The landscape architecture firm Frederick Law Olmsted and later his sons John Charles Olmsted and Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. (known as Olmsted Brothers) produced designs and plans for hundreds of parks, campuses, and other projects in the United States and Canada. Together, this work amounted to 355. [ref. needed] This is a non-exhaustive list of these projects. Applications for employment in the plantation department, men placed by Olmsted, and the employee`s private life records are listed in these files. The tax documents consist of withholding tax forms and tax returns from Olmsted and certain individuals. Monthly records of hours worked, wages and total amount earned for each employee are included in these records. The memos also list the landscaping projects each employee worked on, the hours spent on each individual project, and the time off spent traveling, illness, or vacationing. In 1868, after visiting Buffalo with city officials, Olmsted said that a single park (like Central Park in New York City) would not be enough to meet the needs of residents. Olmsted and Vaux went on to develop the first public park system in the United States, which included Cazenovia, Delaware, Front, Martin Luther King Jr., Riverside, and South Parks. The Olmsted Park System in Buffalo is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The first three parks — Delaware, Front and MLK, Jr.

— were followed by the others as Olmsted`s company expanded the system further south into the city`s suburbs. Riverside Park, the last developed park, was built to showcase the shores of the Niagara River. The Olmsted Library contains published reference works on gardens, plants, architecture, park and campus planning, urban studies and design. It also contains biographical works on Frederick Law Olmsted Sr. The card file created by Olmsted lists clients, contractors, employees, architects, job applications, park managers, organizations, architectural publications, reports and documents. Salaries, increments, insurance, travel expenses and the total number of hours worked by Olmsted Brothers employees per month are listed in these records. The maps are the most comprehensive list of known employees between 1904 and 1956. They document the duration of employment, the type of jobs performed in the company, and when employees were paid by external sources. 3 volumes of bound registers list Olmsted order numbers assigned to landscaping projects and other internal accounts by the Olmsted office.

Public parks in large metropolitan areas were generally assigned blocks of employment numbers. For example, New York City parks were assigned job numbers in the 500s, Boston (MA) parks were given numbers in the 900s. This includes order names (customers) and locations with some annotations. These correspondence files appear to have been compiled at the local New York office, but were handed over to the Brookline office at an unknown date. These documents are: correspondence between the Brookline office and the New York field office; Desired situations; reports on site visits; Announcements and price lists of crèches; correspondence with agricultural suppliers and agencies; planting lists; and thematic dossiers on topics such as entomology, seeds and fertilizers. While most of the correspondence relates to the construction of Fort Tryon Park (job #529), there are also references to Claremont Park in New York (job #527) and Grove City College in Pennsylvania (job #9192). A thematic file is dedicated to a project for John D. Rockefeller Jr. in Pocantico Hills, New York (Job #243).

Frederick Law Olmsted Sr. designed many school and college campuses between 1857 and 1895. Some of the most famous acts when running one`s business are listed here. Frederick Law Olmsted, often considered the father of modern landscape architecture, is nothing short of a demigod in the field. Best known for his masterful design of Central Park, Connecticut-born Olmsted and his partner, British architect Calvert Vaux, developed a distinctly American style that would characterize some of the nation`s most popular public spaces. Olmsted worked as a journalist for years before developing his art in Vaux, and the duo quickly rose to fame after winning New York`s Central Park in 1857. What followed was an influx of projects that literally stretched from coast to coast, from the Biltmore estate in North Carolina to the Stanford University master plan. Long story short: if you look carefully enough, you can surely find Olmsted in your garden. Here, AD illuminates beautiful works by Olmsted hidden from everyone`s eyes. Arranged in reverse chronological or chronological order, this “Bills Sent” file consists of copies of connolly Brothers invoices sent to customers for commissioned work on Job #3700 Franklin Murphy, Mendham, NJ and Job #3162 William A. Rogers, Kennebunkport, ME. The Connolly brothers were entrepreneurs who worked on at least a hundred jobs for the Olmsted company from the 1880s to the 1940s.

Also included are the general ledger sheets for the work carried out by M.E. & Sons in 1933-1934. The file contains detailed lists of charges for work performed on various construction and planting projects, payroll records, invoice summaries, and some invoice and freight receipts. Typically, invoices document some of the work done by contractors, as well as the rates charged for that work. This collection includes detailed lists of trees, shrubs, ground covers, flowers, and other herbaceous plants, including botanical and common names and quantities specified for landscaping, often directly related to a particular Olmsted planting plan.