Fredrick Olmsted papers
name: label: Creator
content: Olmsted, Fred, 1911-1990
label: Names
content: Federal Art Project (Calif.)
label: Names
content: San Francisco Junior College
topic: label: Occupation
content: Sculptors -- California -- San Francisco
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: The papers were lent to the Archives of American Art for filming by Lewis Ferbrache and returned after filming. The lender, Lewis Ferbrache, collected papers for AAA from artists and administrators of the various government funded art programs of the Depression. It was part of a larger nation-wide, collecting project, "New Deal and the Arts."
creator: label: Creator
content: Olmsted, Fred, 1911-1990
setName: label: See more items in
content: Fredrick Olmsted papers
abstract: label: Summary
content: The scattered papers of sculptor Fredrick Olmsted date from 1940 to 1941. Found are photographs of Omlsted's large-scale sculpture of the heads of Michelangelo, da Vinci, and Thomas Edison and a speech by William Lawson dedicating the sculpture to San Francisco Junior College (now City College of San Francisco).
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Fredrick "Rick" Olmsted, Jr. (1911-1990) was a sculptor and scientist in San Francisco, California. Olmsted studied science at Stanford University and art at the San Francisco Art Institute. He created works for various Works Progress Administration programs including the Art in Action and Public Works of Art Project. In the 1950s, he stopped sculpting and became a scientific researcher at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio and Yale University. He developed a prototype for the modern pacemaker.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Microfilm reel
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1940-1941
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.olmsfred
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Microfilm reels
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Due to the pre-existing microfilm arrangement, the collection is arranged as one series.
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: The collection was microfilmed on Reel NDA15 and was returned to Lewis Ferbrache after filming. The microfilm was described in a finding aid by Jayna Josefson in 2025 and the microfilm was digitized in 2024 with funding provided by Smithsonian Collections Information System (CIS) IRM Pool Fund.
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: The collection has been microfilmed on reel NDA15. The microfilm has been digitized and is available on the Archives of American Art website.
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Originals returned to Lewis Ferbrache after microfilming.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The scattered papers of sculptor Fredrick Olmsted date from 1940 to 1941. Found are photographs of Omlsted's large-scale sculpture of the heads of Michelangelo, da Vinci, and Thomas Edison and a speech by William Lawson dedicating the sculpture to San Francisco Junior College (now City College of San Francisco).