We invite you to travel back in time to 1930s Camden, during the depths of the Depression. It was then that publishing heiress, philanthropist, and progressive activist Mary Louise Curtis Bok hired the Olmsted Brothers firm—America’s preeminent landscape architects—to bring her vision for Camden’s harbor shorefront to life. Drawing on documents and photographs from the Camden Public Library’s Walsh History […]

This webinar explores Chicago’s World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893, one of Frederick Law Olmsted’s most famous projects. As landscape architect, Olmsted joined Director of Works Daniel H. Burnham and a veritable who’s who of American architects at the end of the nineteenth century to conjure up an ephemeral city from the muddy marshlands of Jackson […]