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Frederick Bradford Knapp Collection
Includes fifty-six diaries belonging to Knapp that span the years 1875 to 1932. Knapp began keeping a diary the year he graduated from high school and continued, with some exceptions, until the year of his death. In addition, the collection contains several pieces of memorabilia, a notebook of obituaries, a memorial book, drawings, and two albums of pictures and photographs. Knapp's diaries provide brief notes on daily events, seldom with commentary. There are gaps in coverage for most of the years, those for 1889 to 1897 being especially sketchy in content. However, on May 8, 1889, he made some extended remarks on Cuba; on Jan. 28, 1890, he commented on the peace treaty with Spain; and on Nov. 3, 1914 he remarked on the national political scene. The volumes are rich with references to local people and places, although without much explanatory text. The entries provide a record of how he made his living, cared for his family and participated in community life. They also reflect his strongly held social attitudes towards the goals of American society.
Harbor & Home
Presented for the first time, the richly illustrated findings of the Southeastern Massachusetts Furniture project at Winterthur Museum
A History of the Chief English Families Bearing the Name of Knapp
The Knapp family, beginning to 1900.
The Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted
The final chronologically arranged volume in the series, it will present the last stage of Olmsted's career, with a firm that included his former students Henry Sargent Codman and Charles Eliot as new partners. During this time Olmsted concentrated his energies on his two last great commissions: one was the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 on the site of the Chicago South Park that he and Vaux had designed in 1871, with subsequent redesigning of Jackson Park and the Midway; the other was the extensive Biltmore Estate in North Carolina. There will also be correspondence concerning the development of the park systems of Louisville, Kentucky, and proposals for park systems in Milwaukee and Kansas City. The volume will present some of the remarkable retrospective letters he wrote to Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer and his son, Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. It will conclude with several undated and unfinished writings on the history and principles of landscape design.
