'The Years of Olmsted, Vaux & Company, 1865-1874' documents one of the most productive periods of Olmsted's career. During these years he and Vaux created their classic design for Prospect Park in Brooklyn, drew up plans for Riverside and Morningside parks in Manhattan, and designed Chicago's South Park. Its rich assortment of documents will be of interest to historians, landscape architects, urban planners, and anyone concerned with the roots of modern America. 'The Olmsted Papers project is supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, and is sponsored by The American University.'
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Olmsted the man belongs to his own time, but his work and words continue to have meaning today... The editors are preserving a life and a work instructive for the future as well as of the past.
(Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography )This is an excellent work and the editors are to be commended for their effort and diligence in combing through a prodigious amount of material. For anyone undertaking to understand the impact of Olmsted and his ideas, this is a must.
(New York History )Uphold[s] the superlative reputation of the series.... Scholars will welcome this gold mine of information about park design, urban planning, New York workingmen, city politicos, and Olmsted's view of the park.
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In early August 1857, Frederick Law Olmsted was staying at a Connect-icut seaside inn writing a series of letters entitled "The Southerners at home" for the New York Daily Tribune. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
sunken transverse roads, outer park, lower park, receiving reservoir, upper park, superintending engineer, park commission, park board, skating season, water terrace, old reservoir, rural art, park keepers, new reservoir, park construction, winter drive, fourth annual report, road metal, tropical scenery Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Frederick Law Olmsted, United States, Calvert Vaux, Forty Years, Staten Island, John Olmsted, Andrew Jackson Downing, Charles Loring Brace, Prospect Park, Fernando Wood, Bois de Boulogne, Sir Joseph Paxton, Asa Gray, Back Country, John Bigelow, Unpractical Man, Atlantic Monthly, Charles Wyllys Elliott, New Haven, The Cotton Kingdom, American Farmer, John Hull Olmsted, Jones Wood, Parke Godwin New!
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sunken transverse roads, outer park, lower park, receiving reservoir, upper park, superintending engineer, park commission, park board, skating season, water terrace, old reservoir, rural art, park keepers, new reservoir, park construction, winter drive, fourth annual report, road metal, tropical scenery Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Frederick Law Olmsted, United States, Calvert Vaux, Forty Years, Staten Island, John Olmsted, Andrew Jackson Downing, Charles Loring Brace, Prospect Park, Fernando Wood, Bois de Boulogne, Sir Joseph Paxton, Asa Gray, Back Country, John Bigelow, Unpractical Man, Atlantic Monthly, Charles Wyllys Elliott, New Haven, The Cotton Kingdom, American Farmer, John Hull Olmsted, Jones Wood, Parke Godwin New!
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