SHORT TITLES USED IN CITATIONS

1. Correspondents’ Names

2. Standard References

3. Books by Frederick Law Olmsted

Walks and Talks

Walks and Talks of an American Farmer in England, 2 vols. in 1 (New York, 1852).

4. Other Published Works

Appleton’s Cyc. Am. Biog.

Appleton’s Cyclopedia of American Biography,ed. James C. Wilson and John Fiske (New York, 1887–89).

BCCP, ______ Annual Report [18-]

New York City, Board of Commissioners of the Central Park, Annual Report (New York, 1858–70). Each annual report covers the calendar year preceding the year of publication.

BCCP, ______ Minutes

New York City, Board of Commissioners of the Central Park, Minutes of Proceedings of the Board of Commissioners of the Central Park (New York, 1858–69).

BCDP,— City of Boston, Annual Report [18-]

City of Boston, [Massachusetts], Board of Commissioners of the Department of Parks, Annual Report (Boston, 1875-).

BCPP, _____ Annual Report [18-]

Board of Commissioners of Prospect Park, Annual Report (Brooklyn, 1866–68).

BPC, Annual Reports, 1861–1873

Brooklyn, Park Commissioners, Annual Reports of the Brooklyn Park Commissioners, 1861–1873 (Brooklyn, 1873).

BPC, _____ Annual Report [18-]

Brooklyn Park Commission, Annual Report (Brooklyn, 1869–1886).

DPP, _____ Annual Report [18-]

New York (City), Department of Public Parks, Annual Report (New York, 1871–72). Each annual report covers the calender year preceding the year of publication.

DPP, Minutes

New York (City), Department of Public Parks, Minutes (New York, 1870–74).

FLO, A Biography

Laura Wood Roper, FLO: A Biography of Frederick Law Olmsted (Baltimore, Md., 1973).

Forty Years

Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., and Theodora Kimball, eds., Frederick Law Olmsted, Landscape Architect, 1822–1903 (Forty Years of Landscape Architecture), 2 vols. (New York, 1922–28).

Microfilm edition, FLO Papers/LC

Microfilm edition of the Frederick Law Olmsted Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Papers of FLO

The Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted, ed. Charles C. McLaughlin, Charles E. Beveridge, et al. (Baltimore, 1977-).

5. Unpublished Sources

OAR/LC

Olmsted Associates Records, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Citations give box or volume number, followed by (respectively) folder or page number (i.e., A21: 624 for volume A21, page 624, or B74: #1032 for Box B74, folder number 1032). The folder number is the [30] same as the job number assigned a given project by the Olmsted firm-in this case project 1032 is Leland Stanford, Jr., University.

NPS/FLONHS

National Park Service, Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site, Brookline, Massachusetts.

NARA

National Archives and Records Administration.