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SHORT TITLES USED IN CITATIONS
1. Correspondents’ Names
| BCCP | Board of Commissioners of the Central Park |
| BCPP | Board of Commissioners of Prospect Park |
| BPC | Brooklyn Park Commission |
| CV | Calvert Vaux |
| DPP | Department of Public Parks |
| FLO | Frederick Law Olmsted |
| FLO, Jr. | Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. |
| JCO | John Charles Olmsted |
| MPO | Mary Perkins Olmsted |
| OVC | Olmsted, Vaux & Company |
2. Standard References
| DAB | Dictionary of American Biography |
| DNB | Dictionary of National Biography |
| EB | Encyclopaedia Britannica |
| NCAB | National Cyclopaedia of American Biography |
| OED | Oxford English Dictionary |
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).
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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).
- 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).
- 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).
- Papers of FLO
- The Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted, ed. Charles C. McLaughlin 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 Unpublished Sources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 same as the job number assigned a given project by the Olmsted firm — in this case project 1032 is Leland Stanford, Jr., University.