ILLUSTRATIONS

• Frederick Law Olmsted, c. 1860 Courtesy of the National Park Service, Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site, Brookline, Mass. Frontispiece
• Riftstone Arch Photograph by Charles E. Beveridge 33
• Huddlestone Arch Stereograph by W. M. Chase, “American Scenery” Courtesy of Herbert Mitchell 33
• Andrew Haswell Green Courtesy of the Long Island Division, Queens Borough Library, New York City 56
• Mary Perkins Olmsted, c. 1850 From Olmsted’s personal collection of photographs, Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, Boston, Mass. 61
• Mary Perkins Olmsted, c. 1860 From Olmsted’s personal collection of photographs, Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, Boston, Mass. 62
• Calvert Vaux From Olmsted’s personal collection of photographs, Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, Boston, Mass. 64
• Egbert Ludovicus Viele Courtesy of the Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 70
• Thorough-Drainage System of Lower Park As Constructed by December 31, 1858 From BCCP, Second Annual Report [1859] 99
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• The Greensward Plan for Central Park Lithograph from [Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux], Description of a Plan for the Improvement of the Central Park, “Greensward” (New York, 1858) Courtesy of the Frances Loeb Library, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. 118
• The Greensward Plan Photolithograph of the original published in I. N. Phelps Stokes, The Iconography of Manhattan Island, 1498–1909, 6 vols. (New York, 1915–28), 3: plate 149 134
• Greensward Study No. 1 “View at the Fifth Avenue Entrance” Courtesy of the Museum of the City of New York 140 [Present Outlines], 140 [Effect Proposed]
• Greensward Study No. 2 “Lower Playground” Courtesy of the Museum of the City of New York 141 [Present Outlines], 141 [Effect Proposed]
• Greensward Study No. 3 “Elm Avenue and Terrace from Vista Rock” Courtesy of the Museum of the City of New York 142 [Present Outlines], 142 [Effect Proposed]
• Greensward Study No. 4 “Across the Lake Towards Vista Rock” Courtesy of the Museum of the City of New York 143 [Present Outlines], 143 [Effect Proposed]
• Greensward Study No. 5 “Across the Lake from Vista Rock” Courtesy of the Museum of the City of New York 144 [Present Outlines], 144 [Effect Proposed]
• Greensward Study No. 6 “Across the Lake from below Vista Rock” Courtesy of the Museum of the City of New York 145 [Present Outlines], 145 [Effect Proposed]
• Greensward Study No. 7 “Looking south from Bogardus Hill” Courtesy of the Museum of the City of New York 146 [Present Outlines], 146 [Effect Proposed]
• Greensward Study No. 8 “Looking east from Bogardus Hill” Courtesy of the Museum of the City of New York 147 [Present Outlines], 147 [Effect Proposed]
• Greensward Study No.9 “Bogardus Hill and Monumental Tower” Courtesy of the Museum of the City of New York 148 [Present Outlines], 148 [Effect Proposed]
• Greensward Study No. 10 “Spring on Bogardus Hill” Courtesy of the Museum of the City of New York 149
• Greensward Study No. 11 “Flower Garden” Courtesy of the Museum of the City of New York 150, 150 [Ground Plan]
• Plan for Arboretum of American Trees and Shrubs From the original Greensward plan, in the offices of the Commissioner of the City of New York Department of Parks & Recreation, The Arsenal, Central Park 176
• The Tunnel, Zoological Gardens, Regent’s Park Photograph taken for Olmsted by Roger Fenton, November 1859  Courtesy of the Frances [xv] Loeb Library, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. 182
• North Side of the Tunnel, Zoological Gardens, Regent’s Park Photograph taken for Olmsted by Roger Fenton, November 1859  Courtesy of the Frances Loeb Library, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. 182
• The Trevi Fountain in Rome From Armand Guerinet, Publishers, Rome monumentale: Photographies d’apres nature (Paris, n.d.) Courtesy of the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 186
• Map of Central Park Showing Construction Completed as of January 1, 1862 From BCCP, Fifth Annual Report [1862] 206
• Bow Bridge Victor Prevost, Central Park in 1862 (New York, 1862), plate 23, “Bridge no. 5”  Stuart Collection ]628, Rare Book Division, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations, New York City 223
• Rustic Stone Arch in Ramble The Central Park: Photographed by W. H. Guild, Jr., with Descriptions and a Historical Sketch, by Fred. B. Perkins (New York, ]864), plate 27, “Rustic Arch, West of Ramble”  Courtesy of the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University, New York City 224
• Spring-Rock on Point Opposite Terrace W. H. Guild and F. B. Perkins, The Central Park, plate 18, “Cascade North of the Terrace”  Courtesy of Charles J. Reeder 225
• Rocky Ravine and Cascade in Ramble Stereograph by G. Stacy, Stacy’s Central Park Views no. 11, “In The Ramble”  Courtesy of Herbert Mitchell 226
• Mount St. Vincent’s Convent Buildings “Central Park, N.Y., Mount St. Vincent” (Stereograph by C. Seaver, Jr.; Chas. Pollock, Boston, publisher) Courtesy of the New-York Historical Society, New York City 231
• Map of Manhattan above 155th Street “Map of that Part of the City of New York North of 155th Street Showing the progress made in laying out Streets, Roads, Public Squares and Places, by the Commissioners of the Central Park, under Chap. 565 of Laws of 1865 and of new Pier and Bulkhead lines under Chap. 697 of Laws of 1867” From BCCP, Twelfth Annual Report [1869] 258
• Avenue de l’Imperatrice in Paris From Jean-Charles-Adolphe Alphand, Les Promenades de Paris, 2 vols. (Paris, 1867–73) Courtesy of the [xvi] Frances Loeb Library, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. 350, 350 [Ground Plan]
• Rockwork in the Bois de Boulogne From Frederick Law Olmsted’s collection of park views, Frances Loeb Library, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. 351