Manuscript/Mixed Material Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; Niagara, N.Y.; 1877-1879
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Image 1 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; Niagara, N.Y.; 1877-1879 Fredrick Law Olmsted Subject File Parks 1 Niagara NY 1877 79- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1877
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Image 2 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; Niagara, N.Y.; 1877-1879 18th Novr 1877 Comr Newman has been in office nearly a year and treasurer of the Dept I have during the period as often as I could without discourtesy asked him to…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1877
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Image 3 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; Niagara, N.Y.; 1877-1879 20th Dec 1877 Coincidently with this letter Kellys below to Prest OOP from the comptroller appear articles in newspapers all designed to produce an impression that the it is wholly owing to…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1877
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Image 4 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; Niagara, N.Y.; 1877-1879 New York Tribune Sep 28th 1878 A Great Park at Niagara Falls Lord Dufferin proposes that the Land all be bought up for a Public Pleasure Ground New York Tribune Sept 28th…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1877
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Image 5 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; Niagara, N.Y.; 1877-1879 13th Dec 1877 Dear Olmsted Yours of 14th duly recd today As you did not come upon the letter I wrote to the Tribune I send you a reprint of it in…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1877
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Image 6 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; Niagara, N.Y.; 1877-1879 New York Tribune Oct 5th 1878 Letters from the people A National park at Niagara Lord Dufferins suggestion what might be done the Landscape gardeners art To the Editor of the Tribune…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1877
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Image 7 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; Niagara, N.Y.; 1877-1879 36 comment except just as he was leaving it when he said apparently with some sense of relief Well theyve left it alone better than I thought they would And yet those…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1877
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Image 8 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; Niagara, N.Y.; 1877-1879 IV Scenic dupl 187 Cambridge Dec 23d 1878 C E Norton to Frederick Law Olmsted My dear Olmsted Carlyle authorized the putting of his name among the signers of the Memorial Ever…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1877
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Image 9 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; Niagara, N.Y.; 1877-1879 12579 The Niagara Falls Park ESTIMATES OF ITS COSTâCENSORIOUS CRITICS REBUKEDâTHE PROSPECT OF HAVING SOME THIMBLERIG SHOW PLANTED WITHIN THE SPRAY OF NIAGARA We are glad to see so judicious a newspaper…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1877
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Image 10 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; Niagara, N.Y.; 1877-1879 3330 Niagara Buchanan Montreal 25 Sep 79 F L Olmstead Esq c c Dear Sir I am obliged to you for your note recd yesterday I quite appreciate your view of the…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1877
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Image 11 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; Niagara, N.Y.; 1877-1879 the meeting of Commissioner lakes plan I will have it printed however send you a copy by Saturday mail which you will get on Sunday or Monday morning as I presume you…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1877
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Image 12 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; Niagara, N.Y.; 1877-1879 to sele 3 more of the Park falls through the consequence is that wretched shanties saloons am going up will disfigure the beautiful neighborhood irritrievably by spring these note be 3 or…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1877
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Image 13 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; Niagara, N.Y.; 1877-1879 I am hopeful of doing something at it next spring but our people here are so slow apathetic that it is discouraging I would like to talk it over with you as…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1877
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Image 14 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; Niagara, N.Y.; 1877-1879 New York State Survey BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS HORATIO SEYMOUR President of the Board Utica FRANCIS A STOUT 21 E 9th Street New York WILLIAM A WHEELER Malone Franklin Co GEORGE GEDDES Fairmount…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1877
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Image 15 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; Niagara, N.Y.; 1877-1879 W Dorsheimer Jas T Gardner 2 Oct 79 3330 New York State Survey BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS HORATIO SEYMOUR President of the Board Utica WILLIAM A WHEELER Malone Franklin Co ROBERT S HALE…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1877
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Image 16 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; Niagara, N.Y.; 1877-1879 concerning the circular I see no objection to sending the first part of it stating the form which the project is taking but I would omit the later part from the beginning…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1877
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Image 17 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; Niagara, N.Y.; 1877-1879 Jas T Gardner 3 Oct 79 Brache Montreal 4 Oct 1879 My dear Sir I have your esteemed favor of 1st with enclosures which I return the trouble with all these articles…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1877
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Image 18 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; Niagara, N.Y.; 1877-1879 you that Mr March is aiming at too much at first The Govr of Ontario ought to father the bantling after the Public get a taste of the good results of even…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1877
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Image 19 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; Niagara, N.Y.; 1877-1879 WO Buchanan 4 Oct 79- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1877
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Image 20 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; Niagara, N.Y.; 1877-1879 IV ScenicNiagara B1sts 269 W 46 St New York 10th Oct 1879 My dear Norton I want briefly to report progress to you about Niagara We have had a meeting at the…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1877
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Image 21 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; Niagara, N.Y.; 1877-1879 3 2 Some one in the Provinces has gone abroad promising to get many English signatures and I am afraid that it has been circulated as a popular thing in Canada To…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1877
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Image 22 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; Niagara, N.Y.; 1877-1879 3 scientific men of the time You will see that I have two thoughts about it now One to touch the pride of our people at the moment The other to give…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1877
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Image 23 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; Niagara, N.Y.; 1877-1879 22d Oct 1879 E A Prentice Esq Brunswick Hotel Note forwarded Dear Sir Our canvass in the matter of Niagara Falls should be soon brought to a point Most of the blank…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1877
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Image 24 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; Niagara, N.Y.; 1877-1879 I am unable to avail myself of these until I know what have been otherwise secured obtained or provided for I will therefore to at the suggestion of Governor Dorsheimer to ask…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1877
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Image 25 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; Niagara, N.Y.; 1877-1879 I wish to ask for if they have not already been solicited- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1877
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Image 26 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; Niagara, N.Y.; 1877-1879 E A prentice 22 Oct 79 N Y- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1877
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Image 27 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; Niagara, N.Y.; 1877-1879 3330 Niagara Montreal 151 Gt St James Street 30 Oct 1879 My Dear Sir I duly recd your esteemed favor of 22d I regret to say that my many efforts to procure…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1877
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Image 28 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; Niagara, N.Y.; 1877-1879 copy Keston Lodge Beckenham Nov 13 1879 Dear Mr Darwin Lady Derby has shown me your letter and I retain the cuur herewith I have made it a rule not to sign…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1877
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Image 29 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; Niagara, N.Y.; 1877-1879 be glad to forward it as far as I can Possibly a question asked in the House of Lords next session might be of service if nothing has been done by that…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1877
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Image 30 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; Niagara, N.Y.; 1877-1879 IV Scenic Niagara dupl 1sts 1879 Cambridge October 17 1879 Charles E Norton to Frederick Law Olmsted My dear Mr Olmsted Forgive me for not replying sooner to your note of last…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1877
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Image 31 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; Niagara, N.Y.; 1877-1879 IV Scenic Niagara Nov 979 FLO to CE Norton B1st I have engaged Lothrop to go to Niagara and make a sketch to be engraved in illustration of my report Plate I…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1877
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Image 32 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; Niagara, N.Y.; 1877-1879 3330 Niagara Buchanan Montreal 6 Dec 1879 F Law Olmsted Esq Dear Sir I had note yesterday from Mr Mowat in reply to some clips from N Y Herald other papers about…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1877
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Image 33 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; Niagara, N.Y.; 1877-1879 for your committee to visit Ottawa during the session after your own plans have been determined upon I still maintain that if you can get the Princess with you it will be…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1877
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Image 34 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; Niagara, N.Y.; 1877-1879 W O Buchanan 6 Dec 79 Franklin Falls N H Dec 19 1882 Dear Sir The accompanying pamphlet is issued with the object of directing public attention to the advancing disfigurement and…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1877
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Image 35 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; Niagara, N.Y.; 1877-1879 asking for legislation for the restoration and protection of the scenery of Niagara It is necessary that the object should be clearly understood and to this end I ask attention to the…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1877
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Image 36 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; Niagara, N.Y.; 1877-1879 be doing fairly well for our work You will have seen Mr Curtis article in last weekly It seems to me it would be well for the Asso to issue some notice…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1877
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Image 37 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; Niagara, N.Y.; 1877-1879 3330 Canadian Dec 1879 Mowat The undersigned begs leave to submit to your Honour the following report respecting recent proceedings in reference to the Niagara Falls and adjacent territory The suggestion that…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1877
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Image 38 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; Niagara, N.Y.; 1877-1879 2 vicissitude and mercenary or self interested dealings attaching to private property the natural beauties of their scenery have been to a large extent destroyed their picturesque effects cruelly marred and their…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1877
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Image 39 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; Niagara, N.Y.; 1877-1879 3 inns in such situations as to mar the scenery began on both sides of the Niagara with the European occupation of the region On the American side the groves upon Goat…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1877
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Image 40 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; Niagara, N.Y.; 1877-1879 4 enjoying a thorough view and inspection of the Falls and their attractions are slated to be as follows For a party of four persons The Museum 200 of which the cabmen…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1877
About this Item
Title
- Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; Niagara, N.Y.; 1877-1879
Names
- Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903
Created / Published
- 1877 - 1879
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
Genre
- Manuscripts
Call Number/Physical Location
- series: Subject File, 1857-1952
- mss35121, box 40; reel 36
Source Collection
- Frederick Law Olmsted papers
Repository
- Manuscript Division
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- online text
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Subject
- 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