Manuscript/Mixed Material Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; City and regional planning; Brooklyn, N.Y., 1868 , undated
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Image 1 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; City and regional planning; Brooklyn, N.Y., … Fredrick Law Olmsted Subject File City and Regional Planning Brooklyn NY 1868 UD- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1868
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Image 2 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; City and regional planning; Brooklyn, N.Y., … V Brooklyn PR GS 34 Olmsted R STREET PLANS- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1868
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Image 3 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; City and regional planning; Brooklyn, N.Y., … OBSERVATIONS ON THE PROGRESS OF IMPROVEMENTS IN STREET PLANS WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE PARKWAY PROPOSED TO BE LAID OUT IN BROOKLYN 1868 BROOKLYN I VAN ANDENS PRINT EAGLE BUILDINGS 30 32…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1868
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Image 4 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; City and regional planning; Brooklyn, N.Y., … Rodgers Dec 31 1875 Philadelphia Depot of the O M Department Philadelphia January 12 1876 Mr Fred Law Olmsted New York D Fred The Department is about to erect a flag staff…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1868
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Image 5 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; City and regional planning; Brooklyn, N.Y., … CONTENTS Relations of the Park to the street arrangements of the City Elements of ordinary street arrangements Why ordinary arrangements are inadequate to public requirements Historical development of existing street arrangementsâFirst stage…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1868
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Image 6 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; City and regional planning; Brooklyn, N.Y., … 6 minor recommendations has been already taken up by a body of citizens and an organized effort to carry it out is understood to be in progress Under your instructions a topographical…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1868
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Image 7 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; City and regional planning; Brooklyn, N.Y., … 8 HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF EXISTING STREET ARRANGEMENTS FIRST STAGE They were at the outset in most cases entrenched camps in which a few huts were first built with no thought of permanence…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1868
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Image 8 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; City and regional planning; Brooklyn, N.Y., … 10 from luxurious according to modern notions and as in order to realize as fully as possible the dream of independence every country gentleman had his private chaplain surgeon farrier tailor weaver…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1868
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Image 9 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; City and regional planning; Brooklyn, N.Y., … 12 street system intelligently adapted to the requirements which he would have been certain to anticipate as well as those which were already pressing it would have relieved the city of London…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1868
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Image 10 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; City and regional planning; Brooklyn, N.Y., … 14 This was the condition in which after several hundred years the town had been left by the transformation of the passages first occuring between the huts of the entrenched camp of…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1868
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Image 11 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; City and regional planning; Brooklyn, N.Y., … 16 larger proportion of welleducated orderly industrious and welltodo citizens These things are true in the main not of one town alone but of every considerable town from Turkey one the one…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1868
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Image 12 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; City and regional planning; Brooklyn, N.Y., … 18 Comparisons of this kind have been made in such number and the data for them have been drawn from such a large variety of localities in which the conditions of health…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1868
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Image 13 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; City and regional planning; Brooklyn, N.Y., … 20 more insiduous enemies to their health and happiness and against these the remedy and preventive can not be found in medicine or in athletic recreations but only in sunlight and such…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1868
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Image 14 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; City and regional planning; Brooklyn, N.Y., … 22 With reference to general commerce Brooklyn must be considered as a division merely of the port of New York The city of New York is in regard to building space in…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1868
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Image 15 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; City and regional planning; Brooklyn, N.Y., … 24 The means by which it may be made a more suitable and attractive place of domestic residence than it is possible that any other point of the metropolis ever will be…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1868
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Image 16 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; City and regional planning; Brooklyn, N.Y., … 26 grow of the most stately character It would contain six rows of trees and the space from house to house being two hundred and sixty feet would constitute a perfect barrier…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1868
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Image 17 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; City and regional planning; Brooklyn, N.Y., … 28 largest advantages possible to be secured in a town residence and there is no good reason why they should not be of a permanent character With the modern advantages for locomotion…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1868
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Image 18 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; City and regional planning; Brooklyn, N.Y., … 30 to be particularly applicable to the city of Brooklyn and which as we have shown are considered by those in authority to be unsuitable for development in the city of New…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1868
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Image 19 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; City and regional planning; Brooklyn, N.Y., … 500 Coney Island Coney Island before the completion of the Ocean Parkway was for three fourths of its five miles of beach a wild waste Several common buildings common in design equipment…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1868
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Image 20 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; City and regional planning; Brooklyn, N.Y., … the old Coney Island horse rail road which ran cars once or twice an hour and the pioneer steam dummy road known as the Gunther Road which started from near Greenwood Cemetry…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1868
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Image 21 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; City and regional planning; Brooklyn, N.Y., … line passing through Flatbush and New Lotts to a terminus within about 500 ft of the Easterly line of the Concourse or about 2500 ft from parallel to the Ocean Parkway on…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1868
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Image 22 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; City and regional planning; Brooklyn, N.Y., … have been allowed to be erected perhaps 500000 has been spent upon them The elevated Railroad cost about 300000 There have been two substantial Iron piers erected with shelters and Restaurant accommodation…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1868
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Image 23 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; City and regional planning; Brooklyn, N.Y., … there are probably good bad and indifferent accommodations for bathers which are taken advantage of on holidays for several thousand persons probably 5000 The largest amount of travel over any one road…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1868
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Image 24 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; City and regional planning; Brooklyn, N.Y., … building the concourse drive to show the effect and possibility of a broad convenient promenade and thoroughfare with the beach intact in front and full view of the ocean without interruption or…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1868
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Image 25 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; City and regional planning; Brooklyn, N.Y., … status is of the lowest order controlled by the meanest of politicians The Manhattan Beach Company preserve the only decent part of the Island which with the Parkway Concourse make up the…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1868
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Image 26 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; City and regional planning; Brooklyn, N.Y., … and planting and 300000 square feet of concrete upon less than 15000 per year I need note more than suggest to you the absurdity of expending vast sums of money upon improvements…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1868
About this Item
Title
- Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; City and regional planning; Brooklyn, N.Y., 1868 , undated
Names
- Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903
Headings
- - United States Sanitary Commission
- - Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903--Correspondence
- - Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903--Friends and associates
- - Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903--Family
- - Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903--Homes and haunts
- - Olmsted, John Charles, 1852-1920--Correspondence
- - Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1870-1957--Correspondence
- - Vaux, Calvert, 1824-1895--Correspondence
- - Olmsted and Vaux (Firm: 1858)
- - Frederick Law Olmsted (Firm: 1858-1884)
- - F.L. and J.C. Olmsted (Firm : 1884-1889)
- - F.L. Olmsted and Company (Firm: 1889-1893)
- - Olmsted, Olmsted, and Eliot (Firm: 1893-1897)
- - F.L. and J.C. Olmsted (Firm : 1897-1898)
- - Olmsted Brothers (Firm: 1898-1961)
- - United States Capitol (Washington, D.C.)
- - Expositions
- - City planning
- - Conservation
- - Environmental protection
- - Landscape architecture
- - Parks--Design and construction
- - Regional planning
- - Slavery--Southern States
- - California--Gold discoveries
- - Central Park (New York, N.Y.)--History
- - Manuscripts
- - United States
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- Manuscripts
Call Number/Physical Location
- mss35121, box 26; reel 24
- series: Subject File, 1857-1952
Source Collection
- Frederick Law Olmsted papers
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- Manuscript Division
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- California
- Central Park (New York, N.Y.)
- City Planning
- Conservation
- Correspondence
- Design and Construction
- Environmental Protection
- Expositions
- F.L. And J.C. Olmsted (Firm)
- F.L. Olmsted and Company (Firm)
- Family
- Frederick Law Olmsted (Firm)
- Friends and Associates
- Gold Discoveries
- History
- Homes and Haunts
- Landscape Architecture
- Manuscripts
- Olmsted and Vaux (Firm: 1858)
- Olmsted Brothers (Firm)
- Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Olmsted, John Charles
- Olmsted, Olmsted, and Eliot (Firm)
- Parks
- Regional Planning
- Slavery
- Southern States
- United States Capitol (Washington, D.C.)
- United States Sanitary Commission
- Vaux, Calvert