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Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr.

American landscape architect, as was his eponymous son. Designer of New York's Central Park and others.

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American landscape designer, journalist, social critic, and public administrator (1822-1903)

Born 1822
Died 1903

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  • Cover of: Walks and Talks of an American Farmer in England, Volumes 1-2

    First published in 2018 3 editions
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  • Cover of: Public Parks: being two papers read before the American Social Science Association in 1870 and 1880, entitled, respectively, Public parks and the enlargement of towns and A consideration of the justifying value of a public park

    First published in 1902 3 editions in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: Wanderungen durch Texas und im mexicanischen Grenzlande

    First published in 1857 3 editions in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: The beginning of Central Park, New York: a fragment of autobiography

    First published in 1914 3 editions in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Landscape into cityscape: Frederick Law Olmsted's plans for a greater New York City. Edited with an introductory essay and notes by Albert Fein.

    First published in 1967 3 editions in 1 language
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  • Cover of: The Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted: Parks, Politics, and Patronage, 1874--1882

    First published in 1992 2 editions in 1 language
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    First published in 1995 2 editions in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Selections from the Cotton Kingdom by Frederick Law Olmsted

    First published in 2014 2 editions in 1 language
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  • Cover of: The cotton kingdom: a traveller's observations on cotton and slavery

    First published in 1966 2 editions in 1 language — 2 previewable Cover of edition cottonkingdom0000unse
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  • Cover of: Olmsted's Texas Journey: A Nineteenth-Century Survey of the Western Frontier

    First published in 2015 2 editions in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Modern Arcadia: Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. and the Plan for Forest Hills Gardens

    First published in 2002 2 editions in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: Journeys and Explorations in the Cotton Kingdom: A Traveller's Observations on Cotton and Slavery in the American Slave States. Based upon Three Former Volumes of Journeys and Investigations

    First published in 2020 2 editions in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Forty years of landscape architecture: Central Park

    First published in 1973 2 editions in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: Mount Royal, Montreal

    First published in 1881 2 editions in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: A journey in the back country in the winter of 1853-4

    First published in 1907 2 editions in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: A journey in the seaboard slave states in the years 1853-1854: with remarks on their economy

    First published in 1904 2 editions in 1 language — 1 previewable
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We need a photo of Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr.

American landscape designer, journalist, social critic, and public administrator (1822-1903)

Born 1822
Died 1903
Subjects
Description and travel, Olmsted, frederick law, 1822-1903, Slavery, History, Parks, Economic conditions, Cotton growing, Travel, Landscape architecture, City planning, Correspondence, Biography, Slavery, united states, Landscape architects, United States Sanitary Commission, Southern states, description and travel, Southern states, economic conditions, Peninsular Campaign, 1862, Agriculture, Agriculture, great britain, Economic history, England, description and travel, Gold discoveries, Gold mines and mining, Hospitals
Places
United States, Southern States, Central Park (New York, N.Y.), California, N.Y.) Central Park (New York, New York, New York (State), Texas, Mississippi River Valley, New York (N.Y.), Québec (Province), Virginia, Austin, Chicago, Eagle Pass, England, Forest Hills (New York, N.Y.), Houston, Illinois, Mariposa, Mariposa (Calif.), Montréal, Montréal (Québec), Mount Royal (Québec), Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.)
People
Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903), Frederick Law Olmsted (1870-1957), A. H. Green (1820-1903), Calvert Vaux (1824-1895), Carl Schurz (1829-1906), Charles A. Dana (1819-1897), Charles Eliot Norton (1827-1908), Charles Follen McKim (1847-1909), Charles Loring Brace (1826-1890), Charles N. Riotte, Clarence King (1842-1901), Daniel Hudson Burnham (1846-1912), Edward Everett Hale (1822-1909), Edwin Lawrence Godkin (1831-1902), Frederick John Kingsbury (1823-1910), Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903,), Frederick Newman Knapp (1821-1889), George E. Waring (1833-1898), George Templeton Strong (1820-1875), George Washington Vanderbilt (1862-1914), George William Curtis (1824-1892), H. H. Richardson (1838-1886), H. W. S. Cleveland (1814-1900), Henry Villard (1835-1900), Henry W. Bellows (1814-1882)
Time
19th century, Civil War, 1861-1865, 1775-1865, 1800-1900, 1848-1869, 1850-1860, 18th century, Meiguo, Revolution, 1775-1783

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Alternative names

  • Frederick Law Olmsted
  • Frederick Law Olmsted, comp.
  • FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED
  • Frederick Law Olmsted, 1822-1903
  • Frederick Law 1822-1903 Olmsted
  • Frederick Law] [Olmsted
  • Frederick Law Olmsted Olmsted
  • F. L. Olmsted

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