Frederick Law Olmsted: Cotton Kingdom Decorative Boxes & Vessels The slight touch of purple

The slight touch of purple through the sky and in the water

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The delicate silvery tones and the billowing drapery are typical of the elegant portraits Anthony van Dyck made in London between 1635 and 1639

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Frederick Law Olmsted: Cotton Kingdom Decorative Boxes & Vessels The slight touch of purpleA Traveller's Observations on Cotton and Slavery in the American Slave States Frederick Law Olmsted (18221903) is best known for designing parks in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Chicago, Boston, and the grounds of the Capitol in Washington. But before he embarked upon his career as the nation's foremost landscape architect, he was a correspondent for the New York Times, and it was under its auspices that he journeyed through the slave states in the 1850's. His