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Olmsted, Frederick Law 1822-1903

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Works: 860 works in 1,474 publications in 8 languages and 42,607 library holdings
Genres: Photographs  Maps 
Roles: Editor, Compiler, Cartographer, Architect, Correspondent, Artist, Dedicatee
Classifications: f213, 917.5
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32 editions published between and 2003 in English and held by 1,704 libraries worldwide
The descriptive portions of the book have established it as a classic among historians, including those who disagree with its conclusions ... The book is not only about the Cotton Kingdom, but about the tobacco and sugar kingdoms, the plantation South and the small-farm South, even the free-labor and urban South. As both a travel account and an ideological treatise, both a rich source of historical evidence and a fount of sectional stereotypes, [this book] reveals as much about the antislavery mind of the North as it does about the slave society of the South.-Introd.
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32 editions published between and 1974 in English and held by 1,081 libraries worldwide
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38 editions published between and 2008 in English and held by 769 libraries worldwide
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5 editions published between and 1979 in English and held by 766 libraries worldwide
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9 editions published between and 1969 in English and held by 720 libraries worldwide
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12 editions published between and 2006 in English and held by 713 libraries worldwide
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43 editions published between and 2004 in English and held by 648 libraries worldwide
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24 editions published between and 1970 in English and held by 640 libraries worldwide
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41 editions published between and 2007 in English and held by 600 libraries worldwide
The papers document Olmsted's varied careers as farmer, journalist, editor, and landscape architect as well as his private life. The collection consists of journals, correspondence, letterbooks, business papers, legal and financial papers, maps, drawings, reports, speeches, lectures, essays, articles, book manuscripts, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, and miscellaneous items. Numerous family papers are also included.
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29 editions published between and 2002 in English and held by 578 libraries worldwide
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13 editions published between and 1979 in English and held by 469 libraries worldwide
Arranged from the original four volumes that Olmsted compiled from his articles in the "New York times" in the 1850's. For other editions, see Author Catalog.
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4 editions published in in English and held by 435 libraries worldwide
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10 editions published between and 1991 in English and held by 398 libraries worldwide
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2 editions published in in English and held by 387 libraries worldwide
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2 editions published in in English and held by 360 libraries worldwide
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4 editions published in in English and held by 349 libraries worldwide
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19 editions published between and 2005 in English and Undetermined and held by 344 libraries worldwide
Early in the year 1854 Frederick Law Olmsted, a young New England journalist, crossed the Louisiana border and set off on horseback into the teeth of the Texas winter. In A Journey Through Texas he recounts his travel along the Old San Antonio Road through the East Texas piney woods, in dry prairies farther west, the chaparral of South Texas, the coastal prairies, and the rich bottomlands around Houston and Galveston.
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15 editions published between and 1996 in English and held by 331 libraries worldwide
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1 edition published in in English and held by 324 libraries worldwide
"Often called the father of landscape architecture, Frederick Law Olmsted was responsible for the design of Central Park and Prospect Park in NewYork City; Mount Royal Park in Montreal; the Belle Isle Park in Detroit; the Grand Necklace of Parks in Milwaukee; the Cherokee Park and entire parks system in Louisville, KY; and the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina, to name a few of his most famous projects. His landscape works are enjoyed in 25 states and 3 Canadian provinces. Most of these parks were created during and immediately after the Civil War. This title presents the opportunity to witness the evolution of Olmstedrs's design and social philosophies during a time of upheaval in American history. Sixteen selections, dating from the 1850s to the 1890s, reveal Frederick Law Olmstedrs's youthful interests as well as his mature thinking on cities, small residential sites, the history and theory of urban parks, and landscape architecture in general. His writings directly addressed important issues of hisday, but they remain as cogent as ever in today's environmental crisis."--pub. desc.
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12 editions published between and 1861 in English and held by 284 libraries worldwide
 
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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 by the same author
Alternative Names
Frederick Law Olmsted 1822-1903
Frederick Law Olmsted Sr. 1822-1903
Law Olmsted, Frederick 1822-1903
Olmstead, Frederick Law, 1822-1903
Olmsted, Fred. Law, 1822-1903
Olmsted, Frederick 1822-1903
Olmsted, Frederick Law 1822-1903
Olmsted, Frederick Law, Sr.
rakwb Olmsted, Frederick L. 1822-1903
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