.
1893, "Frederick Law Olmsted" by M. G. Van Rensselaer,
Century Magazine (clipping)
ca. 1898, excerpts from writings on London's parks and
gardens
1903, "The Art of Frederick Law Olmsted" by Arthur
Spencer, Craftsman, Nov. 1903 (clipping)
Undated
Address to civil engineers, draft
"Anent Landscape Gardening," typescript
"Appreciation of outdoor scenery...," fragment
Bear Valley, Calif., census notes
"The Boyhood of Frederick Law Olmsted: Some
Autobiographical Passages" by Theodora Kimball
Catalog of plants (notes)
"Civilization not material wealth: Effect of
immigration on taste"
"A few dollars to help the cause of future freedom
in Texas"
"A Homestead: Its Constituent Parts and
Essentials," fragments
"Illustrations of the folly of cheap planting" by
H. W. S. Cleveland
"Landscape Gardening," excerpts
(4 folders)
Mazes, fragment
"Museum and Decorative Gardening," draft and
typescript, fragmentary
"The Need of Parks for Cities," draft
"Old and New Gardening," fragment
"On the development of taste through the garden,"
fragment
On religion, fragments
"Our homesteads and their improvement as measure of
civilization," draft and typed copy
Parks, definition of, draft
Plants, lists of, fragments
Pony service, memorandum on
BOX 54 REEL 46 "Present State of Gardening," fragments
"Public Festivities," fragment
"Ship," typescript
Trees and shrubs, notes
"Two examples of landscape work and some
disconnected scraps on the sanitary aspects of
parks," draft and typed copy
"Urban and Pagan Changes," draft and typed copy
(3 folders)
Urinals, fragment
Fragments of notes, essays, etc.
(1 folder)
BOX 55 REEL 47
(3 folders)
MISCELLANY, 1837 - 1952 , n.d.
BOX 56 REEL
47-48 Biographical notes
Chronological list of Olmsted's correspondence
List of Olmsted's unpublished writings
Name index (professional papers)
Notes on Olmsted and family, ca. 1893-1952
Record of professional reports
Theodora Kimball's bibliography of Olmsted's
writings and copies of miscellaneous correspondence
Calling cards
Clippings, ca. 1853-1895, n.d.
(2 folders)
BOX 57 REEL 48
(1 folder)
Drawings, sketches, and maps
Field, Alfred, typed copies of Field's letters to his
family with references to Olmsted, 1847-1862
Financial papers
Daybook, Cyrus Perkins's account as guardian of the
estate of Sarah Perkins, 1837-1849, and James S.
Wadsworth's trustee accounts with Mary C. Perkins
Olmsted, 1849-1856
Account books
Expenses in Paris, France, 1840
Notations on bills from Olmsted's cash
account book, ca. 1884-1890
(1 folder)
BOX 58 REEL 48-49
(1 folder)
Accounts, bills, receipts, etc., 1848-1883, n.d.
(7 folders)
BOX 59 REEL
49-50 Legal papers
Indentures, agreements, etc., 1848-1876, n.d.
(2 folders)
Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka, Kans.,
1885
National Geographic Society, Washington, D.C., 1896
Passport, 1856
Weidenman v. Mount Hope Cemetery Association, 1888
Yosemite Valley and Mariposa Big Tree Grove,
appointment as commissioner, 1864
Notebooks
Address and memorandum books, ca. 1861-1890, n.d.
(13 vols.)
(2 folders)
BOX 60 REEL 50
(5 vols.)
Waste book
Olmsted, John Hull, ca. 1844, n.d.
Printed matter
(4 folders)
BOX 61 REEL
50-51 Scrapbooks
ca. 1866-1870, n.d.
ca. 1866-1893, n.d.
Skull and Bones Society, New Haven, Conn., ca. 1846
Southern Famine Relief Commission, statement of the amount
of corn purchased, 31 July 1867
Union League Club, New York, N.Y., Memorial, 1903
Webster, Daniel, letter to Mrs. Perkins, n.d.
1975 ADDITION, 1821 - 1924 , n.d.
BOX 62 REEL 52 Diary, 1896; memorandum book, ca. 1888-1899; and memoranda
of Marion C. Olmsted
(2 folders)
Correspondence, 1821-1924, n.d.
(4 folders)
Financial papers
Bills, receipts, etc.
1855-1883
(9 folders)
BOX 63 REEL 53-54 1884-1888
(5 folders)
Account book, 1891-1917
Bill book, 1879-1890
Checkbook stubs
1868-1884
(12 vols.)
BOX 64 REEL 54-55 1884-1890
(12 vols.)
BOX 65 REEL 55-56 1889-1903
(6 vols.)
Subject file
Central Park, New York, N.Y., 1860-1874, n.d.
Louisville, Ky., 1891
BOX 66 REEL 56 Mount Royal Park, Montreal, Canada
Correspondence, etc., 1875-1881, n.d.
(4 folders)
Reports, 1877-1881
(5 vols.)
BOX 67 REEL 57 Niagara Falls, N.Y.
Correspondence, etc., 1871-1889, n.d.
(5 folders)
Printed matter
(2 folders)
BOX 68 REEL 57-58 Clippings
(4 folders, unarranged)
World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Ill.
Correspondence and related items
1890-1891
(3 folders)
BOX 69 REEL 58 1891
(6 folders)
BOX 70 1891-1892
(11 folders)
BOX 71 REEL 59 1892-1893, n.d.
(6 folders)
Maps
BOX 72 REEL 59 Official manual
Plants
Correspondence, 1890-1891, n.d.
Lists, 1891-1892, n.d.
(2 folders)
Reports
Printed matter
Clippings
BOX 73 REEL 60 Miscellany
Books belonging to Olmsted, list
Certificate appointing Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr.,
and Percival Gallagher trustees of Frederick Law
Olmsted's estate, 4 Oct. 1922
Genealogical notes for Olmsted and related families
(4 folders)
Lecture to Brookline Club, Brookline, Mass., "The
History of Streets," Feb. 1889
Maps, notes, printed matter, and clippings
Plans and memoranda relating to the construction of
cheap lodging for single men
"Sketch of the Life of Frederick Law Olmsted" by M.
G. Van Rensselaer (draft)
Writings relating to gardening and parks, fragments
(2 folders)
1996 ADDITION, 1880 - 1881
BOX 73 (NOT
FILMED) Norton, Charles E., correspondence to, 1880-1881
OVERSIZE, 1886 , n.d.
BOX OV 1 (NOT
FILMED) Subject file
Parks
Niagara Falls, N.Y., 1886, n.d. (Container
41)
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