Article from Atlantic Unbound on the biography by Rybczynski of Frederick Law Olmsted - 'A Clearing in the Distance', which aims to tell the story of 19th-century America through landscape architecture.

S. M. Broderick gives an illustrated history of America's oldest coordinated system of public parks and parkways, designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and his partner Calvert Vaux.

New York Times review of Witold Rybczynski's book on Frederick Law Olmsted, who co-designed New York City's Central Park and was among the first to call himself a landscape architect.

Photographs of the landscape architect and his grave in Old North Cemetery in Hartford, Connecticut, from Find A Grave.

Portrait by Sargent, biography, and list of projects from the John Singer Sargent Virtual Gallery by Natasha Wallace.

Written in 1865 by Frederick Law Olmsted when he served briefly as one of the first Commissioners appointed to manage the grant of the Yosemite Valley.

Rod Davis provides a photograph and brief biography, with related web links, most with short descriptions.