A Clearing In The Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the 19th Cent
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yellow fever, 32, 78
Yonge, Charlotte Mary, 142
York River, 208, 209
Yorktown, Va., 208, 209, 210
Yosemite Commission, 238, 257–58, 275–76, 279–80
Yosemite Falls, 236
Yosemite Valley, 236–37, 238, 250, 251, 256–59, 261, 272, 374
Young Men’s Christian Organization, 215
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All plans drawn by Shawn D. Seaman
TEXT PHOTOGRAPHS
Pages 339 (bottom): Brown Brothers; 267: Collection of the New-York Historical Society; 89, 153 (right), 339 (top right): Courtesy of National Park Service, Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site, Brookline, Massachusetts; 415: Frederick Law Olmsted Association; 339 (top left): Massachusetts Historical Society; 4, 17, 153 (left): Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities
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Pages 14: Alexander Alland Sr./Corbis-Bettmann; 6: Chicago Historical Society (ICHi-02525, Photographer: C. D. Arnold); 9 (top and bottom), 10 (top and bottom), 12 (top and bottom), 13 (top and bottom): Collection of the New-York Historical Society; 1 (middle), 3 (top): Corbis-Bettmann; 4: Courtesy of the Frances Loeb Library, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University; 8 (top and bottom): Courtesy of National Park Service, Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site, Brookline, Massachusetts; 1 (bottom): Culver Pictures; 7 (top and bottom): Frederick Law Olmsted Association; 2 (bottom): Frederick Law Olmsted Papers, Department of History, American University, Washington, D.C.; 3 (bottom): Historic American Buildings Survey, Library of Congress; 15, 16 (top and bottom): Lawrenceville School; 2 (top): Manuscript Division, Library of Congress; 1 (top), 5 (top and bottom): Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities; 11: Underwood & Underwood/Corbis-Bettmann
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Rybczynski, Witold.
A clearing in the distance : Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the nineteenth century / Witold Rybczynski.
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1. Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822–1903. 2. Landscape architects—United States—Biography. 3. Landscape architecture—United States—History—19th century. 4. United States—Civilization. I. Title.
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