Manuscript/Mixed Material Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; City and regional planning; Summit, N.Y., circa 1886
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Image 1 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; City and regional planning; Summit, N.Y., … Frederick Law Olmsted SUBJECT FILE City and Regions Summit NY ca 1886- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1886
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Image 2 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; City and regional planning; Summit, N.Y., … Letter to Mr Whittridge of Summit Village Improvement Society a sign of growing public sentiment Improvement of land property political improvement not generally considered The sentiment largely social domestic Gain in NY…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1886
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Image 3 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; City and regional planning; Summit, N.Y., … 2 Duty of LA To reconcile landscape enjoyment with town life his work 3 unclear Report on Summit Idea of Healthfulness attractiveness of a village dependent on of judgement Different elements may…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1886
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Image 4 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; City and regional planning; Summit, N.Y., … 4 Summit Village Association A village must not have a dirty untidy or slovenly aspect In Summit earth terraces are out of place Turf gutters should be used Banks and terraces might…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1886
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Image 5 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; City and regional planning; Summit, N.Y., … The Village Improvement Society of Summit Letter to Mr Whittredge Not completed Sy follows- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1886
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Image 6 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; City and regional planning; Summit, N.Y., … My Dear Whittredge A few months ago when your village Improvement Society was getting under way and while it yet lacked the momentum of practical operations I was asked in consultation with…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1886
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Image 7 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; City and regional planning; Summit, N.Y., … places of resort other than the sheets were under commercial control and management and might least remain so then the village had been improving with extraordinary rapidity that it was in many…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1886
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Image 8 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; City and regional planning; Summit, N.Y., … My Dear Whittredge A few months ago I was asked in consultation with you to consider certain questions which had arisen in starting a village improvement society an improvement society of the…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1886
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Image 9 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; City and regional planning; Summit, N.Y., … I mean the cusianation that you daily apparently spontaneous and leave in its engine is but one among many that have within a have been springing up in a like manner each…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1886
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Image 10 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; City and regional planning; Summit, N.Y., … My Dear Whittredge A few months ago when your Village Improvement Society was getting under way and while it yet lacked the momentum of practical operations I was asked in consultation with…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1886
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Image 11 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; City and regional planning; Summit, N.Y., … and tastes have been largely formed under conditions wholly unpracticable for the village Why should such funds as may be available for village improvement be drawn into new channels liable to cross…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1886
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Image 12 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; City and regional planning; Summit, N.Y., … No confession of faith which may have been subscribed no phraseology of agreement that may have been adopted will probably fully answer questions like these and if this leaves the smallest suspicion…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1886
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Image 13 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; City and regional planning; Summit, N.Y., … have somewhat emphatically as a rule put commercial and political ideas of improvement out of view They have been formed more by women than by men their methods have been womanl womanly…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1886
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Image 14 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; City and regional planning; Summit, N.Y., … be moving in cooler and more moderate volume a sentiment of protest and a disposition to offer a unified resistance to malign tendencies of social and in our social and domestic national…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1886
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Image 15 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; City and regional planning; Summit, N.Y., … itu and in funds of elevated entertainment But what has been gained for domestic life in wealth of home as far as can be told by buildings I will not take the…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1886
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Image 16 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; City and regional planning; Summit, N.Y., … to a distance of twenty yards upon sombre walls over dirty pavements subject at any moment to a jar and aired only at the stem by op dirty pavements can cultivation in…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1886
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Image 17 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; City and regional planning; Summit, N.Y., … place of resort was a matter of private places of resort other than the streets were under commercial management and might best remain so considering these and other local circumstances it has…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1886
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Image 18 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; City and regional planning; Summit, N.Y., … forms of refined and extravagant luxury in such contrast with extreme destitution degradation and brutality as seldom fails to harden human sympathy the heart and bring into contempt thus perfectly sensible logical…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1886
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Image 19 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; City and regional planning; Summit, N.Y., … to us intolerable But village improvement means not a continued intensification of the peculiar evils of villages It means the reverse to us intolerable But have villages in our time been growing…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1886
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Image 20 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; City and regional planning; Summit, N.Y., … after farm town c Is there not in the townward tendency of our habits customs and manners in our townward building townward gardening townward ideas of scenery of beauty of decoration sentiments…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1886
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Image 21 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; City and regional planning; Summit, N.Y., … manners of life and it is the natural and truth put simple and truthful out growths of this root that supply all that has ever been distinctively beautiful lovely or charming in…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1886
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Image 22 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; City and regional planning; Summit, N.Y., … pictures of some of Dickenss villages of Miss Mitfords Mary Harrits and Mrs Gaskells we may recall as Colonel Waring does the general aspect and character of Old Hadley Deerfield or Farmington…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1886
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Image 23 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; City and regional planning; Summit, N.Y., … provement on the most charming attractive of terms I urge the distinctly emphatically that this must be considered the central idea of village improvement the corner stone desire impulse and that the…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1886
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Image 24 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; City and regional planning; Summit, N.Y., … Let us have both forms of beauty if we can but let us not think that Its be it is of more consequence to be to be rich in art than rich…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1886
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Image 25 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; City and regional planning; Summit, N.Y., … 2 Buah The duty of my profession is that of reconciling landscape enjoyment with domestic and social enjoyment The hard necessities necessity restrictions fixed by the compactness of building and the density…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1886
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Image 26 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; City and regional planning; Summit, N.Y., … regarded slightingly There is a touching testimony to the custom against this assumption which as it has other and more important bearings on the subject of village improvement I should like to…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1886
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Image 27 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; City and regional planning; Summit, N.Y., … shrubs and evergreens meaning broad leafed evergreen shrubs not coniferous trees beyond which one sees the cheerful village the high road and that constant moving scene which I would not exchange for…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1886
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Image 28 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; City and regional planning; Summit, N.Y., … Break- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1886
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Image 29 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; City and regional planning; Summit, N.Y., … aside or to thwart is on whatever specious grounds experience of its value is now fully established I must not neglect to point out that while those who set aside the purpose…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1886
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Image 30 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; City and regional planning; Summit, N.Y., … 3 Break are farmbred less informed than most village people of what is to be desired in these particulars and less handy in securing it in part however is another reason to…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1886
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Image 31 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; City and regional planning; Summit, N.Y., … ordinarilly exempt from influences such as are found elsewhere tried to develop or aggravate nerses of the lungs and air passages No claim of greater importance than this nor if it is…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1886
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Image 32 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; City and regional planning; Summit, N.Y., … a clayey loam such as farmers describe as natural to grass When banks declivities or steep slopes of considerable extent have cannot be avoided or have already been found and cannot be…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1886
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Image 33 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; City and regional planning; Summit, N.Y., … advantage for the cultivation of sylvan village beauty And yet apart from evidence not apt to be accepted as of scientific accuracy fullness and trustworthiness the credibility of its claim of superiority…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1886
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Image 34 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; City and regional planning; Summit, N.Y., … if there are gardening disadvantages there are also gardening advantages in a porous soil Operations of grinding and tillage are simpler and cheaper there is less annoyance from dampness and leaking puddling…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1886
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Image 35 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; City and regional planning; Summit, N.Y., … of any village A decided local superiority in of such a nature if fully established and generally made known would be a sufficient reason for the building up of the establishment of…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1886
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Image 36 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; City and regional planning; Summit, N.Y., … 4 to make turf a very conspicuous feature of of the elements of attractiveness of the village than it might be elsewhere Second that the first thing to be required of a…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1886
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Image 37 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; City and regional planning; Summit, N.Y., … attempts to ban it should be will be wisely limited to ground favorably situated of favorable surface and to areas areas upon which more than usually thorough preparation to secure thrift and…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1886
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Image 38 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; City and regional planning; Summit, N.Y., … attempts to ban it should be limited to areas upon which unusual preparation of the soil can be afforded and upon which unusual continuous It is as bad housewifery for a lady…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1886
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Image 39 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; City and regional planning; Summit, N.Y., … in situations particularly unfavorable to its maintenance in health and vigor and to the observing masking of ground when turf cannot be so maintained by foliage and herbage in forms less liable…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1886
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Image 40 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; City and regional planning; Summit, N.Y., … due in large part to conditions of soil and subsoil quite as much as to its elevation In fact with respect to malarial poison the most dangerous situation for a residence is…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1886
About this Item
Title
- Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; City and regional planning; Summit, N.Y., circa 1886
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
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- mss35121, box 26; reel 24
- series: Subject File, 1857-1952
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- 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