Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Collection Summary
| Title | Frederick Law Olmsted papers, 1777-1952 |
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| Span Dates | 1777-1952 |
| Bulk Dates | (bulk 1838-1903) |
| ID No. | MSS35121 |
| Creator | Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903 |
| Extent | 24,000 items |
| Extent | 73 containers plus 1 oversize |
| Extent | 23 linear feet |
| Extent | 60 microfilm reels |
| Language | Collection material in English |
| Location | Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. |
| Finding Aid Permalink | Cite or bookmark this finding aid as: https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms001019 |
| LCCN Permalink | LC Catalog record: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm77035121 |
| Summary | Landscape architect. Correspondence, letterbooks, journals, drafts of articles and books, speeches and lectures, biographical and genealogical data, business papers, scrapbooks, maps, drawings, and other papers encompassing Olmsted's career and private life. The papers focus on Olmsted's career as a landscape architect, specifically as a designer of parks and the grounds of private estates and public buildings and as a city and regional planner. |
| Online Content | The papers of Frederick Law Olmsted are available on the Library of Congress Web site at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/collmss.ms000067. |