Olmsted South, old South critic, new South planner / edited by Dana F. White and Victor A. Kramer ; [visual materials compiled and arr. by Howard L. Preston and Dana F. White, with Colleen Keegan].

Title & Author:

Olmsted South, old South critic, new South planner / edited by Dana F. White and Victor A. Kramer ; [visual materials compiled and arr. by Howard L. Preston and Dana F. White, with Colleen Keegan].

Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1979.

Description:

xxxvi, 259 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Series:

Contributions in American studies ; no. 43, 0084-9227

Notes:
"About Olmsted, a bibliographical essay": pages [247]-252.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Olmsted as observer / Victor A. Kramer -- Connecticut Yankee in cotton's kingdom / Dana F. White -- Old sources for a new history / Karla J. Spurlock-Evans -- Olmsted's contributions to folklife research / Kay L. Cothran -- Transcending journalism / Robert Detweiler -- Landscape observed / William Lake Douglas -- Knickerbocker illustrator of the Old South / Howard L. Preston and Dana F. White -- Harriet Beecher Stowe's imagination and Frederick Law Olmsted's travels / Victor A. Kramer -- Free-soil advocacy and the New England Emigrant Aid Society / Victor A. Kramer, Philip R. Rutherford and Dana F. White -- Frederick Law Olmsted and Jonathan Baxter Harrison / Timothy J. Crimmins -- Old South under new conditions / Dana F. White -- Frederick Law Olmsted and Joel Hurt / Elizabeth A. Lyon -- Hurt's deserted village / Rick Beard -- Parkways, parks, and New South progressivism / Howard L. Preston -- Olmsted at Biltmore / Frederick Gutheim -- About Olmsted / Dana F. White.
Visual materials compiled and arr. by Howard L. Preston and Dana F. White, with Colleen Keegan.

Resources:
Contributor biographical information

ISBN:

0313207240
9780313207242

Subject:

Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903.
Olmsted, Frederick Law.
Regional planning Southern States.
Civic improvement Southern States.
Social scientists United States Biography.
Landscape architects United States Biography.
Aménagement du territoire États-Unis (Sud)
Villes Aménagement et assainissement États-Unis (Sud)
Spécialistes des sciences sociales États-Unis Biographies.
Architectes paysagistes États-Unis Biographies.
Civic improvement.
Landscape architects.
Regional planning.
Social conditions
Social scientists.
Southern States Social conditions.
États-Unis (Sud) Conditions sociales.
Southern States.
United States.
Landscape design Olmsted, Frederick Law United States. Festschriften

Form/genre:

collective biographies.
Biographies.

Added entries:

White, Dana F.
Kramer, Victor A.
Contributions in American studies ; no. 43.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 787
Call No.: ID:87-B11080
Status: Available

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