FLO’s visits to, 111, 112, 113, 115, 117, 119, 120, 122, 123, 218
Union seizure of, 205–6, 207
Porter, David, 217
Porter, Sarah, 67
Port Royal, S.C., 205–6, 207
Post, George B., 387–89
Potter, Howard, 220, 223, 264, 279, 285, 348
Presbyterianism, 67
Price, Sir Uvedale, 29, 86, 181
Progress and Poverty (George), 91
Prospect Park, 22, 259–61, 269–77, 270, 279–84, 308, 317, 321n, 360, 411–13
Board of Commissioners of, 259, 260, 264, 271, 274, 276, 316, 355
Central Park compared with, 259, 269, 272, 273
division of labor in, 273, 369
Franklin Park compared with, 361
lake in, 259, 271, 272, 337
landscape types in, 273
Long Meadow in, 271
as meditation on post–Civil War America, 273
Mount Royal compared with, 323, 324, 325
Olmsted-Vaux report on, 271–74
Refectory in, 272
South Park compared with, 301, 302
Viele plan for, 259–60
Western influence in, 272
prostitution, 123, 179
Public Parks Department, New York, 311, 312, 313, 315, 326, 335–37, 347–48, 355
Punch, 144
Puritans, 24–25, 69
Putnam, George Palmer, 78, 94–95, 100, 134, 137
Putnam’s Monthly Magazine, 134, 136–38, 141, 143, 144, 145, 151, 156, 199
“Putnam’s Semi-Monthly Library for Travelers and the Fireside,” 94–95
quadroon society, 122–23
Quakers, 117
Quebec City, 277, 326
Quincy library, 349
Radford, George, 306, 326, 329
railroads, 109–10, 111, 113, 115–16, 123, 291, 329, 331
Ralston, William, 240, 241, 246
Ravenswood parkway, 282–83
Raymond, Henry J., 108, 113, 124, 128, 134, 149, 174, 204, 222
introductory editorials of, 112, 115, 116, 124
series cut short by, 132–33
Raymond, Mrs. Henry J., 204
“Rebellion, The” (Olmsted), 205
Reconstruction, 279
recreation, 45, 258, 271, 350, 362–64
active, 302, 360, 362
“unconscious,” 364
Remarks on Forest Scenery (Gilpin), 29
“Report on the Demoralization of the Volunteers” (Olmsted), 201–2
“Report to the Secretary of War” (Olmsted), 204
Repton, Humphry, 180
Republicans, Republican party, 199, 205
Central Park and, 151, 155, 164, 173
in election of 1864, 237–38
in election of 1872, 312
reservoirs, 164, 166, 183, 187, 259, 269, 272, 324, 325
Richardson, Frederick Leopold William, 327n
Richardson, Henry Hobson, 303–7, 326–27, 339, 354, 374
background of, 303, 307–8
in Brookline, 316, 344–46, 351, 367
death of, 367–68, 371, 390
FLO’s work with, 306, 341, 349–50, 364
Richardson, Julia Hayden, 303, 326–27
Richmond, Va., 110, 112, 132
in Civil War, 208–12, 248
Ridgewood Reservoir, 282
Ripley, George, 139–40
Riverdale, 328–29
Riverside, Ill., 290–96, 294, 298–99, 300, 305, 308, 316
Riverside Improvement Company, 290, 300
Robinson, William, 333
Rogers, Sherman S., 370
Roman Catholicism, 20–21
Romanesque style, 307, 327, 349, 374, 377
Ronaldson (ship), 49–55, 57, 95
Roosevelt, Theodore, 410
Root, John, 386–87, 388
Rosecrans, William, 217, 221
royalties:
of FLO, 95, 147, 192
of foreign authors, 136, 145
Running Water Ranches, 348, 369
Ruskin, John, 80, 82, 307, 341, 363, 364
Rutan, Charles H., 371
Rybczynski, Witold (author):
as college student, 13–14, 39
European interlude of, 57
in Montreal, 13–14, 325
in Prospect Park, 411–13
romantic and idealistic reading of, 68
at Trentham, 181
Sachem’s Head, Conn., 69–77, 253
FLO’s beautification efforts at, 70–71, 74–75, 76
FLO’s sketches for house at, 70, 71, 74
Sachem’s Head House, 71–72
Saint-Cloud, 182
Saint-Gaudens, Augustus, 333, 368, 375, 389, 393–94, 410
St. Louis, Mo., 215, 217, 253, 386
St. Vincent’s Hospital, 187
Salinger, J. D., 68
Sampson, Low, Son & Company, 195–97
San Antonio, Tex., 125–26, 130, 131
San Antonio Zeitung, 130, 133–34, 138
San Francisco, Calif., 228, 229, 230, 238–50, 281, 282, 330
FLO in, 232, 240–43, 245–49, 259, 262, 368, 369
parks in, 263, 274–75, 288
San Francisco Daily Evening Bulletin, 263
Sanitary Commission, U.S., 198–204, 206–22, 224–28, 287, 299, 306
board members of, 199–200
California branch of, 228, 234
Executive Committee of, 216–17, 221, 224, 226
FLO as first general secretary of, 20, 21, 198–204, 206–7, 214–17, 254–55, 275–76
FLO’s reorganization plan for, 221
FLO’s resignation from, 20, 216, 218–19, 226, 228
FLO’s survey at, 255, 285, 297
Hospital Transport Service of, 208–13
inspectors in, 202–3, 204
press criticism of, 204
regional factionalism in, 215–16, 217, 221
rivals of, 215, 217, 221
Strong as treasurer of, 20, 200, 202, 216, 225
Sanitary Reporter, 221
sanitation, municipal, 176
Saratoga Springs, N.Y., 179, 214, 216, 317
Sargent, Charles Sprague, 341, 345, 351, 360, 366, 404
Sargent, John Singer, 403–4, 405
Sartor Resartus (Carlyle), 67–69
Saturday Club, 366
Savannah Republican, 124
Saybrook, Conn., 26, 37
Schermerhorn, L. Y., 306
Schiller, Johann Christoph Friedrich von, 83
Schlesinger, Arthur M., Sr., 196
Schoolfellow, 138
Schuyler, Montgomery, 397
Schuylkill Arsenal, 326
Scott, Sir Walter, 228, 230
Scovill, Alathea, see Kingsbury, Alathea Scovill
Scribner, Charles, 393
Seaside Estates, 79
“self-invented man,” nineteenth-century, 91
self-reliance, 254
Senate, New York State, 184, 195
Senate, U.S., 125, 143
Military Affairs Committee of, 206
Park Commission of, 410
sequoias, 230, 235–36, 238
Seven Days, battle of (1862), 211–12
Shaw, Francis George, 149, 150, 192, 225, 285
Shepley, George F., 371
Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge, 371, 377
Sheridan, Philip, 237–38
Sherman, William Tecumseh, 218
Sigourney, Lydia Hunt, 31
Silliman, Benjamin, Jr., 234, 246
Silliman, Benjamin, Sr., 83, 234
Sisterdale, Tex., 130
Slave Power, The (Cairns), 196
slavery, slaves, 32, 105–8, 110–25, 128–31, 138–41, 143, 146–49, 254
contrabands, 197, 205
corrupting influence of, 119, 120
economic argument against, 116–19, 140
as field hands, 118
FLO’s books on, see Cotton Kingdom, The; Journey in the Back
Country, A; Journey in the Seaboard Slave States, A; Journey Through Texas, A
FLO’s renewed interest in, 205–6
Harper’s Ferry uprising of, 190
as house servants, 115–16, 118, 119–20
Kapp’s history of, 188
legislation and, 105–7, 125, 148
punishment of, 117
runaway, 106, 107, 117, 205
Texas free state and, 131, 133–34, 138
work avoidance of, 117, 119
social reform, 86, 95, 100
landscaping and, 258–59
Sonoma Valley, 246
South, 105–34
backwardness of, 114, 128
civic society in, 119, 129
cotton cultivation in, 105, 118, 123, 132
FLO’s travels in, 108–33
transportation problems in, 109–11
South Carolina, 196, 197, 205
FLO in, 118, 123
Southern Famine Relief Commission, 279
South Park, 299–302, 308, 311, 315–16, 355, 360, 386
Spoils of the Park, The (Olmsted), 347–48
Springfield, Mass., 303, 310
Springfield Republican, 256, 257
stagecoach travel, 110–11, 123
Stanford, Jane, 368, 371, 373, 375, 377–78
Stanford, Leland, Jr., 368, 371, 377
Stanford, Leland, Sr., 20, 368–73, 375, 377–79, 387n
Stanford University, 20, 368–73, 375–79, 376
Stanton, Edwin M., 206–7
Staten Island, 74, 214, 276, 283–84, 285, 303–7, 310, 379, 380
FLO’s civic life on, 80, 92
FLO’s farm in, see Tosomock Farm
see also Clifton, N.Y.
Staten Island Improvement Commission, 305–6, 308
Staten Isler, 80
Stebbins, Emma, 318
Stebbins, Henry, 311, 312, 315, 318, 331
steamboat travel, 109, 112, 113, 118–19, 123
steam ferry service, 44
Stevens, Sophia, see Hitchcock, Sophia Stevens
Stewart, Martha, 65
Stiles, William, 399
Stoneleigh Abbey, 180
Stony Brook, 342–43
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 96, 110, 119, 137, 141
Stranahan, James S. T., 259, 260, 270, 281, 284, 355
Strauch, Adolph, 163
strikes, miner, 19–20, 232
Strong, George Templeton, 220, 223, 243
diaries of, 20, 21, 197, 216, 217, 225, 226, 248
on Executive Committee, 216
Sanitary Commission and, 20, 200, 202, 216, 225
Strong, Mr. (writing teacher), 30–31
Stuart, Jeb, 211
suburbs, 44–45, 163, 292, 305
domesticity of, 292–93
Riverdale, 328–29
Riverside, 290–96, 294, 298–99, 300, 305, 308, 316
see also Brookline, Mass.
Sullivan, Louis, 388–89
sumac poisoning, 26, 27, 36–37
Sunset, Maine, 406–7
Supreme Court, U.S., 148
surveying, 326, 401
FLO’s apprenticeship in, 36, 38–40, 46, 76, 91, 170
FLO’s loss of interest in, 42
Switzerland, 258, 336, 337
Syracuse, N.Y., 317
Tacoma, Wash., 329, 344
Talbot, George, 49
Taney, Roger, 148
Tarrytown Heights, N.Y., 308, 329
Tarrytown Heights Land Company, 316
Taylor, Dick, 111, 112, 113, 119, 120, 218
Taylor, Nathaniel, 104–5
Taylor, Zachary, 111
tea trade, 49, 53–54
Tennessee, 217, 221
Texas, 106, 123, 196
FLO in, 125–31, 225, 254
FLO’s book on, see Journey Through Texas, A
free state in, 131, 133–34, 138, 188
German settlers in, 128–31, 133–34, 138n, 147–48
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 137, 144, 157
Thompkins Square, 308
Thoreau, Henry David, 98n, 136, 137, 149, 190
Tiemann, Daniel, 178
Tiffany, Louis Comfort, 393
Tilden, Samuel J., 185, 373
Times (London), 141, 148, 191
Tocqueville, Alexis de, 43
Tosomock Farm (formerly Akerly farm), 69n, 74, 76–82, 108, 117, 123, 132, 147
description of house at, 77, 80
FLO’s library at, 83, 92
FLO’s quarrel over, 219
John Hull’s family at, 124, 134–35, 178
origin of name, 77n
sale of, 276n
scenic effects at, 79, 80, 87
Sunday debates at, 104–5, 107
tenants at, 149, 176, 178, 214
tourism, in Yosemite, 257–58
Trask, Charles, 17, 61, 77, 188
Treasury, U.S., 205, 206
Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening, Adapted to North America, A (Downing), 65, 74n
Trentham, 180–82, 272
Trenton, N.J., 357–58
Trinity College, 326
Tripler (Union army medical director), 210
Trowbridge, Joseph, 306
True American, 66
“Truth” (Times correspondent), 204
tuberculosis, 83, 98, 124, 135
Tucker, Luther, 65, 66, 75
Tunstall’s Station, Va., 211
Twain, Mark, 28, 33, 91
Tweed, William Marcy “Boss,” 185, 311, 331
Two Years Before the Mast (Dana), 48, 49, 51
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Stowe), 96, 110, 119, 140, 150n
Union Army, 214, 217–18, 237–38, 248, 254–55
in first major battle, 200–202
FLO’s criticisms of, 200, 201–2
Medical Bureau of, 198, 200, 202, 203–4, 206, 208, 212
see also Army of the Potomac; Sanitary Commission, U.S.
Union League Club, 20, 216, 220
Union Pacific Railroad, 389
Unitarianism, 67
urbanization, 32, 136
Utah, 389
Van Brunt, Henry, 388–89
Van Buren, William, 200, 216, 233
Vanderbilt, Frederick, 380
Vanderbilt, George Washington, 379–81, 383, 384, 403–6, 410, 411
Vanderbilt, William (son), 380
Vanderbilt, William Henry (father), 78, 80, 379
Van Rensselaer, Mariana, 42, 163, 170, 327, 349, 368, 372, 397
Vassar, Matthew, 162
Vassar College, 162, 308
Vaux, Calvert, 161–73, 280, 298, 304, 307, 309–13, 315, 316
appearance of, 161, 267
background of, 161–62
Central Park and, 161–73, 175–77, 182, 184, 187, 188, 214, 219, 222, 228, 237, 261, 264, 347, 355, 360, 369, 373
death of, 408
decline of practice of, 373, 380
in design competition, 162–72, 222, 228, 261
FLO’s correspondence with, 171, 228, 233, 245, 247, 259–61, 263, 264, 268, 288, 291, 292
FLO’s problems with, 228
Niagara Falls project and, 369–70, 373–75
Prospect Park and, 259–61, 264, 269, 271–74, 276, 277, 281, 321n, 360, 369
shrewdness of, 162
South Park and, 300–302
Washington Heights and, 192, 328
see also Olmsted, Vaux & Company, Landscape Architects; Olmsted & Vaux
Vaux & Withers, 161–62, 269
Vermont, 106
Versailles, 182
Vicksburg, siege of (1863), 217–18, 221
Viele, Egbert L., 155, 157–60, 162, 171, 175
in design competition, 163, 164, 355
dismissal of, 173
Prospect Park and, 259–60
Villas and Cottages (Vaux), 162, 167
Virginia, 119, 120
in Civil War, 197, 200–202, 208–12, 237, 248
FLO in, 109–
12, 114, 115–16, 123, 132
“Voice from the Sea, A” (Olmsted), 95, 101
Wales, Salem, 315
Walker, Francis A., 368, 370–71, 377
Walks and Talks of an American Farmer in England (Olmsted), 94–95, 98–102, 104, 113, 149, 172
dedication of, 102, 167
first part of, 98, 100–101
reviews of, 100–101
second part of, 98, 100, 101, 102, 167
slavery in, 106–7
Wallace, Dr., 37–38
Walpole, N. H., 222–23, 277
War Department, U.S., 204, 206–7
Ware, Robert, 209, 213
Waring, George Edwin, Jr., 176, 177, 178, 200, 298, 348
Washington, D.C., 123, 162, 197, 208, 320–21, 386, 389
Capitol grounds in, 320–21, 326, 341, 358
Downing’s park plan for, 101, 168, 287, 320
FLO in, 200–208, 214–22, 358, 367, 395
Washington, George, 25, 36, 40
Washington Heights, 192
Washington Park (Brooklyn), 285
Washington Park (Chicago), 300, 386
Watkins, Carleton E., 236
Wauters, Charles, 227
Waverly, Mass., 410–11
Webster, Daniel, 78
Webster, Noah, 31
Weed, Thurlow, 241
Weidenmann, Jacob, 317, 326, 348
Welton, Joseph, 59–60, 66
Welton, Mary, 59
Wenham Lake, 358–59
Western Sanitary Commission, 215, 217, 221
West Farms, 328, 330
Westminster Review, 191
West Orange, N.J., 292
Whampoa Reach, 51–52, 55
Whigs, Whig party, 95, 101
FLO’s support of, 92, 107, 108
White, Andrew Dickson, 285
White, Richard Grant, 174
White, Stanford, 307, 357, 368, 393, 399
White House, Va., 209, 210, 211
White Mountains, 40, 277, 326
Whitman, Walt, 91
Whitmore, Zolva, 25, 28, 69
Whitney, Eli, 105
Whitney, Elizabeth Baldwin:
FLO’s correspondence with, 28, 37
FLO’s relationship with, 61–64, 67, 69, 72, 96, 97
marriage of, 63, 98
Whitney, Josiah, 238
Whittier, John Greenleaf, 33, 279
Wickham, William H., 332
Wiley, John, 94
William (house servant), 120–21
Wilson, Edmund, 113
Wilson Small (ship), 208, 212
Wisedell, Thomas, 321n, 326, 355–56
Withers, Frederick, 161–62, 280, 298, 309, 313
Woman’s Central Association of Relief, 197
Wood, Fernando, 158, 159
Wood, Robert, 200
Woods of Arden, 79
Wordsworth, William, 363
World’s Columbian Exposition (1893), 340, 386–99
Wormeley, Katharine, 19, 83, 192, 209, 211, 213, 316
Wyeth & Ackerman, 40
Yale University, 36, 61, 71, 83, 91, 368, 397
John Charles at, 318, 326
John Hull at, 46, 47, 57–58, 122
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