Item #21602 Pittsburgh: Main Thoroughfares and the Down Town District (The Prospectus -- with Ephemera). A, Frederick Law Olmsted.
Pittsburgh: Main Thoroughfares and the Down Town District (The Prospectus -- with Ephemera)

Pittsburgh: Main Thoroughfares and the Down Town District (The Prospectus -- with Ephemera)

Pittsburgh: The Committee on City Planning, 1911. Original wraps. The uncommon prospectus preceding the offical 1911 report by Frederick Law Olmsted. Crisp and VG+ to Near Fine in its brown stapled wrappers. Quarto, 18 pgs. plus "Subject Index to Outlying Thoroughfare Improvements", "Number Index to Outlying Thoroughfare Improvements" AND the large fold-out "Location Map for 80 Improvements in the Outlying Thoroughfares" (in color). Also includes a laid-in single sheets, a 1911 example (in beautiful condition) of "Newspaper Comments on Mr. Olmsted's Report to the Pittsburgh Civic Commission". This truncated prospectus represents a scarce city planning item -- and a scarce Frederick Law Olmsted piece. Near Fine. Item #21602

Price: $500.00

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