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CENTRAL PARK......AN EVOLUTION
Greensward Plan Sketches

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*        The sketches above illustrate the desired effect the Greensward Plan was to have on Central Park.  (Picture taken from, The Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted, p. 140)  

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*        The drawings above are of the bridges in Central Park designed by Calvert Vaux and Jacob Wrey Mould.  (Picture taken from, The Park and the People, p. 182)

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*      The picture above is an artists rendition of what traffic would be like in one of the transverse roads in Central Park.  (Picture taken from, Central Park 1857-1995, p. 36)