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For each individual volume, the editor and project staff would research a variety of individuals and topics. Some of this information would inform the annotations in the published edition. This series contains the materials collected as part of this research including articles, correspondence, maps, notes, and park reports. This series is divided into three subseries [estates and communities, FLO parks, park reports, and subjects] and arranged alphabetically by subject and/or document type.
Box 1
- Estates and Communities
- Sudbrook, Job Number 1054
- Biltmore, Job Number 0170 (7 folders)
- Cushing’s Island, Maine, Job Number 0675
- Audubon Park (New Orleans), Job Number 2001
- Moraine Farm, Job Number 29/7 (2 folders)
- Boulder Plans, Colorado Plans, Job Number 3302
- Olmsted Firm Subdivisions and Communities
- J. M. Longyear Estate, Job Number 0059
- McLean Asylum, Job Number 0098
- David B. Jones Estate, Lake Forest, Job Number 199
- Town of Vandergrift, Pennsylvania, Job Number 204
- Hemenway Museum, Job Number 210
- World’s Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Job Number 0274
- Williams College, Job Number 318
- Industrial Home School, Washington, D.C., Job Number 04/4
- Trinity College, Job Number 601
- United States Hotel, Job Number 602
- Jeffersonville Depot, Indiana, Job Number 603
- John Carter Brown, Job Number 604
- Amherst College, Job Number 605
- Riverside, Illinois, Job Number 607
- New York State Capitol Grounds, Job Number 608
- Connecticut State House, Job Number 613 (2 folders)
- Brookline - Barthold Schlesinger, Job Number 0614
- Boston and Albany, Brookline Railroad Station, Job Number 647
- Memorial Hall, North Easton, Massachusetts, Job Number 649
- Point (New York), Job Number 10/3
- Buffalo City Hall, Job Number 10/6
- R. T. Ford, Job Number 1013
- Felsted, Deer Isle, Maine, Job Number 1025
- Stanford University, Job Number 1032
- Sudbrook Land Company, Job Number 1054
- William C. Loring Prides Crossing, Massachusetts, Job Number 1071
- Albert W. Nickerson Estate, Job Number 1122
- “Camp Hammond” Yarmouthville, Maine, Job Number 1127
- Williams Institute, Job Number 1137
- Friends of Florham, Job Number 1139
- Cadwalader Estate (Subdivision), Job Number 1170
- St. Cloud Hill, Job Number 1173
- Smith College, Job Number 1175
- Denver and Lookout Mountain, Job Number 1206 (4 folders)
- Hillside Cemetery, Middletown, New York, Job Number 12/8
- Ames, North Easton, Job Number 1224
- Point d’Acadie, Job Number 1232
- William B. Ogden, Job Number 1235
- Hot Springs Reservation, Job Number 1244
- Brookline High School, Job Number 1305
- William Ames, North Easton, Massachusetts, Job Number 1323
- Hobart Ames, North Easton, Massachusetts, Job Number 1325
- F.L. Ames, North Easton, Massachusetts, Job Number 1326
- Lowell City Hall, Lowell, Massachusetts, Job Number 1371
- J. J. Vandergrift and Charles J. Lockhart, Job Number 1770
- Towne Estate, Job Number 1773
- F. C. and J. V. Farwell, Job Number 1893
- Montauk Point, Job Number 2635
- United States Fish and Fisheries Communities, Job Number 2826
- Codorus Creek, York, Pennsylvania, Job Number 3253
- Charles C. Walker Estate, Job Number 7259
- Frank Stranahan Place, Toledo, Ohio, Job Number 7401
- Tacoma City Plan, Job Number 12082
- Mountain View Cemetery, Job Number 12118
Box 2
- Estates and Communities
- Maryland State Capitol Grounds (1882)
- Unidentified California (?) Estate
- Poncha Springs
- Proposed Job
- Piedmont Way, Berkeley, California (c. 1866) (No Job Number)
- Unnamed Subdivision near Hastings, New York (No Job Number)
- Grant Cottage (No Job Number)
- Hampton Institute (No Job Number)
- Hillside Cemetery, Middletown, New York (No Job Number)
- Lake Sunapee, New Hampshire (No Job Number)
- Maine Agricultural College (No Job Number)
- Massachusetts Agricultural College, Job Number 05/4 (4 folders)
- Orleans County Poorhouse (No Job Number)
- Takoma Land Company, Washington (No Job Number)
- FLO Parks
- San Francisco Parks, Job Number 01/1
- Brookline Parkway, Job Number 05/1
- Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Job Number 0121
- Cincinnati Parks, Job Number 0212?
- Eden Park, Cincinnati, Job Number 0213
- Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, Job Number 0291
- New York Parks, Job Number 0500
- Brooklyn Parks, Job Number 0501
- Central Park, New York, Job Number 502
- Prospect Park, Brooklyn, New York, Job Number 509
- Walnut Hill Park, New Britain, Connecticut, Job Number 600
- Staten Island Improvement Company, Job Number 06/2
- Mount Royal Park, Montreal Job Number 609 (3 folders)
- Mount Royal Park, Montreal (Transcriptions), Job Number 609
- Niagara Falls State Reservation, Job Number 617
- Montebello Park, Ontario, Canada, Job Number 0643
- Belle Isle Park, Detroit, Michigan, Job Number 0661
- North Easton Park, North Easton, Job Number 671
- Bridgeport Parks (Seaside Park), Job Number 690
- Beardsley Park, Bridgeport, Connecticut, Job Number 0691
- Buffalo Parks, Job Number 700
- Delaware Park, Buffalo, Job Number 702 (and 719)
- South Park, Buffalo, New York, Job Number 718 (2 folders)
- Boston Park System, Job Number 900
- Boston Harbor Islands, Job Number 900
- Back Bay Fens, Boston, Massachusetts, Job Number 916 (2 folders)
- Franklin Park, Boston, Job Number 0918
- Wood Island Park, Boston, Massachusetts, Job Number 935
- Pawtucket Park, Job Number 1059
- Kentmore Parkway, Wilmington, Delaware, Job Number 1080
- Wilmington Parks, Wilmington, Delaware, Job Number 1080
- Rochester Parks, Job Number 1100
- Fort Greene Park, Brooklyn, Job Number 11/1
- Highland Park, Rochester, New York, Job Number 1104
- Cadwalader Park, Trenton, New Jersey, Job Number 1181
- Newport, Rhode Island Parks, Job Number 1210
- Kansas City Parks, Kansas City, Missouri, Job Number 1250
- Louisville Parks, Louisville, Kentucky, Job Number 1260
- Tyler Park, Lowell, Massachusetts, Job Number 1372
- Cambridge Parks, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Job Number 1450-1557
- Boston Metropolitan Park System, Job Number 1500
- Middlesex Fells Reservation, Job Number 1513
- Charles River Improvement, Boston, Massachusetts, Job Number 1546
- Fellsmere Park, Malden, Massachusetts, Job Number 1693
- Newport Park, Newport, Rhode Island, Job Number 1820
- Morton Park, Newport, Rhode Island, Job Number 1823
- Chicago Park System, Chicago South Park Commission, Job Number 1900-1999
- Essex County Parks System, Trenton, New Jersey, Job Number 2120
- Roger Williams Park, Providence, Job Number 2603
- United States Capitol Grounds, Job Number 2820 (3 folders)
- Yosemite, Mariposa, California, Job Number 30/1 (2 folders)
- East Rock Park, New Haven Connecticut, Job Number 5313
- Palmer Railroad Station, Job Number 6652
- Seaside Park, Bridgeport, Connecticut, Job Number 12021
- Minneapolis Parks, Job Number 12081
- Albany Parks (1868), Job Number 12321
- Park Reports
- American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society Report, 1916
- Annual Report of the Architect of the United States Capitol, 1882, 1885
- Baltimore Annual Reports
- Board of Commissioners of the Central Park - 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Annual Reports
- Board of Commissioners of the Central Park - 4th, 5th, and 6th Annual Reports
- Board of Commissioners of the Central Park - 7th, 8th, and 9th Annual Reports
- Board of Commissioners of the Central Park - 10th Annual Report
Box 3
- Park Reports (Continued)
- Board of Commissioners of the Central Park - 11th Annual Report
- Board of Commissioners of the Central Park -12th Annual Report
- Board of Commissioners of the Central Park - 13th and 14th Annual Report
- Board of Commissioners of the Central Park Documents, 1866
- Board of Commissioners of the Central Park Minutes, 1858-1873
- Board of Commissioners of the Central Park Minutes, 1861-1866
- Boston Board of Health
- Boston City Council Reports, 1876
- Boston City Council Reports, 1877
- Boston City Council Reports, 1878
- Boston City Council Reports, 1879-1880
- Boston Park Commission, All Documents Volumes 1-3 (3 folders)
- Boston Park Reports, 2nd Annual Report
- Boston Park Reports, 4th and 5th Annual Reports
- Boston Park Reports, 6th - 8th Annual Reports
- Boston Park Reports, 10th - 12th Annual Reports
- Boston Park Reports, 13th and 14th Annual Reports
- Boston Park Reports, 16th and 17th Annual Reports
- Boston Park Reports, 18th Annual Report
- Boston Park Reports, 19th Annual Report & Appendix to 19th & 20th Annual Reports
- Boston Park Reports, c. 1886-1888
- City of Boston Department of Parks - 1882 Report
- Boston Parks Miscellaneous
- Guide to Boston Park Reports
- To Brooklyn Park Commissioners, 1869
- Brooklyn Park Commissioners Annual Reports, 1st - 7th
- Brooklyn Park Commissioners Annual Reports, 8th (1868)
- Brooklyn Park Commissioners Annual Reports, 9th (1869)
- Brooklyn Park Commissioners Annual Reports, 10th (1870)
- Brooklyn Park Commissioners Annual Reports, 11th and 12th (1871-1872)
- Brooklyn Park Commissioners Annual Reports, 1873-1879
- Brooklyn Park Report, 1887
- Buffalo Park Commissioners Reports 1868-1889
- Cadwalader Park Reports (2 folders)
Box 4
- Park Reports (Continued)
- Central Park Laws
- Central Park Zoo, 1866
- Chicago - South Park Commissioners Reports - 1871 and 1872
- Chicago South Park, March 1894, 1908
- Cincinnati, Ohio Annual Reports
- Department of Public Parks - 1st Annual Report (4 folders)
- Department of Public Parks - Second Annual Report
- Department of Public Parks - Third Annual Report
- Department of Public Parks, 3rd General Report
- Department of Public Parks 23rd and 24th Ward
- Department of Public Parks By-Laws
- Department of Public Parks Documents from The National Union Catalog
- “List of Documents #1-87 from the Department of Public Parks, Minutes and Documents, 1871-1880”
- Department of Public Parks Documents - Number 30 -40
- Department of Public Parks Documents - Number 41-50
- Department of Public Parks Documents - Number 51-60
- Department of Public Parks Documents - Number 61-71
- Department of Public Parks Documents - Number 71-80
- Department of Public Parks Minutes, 1870-1878 (2 folders)
- Department of Public Parks Minutes, 1876-1888 (2 folders)
- Department of Public Parks Minutes, 1880’s
- Department of Public Parks on Central Park Management
- Department of Public Parks on New York City Streets
- Documents of the City of Boston - Miscellaneous Reports (3 folders)
- Fairmount Park Annual Reports
- Golden Gate Park
- Mount Royal Park, 1874
- New York Laws and Documents
- New York State Board of Charities Reports
- New York State Charities Aid Association
- New York State Laws and Ordinances (2 folders)
- Niagara Commissioners Reports
- Niagara Reservation - 1879
Box 5
- Park Reports (Continued)
- Niagara Reservation - 1880
- Niagara Reservation - 1882
- Niagara Reservation - 1886
- Niagara Reservation - 1887 (3 folders)
- Niagara Reservation - 1887 General Plan for Improvement
- Niagara Reservation - 1888
- Niagara Reservation - 1889
- Niagara Reservation – 1890
- North Side Association, 1874
- Report of the Director of the Menagerie in the Third Annual Report (New York)
- Report on College of California, 1866
- Riverside Report - Appendix K in the Third Annual Report (March 29, 1873)
- Statues at Large and Proclamations of the United States of America, from March 1871 to March 1873
- University of California Report 1875
- San Francisco Park Commissioners Report 1875
- Town Records of Brookline, Massachusetts
- Washington Park Report Fort Greene
- Washington, D.C. - Records of Columbia Historical Society
- West Roxbury Park
- Yosemite Commissioners Report, 1867
- Subjects
- 106-110th Street Extension Plans
- 1867Minutes of Southern Famine Relief Commission
- Acadia
- Adirondacks
- Albany - Washington Park
- Albany Park (2 folders)
- American Social Science Association (2 folders)
- Architecture Boston, “Burying Olmsted”
- Articles - Bibliographic Research
- Asylums
- Baltimore, Maryland - Washington Memorial
- Barnes, Eric, “An Introduction to the Fire and Landscape Issues in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, California”
- Beveridge, Charles E., “In Search of Olmsted’s Legacy”
- Blackstone Library
- Daniel Bluestone, “Landscape and Culture in Nineteenth-Century Chicago”
- Bogart, Michelle, “Photosculpture”
- Boston
- Boston – Maps (2 folders)
- Boulevard (New York)
- British Parks (3 folders)
- The Bronx
- Bronx Parks
- Brookline - History of Streets, February 1889
- Brooklyn (2 folders)
Box 6
- Subjects (Continued)
- Brooklyn (3 folders)
- Brooklyn - Annotations (2 folders)
- 1868 Brooklyn Parkways Annotation
- Brooklyn Bridge
- Brooklyn Legislation
- Brooklyn Plans
- Buffalo, New York
- Buffalo Asylum (2 folders)
- Buffalo - Late Additions to Plan, 1876
- Buffalo Parks (2 folders)
- Cadwalader Park (8 folders)
- Calendars, 1800-2050
- California Contribution to the United States Sanitary Commission
- John Canaday on Luminism
- Capitol Grounds, 1800-1939 Vertical File from the MLK Library
- Carriages
- Carter Presidential Parkway
- Cemeteries (3 folders)
- Censor, Jane, “Two Paths to Aiding the Soldier”
- Central Park
- Central Park - 1862-1875 Maintenance and Government
- Central Park – Belvedere Castle
- Central Park - Board of Apportionment Notes
- Central Park Conditions
- Central Park - List of Park Commissioners
- Central Park - Management
- Central Park - Parade Ground
- Central Park - Park Commissioners
- Central Park - Police and Tammany Corruption
- Central Park/Prospect Park Engineers
- Central Park - Statues
- Central Park and Tammany Hall
- Central Park - Vista Rock
- Central Park - Zoological Garden
- Century Club
- George Chadwick, “The Park and the Town”
- Cherokee Park Texts (2 folders)
- Cherokee Park, Woody Plants of Kentucky Collection
Box 7
- Subjects (Continued)
- Chicago Documents (2 folders)
- Chicago - Notes on William Berry and Paul Cornell
- Chicago Parks
- Christian Commission
- Clayton, Virginia Tuttle, “The Hudson River Villas of Upper Manhattan”
- Chronology of Central Park Gateway Controversy
- Chronology Lists - 1850’s trips and Chicago
- Comparative Acreage, etc. of Parks
- Coney Island
- Coney Island Jockey Club
- Cornell University Archives
- Correspondence - Frederick Law Olmsted to Whitelaw Reid 1872-1879
- Correspondence - Thomas Wisedell, F.H. Kimball, and Justin S. Morrill to Edward Clark, 1874, 1882-1884
- Lawrence Costello’s Dissertation, “The New York City Labor Movement, 1861-1873”
- Crawford, Michael J., “The Spiritual Travels of Nathan Cole”
- Davis, Timothy, “The Contested Terrain of Washington, D.C.’s Rock Creek and Potomac Parkways”
- Design of World’s Fair 1893
- Detroit, Michigan
- Dispute with the Cincinnati Branch of the United States Sanitary Commission
- Downing, Andrew Jackson, “The New-York Park”
- Eagleswood Military Academy
- Early British Street Legislation (2 folders)
- Europe - Parks (2 folders)
- Evergreen House, Baltimore
- Fairfield County, Connecticut
- Fowles, John, “Seeing Nature Whole”
- Frederick Law Olmsted Backyard Garden 209 W. 46th Street
- Frederick Law Olmsted Central Park Positions and Dismissal (2 folders)
- Frederick Law Olmsted depicted as a Great Leech
- Frederick Law Olmsted in Maine (3 folders)
- Gallaudet University
- Edwin L. Godkin, “Aristocratic Opinions of Democracy”
- Edwin L. Godkin on the 1876 Presidential Election
- Gerckens, Laurence C., “Bettman of Cincinnati, Part 1: 1873-1926”
- Glaab, Charles, “Visions of Metropolis... “
- Goodchild, Peter, “Sustaining the Garden and Landscape Heritage”
- “Governmental Preservation of Natural Scenery,” Frederick Law Olmsted
- Graff, M.M., “The Men who made Central Park” and Charles Farrell’s response
- The Growth of New York
- Handicapped Access and Convalescents
- Hartford, Connecticut - Cheney Building
- Harvard College Plan
- Hiss, Tony “Reflections” in The New Yorker
- Histories of Chicago (4 folders)
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, “Elsie Venner: A Romance of Destiny”
- Ari Hoogenboom, Outlawing the Spoils
- Hospital Ships
- Hospital Transports - United States Sanitary Commission
- Housing
- R.M. Hunt vs. Eleazar Parmly (and also concerning Thomas P. Rossiter)
- Hunnewell Family
- Huth, Hans, “Yosemite: The Story of an Idea”
- “Items for Charles Beveridge to Review”
Box 8
- Subjects (Continued)
- William Jacobs, “Quiet Crusaders A History of the Cincinnati Branch of the United States Sanitary Commission”
- Jesuits in Maryland
- The Journal and Transactions of the Chemico-Agricultural Society of Ulster
- (2 folders)
- Otto Kahn
- Theodora Kimball and 40 Years
- Klaus, Susan L. “Efficiency, Economy, Beauty...”
- Koskovich, Gerard, “Saving the Olmsted Plan”
- Francis R. Kowsky - “Municipal Parks and City Planning: Frederick Law Olmsted’s Buffalo Park and Parkway System”
- Lake Forest
- Lake Park, Milwaukee
- Landscape Theory
- Leake and Watts Children’s Home, 1890-1891
- W. Creigton Lee
- Lemuel Pratt Grant Park, Atlanta, Georgia (4 folders)
- Lewis & Valentine Co.
- Lighting and Sewer Gas
- Llewellyn Park
- London
- London - Law Courts
- London - Parks (3 folders)
- Long Branch, New Jersey
- Longstreth, Richard, “From Farm to Campus”
- Longstreth, Richard, “The Mall in Washington, 1791-1991”
- Louisville
- Ludlow, Fitz-Hugh, “Seven Weeks in the Great Yo-semite”
- MacAdam’s and Telford’s Specifications
- Madison University, Hamilton, New York
- Maine Colleges and Universities
- Manual of the Use of the Legislature of New York (2 folders)
- Marx, Leo, “Pastoralism in America”
- McCann, L.D., “Planning and Building the Corporate Suburb of Mount Royal, 1910-1925”
- McLean Hospital, Belmont, Massachusetts (2 folders)
- Miller, Perry, Nature’s Nation
- Milwaukee Parks
- Miscellaneous Chapters from Garden History
- Miscellaneous Notes [Taken by Carolyn Hoffman?]
- Miscellaneous Notes on California
- Montreal (2 folders)
- Morningside Park
- Muddy River, Boston
- Mugerauer, Robert, “Interpreting Environments”
- National Institute of Letters, Arts and Sciences
- National Zoo
- Newark Parks
- New Britain, Connecticut (3 folders)
- New England Landscape
- New England Women’s Auxiliary Association
- Newport
- Newport Estates
- New York City
- New York City Wards 23 and 24 - 1876
- New York - Riverdale
Box 9
- Subjects (Continued)
- New York - Riverside (3 folders)
- New York - Riverside Legislation
- New York State Legislature - General Government Notes 1870 - 1880
- New York State Legislature - Green/Park Bill of 1876
- New York State Legislature - Parks, 1870 - 1880
- New York Times
- Niagara (7 folders)
- Niagara Plants
- John Nolen articles on Frederick Law Olmsted in House and Garden, 1906
- Nordan, David, “Olmsted’s Ghost”
- Christopher North
- North American Phalanx
- Norton Estate
- Notes on Edwin L. Godkin Correspondence
- Notes on Passage to and from China
- Olana, New York
- Albert Henry Olmsted
- Olmsted Certificates and Diplomas
- Olmsted Family Association
- Olmsted Firm in Pittsburgh
- Frederick Law Olmsted’s Address to the New England Club, January 26, 1889
- Frederick Law Olmsted’s Dismissal
- Frederick Law Olmsted to E. H. Rollins [1882?]
- Frederick Law Olmsted, “Foreign Plants and American Society” in Garden and Forest
- Frederick Law Olmsted’s Plan for U.S. Fish Commission Grounds, 1881-1882
- Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. “American Society of Landscape Architects Committee on National Parks and Forests”
- Patents - Improvement in Street Urinals
- Plant Index
- Police Systems - History
- Elizabeth Powell Letters/Notes
- Pratt, Vera C., “A History of Franklin Park, Boston”
- Presidential Election of 1876
- Prospect Park 1866 - Fables of Aesop
- Prospect Park 1866 - Psalm 23
- Prospect Park 1868 and Royal Proclamations
- Prospect Park Boundaries
- Prospect Park Historic Land Report 1983 (2 folders)
- Prospect Park Scientific Association (3 folders)
- Providence, Rhode Island
- Public Health and Sanitation
- Public Works
- Rapid Transit (New York City)
- Raritan Bay Union
- The Red Cross
- Relations with the Executive Committee of the United States Sanitary Commission
- Riverside Improvement Company (Illinois)
- Riverside Park, New York (3 folders)
- Rockaway (New York) 1881
- Rome
Box 10
- Subjects (Continued)
- Rosters of Sanitary Commission Personnel
- Roy Rosenzweig on Parks
- Sanitarians
- Sanitary Commission
- Saratoga Springs, New York
- Simon, Donald E., “The Public Park Movement in Brooklyn, 1824-1873” (3 folders)
- Soldiers Monument - St. James’ Church, Chicago
- William Saunders “Park for Washington”
- Schuykill Arsenal
- Schuyler, David, “The Washington Park and Downing’s Legacy to Public Landscape Design”
- Schuyler, David, “The Evolution of the Anglo-American Rural Cemetery...”
- Shelburne Farm, Vermont
- Spoils of the Park Research (2 folders)
- Spring Grove Cemetery 1869
- Southern Famine Relief Commission
- “Southern Relief Movement” January 31, 1867
- Staten Island
- The Suburbs
- “Supplemental Series 3 - Subdivisions”
- Sydnor, Charles S., “The Southerner and the Laws”
- Tacoma, Washington
- Samuel Tilden and the Canal Ring
- Thomas Crane Public Library
- Tompkins Park, New York
- Tompkins Square
- Toward A Definition of Olmstedian Principles of Design - the Seven S’s
- Trees/Plantations
- Unconscious Influence - Park Theory
- Union Square
- United States Capitol Grounds (9 folders)
- United States Capitol Grounds - Frederick Law Olmsted Pay Vouchers 1874-1884
- United States Capitol Grounds - Planting Lists
- United States Capitol Grounds - Thomas Wisedell Pay Vouchers - 1874-1882
- United States Sanitary Commission “Individual Inspection” Form
- United States Sanitary Commission - Statistics - Frederick Law Olmsted to Ezekiel B. Elliot
- Unter Den Linden
- Urban History Articles
- Mariana Van Rensselaer on Boston Public Garden
- Von Hoffman, Alexander, “Of Greater Lasting Consequence: Frederick Law Olmsted and the Fate of Franklin Park, Boston”
- Walmsley, Anthony, “The First Historic Landscape Report for the Ravine (Prospect Park)”
- Washington Park, Albany
- The Westminster Review, “Metropolitan Improvements”
- White Mountains
- Wilmington, Delaware
- Charles F. Wingate, “An Episode in Municipal Government”
- Samuel Witwer, “A History of Constitution Making in Illinois”
- Women’s Central Association of Relief - Branch of the United States Sanitary Commission
- World’s Fairs and Centennial Exhibitions
- York, Brian, “The Pursuit of Culture: Founding the Chicago Historical Society, 1856”
- Yosemite