Fredrick Olmsted Papers
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Olmsted, Fred, 1911-1990
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content: Fredrick Olmsted papers
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1940-1941
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.olmsfred, Series 1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: A typescript is of a dedication speech by William R. Lawson in April of 1941 in which he dedicates the Olmsted sculpture to San Francisco Junior College (now City College of San Francisco). Photographs are of the heads of da Vinci, Thomas Edison, and Michelangelo; a mock-up of one of the heads; Olmsted working on the heads; unidentified women posing with the sculpture; and of William Lawson, the WPA director of Northern California, and Dr. McCloud of San Francisco Junior College shaking hands with the sculpture in the background.