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Report of the Park Commission of Essex County, 1901

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1901 report of the Park Commission of Essex County. Sixty-two page report bound in a brown, embossed hard cover book. The last page states: "Respectfully submitted, OLMSTED BROTHERS, Landscape Architects." Pages and endpapers are yellowed; all pages are tight and clean. Fold-out maps of parks in the reservation are set in. Light edgewear on cover and at top and bottom of spine. A couple of faint horizontal shiny lines on back cover and a ca. 1" light spot about 1/4 up from the bottom of the back cover, on the edge opposite the spine. Purchased on eBay, from William Fletcher; 739 East 3900 North; Provo Utah 84604; e-mail: wmsflecher@gmail.com; phone: 801-377-7631; auction ID: podunku. Mr. Fletcher--or at least his parents--lived on Byron Road, althugh he wrote that he didn't own this book when they lived in town.

2012.019.001

2012.019

5-3/4 in

9 in

1901

         Report of the Park Commission of Essex County, 1901 picture number 1

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