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Additional authors

1. Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878.
2. Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903.

Description

1. .31 linear foot (1 box)

Summary

1. The Ignaz Anton Pilat Papers contain correspondence, official documents, newspaper clippings, booklets and pamphlets, and photographs and other graphics.

Subject

1. Gardens -- Austria -- Vienna
2. Germans -- United States
3. Landscape gardening -- History -- Sources
4. Central Park (New York, N.Y.) -- History -- Sources

Genre/Form

1. Maps.
2. Photographs.
3. Passports.

Call number

1. MssCol 2427

Access (note)

1. Apply to Manuscripts and Archives Division for access at http://www.nypl.org/mssref.

Additional formats (note)

1. are photocopies. The originals are in the Bryant Library, Roslyn, New York.

Biography (note)

1. Ignaz Anton Pilat (1820-1870) was the first landscape gardener of Central Park.

Author

1. Pilat, Ignaz Anton, 1820-1870.

Title

1. Ignaz Anton Pilat papers, 1842-1879 (bulk 1859-1870).

Restricted access

1. Apply to Manuscripts and Archives Division for access at http://www.nypl.org/mssref.

Additional formats

1. Letters from William Cullen Bryant are photocopies. The originals are in the Bryant Library, Roslyn, New York.

Biography

1. Ignaz Anton Pilat (1820-1870) was the first landscape gardener of Central Park. A native of Austria, he trained as a gardener's assistant in the gardens of the Earldom of Karrach in Aschach on the Danube, 1841-1842, and at the Imperial Royal Court Plant Gardens, Schonbrunn, 1843-1846, and was assistant gardener at the Royal University Botanical Garden, Rennwege, 1846-1850. It is believed he arrived in the United States in 1857, assuming his position at Central Park within two years. As landscape gardener, he supervised the planting of all park foliage and had special responsibility for the creation of the picturesque "Ramble" area.

Added author

1. Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878.
2. Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903.

Research call number

1. MssCol 2427