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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

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  • Cover of: Civilizing American cities: a selection of Frederick Law Olmsted's writings on city landscapes.
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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 ...
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  • Cover of: The papers of Frederick Law Olmsted.
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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
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    First published in 1902 — 3 editions
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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, Landscape architecture, Travel, Cotton growing, Biography, City planning, Correspondence, Landscape architects, Slavery, united states, 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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