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  • Grave of Frederick Law Olmstead - Photographs of the landscape architect and his grave in Old North Cemetery in Hartford, Connecticut, from Find A Grave.
  • John Singer Sargent's Frederick Law Olmsted - Portrait by Sargent, biography, and list of projects from the John Singer Sargent Virtual Gallery by Natasha Wallace.
  • Olmsted, Frederick Law (1822-1903): American Landscape Architect - Rod Davis provides a photograph and brief biography, with related web links, most with short descriptions.
  • Olmsted in Buffalo - S. M. Broderick gives an illustrated history of America's oldest coordinated system of public parks and parkways, designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and his partner Calvert Vaux.
  • Scape Artist - New York Times review of Witold Rybczynski's book on Frederick Law Olmsted, who co-designed New York City's Central Park and was among the first to call himself a landscape architect.
  • Yosemite and the Mariposa Grove: A Preliminary Report - Written in 1865 by Frederick Law Olmsted when he served briefly as one of the first Commissioners appointed to manage the grant of the Yosemite Valley.

  • Interview with Witold Rybczynski - Article from Atlantic Unbound on the biography by Rybczynski of Frederick Law Olmsted - 'A Clearing in the Distance', which aims to tell the story of 19th-century America through landscape architecture. (July 14, 1999)