Manuscript/Mixed Material Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; Niagara, N.Y.; 1882
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Image 1 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; Niagara, N.Y.; 1882 Frederick Law Olmsted SUBJECT FILE Parks Niagara N Y 1882 4- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1882
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Image 2 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; Niagara, N.Y.; 1882 3330 Niagara Montreal Feb 21 82 My dear Sir Some time ago a party in Hamilton gave notice of a Bill before the Legislature of Ontario of which the Enclosed is only…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1882
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Image 3 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; Niagara, N.Y.; 1882 of the hands of the Vandals as far as possible carrying with your ideas of pristine restoration of all the land lying under the hill In an interview I had with the…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1882
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Image 4 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; Niagara, N.Y.; 1882 so to increase the No of visitors that I can get a fair revenue for the outlay for instance there are today new 200000 per annum It is not an extravagant estimate…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1882
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Image 5 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; Niagara, N.Y.; 1882 WO Buchanan 21 Feb 1882 so will help me to defeat these other schemes which through favoritism may embarrass mine Will you do this promptly by letter to me here I am…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1882
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Image 6 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; Niagara, N.Y.; 1882 happen to be passing through New York before long do let me know of it If you are to be here any Tuesday or Friday except Friday 23d inst evening I engage…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1882
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Image 7 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; Niagara, N.Y.; 1882 Howard Potter 16th June 1882 3330 Niagara Montreal Aug 18 Dear Sir The American Asso for the advancement of science hold their annual convention here on the 24 inst a large attendance…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1882
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Image 8 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; Niagara, N.Y.; 1882 by the way I think the time most favorable for a ent on the Canada side that the territory can be now acquired very much less than again There are I hear…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1882
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Image 9 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; Niagara, N.Y.; 1882 WO Buchanan 18 Aug 82 are at present very much more formidable but a movement such as I propose on the Canada side will greatly facilitate if not force a similar result…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1882
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Image 10 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; Niagara, N.Y.; 1882 Now I claim to have studied the matter pretty thoroughly in all its bearings know all about the state of feeling on both sides the conditions of every property holder interested in…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1882
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Image 11 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; Niagara, N.Y.; 1882 W O Buchanan 22nd Aug 1882 Franklin Falls NH Sept 6 1882 Dewar mr Olmsted Mr Norton has kindly sent your letter to me I do not know that I have any…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1882
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Image 12 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; Niagara, N.Y.; 1882 better be done is a necessary step but as Mr Potter would have to provide money for the printing it is my own work I do not wish to urge it If…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1882
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Image 13 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; Niagara, N.Y.; 1882 whether we have done all that is possible We must not stop I think while any further step is practicable but of that you can of course judge far better than I…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1882
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Image 14 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; Niagara, N.Y.; 1882 C IV Niagara Cambridge Oct 12 1882 C E N to F L O My dear Olmsted Any Tuesday or Thursday that would suit you would suit me for seeing Mr Harrison…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1882
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Image 15 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; Niagara, N.Y.; 1882 destroying reputations I would go to see the organizer of the scheme if I could find him I have been pretty successful sometimes in seeing people hearing what they had to say…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1882
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Image 16 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; Niagara, N.Y.; 1882 JB Harrison 24 Oct 1882 3330 Niagara Franklin Falls NH Oct 27 1882 Dear Mr Norton Mr Potter wrote me on the 24th inst that it would be just about a month…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1882
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Image 17 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; Niagara, N.Y.; 1882 regarding a plan I suppose I must wait I am Very Truly Yours JB Harrison My dear Olmsted We must trust to you to see to it that Mr Potter does not…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1882
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Image 18 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; Niagara, N.Y.; 1882 JB Harrison 27 Oct 82 Nov 18 1882 JB Harrison says he has 800 copies of his letters in newspapers 1000 of a reprint of one of those in the Advertiser Has…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1882
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Image 19 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; Niagara, N.Y.; 1882 IV Same Majara B18th Brookline 20th Nov 1882 My dear Norton I started to ride to you yesterday but the ice on the roads made it too hazardous to do so I…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1882
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Image 20 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; Niagara, N.Y.; 1882 20th Nov 1882 2 is in bad tone and contains some unjustifiable statements but allows that the architects have made out their case and know their business better than anybody else I…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1882
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Image 21 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; Niagara, N.Y.; 1882 3330 Niagara Nov 3182 37 East 37th St Park Avenue My Dear Olmsted The enclosed letter from Wm Harrison has brought home to me in a appalling way a sense of the…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1882
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Image 22 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; Niagara, N.Y.; 1882 two pages first page left hand side You to say the other day some one to attend to details of preparation for Wm Harrisons visit To him I am writing that you…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1882
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Image 23 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; Niagara, N.Y.; 1882 Niagara Howard Potter Nov 21 1882 cooperation c Then let Wm H do what he may in New York go well introduced to Buffalo afterwards This is a poor programme perhaps but…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1882
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Image 24 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; Niagara, N.Y.; 1882 dividendpaying plan for saving Niagara Would favor capitalists buying Good Iot giving it to the State or purchase of all the lands by the State It seems to me State control is…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1882
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Image 25 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; Niagara, N.Y.; 1882 Niagara JB Harrison Nov 2 1882 Franklin Falls NH Nov 301882 Dear Mr Olmsted I thank you for your very interesting helpful letter of the 28th I shall do my best to…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1882
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Image 26 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; Niagara, N.Y.; 1882 In this moneymaking country an organization to make money save Niagara would inevitably become either by failing to make enough or by making too much a prey to some combination to make…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1882
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Image 27 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; Niagara, N.Y.; 1882 left hand side text Niagara JB Harrison Nov 30 1883 IV Niagara Cambridge Nov 1882 C E N to F L O My dear Olmstead I have had two notes from you…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1882
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Image 28 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; Niagara, N.Y.; 1882 two pages first page right hand side B 1sts IV Sienie Niagara Brookline 1st Dec 1882 My dear Norton Potter writes that he is intending to give up any evening next week…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1882
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Image 29 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; Niagara, N.Y.; 1882 1st Dec 1882 its future duties under the Niagara scheme in the hands of a Commission one member of which shall be appointed annually the selection to be made in turn by…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1882
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Image 30 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; Niagara, N.Y.; 1882 3rd Dec 1882 2 could be worked up to going to Buffalo and getting a meeting and a subscription started there Yours faithfully FredLaw Olmsted IV Niagara C Cambridge Dec 30 1882…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1882
About this Item
Title
- Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; Niagara, N.Y.; 1882
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
Genre
- Manuscripts
Call Number/Physical Location
- series: Subject File, 1857-1952
- mss35121, box 40; reel 36
Source Collection
- Frederick Law Olmsted papers
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- 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