Manuscript/Mixed Material Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; New York, N.Y. (including Central Park); 1880-1882
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Image 1 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; New York, N.Y. (including Central … 35 Frederick Law Olmsted SUBJECT FILE Parks New York NY Esp Central Park 188082- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1880
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Image 2 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; New York, N.Y. (including Central … 10th June 1880 Col Stebbins My Dear Colonel I wish to place myself at your service in the Worlds Fair matter as far as practicable but my business being wholly out of…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1880
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Image 3 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; New York, N.Y. (including Central … Drft CP 2 copies Washington 27th Oct 1880 My dear Mould I would do what you want gladly and gratefully if it were only your affair But you know that it would…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1880
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Image 4 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; New York, N.Y. (including Central … VI Washington 27th Oct 1880 My dear Mould I would do what you want gladly and gratefully ifit were only your affair But you know that it would be the Department consulting…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1880
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Image 5 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; New York, N.Y. (including Central … Moved letters filed under his name 1880 My dear Mould I have just retnd from Colorado and find your note of 4th I am sorry that it was impossible for me to…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1880
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Image 6 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; New York, N.Y. (including Central … 1880 nycp Worlds Fair- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1880
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Image 7 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; New York, N.Y. (including Central … WF N York Vaux Copy item marked 2 copies VAUX CO LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS 71 BROADWAY C VAUX G K RADFORD S PARSONS JR New York Jan 7th 1881 Dear Olmsted As yours…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1880
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Image 8 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; New York, N.Y. (including Central … Vaux Co Landscape Architects 71 Broadway C Vaux GK Radford S Parsons Jr There are many things that I am interested in that need taking up on the Park but the position…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1880
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Image 9 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; New York, N.Y. (including Central … VAUX CO LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS 71 BROADWAY C VAUX GK RADFORD S PARSONS JR New York __188 case of course the 250 000 promise of NYC provisional on four millions being raised is…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1880
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Image 10 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; New York, N.Y. (including Central … NY 15th Jan 1887 The Hon WW Astor Sir I have just received a copy of the bill introduced by you to guard against the perversion of the Central Park with purposes…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1880
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Image 11 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; New York, N.Y. (including Central … latrine has provided to be made upon them as parks Yet there has hardly been a year in the last twenty that projects have not been urged for appropriating park lands and…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1880
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Image 12 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; New York, N.Y. (including Central … its improvement to be raised by taxation and in view of which the entire property has been pledged as security for debts of the city I submit the suggestion that a declaratory…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1880
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Image 13 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; New York, N.Y. (including Central … application might be limited to parks of more than fifty acres I am sir Your obedient servant FLO- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1880
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Image 14 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; New York, N.Y. (including Central … To WW Astor Prevention of use of Central Park for Fair purposes Trans I IVNY CP 1881 2 copies Jan or Feb 1881 Drft Dear Mr Wales It occurs to me to…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1880
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Image 15 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; New York, N.Y. (including Central … F L Olmsted 209 West 46th Street JC Olmsted New York Private 209 W 46th St 2d Feby 1881 To the Editor of the Herald The Office of Superintendent of Parks formerly…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1880
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Image 16 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; New York, N.Y. (including Central … opening or paving work Of these four only one had been employed in a higher occupation He had been I believe a merchant in the liquor trade A fifth Superintendent had been…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1880
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Image 17 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; New York, N.Y. (including Central … To Ed Herald 2 Feb 1881 On the appointment of a Superintendent â Central Park- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1880
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Image 18 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; New York, N.Y. (including Central … 14 Feb 1881 Thomas Henry Edsall 9 Nassau St Sir I have recvd and herewith return the copy of a Bill directing the substitution of a common road for the Spuyten Devil…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1880
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Image 19 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; New York, N.Y. (including Central … This Park way was originally laid out as the trunk of a as the central feature of a considerable local system of roads in such a manner as to allow through a…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1880
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Image 20 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; New York, N.Y. (including Central … it met the views of all the different parties of the neighborhood to an extraordinary degree I know nothing of the reasons which have prompted the proposition to do away with this…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1880
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Image 21 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; New York, N.Y. (including Central … was regarded as can not in my judgement be materially changed without throwing the entire local system of roads more or less out of joint and if needed I think that the…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1880
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Image 22 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; New York, N.Y. (including Central … 14 Feb 1881 To Thomas H Edsall Spuyten Duyvil Park IV NY A- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1880
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Image 23 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; New York, N.Y. (including Central … FL Olmsted Dft Fisher Oct 1981 Brookline Brookline Mass 19 Oct 1881 Dear Mr Fischer I have yours of yesterday Since I wrote you last I have written half a dozen letters…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1880
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Image 24 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; New York, N.Y. (including Central … well as the extensive provisions necessary to be introduced for the use of vast numbers of people The transverse roads arches the larger part of the shrubbery plantations and all of the…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1880
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Image 25 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; New York, N.Y. (including Central … New York November 7 1881 FL Olmsted Esq Dear Sir Yours of the 24th of October is received and I thank you most sincerely for the interest you take in me With…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1880
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Image 26 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; New York, N.Y. (including Central … healthy and they cut mercilessy through it for the free circulation of the air In the upper park they clean the dense masses of natural growth carefully from the dry branches inside…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1880
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Image 27 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; New York, N.Y. (including Central … November 22 1881 FL Olmsted Esq Dear Sir Yours of the 11th was received only a few days ago owing to some mistake at Schodlers A copy of the Brookline Avenue with…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1880
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Image 28 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; New York, N.Y. (including Central … and I spent an evening with him he said he wished to write another article and I gave him all the information he desired and I could think of but told him…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1880
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Image 29 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; New York, N.Y. (including Central … WS Fisher Nov 2781 NY look up Brookline dates of Vaux appt see ASA transactions p 110Parsons article C Vaux LA Nov 1881 Jan 1883 reappt Jan 1 1888 held pos LA…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1880
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Image 30 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; New York, N.Y. (including Central … New York Dec 2 1881 FL Olmsted Engr Dear Sir Yours of the 23d of last month is received Allow me to express my deep sympathy with your loss It is a…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1880
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Image 31 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; New York, N.Y. (including Central … and he thinks the attention of the Mayor ought to be drawn to the state of the affairs at the Park He promised me that soon an article in the Tribune will…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1880
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Image 32 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; New York, N.Y. (including Central … time more sensible Commissioners who will not consider it a misdemeanor if any planting is going on at the Park As long as Oliffe and McLean remain on the Park a great…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1880
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Image 33 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; New York, N.Y. (including Central … more than I can endure and if the Commissioners should concede to these conditions of Vaux my selfesteem shall require my resignation Of course if I could be convinced that young Parsons…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1880
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Image 34 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; New York, N.Y. (including Central … W L Fisher Dec 2882 NY- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1880
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Image 35 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; New York, N.Y. (including Central … 1881 This circular will be addressed to a number of men who may be presumed to have had their minds for considerable periods directed to questions of design of a corresponding character…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1880
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Image 36 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; New York, N.Y. (including Central … organic ends and fundamental principles and policies the reverse of those before entertained Of this class of works the Central Park of New York is the oldest and most renowned in the…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1880
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Image 37 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; New York, N.Y. (including Central … the premises certain any simple propositions of practical bearing and with reference to this particular the administration of the particular property will not be recognized as of unquestionably binding and whether properly…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1880
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Image 38 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; New York, N.Y. (including Central … The Central Park occupies a body of land two miles square exclusive of parts given to other than park purposes in what is to be laid out to laid out and expected…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1880
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Image 39 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; New York, N.Y. (including Central … In all of their divisions of park business there are some forms of authority are recognized by which the ends to be had in view and the means and methods of pursuing…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1880
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Image 40 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; New York, N.Y. (including Central … The management of the Central Park directly and through the discussions growing out of it must largely influence customs fashions manners opinions and tastes throughout the country The differences of opinion which…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1880