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Interview with Witold Rybczynski
Article from Atlantic Unbound on the biography by Rybczynski of Frederick Law Olmsted - 'A Clearing in the Distance', which aims to tell the story of 19th-century America through landscape architecture.
http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/interviews/ba990714.htm
Olmsted in Buffalo
S. M. Broderick gives an illustrated history of America's oldest coordinated system of public parks and parkways, designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and his partner Calvert Vaux.
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/7172
Scape Artist
New York Times review of Witold Rybczynski's book on Frederick Law Olmsted, who co-designed New York City's Central Park and was among the first to call himself a landscape architect.
http://www.HartfordHistory.net/olmsted.html
Grave of Frederick Law Olmstead
Photographs of the landscape architect and his grave in Old North Cemetery in Hartford, Connecticut, from Find A Grave.
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=1582
John Singer Sargent's Frederick Law Olmsted
Portrait by Sargent, biography, and list of projects from the John Singer Sargent Virtual Gallery by Natasha Wallace.
http://www.jssgallery.org/Paintings/Frederick_Law_Olmsted.htm
Olmsted, Frederick Law (1822-1903): American Landscape Architect
Rod Davis provides a photograph and brief biography, with related web links, most with short descriptions.
http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~dav4is/people/IVES68.htm
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