- Additional Authors
- Description
- .3 linear foot (1 box and portfolio).
- Summary
- Collection consists of correspondence, documents, drawings, maps, plans, reports, speech, photograph, newsclippings, and other printed matter.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Drawings.
- Maps.
- Photographs.
- Access (note)
- Additional Formats (note)
- Source (note)
- Vaux, Mrs. C.B.; Mrs. Marian Hendrickson
- Biography (note)
- Calvert Vaux (1824-1895) was a British-born landscape architect who practiced in the U.S.
- Indexes/Finding Aids (note)
- Collection guide available in repository and on internet.
- Processing Action (note)
- Call Number
- MssCol 3150
- OCLC
- NYPW94-A390
- Author
Vaux, Calvert, 1824-1895.
- Title
Calvert Vaux papers, 1860-1921, bulk (1860s).
- Restricted Access
Restricted access; Manuscripts and Archives Division; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.
- Additional Formats
Materials excluding portfolio of drawings available on microfilm; New York Public Library; *ZL-425
- Biography
Calvert Vaux (1824-1895) was a British-born landscape architect who practiced in the U.S. He worked on the designs for the grounds of the U.S. Capitol and the Smithsonian Institution. In 1857 he began collaborating with Frederick Law Olmsted on the construction of Prospect Park in Brooklyn, N.Y., and Central, Morningside and Riverside Parks in Manhattan. They also worked on the South Park in Chicago and the state reservation at Niagara Falls, N.Y. Vaux was the landscape architect for the department of parks in New York City for many years.
- Indexes
Collection guide available in repository and on internet.
- Connect to:
- Occupation
Landscape architects.
- Added Author
Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903.
Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1870-1957.
Parsons, Samuel, 1844-1923.
Vaux, C. Bowyer.
- Research Call Number
MssCol 3150