Letters and obituary concerning Charles M. Olmsted, 1949-1971 (bulk 1949-1950).

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Letters and obituary concerning Charles M. Olmsted, 1949-1971 (bulk 1949-1950).

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Four letters, 1949-1950, concern Charles Olmsted's design of an airplane in 1910 and his brother Harold's efforts to have him recognized; and one letter, 1971, concerns loan of Olmsted propellor to the National Air and Space Museum for exhibit. Collection includes obituary clipping for Charles.

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Buffalo History Museum, Research Library

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Buffalo History Museum, Research Library

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Olmsted, Harold LeRoy, 1886-1972.

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Olmsted, a native of Buffalo, studied landscape architecture and fine arts at Harvard, graduating in 1908. He worked briefly for a Buffalo landscape architectural firm, but thereafter worked only for himself. He was a nationally-known artist, specializing in watercolors of landscape scenes. From the description of Papers, 1922-1988 (bulk 1969-1972). (Buffalo History Museum). WorldCat record id: 34436803 Buffalo artist and landscape architect. From the description...

Olmsted, Charles Morgan 1881

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Consulting physicist, born in LeRoy, N.Y. and raised in Buffalo, the son of John B. Olmsted. Received Bachelor's degree (1903) and Master's degree (1904) from Harvard, and a Ph. D. in astrophysics (1906) at the University of Bonn, Germany. In 1910 founded C.M.O. Physical Laboratory, Inc. where he did aerodynamic research, designing and testing airplane propellers and an early monoplane. His propellers were used on the first U.S. Navy planes to fly the Atlantic. Research associate at the Universi...