'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 )In a word, Olmsted's frontier is as complex as was this unique individual who transversed, described, and analyzed it. This handsome and ably-edited volume is a fit repository for Olmsted's final word on the American frontier.
(Southwestern Historical Quarterly )The literary residue that editor Victoria Ranney has harvested in this volume is rich and varied... One awaits ssubsequent volumes in this important series.
(Inland Architect )The editors and press deserve commendation for the splendid work on this volume... This is an important series, and libraries should make every effort to collect all the volumes. Those interested in western history should also take note of a side of Olmsted they may not known existed.
(Civil War History )Once again, the editors of the Olmsted Papers have collected a treasure ripe for looting, this time by students of early California, of landscape design, and of Olmsted's variant of conservative nationalism. Even political historians will find nuggets such as Olmsted's statement that he 'would as soon select a condiate for the Presidency [of the United States] by lot from among New York alderman as take' John Charles Frémont.
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Historians, landscape architects, conservationists, city planners, students, and citizens' groups continue to turn to Olmsted for ideas about the development and conservation of green spaces in urban areas.
--This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.
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In the summer of 1863, Frederick Law Olmsted resigned from his position as head of the U.S. Sanitary Commission, overseeing the health of the volunteer soldiers in the Union army, to become manager of the Mariposa gold-mining estate in California. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
landscape design reports, civilized requirements, private letterbook, hospital transport service, general promenade, pioneer condition, attaching creditors, public pleasure grounds, manganese mine, cemetery association, textual alterations, pioneer state Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, San Francisco, Central Park, Mariposa Company, Bear Valley, Sanitary Commission, Law Olmsted, United States, James Hoy, Calvert Vaux, College of California, Yosemite Valley, Trenor Park, New England, Godkin Papers, Prospect Park, Mariposa County, John Olmsted, Mariposa Weekly Gazette, Mountain View Cemetery, New-York Times, University of California, Mary Perkins Olmsted, South Fork, William Ashburner New!
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landscape design reports, civilized requirements, private letterbook, hospital transport service, general promenade, pioneer condition, attaching creditors, public pleasure grounds, manganese mine, cemetery association, textual alterations, pioneer state Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, San Francisco, Central Park, Mariposa Company, Bear Valley, Sanitary Commission, Law Olmsted, United States, James Hoy, Calvert Vaux, College of California, Yosemite Valley, Trenor Park, New England, Godkin Papers, Prospect Park, Mariposa County, John Olmsted, Mariposa Weekly Gazette, Mountain View Cemetery, New-York Times, University of California, Mary Perkins Olmsted, South Fork, William Ashburner New!
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