Detail View: Design Library Image Collection: Prospect Park
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Accession Number:
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94020
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Order Title:
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Frederick Law Olmsted's New York (94010-94025)
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Type of View:
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drawing / sketch
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View Title:
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etching showing construction in the park in 1867
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Image description:
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The enormous mounds could be top soil stored in the lake bed for replacement when excavation is completed
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Image Rights:
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copyrighted
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Source Institution:
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NCSU Libraries
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Collection:
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Design Library Image Collection
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Culture:
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American
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Subject:
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public spaces
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Work Types:
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Built Environment; public spaces; parks (recreation areas)
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Preferred Title:
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Prospect Park
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Agent Display:
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Calvert Vaux (American landscape architect, 1824-1895); Frederick Law Olmsted Sr. (American landscape architect, 1822-1903)
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Date:
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1865-1873 (creation)
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Locations:
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Brooklyn, New York, United States
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Location Type:
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(creation)
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Style/Period:
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American
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Classification:
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Landscape Architecture
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