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Transcription:

Now if a Shepherd know not which grass will - bane,

or which not, how is he fit to be a Shepherd.

This Bridge is near the big Meadow, west ent,
near Eight Avenue.

 

Description:

The primary feature of the picture is Calvert Vaux’s Stone Bridge “E” over one of the Park’s transverse roads (No. 2, Sixty-Fifth Street near Eighth Avenue), as described in the Fifth Annual Report of the Board of Commissioners of the Central Park, 1862. The road is lined with small trees or shrubs, and sheep are depicted grazing in the right foreground. A man with a rake over his shoulder is shown to the left of a stone wall, adding to the pastoral mood of the scene. Directly under the bridge is a man walking, and in the foreground is a figure on horseback, both of which have left a visible trail of footprints. Miller quotes the Church of England clergyman and poet George Herbert’s (1593-1633) A Priest to the Temple, a prose handbook for parsons written in the early 1630s and published in 1652. In his book, Herbert discusses the spiritual and practical roles of priests, and advocates a temperate liturgical “middle way between superstition, and slovenlinesse [sic].” The bottom inscription (“This Bridge . . .”) describes the location.

Transcription:

Receive blessings with thankfulness, and afflictions

with resignation. the pen of the tongue Should be

dipped in the ink of the heart.

In the park. many hours passed away,

 

Description:

An hourglass-shaped opening among trees forms a pedestrian walk at the entrance to the Big Meadow, which become very dense in the middle ground. The avenue narrows before opening into a clearing framed by lightly sketched conifers in the distance. Many men, women, and children walk along the avenue or pause to socialize. The top inscriptions are aphorisms collected from various sources. The uppermost is a paraphrase of Job 2:10 and appears in biblical commentary such as Barnes’ Notes on the Bible (1851). It was also quoted ad verbatim in a letter to the editor of the Christian Observer (“On a Contented Disposition”), Boston, January 1815. “the pen of the tongue . . .” quotation below appeared in compilations of proverbs, and appears in Miguel de Cervantes’s, Don Quixote de la Mancha: “The pen is the tongue of the soul,” with “soul” sometimes translated as “mind.”) The original source could be a paraphrase of Psalms 45:1: “My heart is overflowing with a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made concerning the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready scribe.” The inscription at the bottom of the page seems to be a comment from Miller and reiterates the theme of the “Guide” (“In the Park”). The bottom inscription is a comment by Miller.

Transcription:

Enough is a feast, too much a vanity.

Say nothing of my debts unless you mean to pay them,
Retirement is a happy State, foolish pride is laughed at by
every one. he who teaches virtue is greater than a father.

 

Description:

Miller depicts a group of three women and three men picnicking on a settee. At their feet are baskets, a teapot, and bowls. A large rock, on which vines and bushes are growing and a bird roosts, provides a woodsy backdrop to the scene, the entirety of which is framed by leafy trees.

The disheveled appearance of the picnickers could be Miller’s way of expressing disapproval of their excess and waste, underscored by the didactic and moralizing quotations inscribed on the scene.

Many of the inscriptions on this page appear in contemporary compilations of select proverbs. The quotation on retirement resonates with a passage from The Pennsylvania Hermit: A narrative of the extraordinary life of Amos Wilson who expired in a cave in the neighborhood of Harrisburgh (Penn.) after having therein lived in solitary retirement for the space of nineteen years in consequence of the ignominious death of his sister (1839) “I have enjoyed more real happiness in retirement, than what all the riches . . . of this world . . . could have afforded me.” A similar sentiment appeared in a quotation by George Washington in The Monthly Traveller, or, Spirit of the Periodical Press in 1837: “I hope to find more happiness in retirement, than I ever experienced amidst the wide and bustling world.”

Transcription:

I love thee, Autumn, for thy Scenery, ere the blasts of winter

chase the varied dyes - that richly deck the Slow-declining years,

I love the Splendor of the Sunset Skies, the gorgeous hues - that

tinge each falling leaf, lovely’s as beauty’s cheek, as woman’s love

too brief;

 

 

The young Girl’s Shady place, he cannot fint out

this - place in an Hour, let him hunt all over.

 

There’s a Sound Among the Forest Trees,.

 

Description:

A paved or cobbled path is shown winding up a rocky hill in the Ramble, turning into steps where the path cuts into the rock. In this verdant scene, Miller has depicted many trees, shrubs, and vines growing on either side of the path and on the rocks. Three women, one with a child, and a man walk on the path. The top inscription is from a poem by the writer and editor Charles Fenno Hoffman (1806-84) which was widely published in poetry collections and monthly magazines through mid-century. The next sentence, “The young girl . . . ” is a fragment from an unidentified source. The lyric below this is from a patriotic Civil War song by Miss Fanny Crosby (lyricist) and Wm. B. Bradbury (composer): “A Sound Among the Forest Trees. A New Rallying Song and Chorus” (1864).

Transcription:

A little Spring of water coming out of the Rocks,

and Sink’s down under the rocks. See on the further end

is an Arbor of wild grape, vine’s, and leaf or leaves.

 

Bounties of the Earth beneath, wealth and Substance, Sure, he hath;

whilst his eye with joy Shall See In his fair posterity, children’s children,

all the while, happy in a father’s Smile. then, departing, he at last,

when the Scenes of earth are past, from that pure and peaceful Stream of the

new Jerusalem, he Shall drink, nor limit know, In that fountains

boundless flow, he Shall Join the Saintly band - pilgrims passed to canaan’s

land, where in full fruition dwell God’s redeemed Israel. II.

 

Description:

This page is divided into three registers. In the top register are two men wearing the distinctive uniforms of Park workers, as seen in contemporary sources. One has a pickaxe over his shoulder and the other is feeding a pair of peacocks. In the middle register is a large rock, with trees growing around it, and a small grotto with a trickling waterfall. A path leads past the rock, and on the left side of the scene it passes under an arbor with wild grape vines (native to Virginia and usually planted to attract birds) growing over it. Two men walk along the path, one to the right of the steps leading to the waterfall, the other heading under the arbor. Here, Miller describes the location (“A little Spring”) and below this inscribes a fragment of a Protestant hymn by the German theologian and reformer, Martin Luther (1483-1546) dealing with themes of heaven and earth, the redeemed Israel, and the New Jerusalem.

Transcription:

potabia bean tree, large leaf-’s.

poke berry bush. full of leaves.

pock-wood, or French wood.

poppy. or mohn flower & Seed.

horned poppy, is Schellkraut a plant.

lumberder’ poplar tree. der pappelbaum.

papaw. tree. melonenbaum.

hop - der hopfen. hore hound. a plant.

Morel-Berry. or Cherry.

das sind die Juden Kirschen.

and the Same. winter cherry.

Acacia, or Sloe tree. is in

German - Schlehen dorn oder

Schwarz dorn. & Schoten dorn.

Sope-berry. die seifen beere.

Soape wort, das seifen kraut

Savine, säben baum. Satin wood

Atlaß-hollz. Sabine der sade baum.

Sago-tree sago-baum. Sallow tree.

die saalweide.

 

To lead in the Wilderness, A walk in the East part,

 

I love thee, Autumn, for thy Scenery, are the blasts of winter

chase the varied dyes - that richly deck the Slow declining year,

I love the Splendor of they Sunset Skies, the gorgeous hues that

tinge each falling leaf, lovely’s as beauty’s cheek, as woman’s

love too brief;

 

Description:

In the foreground of this picture, which is likely the Nook in the Ramble, a gentleman in coat and hat stands at the edge of a clearing surrounded by large rocks and trees. To his left is a simple, backless seat. The gray-haired man, no doubt Miller himself, directs the viewer’s attention to the scene of rocks, trees, and scanty patches of grass to his right with a pointing finger and gaze. Aside from listing plants and foliage in English and German, Miller describes the location and again quotes Charles Fenno Hoffman’s “Indian Summer.” (see notes for MS p. 4).

Transcription:

Oh! nature, Still I fondly turn to thee, with feelings fresh

as ere my childhood’s were; though wild and passion-tossed may

youth may be, toward thee I Still the Same devotion bear; to thee - to thee -

though health and hope no more.

 

I love the note of each-wild-bird that flies, as on the wind he pours

his parting lay, and wings his loitering flight to Summer Climes

away.

 

Glory, Honour and Peace, to every man

that worketh good!

 

 

A Shelter in the park a good Cover, it is north,

To air one’s Self an arbor- airy to rest.

 

 

On to the field of Glory.

 

Description:

This is likely a scene in the Ramble. Miller depicts a gentleman standing to the right of a sheltered arbor under which is a pair of rustic wooden seats built into the structure. A path, bordered by trees in the middle ground, encircles the arbor. In the bottom register is a scene of marching musicians and soldiers in formation with bayonets over their shoulders. In the top inscription Miller re-orders stanzas from Charles Fenno Hoffman’s “Indian Summer” (see “Guide,” p. 4). “Glory, Honour and Peace . . . ” is a biblical quotation from Romans 2:10: “But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile.” The bottommost inscription seems to describe the shelter.

Transcription:

Chorus the Star - - Spangled Banner.

Chorus Marseilles Hymn.

 

 

Violin Solo.

the rose of

Lucerne”

 

A Fine Resting place, Surrounded near-by - Rock’s, and

a private path, - in the upper part of the park. Made well.

 

 

Brothers, hasten to the Battle field

 

Description:

This page is divided into three registers. In the top register, Miller depicts a group of musicians playing various instruments including violin, triangle, and cello. These could be members of the popular Dodworth band that played in the Park in the summers (see “Guide,” p. 47). In the middle register a man stands to the left of a rustic seat in a small clearing surrounded in the foreground by small rocks and in the back by a larger boulder and a hill on which trees grow. In the bottom register, the parade from the previous page continues with soldiers and cannons drawn by horse carts. The top inscriptions are titles of the songs presumably being played by Dodworth’s band. Both the “Star Spangled Banner” and the “Marseilles Hymn” were in their repertoire, according to contemporary sources. The violin solo “Rose of Lucerne” is a Swiss melody popular in the nineteenth Century. The third inscription (“A Fine Resting place . . .”) describes the scene. At the bottom of the page, Miller inscribes the slightly paraphrased lyrics to the Union song “Hasten brothers to the battle” by Theo. Miller, D. C. (lyricist) and Vincent Percival (composer).

Transcription:

life’s wasted verdure may to me restore - I Still can childlike -

come as when in prayer - I bowed my head upon a mother’s Knee,

And deemed the world, like her all truth and purity. light as love’s

Smiles, the Silvery mist at morn floats in loose flakes along the limpid

river; the blue-bird’s notes upon the So’t breeze borne.

As high in the air he carols, faintly quiver; the weeping birch, like

banners idly waving, bends to the Streams its Spicy branches

laving; beaded with dew, the witch-elms tassels Shiver; the timid

rabbit from the furze is peeping, and from the Springy Spray the Squirrel’s

gayly - leaping.

 

 

The Lady-’s Bowery and Promenade place.

the Arbor full of morningglory flowers.

 

 

the are coming -- O’er all the Cities and Forts once m[ore]

 

Description:

The popular Vine-Covered Walk which overlooked the Mall is shown at the top of a small hill, with steps leading up to it. Many figures walk in the bower and on the steps, and among the trees of the Mall. To the left of the scene is a seat and a water fountain-an innovative amenity of the Park. At the bottom, the parade from the previous two pages continues with groups of soldiers on horseback, the last of which carries an American flag. The top inscriptions (“life’s wasted verdure . . .”) are re-ordered stanzas from Charles Fenno Hoffman’s “Indian Summer” (see “Guide,” p. 4). The middle inscription (“The Lady’s Bowery . . .”) describes the location. The inscription below this (“the are coming-O’er all the cities . . .”) is probably a patriotic lyric. The same fragment was quoted by W. W. Carter, a citizen of Baltimore, in a letter to the governors of the Northern states, dated November 8, 1862. Carter’s letter was published in Frank Moore, ed., The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events (New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1868), 11:586-87.

Transcription:

O! Choir of Spring, why come So Soon? on leafless grove and

herbless lawn warm lie the yellow beams of noon. yet winter is

not gone. Yet haply, from the rigion where, waked by an earlier

Spring than here, the blossomed wild-plum Scents the air,

Ye come in haste and fear. Stay for a tint of green Shall

creep Soon o’er the meadows-grassy floor, and from its bed the

crocus peep beside the Violet.

 

Aged man, with locks So hoary,

High estate dost thou possess; they appear thy crown of glory,

in the ray of righteousness, Jewels, not of man’s preparing,

from the Shining diadem thou art from thy Sovereign wearing,

God’s own finger Silver’d them.

 

 

A Showy handsom Bridge of Rock build,

a fine Structure and finish.

 

Stars and Strips we Shall restore.

 

Description:

Miller depicts Dalehead Arch, a stone bridge crossing a path, with decorative circular carvings on its balustrade, which was built between 1860 and 1862. Two groups of people walk on the path, and a man sits on the grass in the foreground beside the path observing the scene. One lone soldier from the parade on the previous pages can be seen at the bottom left side, providing a clue to the original ordering of the album pages.

The top inscription (“O! Choir of Spring . . .”) is a quotation from William Cullen Bryant’s (1794-1878) poem “The Return of the Birds.” Bryant was a renowned American poet and influential journalist, as well as the editor of the New York Evening Post for half a century. In addition to his literary efforts, he was on the Board of Commissioners for Central Park. The middle inscription (“Aged man . . . ”) is a quotation from Hannah Flagg Gould’s (1789-1865) poem, “The Hoary Head” which Miller may have known from a volume of collected works or a religious literary sampler such as The Christian Keepsake and Missionary Annual. Gould was a popular poet whose works, primarily dealing with themes of everyday life, religion, and patriotism, were favorably compared to the poetry of William Wordsworth and William Cullen Bryant by contemporary critics. The bottom inscriptions describe the scene (“A Showy handsom Bridge . . . ”) and refer to a patriotic lyric “Stars and Strips . . . ” which is a continuation of the W. W. Carter quote; (see “Guide,” p. 9).

Transcription:

Green meadows and the russet hill, not yet the haunt

of grazing herds, And thickets by the glimmering rill are

all alive with birds.

 

 

the - View. of the Rock and Meadow, on top of the big ro[ck] [page cut off]

 

Description:

This page shows a view of a large grassy field, probably “The Ledge,” at the Play-Ground, and the rock outcropping called the West or East Meadows, bordered on the right side by a path and distant evergreens. Two men climb the boulder towards a seat at its peak. Men are shown working in the field with various tools such as a rake and a horse-drawn mower. At the bottom of the page, a man sits on a seat beside the path, and more men and women walk on the path in the distance. The top inscription (“Green meadows . . . ”) is from William Cullen Bryant’s “The Return of the Birds” (see “Guide,” p. 10; Miller substitutes “green meadows” for the original “brown meadows”). The bottom inscription describes the scene.

Transcription:

 

 

Im thal lies sich ein uhu hören, sein tiefer Echo [K?]ie[?]

mir zu, freund komt du bei mir ein zu [Höhren?], ich bin ein

Eremit wie du. in wohl gesell so [scher?] und Wilde, die gleich

ist meine lebens art, und was ich heilich mir ein bilde, ist mein

[Habuts?] und langer bard.

 

 

the owl in the valley, her deep low echo, calling to me

friend i invite you, at this quiet spot, i am a hermit

like you. and what is sacred to me, is my cap and

long beard.

 

[Translation: Come hear the owl in the valley, his deep echo calls

me to him, friend, come with me to hear him, I am a

hermit like you. In happy fellowship, so [illeg?] and wild, the same

as my style of living, and what is sacred to me [illeg?] is my

[illeg?] and long beard.]

 

Description:

A lady on horseback rides along a path, past a tree where an owl is perched. A small white dog chases the horse. In the background, a couple and single man walk amidst the forest trees. The inscription (“Im thal lies . . . ”) is an unidentified poem in German and an English translation.

A small faithful dog is a convention in images of the pilgrim or the “wise fool” on a journey (see Barush essay, fig. 3, attributed to Albrecht Dürer, a pilgrim passing a castle, From v. 1, t.p. verso of: Gerson, Jean, 1363-1429. [Opera] [Strassburg, Johann (Reinhard) Grüninger], 1488. 3 v., Andover-Harvard Theological Library.

Transcription:

II. Now let him whose heart’s desire would to these

delights aspire, In his full responsive Strain utter forth

the loud Amen.

 

 

this Spot is up in the wilderniss, there is a water -

pool the goose-puddle, and flower bed, See the Spoon

goose and her Young, and two Stork’s the are white.

there is one gray, Stork among them. See Spoon bill,

is in German löffel-gans. pelican, is in German pelikan, the

Same name.

 

Description:

The primary feature of the picture is a small pond, perhaps the Loch or the Pool in the Ramble, surrounded by many trees behind it, and grasses, shrubs, and flowers in front of it. Several waterfowl are in or near the pond. In the foreground is a low railing and a man standing beside it, looking at the birds. Miller again quotes Martin Luther’s hymn The Happy Man (see “Guide,” p. 5).

Transcription:

I hear, from many a little throat, A warble interrupted long,

I hear the Robin’s flute-like note, the bluebird’s Slenderer

Song, here build, and dread no harsher Sound,

to Scare you from the Sheltering tree, than winds that

Stir the branches round And murmur of the bee.

 

 

Going up to the Bell Tower.

Oh! nature Still I fondly turn to thee, with feelings fresh as ere

my childhood’s were; though wild and passion tossed my youth

may be, toward thee, I Still the Same devotion bear; to thee - to thee

though health and hope no more.

 

Description:

Miller depicts a path in the Ramble leading to the Bell Tower, bordered by a low railing and passing between a grove of trees on the left side, and a large rock, covered with vines, on the right side. The path splits, with a set of steps where it turns to the right. Three couples walk on the path. The top inscription is a quotation from William Cullen Bryant’s “The Return of the Birds” (see “Guide,” p. 10). The bottom inscription (“Going up . . .”) describes the location. “Oh! nature . . . ” is from Charles Fenno Hoffman’s, “Indian Summer” (see “Guide,” p. 4).

Transcription:

In her ear he whispers gayly, if my heart

by Signs can tell, maiden I have watched thee daily,

And I think thou lov’st me well. She replies in accents

fainter, there is none I love like thee.

 

Description:

Miller shows a woman on horseback, riding on a bridle path through a grassy area, with trees in the background. Miller inscribes the first part of a ballad, “The Lord of Burleigh,” by the English poet Alfred Tennyson, first Baron Tennyson (1809-92). Although he quotes only the first six lines, perhaps Miller could relate to the one immediately following that states, “He is but a landscape-painter, And a village maiden she.” The lines add a narrative interest to the page.

Transcription:

The Entrance free,

 

 

Going into the Central Park, at Eight-Avenue.

Book of Lewis Miller, New York. 1864.

Original Sketch’s of drawing’s

In the Park.

A Guide.

 

Description:

Miller depicts the Eighth Avenue entrance (probably Merchant Gate at Fifty-Ninth Street) where carriage drives, bridle paths, and pedestrian paths intersected. Many men, women, and children arrive on foot, on horseback, and by carriage. He details the goats to the right of the page, gas lamps, and a gatehouse, and famous “keep off the grass” signs can be seen along the path. The inscriptions (“The Entrance . . .” and “Going into the Central Park . . .”) describe the entrance to the Park, and title of the album hence indicating that this may be the original title page of Miller’s “Guide” although in the album, this is currently bound as page 16.

Transcriptions:

Names of trees, evergreen.

 Spruce.

 pine .

 cedar .

 Juniper .

Arborvite.

 Sauina .

Cypress .

 Savia .

hemlock. Spruce fir

Bay tree. der lorbeer

baum.

 lerch.

 firre .

 laurel.

holy.

 holuer.

 yew tree.

palm tree.

the Owl - brown. der uhu.

 If it prove so, then loving goes

 by haps, Some cupid kills

with arrows, Some with traps.

[on sign:] For Gentleman

 

 

Oft we pass calm and peaceful, then Enter, and

the rest of our Company remaining a while.

 

Description:

A paved or cobbled stone path passes through a clump of evergreens, the names of which are inscribed in English and German. A small tiled building is identified as public facilities by the sign labeled “For Gentleman.” The first public toilets had been installed at the Great Exhibition at the Crystal Palace in 1851 (including the “penny-in-the-slot ladies’ loos”) and this innovation still would have been novel for a visitor to Central Park ten years later. This is a very rare illustration of such an amenity and building type. Miller demonstrates an interest in plumbing and water on several pages in his “Guide” and carefully includes pumps and drains along with toilet buildings such as the one shown here. A man is on the path leading to the facilities. An owl sits on a branch entering the picture plane on the right (the tree itself is out of view). Tendrils of ivy crawl up the right-hand side of the picture. Miller quotes William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, act 3, scene 1 (Leonato’s garden). The bottom inscription (“Oft we pass . . . ”) is from an unidentified source. The owl is identified in German as “der uhu.” For another owl, see p. 12 of Miller’s “Guide”; the birds appear frequently in Miller’s oeuvre and are similar to the terracotta figures by J. W. Mould on Bethesda Terrace.

Transcription:

I’m all alone, I’m all alone, Kind tones the greet my ear.

though friends are few, and I’m alone, yet memory points to days,

when, from the hearth of home arose the Song of grateful praise.

and fancy oft doth take my hand, and lead me to those bowers;

I greet again that cherished band, as in life’s brighter hours.

 

Sassafras Shrubbery, A wilderness, one hours rest,

 

Nor Stranger Seemed that hearts So gentle, So employed, Should

close in love, than when two dew-drops on the petal Shake,

to the Same Sweet air and tremble deeper down, And Slip

at once all fragrant into one.

 

Description:

Miller depicts the dense sassafras copse in the Ramble, bordered by a low railing. According to Richards’s Guide to the Central Park (1866) there were 20,000 sassafras trees on the original site of the Park. A man with cane and a lady walk on the path. In the foreground is a man sitting on a seat, observing the scene. To his right area few scattered trees, which become more densely planted to the right of the page, and to his left are two trees and a boulder. The top inscription (“I’m all alone . . . ”) is from an unidentified source (possibly lyrics by Miller’s friend Henry Fisher, a poet). In the quotation, Miller engages with themes of memory and remembrance. One of the bottom inscriptions is descriptive (“Sassafras Shrubbery . . . ”); the other is a poem fragment from Alfred Tennyson’s (see “Guide,” p. 15) comedic “The Princess, A Medley.”

Transcription:

It is not timber, lead, and Stone, An architect requires

alone, to finish a great building, the palace were but

half complete, Could he by any chance forget the carving

and the gilding.

 

Bridge at the Willow tree, near the promenate

 

 

Description:

In the foreground, a man sits on a seat on a path, looking at Willowdell Arch (Bridge No. 3, supporting East Drive) under which two couples walk. Built in 1861 after designs by Calvert Vaux and Jacob Wrey Mould, the bridge is constructed of sandstone and red brick with a cast-iron railing. Located on East Drive near Sixty-Seventh Street, it links the Mall with the Dene. Miller depicts vines growing up its sides, as well as the large weeping willow tree for which the bridge was named. The top inscription is a quotation from William Cowper (1731-1800), poet and letter-writer, from his poem, “On Friendship.” The bottom inscription (“Bridge at . . . ”) describes the location near Sixty-Seventh Street.

Transcription:

A considerable proportion of the Bridge’s are built of Stone;

the great abundance of it on the river rendering it as cheap as any

other material, the grounds are Sufficiently old to be ornamented

with well-grown trees, Shrubberies & -

 

Bridge near the old Arsenal.

 

Description:

In this picturesque scene, Miller depicts the formidable Denesmouth Arch (Bridge no. 7), supporting the Sixty-Fifth Street Transverse. He pays particular attention to the arrangement of the radiating New Brunswick sandstone bricks and the Gothic decorations consisting of quatrefoil circles on the top and sides of the arch. The Arsenal rises up above the bridge with a billowing flag disappearing into the mist. Several men stand on the wide path running under the arch, including a group of three, one of whom, perhaps the artist, is pointing and holds a paper, guidebook, or sketchbook. The top inscription is paraphrased from the author, feminist, prison reformer, and abolitionist Eliza Wood Burhans Farnham’s (1815-64) Life in Prairie Land. In her popular nature and travel book, Farnham hints at her long-held beliefs on women’s superiority. Miller quotes from Prairie Land throughout his “Guide,” often changing a word or two so that the passage would describe his own illustration. For example, here he substitutes “bridges” for the original “houses.” Bottom inscription (“Bridge near . . . ”) describes the location.

Transcription:

Here to Sit down, and feel that this Spot made

Beautiful by industry and arts, the eye wandering over

the plains and groves, when every Shrub and tree around

putting on its richest charms, when the birds whose Joyous

notes had cheered the Solitary hours of So many Similar Seasons,

were returning to their olden haunts full of life and music,

 

 

[on sign:] Genman

[on sign:] Lady.

 

Description:

Three paths cross through the scene. Men in a carriage and on horseback ride on the foreground path, and several men and women walk on the middle and background paths. The middle path runs under a rustic arbor on the left, where a man is seated, then loops around a small building in the center containing public facilities as indicated by two signs reading “Lady” and “Genman” (see “Guide,” p. 17). The building and arbor are in a grassy area that rises to a hilly background dotted with trees. A large, white boulder surmounts a hillock. Inscription (“Here to Sit down . . . ”) is paraphrased from Farnham, Life in Prairie Land (e.g. at page 223) (see “Guide,” p. 20).

Transcription:

Bridge west of the Arsenal,

Immediately above the bridge terminates a line of

Stone bluffs bold and towering, and contains Some

very picturesque and beautiful Spots;

 

Shrub’s

 

A bush of Shrub’s. and Shrubbery.

 

Description:

Miller captures the bright yellow stone of Greengap Arch (Bridge No. 11) in this view. Completed in 1861, it supports East Drive and its footpaths. The bridge crosses a bridal path bordered by a low railing on the right side. We see two women on horseback and two women strolling, and a man is seated on small rocks to the right of the arch. Miller identifies plantings, including shrubbery. “Bridge west” describes the location. Miller paraphrases Farnham’s Life in Prairie Land, changing some of the words to better describe his picture. For example, rather than “immediately above the city,” Miller uses “immediately above the bridge;” “stone” is substituted for “limestone,” etc. Farnham wrote:

The position of Alton is one of much beauty. It stands at one of the most charming points on the upper Mississippi; having its clear, dark waters broken by two beautiful, wooded islands near the opposite shore, and commanding from the bluffs a fine view of the junction of the Missouri with the former stream. Immediately above the city, terminates a line of limestone bluffs, bold and towering, which wall in the Mississippi for near fifty miles. Immediately below, commences the celebrated “American bottom,” which extends almost unbroken to the mouth of the Ohio. The town is divided into upper, middle, and lower Alton. The last-named lies along the water-side, and is the principal place of business. Middle Town extends back on the heights, and contains some very picturesque and beautiful spots.

Transcription:

Bridge near Eight Avenue.

Castor-Oil Bean.

and plant.

 

Keep off the Grass. [second ‘f’ in ‘off’ very faint, perhaps added later]

 

Description:

Miller has captured the intricately carved railing of Greyshot Arch, (Bridge No. 13), north of Columbus Circle. This bridge was an early design by Calvert Vaux, which was constructed in 1860-62. Miller has slightly skewed the perspective by attempting to fit the details on the right-hand side of the bridge into the page. The bridge, flanked by two grassy knolls, arches over a path which is bordered by small trees or shrubs, and which forks in two in the foreground. A woman and a child walk on the path. In the top left corner of the page, Miller draws and labels a castor oil plant-not likely on site. The drawing is botanically accurate, but it could only have been a hothouse plant in New York. The top inscription (“Bridge near . . . ”) describes the location. “Castor-oil Bean . . . ” identifies the plant drawing. The bottom inscription (“Keep off . . . ”) is possibly from a sign in the Park. These signs were a famous feature and the subject of notices and commentary in newspapers.

Transcription:

Still farther back, and down to the lake, has Some

points - that transferred to canvas, would bear comparison

with the boasted Scenery of the old world.

 

In the Shade, an obscure place, under the Arbour,

in the park,

 

Description:

A man and a woman are seated facing one another under a rustic arbor. The structure is nestled in a wooded copse and is abloom with blue-flowering vines. A man descends a staircase passing through boulders and a woman walks along the path lower on the right. A path runs from the bottom of the staircase, under the arbor, and between the couple. On the right side, steps lead down a short slope. The top inscription “Still farther back . . . boasted scenery of the old world” is paraphrased from Farnham’s Life in Prairie Land (see “Guide,” p. 20): “Middle Town extends back on the heights, and contains some very picturesque and beautiful spots; and Upper Town still farther back, and down the river, has some points that, transferred to canvas, would bear comparison with the boasted scenery of the old world.” The bottom inscription (“In the Shade . . . ”) describes Miller’s experience of the place, similar to his repetition of the phrase “In the Park” throughout the “Guide.”

Transcription:

Terrace.

 

From this place, A fine view of the Lake and

Basin - & Basement, on the Opposite Side,

 

Description:

Miller depicts a circular rustic seat, designed by Calvert Vaux, with a thatched roof supported by a tree trunk, which is in turn supported by wood buttresses. The structure was called the Umbrella or Toadstool in contemporaneous guidebooks. A wooden railing and several small trees encircle the seat, representing the evergreen thicket in which it was sited. In the background is the Lake, and on its far shore is Bethesda Terrace with its flanking flagpoles, the Fountain, and the Casino. Miller shows boats on the Lake, and scattered figures at the Umbrella and at the Terrace. The inscriptions (“Terrace” and “From this place . . . ”) describe the location.

Transcription:

Schiller.

 

[on sign:] Schiller

 

In the Park.

 

Description:

A bust of Johann C. F. von Schiller, on a brownstone pedestal labeled with his name, dominates the view. The monument has been relocated to the Mall, but in Miller’s time it stood in the Ramble. A path, with three sections of steps and a low railing, passes in front of and around the bust, and behind the bust is a large boulder with vines and trees growing around it. A man walks on the path, and another (perhaps Miller himself) sits on the steps with pen in hand and a sketchbook. The inscriptions (“Schiller” and “In the Park”) describe the statue and location.

Transcription:

The whole Park Seemed to me a Paradise that Summer an[d]

Autumn. the profusion of late flowers and wild fruits, and the

Soft musical winds, delighted me. the promenate.

 

The Promenate,

 

Description:

The Mall, which Miller calls “the Promenate” is a series of tree-lined allées with a central paved avenue leading to the terrace. At the top of the page, Miller lightly sketches the music pavilion on the left, the turrets and flagpoles of Bethesda terrace in the center, and the Vine-Covered Walk and Casino on the right. Men, women, and children stroll about the promenade and workers climb a ladder to prune a tree. A contemporaneous guidebook commended the “settees,” a type of seat shown at the bottom of the page, because they had backs to “lean against” (Perkins and Guild, Central Park, 35). The inscription (“The whole Park . . . ”) is paraphrased from Farnham’s Life in Prairie Land with Miller substituting “Park” for Farnham’s word “land” (see also “Guide,” p. 20).

Transcription:

Bridge over the Lake,

In the Central park,

A lily thou wast when i Saw thee first, A lily bud not opened quite,

that hourly grew more pure and white, by morning, and noontide, and

evening nursed; In all of nature thou hadst thy Share, thou wast waited on

by the wind and Sun; the rain and the dew for thee took care;

It Seemed thou never Couldst be more fair.

 

Swan, Geese, and ducks.

 

Description:

Bow Bridge (Bridge No. 5), the first cast-iron bridge in the Park and second oldest in the country, was built between 1859 and 1862. It is located mid-Park at Seventy-Fourth Street west of Bethesda Terrace, and serves to connect Cherry Hill and The Ramble, over the Lake. In the lower right, a man sits on an ornamented boat launch, sketching or reading. Two men row amid the swans, geese, and ducks identified as such by Miller. The top inscription (“Bridge over . . . ”) describes the location, with ‘In the Park’ added as a refrain of the title of Miller’s work. The middle inscription (“A lily thou wast . . . ”) is a quotation from a poem, “Song” by the author and diplomat James Russell Lowell (1819–91). Lowell’s poems were widely published in American periodicals through the 1840s including the Southern Literary Messenger, Graham’s Magazine, and the United States Magazine and Democratic Review . The bottom inscription (“Swan . . . ”) identifies the waterfowl.

Transcription:

Iron Bridge near Eight, Avenue.

 

The daughters of the year, One after one, through that Still garden passed.

Each, garlanded with her peculiar flower, danced into light, and died

into the Shade, And each in passing touched with Some new grace,

or Seemed to touch her, So that day by day, like one that never can be wholly

known, her beauty grew.

 

The paths are Kept clean,

 

Description:

The cast-iron Pinebank Arch (Bridge No. 15), also known as Flying Bridge, stretches over a curving path lined with grass, shrubs, and trees. Men, women, and a child walk on the path. In the lower left, a man sits on a rock sketching the bridge. The top inscription (“Iron Bridge . . . ”) describes the location. The middle inscription (“The daughters of the year . . . ”) is one of Alfred Tennyson’s “English Idylls,” called “The Gardener’s Daughter,” written in 1835 (see also MS p. 15). The bottom inscription is a commentary by Miller on the cleanliness of the Park.

Transcription:

With Summer lightnings of a Soul So full of Summer

warmth, So glad, So healthy, Sound and clear and

whole, his memory Scarce can make me Sad.

 

Beautiful Summer house, it Stands at one of the most

charming points, on rocks. the heights are for the most part

covered with the hazel, low Shrub oak, and forest trees, the level

Grounds are clad with a Smooth green turf, Set with a great variety

of wild flowers,

 

Description:

This page shows a rustic wooden summerhouse, probably the now demolished shelter called Kinderberg, made of chestnut with cedar roofing and flagstone paving. It was built on large boulders, with planted trees and shrubs. A paved or cobbled path and steps lead up to its entrance, where a man stands taking in the view through the open lattice work. The top inscription (“with Summer lightnings . . . ”) is from Alfred Tennyson’s poem, “The Miller’s Daughter,” published 1832 (see “Guide,” p. 15). This piece formed part of a series with “The Gardener’s Daughter” (see “Guide,” p. 29) previous page), “The Doctor’s Daughter,” and the projected “Innkeeper’s Daughter.” Various versions of the poem appeared in American periodicals and proved popular with their readership (see K. Ledbetter, Tennyson and Victorian Periodicals: Commodities in Context, p. 178). Miller’s knowledge of the poem is an indication of its wide appeal. While the bottom inscription (“Beautiful Summer house . . . ”) seems to describe the summerhouse and its location, it is actually a paraphrase from Farnham’s Life in Prairie Land (see “Guide,” p. 20) with Farnham’s “on the upper Mississippi” swapped, by Miller, for “On Rocks.” Rather than the “Beautiful Summer House,” Farnham is discussing Alton in her book.

Transcription:

Hark the voices Sound the note, Come, assist the choir

and Sing, O! we will – Sing with them too. what are those

reviving Strains, which echo thus from rocks’ and plains,

So loud, and louder Still, So Sweetly Sound from this hill.

I: when Sorrow has changed, All nature is life,

In beauty of a faithful house wife,

then let the world go as it will,

let hollow friends forsake you,

you both – may be as happy Still

as love and peace can make you.

 

the Cataract, a Small water fall in a neck of the

Lake, its breast of waters broadly Swells,

Between the banks that bear the Vine,

 

Description:

Miller engages with Romantic pictorial conventions with his scaled-down yet rocky “Cataract” pouring into a “breast of waters [that] broadly swells” which, on a larger scale, would certainly be considered sublime. This could be the cave that faces the Lake in the Ramble or the “Cascades of the Ravine” mentioned in contemporary guidebooks. In the foreground is a path bordered by low railings which is where a man is sitting, contemplating the scene. The top inscription (“Hark the voices . . . ”) ends with the words “reviving strains, which echo thus from rocks and plains.” This is similar to a Moravian hymn: “What are those soul-reviving strains, which echo thus from rocks and plains.” Variations appear in Methodist and Baptist hymnals. The middle inscription (“when Sorrow has changed . . . ”) is a paraphrase of the English author Esther Copley’s (née Beuzeville; other married name Hewlett [1786-1851]) poem, “Lines Written in a Son’s Album,” published in The Christian Keepsake and Missionary Annual. Copley’s extant writings include tracts, children’s literature, poetry, and works on the domestic economy. In 1836, she wrote A History of Slavery and its Abolition in which she graphically described the suffering of slaves from the West Indies and declared that the origin of slavery was to be found in “human depravity”. The American Christian Keepsake,in which her poem was published, erroneously indicates the poem was written in “Egthorn, England”; this should in fact be Eythorne, a town in Kent where the Copleys resided from 1837 until Esther Copley’s death. The bottom inscription (“the Cataract . . . ”) describes the scene. Part of the quotation is taken from Lord Byron’s epic narrative poem, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage: A Romaunt (1816), canto 3, st. 55. The poem, which brought Byron instant fame, is written in nine-line Spenserian stanzas and recalls the journey of a pilgrim/knight.

Transcription:

The Towering Oak tree, north East. in the park.

the lower bud Surround with grass Sod.

Skill that can taste and Comfort us, with wise Economy.

A Speaking eye - be it black or blue, and bright with joy.

looks always Kind on You.

 

Description:

A mature oak tree is the subject of this page, shown in its stepped grass planter. A path encircles the oak and leads off in three directions. In the left background is the Casino or refreshment house. Strolling figures populate the background while a man stands near the tree, possibly pointing to it. The location of the oak can be pinpointed on an 1870 map where the path can be seen forming a ring around the tree, located between Seventieth and Seventy-First Streets, just west of Fifth Avenue. Although the Prince of Wales had planted an oak and an elm in the Park (to represent Britain and America, respectively) neither tree was able to thrive. Miller’s is too large and his album too late for this to be a portrayal of the Prince’s tree. The top inscription describes the tree with a line from an unidentified source immediately below. The lower part of the inscription is from Esther Copley’s poem, “Lines Written in a Son’s Album” (see “Guide,” p. 31).

Transcription:

How Shall we our course pursue, through life’s uncertain

road! what friendly hand will point our view to duty and

to God? in lords own words the way is Sure, and plain to every

eye; it leads us in a path Secure, to brighter worlds on high.

Bridge near Gate - 59th Street, 7th Avenue.

 

Description:

Dipway Arch (Bridge No. 16) is a small granite and ashlar bridge with curved embankments that allow pedestrians to “dip” below the traffic of the South Drive carriage way (see Spiegler and Gaykowski, p. 35). A curving path runs under the arch, with several trees adding depth and perspectival interest to the picture plane in the background. A man on horseback and two women are above on the path crossing the bridge, and men, women, and children walk on the path below that passes through the arch; a man with a sketchbook sits to the left of the path and another man approaches from its right. The top inscription (“How Shall we . . . ”) is a religious hymn. The bottom inscription describes the location.

Transcription:

The vines and roses trained were unfolding their

young tendrils around the rocks, there is great variety of

Scenery, high, rolling ridges, divided by deep valleys or round

basins, as perfect in finish as if constructed by rules of art.

 

 

A, Walk in the park,

South East part, near 6th Avenue

59th Street - Gate.

 

Description:

A path curves around a densely planted hillock of trees, shrubs, and vines. There is a seat and two signs along the path which do not contain discernible lettering. Miller refers, page 35 (see “Guide,” p. 35), to a sign labeled: “Do not pick nor break a[n]y leaf, flower or fruit.”A rustic structure called the Cop Cot (near the Artist’s Gate) appears in the upper right quadrant. Men (one of whom seems to be admiring the vining vegetation on the right-side of the page), women, and children walk on the path (one of whom seems to be admiring the vining vegetation on the right-side of the page) and others stand near the shelter. The upper inscription is a paraphrase from Farnham’s Life in Prairie Land (see “Guide,” p. 20). The bottom inscription locates the scene and repeats the theme “In the Park.”

Transcription:

Bridge west of the Arsenal.

There’ no more at eve declining, Suns with out a cloud are

Shining O’er the land of life and love; there the founts of life

are flowing, flowers, unknown to time, are blowing In that

radiant Scene above. there no Sigh of memory Swelleth; there no

tear of misery welleth; hearts will bleed or break no more; past is all

the cold world’s scorning, gone the night and broke the morning, over

all the golden Shore.

 

Do not pick nor break ay leaf, flower or fruit,

 

Description:

Miller portrays Driprock Arch (Bridge No. 2), with its distinctive red brick and yellow stone. A path curves under the bridge, and with his usual eye for details regarding plumbing and water, Miller includes two drains on either side of the path in front of the bridge. A man on top of the bridge looks down at an equestrian on the bridle path. The top inscription (“Bridge west . . . ”) describes the location. The next inscription (“There’ no more . . . ”) is drawn from an anonymous religious poem, “A Dream of Heaven” published in serials such as The Christian Library: A Weekly Republication of Popular Religious Works (New York: Thomas George, Jr., 1835), 528. Below, Miller seems to be quoting the Park’s infamous signposts.

Transcription:

Great overhanging piles of Rock; and wooded

hills rose up and Spread, as if by magic. it was

wonderful. many times i was on the eve of calling

out, it was mere foggy Space, could I be mistaken

no! that was Surely a light gleaming before me.

 

A little trickle Spring out of the Rock.

More bright and Sweet the drooping water,

with Swifter Speed Shall run.

 

Description:

In another waterfall scene, Miller sketches a large boulder, which is host to verdant trees and vines. In keeping with his clear fascination with water drainage in the Park, Miller includes a small waterfall, indicated by dashes, dripping from the rock into a gutter that leads to a drain. A man and woman stand looking at the cascade, while another man sits on the ground beside the clearing and two people walk on a path in the background near a signpost. The top inscription ("Great overhanging piles . . . ") is paraphrased from Farnham, Life in Prairie Land (see “Guide,” p. 20). The bottom inscription ("A little trickle . . . ") describes the scene and may be drawn from an unidentified source.

Transcription:

Iron Bridge near 7th Avenue.

we fabricate Spruce dandy noddies, with Souls adapted to their bodies,

to wit, So exquisitely Small. They might as well have none at all.

Enjoy the Spring of love and youth, to Some good angel leave the rest; for time

will teach thee Soon the truth, there are no birds in last year’s nest.

 

Draw the Curtain, and let me

look upon the grass and elm trees.




tame Rabbet,

 

Description:

This ornate wrought- and cast-iron bridg,e known as Spur Rock Arch (or Oval Arch), was demolished in 1934, and very few drawings and images remain. Miller focused on not only the detail of the spandrels and wheels of the bridge (which have been compared to ecclesiastic architecture) but carefully rendered the leafy vines growing over the bridge. The bridle path under the bridge is bordered by a simple railing. In the background, a woman and child walk on the path. In the foreground, a man sits on a rock, looking at a "tame" rabbit. The top inscription ("Iron Bridge . . . ") describes the location, which was near Sixty-First Street and Seventh Avenue. The middle inscription is taken from a satirical poem, "Terrible Tractoration!!" (1803) by the writer, inventor, and lawyer Thomas Green Fessenden (1771-1837). Fessenden’s long piece, in the mock-heroic Hudibrastic verse developed by Samuel Butler, burlesques what he sees as the backwards science of his time.

Transcription:

As i Sat and gazed from these heights, my thoughts

reverted to the early time, when the light canoe

Skimmed the water; when, from the Surrounding heights

and distant hills Softening the landscape with that peculiar

tinting which only the hand of nature can impart, nothing

could be imagined more magnificent then the entire view.

of the park.

 

 

the West part of the Lake, and Bridge.

 

Description:

In this complex drawing of the western part of the Lake, Miller records many significant features of the Park. The shoreline is ringed with evergreen trees. Bank Rock Bridge (also known as Oak Bridge) crosses a narrow arm of the water in the left background. In the far background is a wall of stone or brick, with a railing, which may be Croton Reservoir. In the middle ground, Miller shows a man standing on a rustic boat launch. Figures, walking and boating, are scattered throughout the scene. The top inscription is paraphrased from Farnham’s Life in Prairie Land (see “Guide,” p. 20). The bottom inscription ("the west part . . . ") describes the location and view.

Transcription:

The birds pour forth their notes of Spring, in Sunshine

and in Shade, they Sing Sweet Singers, ever Sing, its there [erased text between and partially under ’sing’ and ’its’]

delight, Such happy hours to Spend.

 

 

A Beautiful Peacock.

 

Description:

A man sits on a rustic seat which overlooks a clearing, surrounded by trees and shrubs. "A beautiful peacock" stands in the middle of the clearing. A man and a woman walk on the path in the background, near a sign, at which one of them points. Three birds fly overhead. Miller’s inscription ("The birds pour forth their notes") may be borrowed in part from the English poet William Wordsworth’s (1770-1850) poem, "Devotional Incitements": "The birds pour forth their souls in notes / Of rapture from a thousand throats." This page is one of the few instances in the entire work where evidence of erasure can be seen. This is the exception to the rule that the drawings in this album are finished drawings. We have almost no rough sketches remaining among his two thousand drawings. He perhaps destroyed all but the finished pages.

Transcription:

The Tower. -

 

 

the new Statue in the

park, near Eight Avenue

may 23th 1867. I was in

the park,

Catalogue,

of trees.

Maple. Silver.

and Sugar -

bird eyed.

hickory tree.

walnut

black & white

beech. yellow.

and white.

Elm. Ash.

birch -

poplar, yellow.

tulip tree.

wild cherry.

Gum. Oak.

chestnut.

crab apple.

molberry.

bayberry.

cucumber.

horse chestnut.

locust yellow.

honey locust.

holly. & white

pine. white

Oak. black

Oak. life

Oak. chestnut

Oak, dog. & -

iron wood

hawberry.

Sassafras.

willow. yellow.

and green.

Aspen.

The high Elevated place in the park, tower,

 

Description:

 This tower was built on Vista Rock, the highest point in the Park. Intended to be temporary, the tower was demolished by 1869. Miller shows the steep path lined by a low railing which leads to the tower. A woman stands on the path and a man sits on the grass with a sketchbook; another man stands on the lower platform of the bell tower looking over the Park. In the upper left, Miller includes a separate drawing of the new statue of the allegorical figure of Commerce near Eighth Avenue. The left inscription ("The Tower" and "the new Statue . . . ") identifies the features. Along the margin, Miller provides a list of trees, similar to those found in guidebooks such as Richards Guide to the Central Park at 23-24. The bottom inscription ("The high Elevated place . . . ") identifies the location.

Transcription:

The Same Bridge on the East Side,

 

“Oh, Stream of life, the violet Springs but once beside thy bed;

but one brief Summer, on thy path, the dews of heaven are shed;

thy parent fountains Shrink away, and close their crystal veins,

And where thy glittering current flowed, the dust alone remains.

 

“Oh, Silvery Streamlet of the fields, that flowest full and

free! for thee the rains of Spring return, the Summer dews for thee;

And when thy latest blossoms die, in autumn’s chilly Showers,

the winter fountains gush for thee, till May brings back

the flowers.

 

Description:

The heading on this page suggests that pages 41 and 42 were originally in reverse order. The brownstone and brick Trefoil Arch (Bridge No. 12) is shown from the east side. It has a stone and iron railing, ornamental carvings on the side, and a shamrock-shaped arch. This bridge was a curiosity because its other entrance has a differently shaped opening. A path leads under the bridge, where two men and a woman and child walk. The two verses are drawn from William Cullen Bryant’s (see “Guide,” p. 10) poem, “The Stream of Life,” published in 1845.

Transcription:

Bridge, No. 12 West Side,

When things are done and past recalling, tis folly then to

fret and cry, prop up a rotten house that’s falling, but

when it’s down there let it lie.

 

When languor and disease invade this trembling house

of clay, how Sweet to look beyond my pains, and long to fly away.

 

Description:

As a companion to page 41, Miller now depicts the west side of Trefoil Arch, which has a rounded arch profile and curved projecting embankments. A stepped path leads up to and through the tunnel. Figures walk on the path and a horse-drawn carriage drives overhead. The first inscription identifies the location. The first verse (“When things are done . . . “) comes from a poem, “The French Peasant,” by an author identified as “M,” published in The Gentleman’s Magazine in 1813. The subsequent verse (“When languor . . . “) is a popular hymn.

Transcription:

In the Park,

 

the Opposite of the Cave.

 

Description:

Miller shows a view of the famous Cave in the Ramble taken from across the Lake, as stated by the inscription. This view of the cave is captured in many contemporaneous prints and photographs. Figures roam in the thick woods and rocky topography of this portion of the park. He shows phantasmagoric figures in the cave, an effect of light that received much comment. In the foreground, a man sits on the rocks sketching. The inscriptions (“In the Park” and “the Opposite . . . “) describe the location and reiterate the theme of the album.

Transcription:

In the Park,

 

The Cave. Entering place,

the rocks are covered and overgrowing with ivy,

woodbine, creepers, and cowslip, wild vines,

 

Description:

Miller shows the entrance to the Cave from the rocky mount. A path leads to the cave through the Ramble Stone Arch, one of the most popular and frequently reproduced Park features. Trees and thick vines grow on top of the rocks and the archway. A man standing in the cave has a ghostly appearance, caused by lighting effects in the cave. Two other men are shown on the path, one walking toward the cave and the other through the archway, near one of the ubiquitous park signposts. The top and bottom inscriptions (“In the Park,” “The Cave . . . “ and “the rocks are covered . . . “) describe the location and its features. Again, Miller repeats “In the Park,” a common strain of the album.

Transcription:

Am felsen hang, im park ich wandre, der weg zum fichten wald

hin strecht, da hat Natur das grüne thal, mit mooß und

ephey [Efeu?] uberdeckt. Gott - dachte ich, wo sind die schatten, der leiber, die

vor langer Zeit, ja diesen Ort betreten hatten, und derren staub -

umher zerstreut, Zum denkmal das ich hier geweßen, schrieb ich auf

einen Marmor stein, O! möchten alle die dis ließen, nur keine

Ruher stöher sein,

 

 

Outlet and Gate,

Alone - loney retired Solitary, Solitarily, Einsam,

 

[Translation: At the edge of the cliff, I wander in the park, the path stretches out through the thick woods

there nature has a green valley, covered with moss and

ivy. God, I thought, where are the shadows, the [bodies?] that a long time ago, had tread in this place and

whose dust --

scattered about, to the monument where I was, I write on

the marble stone, O! I would like all who read this, just don’t

disturb the quiet.]

 

Description:

Miller shows a hilly area, with a pathway and an iron gate cutting through it. The gate has stone embankments on either side and behind (or above) it is a stone wall. To the left and right of the gate are large, white boulders as well as shrubs and trees. A man with a sketchbook sits on the grass near the path. The German poem is not yet identified.

Transcription:

Bridge No. 9. west Side,

 

And thus forever let me dream of those I fondly love,

till I awake to find them all in that bright home

above.

 

Description:

The stately Marble Arch with its carved stone and elegant railing, flanked by trees and hung with vines, is no longer extant. The interior is closed at one end with apsidal-shaped space that housed a water fountain. Interior stairs on either side provided exits up to the Mall. In the foreground, a man sits on rocks sketching the Arch. The top inscription (“Bridge No. 9”) identifies the location. The verse (“And thus forever . . . “) is possibly a paraphrase of various hymns; “all in that bright home above” is a common phrase in hymns of the period.

Transcription:

The Musical Temple,

 

Description:

The ornate Music Pavilion/Temple with scalloped roof and blue dome surmounted by a gold star is no longer extant. The musicians shown in performance are probably members of the popular Dodworth Brass Band (see “Guide,” p. 8) who played in the Central Park Pavilion in the summertime, drawing thousands of listeners.

Transcription:

Bridge No 14.

 

 

In the Park,

 

when the two goats met on the bridge which was too narrow

to allow them either to pass each other or to return, the goat which

lay down that the other might walk over him was a

finer gentleman than lord chesterfield.

 

Description:

The uppermost register contains a grotesque head surrounded by arabesques, spiraling vines, human figures, rabbits, birds, and goats. Calvert Vaux’s Playmates Arch, also called the Tri-Colored Arch because of its alternating bands of white and yellow stone and brick, fills the bottom half of the page. Trees and shrubs grow on the embankments to either side of it. A man and woman walk on a path that runs under the bridge. A man with a sketchbook stands in the foreground to the left of a white boulder. The top inscription (“Bridge No 14”) identifies the location. The verse is a proverb found in the works of the Church of England clergyman Richard Cecil (1748-1810).

Transcription:

Passing time away, let us Sing as the birds of Spring, on the

high tree-top, walking up and down the path, and cheerful

Sing, O! this is to pass our time a way. See the deer,

the

fish-hawk.

and pigeon hawk.

 

A, View, In the Central Park,

The po-lice officer. genteelly and polite in his manners,

 

Description:

This busy and detailed scene depicts Central Park’s Menagerie located near the Casino below the Vine-Covered walk. A large area of grass and trees is enclosed by a high fence, within which are several deer, a camel, and smaller animals, and a bird cage labeled “Eagles” on its roof. A path circles the fenced enclosure with men, women, and children strolling by, looking at the sights. A park policeman in official light gray coat stands in the lower left corner. In the top left corner is a drawing of a bird labeled “the fish hawk.” The top inscription (“Passing time away . . . “) is from an unidentified source, but is close to several favorite hymns of the period with lyrics such as “Come and sing ! oh, let us sing ! Let us all our voices raise ! Like the merry birds in spring.” The bottom inscription describes the scene and the police officer.

Transcription:

Service-berry-tree, or white-beam.

Arles-beer. baum. oder wald kirschen.

Vogel Kirschen.

 

Hazel-Root,

flower and leaves,

a rooted plant,

 

A place of Retirement, Gloomy Rocks and Shade -

trees, I am in the Shadow, there is no harm in it a hot Summers

day in August, hot Summer weather, to find a cool pleasant cool

Place to rest, calmly and mild not to be disturbet, at all.

To be at one’s Ease. Die Ruhe haben. To go down to the green

grass-plot and see the daisy-flower’s - die - anger-blumen.

See - wild cherry, and bird’s cherry. Service. tree. quick-beam

or quicken tree. Sorb-apple or bird’s berry tree. das sind alle

Vogel-beeren beim.

 

Description:

This page shows a cool spot in high summer, which is planted with many species of trees and climbing vines. Miller depicts a steep, rocky hill, thick with vegetation, with a paved or cobbled path and stairs. Figures are climbing up and down; men, a woman, and a child walk on the path, and a man sits on the bench. At the top of the page are two botanical illustrations; one is labeled hazel root, flower, and leaves, but the other is unidentified. The inscription in a mixture of English and German are plant names. Four lines of verse are from an unidentified source and may be Miller’s own musings.

Transcription:

A long Hedge, of heath Beech Shrub, or Carpy.

on the further end of - - the park, near the Reservoir

hedge-horn-beam, crab wilding, hep-tree, holm-oak, eglantin[e]

 

hedge-row- on both Sides of the walk, Carpy, tree’s, das ist

Die hag-    buche.

 

The Hydrant water pluck. Pump and pipe, drinking

the good water, out of - the cup.

 

Description:

Miller illustrates the massive reservoir walls, bordered on the south end by two hedgerows. A set of steps leads up to a walkway and overlook. This is the northern-most part of the Park represented in Miller’s “Guide.” A man stands at the railing and another walks near one of the hedgerows. On a path leading through trees, a man stops to drink from one of the cups hanging on chains from a water fountain. Miller frames the bottom scene with a long, horizontal vine of ivy with large leaves and tendrils. The top inscription (“A long Hedge . . . “) describes the scene and lists plants. The middle inscription (“hedge-row . . . “) describes the hedgerows and lists plants in English and German. The bottom inscription (“The Hydrant . . . “) describes the pump.

Transcription:

Tell me, wouldst thou wish to go in a path where blessings flow,

Crowned with mercy from above, happy in thy Saviour’s love? 

Oh, then, fear him! let thine heart hold him as thy better part;

Ever love his holy law and fulfil his way and will, let thy hands thy wants

Supply, using lawful industry, thus a goodly life is thine, Stamped with

Righteousness devine, wife and children, then, to thee, As those pleasant plants

Shall be. Clustering vine and olive green, All within thy borders Seen. thus how

freely from on high choicest blessings of the Sky on that faithful servant fall,

who can trust his God in all. Rich in grace, the holy word fraught with

goodness from the lord, Blest and blessing makes him go on his pilgrimage below,

And prepares, with Sacred leaven, for the hallowed courts of heaven. x

 

 

The East end of the Lake, A fine

Resting place. Lavender tea plant, ist lavendel.

wild tansy. hen bit a weed. ist hühner da[illeg]. heilwurz. Ash-weed-Sept-foil-

tormentil. heilkraut. Comfrey, has power of healing. wild hep rose. tree.

Broom-corn. potatoe ground. Ebony-wood. Ebenholz. flea-bane. flea-wort.

ist dürr wurz. iron wort, helmet flower. ist Eisen hütlein. Eisen Kraut, ist vervein -

holy herb- pidgeon’s-grass, Juno’s tears. Eisen wurz. iron wort. Sideritis.

 

Description:

Miller tells us that this is the east side of the Lake. A path with a simple railing leads up to a rustic shelter, perhaps a boat launch, in which a man sits looking at the rowboats and water. On the shore in the distance are many trees and two small, white boulders. Two couples walk on the path. Waterfowl dot the water in the distance. The top inscription is from a psalm, “The Happy Man,” by Martin Luther, which Miller also quotes on page 5. The bottom inscription (“The East end . . . “) describes the location and includes an English-German concordance of plant names, primarily herbs used for medicinal purposes.

Transcription:

For frost Shall Sheet the pools again; Again the

blustering East Shall blow, whirl a white tempest through the

glen, and load the pines with Snow.

Abel-tree.

der alber oder

Weiße pappel

baum.

Alder-tree.

der Erlen baum.

Almond-tree.

der Mandel baum.

Amber-tree.

ambra baum.

Ebony. tree.

Eben-baum.

Orange-tree.

der pomeranze baum.

pistacho-tree.

pistazien baum.

mountain Ash,

the berry’s of this tree

are in cluster’s like

Elder berrys but larger,

the are red colour,

das sein die Vogel beere.

Ginseng root. das ist die

Kraft wurzel. Calamus

ist der Calmus.

love-age a plant.

ist lieb stö[ck]el.

The Tunnel.

A wagon road under beneath, cut through

the hard rock’s. a public way,

Black currant, gicht beere,

Dog’s-berry-tree.

hartriegel-baum.

Stock-Gilli-flower.

Levkoie.

Sempervive.

Immer grün.

peony-flower.

Sengreen.

hauswurz.

oder-Mauer.

Service berry

tree. ist der

Sperber baum.

bar-berry tree.

Saurach.

Sweet-briar.

Heide-Rose.

Sweet flag.

Kalmus.

night Shade

berry-alkekengi.

Juden Kirschen.

Goat’s beard

or Salsify.

hafer-wurzel.

old man -

old-woman -

a herb-plant.

alter man und

alte frau.

gichtrose. grains of peony. gicht körner gichtwurz. dittany.

 

Description:

The Tunnel, as this main transverse road was called, cuts through Vista Rock, the highest point in the Park. On top of the hill is the frame bell tower. A stone embankment wall runs along both sides of the road, and on the right side, a small archway opens into the park. Figures stand in the archway and on the hill, and several people walk on the road alongside horses and a carriage. The verse at the top of the page (“For frost Shall Sheet . . . “) is from William Cullen Bryant’s poem “The Return of the Birds” (see “Guide,” p. 10). “The Tunnel” describes the location, and the other inscriptions are columns of botanical names and plant descriptions in both English and German.

Transcription:

Elter. bush.

hazel bush.

papaw tree.

wild pear.

wild plum.

quince tree.

peach tree.

damsel. tree.

medlar. tree.

barberte bush

red souer[?] berry.

prosimon.

tree

English & German.

Name of flowers.  marace flower.

Paßions - - blume.

rose mallow. flower.

Kosen pappel blume.

lilac, lilach.

holunder blume.

lily. white and red.

lily of the valley.

Lilie weis und rosy.

Jasmine. flower.

lady’s Slipper.

frauen-schuh.

tulip. double. tulip.

red tulp. flower.

all-color. Tulpen.

Shrub’s. pinks.

die Nelke.

flag. flower’s

Sun. & marigold.

mariet, flowers.

marrh marigold.

das ist sone[?] Ringel. und

[illeg]. blumen. und Dot[page corner torn]

In the Park,

 

[lower left corner in black ink] Quarentra54

 

Description:

Dominating this page is a large sculpture of two large eagles attacking a goat: Eagles and Prey, by Christophe Fratin, cast in 1850 and installed in 1863. Along the top right margin is a list of plant names in English. A heading in English and German marks another list that is a concordance of “Names of flowers.” This last bound page of the “Guide” is inscribed “In the Park,” the unifying theme of the compilation.

“Now if a Shepherd . . .”

George Herbert, “The Parsons Accessary Knowledges” in A Priest to the Temple, or, The Country Parson His Character and Rule of Holy Life (London: T. Maxey for T. Garthwait, at the little North door of St. Paul’s: 1652)

http://anglicanhistory.org/herbert/parson1.html

 

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, s.v. “Herbert, George”:

http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/13025?docPos=1

T. Addison Richards, “The Central Park,” Harper’s New Monthly Magazine 23, no. 135, August 1861, 292:

http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchdetail.cfm?trg=1&strucID=709317&imageID=800882&total=15&num=0&word=central%20park%2C%20transverse&s=1&notword=&d=&c=&f=&k=1&lWord=&lField=&sScope=&sLevel=&sLabel=&sort=&imgs=20&pos=6&e=w

 

Fifth Annual Report of the Board of Commissioners of the Central Park, January 1862 (New York: Wm. C. Bryant & Co., 1862):

http://home2.nyc.gov/html/records/pdf/govpub/4051annual_report_manhattan_central_park_1861.pdf

See pages 80-81:

Fifth Annual Commissioners Report, Bridge

 

T. Addison Richards, Guide to the Central Park (New York: James Miller, 1866):

http://www.worldcat.org/title/guide-to-the-central-park/oclc/228669989&referer=brief_results

See pages 18-19:

Richards, Guide to Central Park

Newspaper links-Horseback rider

“Gentleman Rider,” Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper (New York, NY), December 28, 1867, 235, col. B:

http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itw/infomark/670/358/10088197w16/purl=rc1_NCNP_0_GT3012577641&dyn=129!nxt_63_0_GT3012577641?sw_aep=wash15020

“Receive blessings with thankfulness . . . ”

Probably a paraphrase of Job 2:10; appears in biblical commentary (This is the true expression of piety. It submits to all the arrangements of God without a complaint. It receives blessings with gratitude; it is resigned when calamities are sent in their place.)

 

Albert Barnes, Notes, Critical, Illustrative, and Practical, on the Book of Job: With a New Translation and an Introductory Dissertation (New York: Leavitt & Allen, 1853), 1:33:

http://books.google.com/books?id=qdg7AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA33

 

“On a Contented Disposition: To the Editor of the Christian Observer,” Christian Observer 14, no. 1 (March 1815), 149:

http://books.google.com/books?id=fNoRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA149

 

“The pen of the tongue . . . ”

Popularly known as an Italian proverb.

Thomas Fielding, Select Proverbs of All Nations (London: Longman et al, 1824), 70:

http://books.google.com/books?id=J3ziCndTnKYC&pg=PA70

 

Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote de la Mancha, trans. Charles Jarvis (London: W. Stockdale, 1819), 169. (“The pen is the tongue of the mind.”)

http://archive.org/stream/donquixotedelam00fictgoog#page/n192/mode/2up/search/the+pen

 

Steven D. Hutchinson, Cervantine Journeys (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1992). 

http://books.google.com/books?id=pzpaQOGKVaQC&pg=PA232&dq=la+pluma+es+lengua+del+alma&hl=en&sa=X&ei=HtFmUeWrAfjj4AOSzYHABw&ved=0CEYQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=la%20pluma%20es%20lengua%20del%20alma&f=false

“Enough is a feast . . . ”

Fielding, Select Proverbs of All Nations, 89:

http://books.google.com/books?id=J3ziCndTnKYC&pg=PA89

“Say nothing of my debts . . .”

Fielding, Select Proverbs of All Nations, 36:

http://books.google.com/books?id=J3ziCndTnKYC&pg=PA36

 

C. Chapple, Better Late Than Never, or The Friend of the Family: A Comedy, In Five Acts (London: E. Spragg, 1824), 56:

http://books.google.com/books?id=8JUVAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA56

 

“Retirement . . . ”

The Pennsylvania Hermit: A Narrative of the Extraordinary Life of Amos Wilson . . . (Philadelphia: Smith and Carpenter, 1839), 24:

http://books.google.com/books?id=qrY-AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA24

 

 Letter in The Monthly Traveller, or, Spirit of the Periodical Press (Boston: Badger and Porter, 1837), 8:23:

http://books.google.com/books?id=N5keAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA23

 

“he who teaches virtue . . . ”

William Blanchard Jerrold, ed. Proverbial Wisdom. With preface by B. Jerrold (London: E Marlborough & Co., 1873), 43:

http://books.google.com/books?id=VTQCAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA43

“I love thee, Autumn . . . ” --- From Charles Fenno Hoffman “Indian Summer” (1828) Rufus Wilmot Griswold, ed. The Poets and Poetry of America, 16th ed. (Philadelphia: A. Hart, late Carey and Hart, 1851), 293:

http://books.google.com/books?id=ae8BaeVAcAEC&pg=PA293

 

Charles Fenno Hoffman, The Echo, or, Borrowed Notes for Home Circulation (New York: Burgess and Stringer, 1844), 32:

http://books.google.com/books?id=-50uAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA32

 

Roberts’ Semi-Monthly Magazine for Town and Country (Boston: George Roberts, 1842), 2:527:

http://books.google.com/books?id=KVkAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA527

 

Ludwig Herrig, ed., Handbuch der Nordamericanischen National-Literatur (Braunschweig: George Westermann, 1854), 113:

http://books.google.com/books?id=V28oAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA113

 

American National Biography Online, s.v. "Hoffman, Charles Fenno,":

http://www.anb.org/articles/16/16-00774.html?a=1&n=charles%20fenno%20hoffman&d=10&ss=0&q=1

“There’s a Sound . . . ” From a patriotic Civil War song by Miss Fanny Crosby (lyricist)

Wm. B. Bradbury (composer), “A Sound Among the Forest Trees. A New Rallying Song and Chorus,” (1864), The Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music, Milton S. Eisenhower Library, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore:

https://jscholarship.library.jhu.edu/handle/1774.2/20462

Digitized song sheet on Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:1864_A_Sound_Among_the_Forest_Trees_songsheet.jpg

XXXV.-Steps in the Ramble, Fred B. Perkins and W. H. Guild, Jr., The Central Park: Photographed, by W.H. Guild Jr., with descriptions and a Historical Sketch by Fred B. Perkins (New York: Carleton, 1864), 62:

http://archive.org/stream/centralpark00guil#page/62/mode/2up

“Bounties of the Earth . . . ”

Luther, Martin. Psalm CXVIII, “The Happy Man.” In Hymns of the Reformation, 99. London: Charles Gilpin, 1845:

http://books.google.com/books?id=gv5LAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA99

Thomas Nast, Central Park in Summer

http://pudl.princeton.edu/sheetreader.php?obj=4m90dv638.

See detail:

Thomas Nast, Central Park in Summer

“Arbor of wild grape . . .”

Richards, Guide to the Central Park:

http://www.worldcat.org/title/guide-to-the-central-park/oclc/228669989&referer=brief_results

See page 24:

Richards, Guide to Central Park, page 24

“I love thee, Autumn . . . ” --- From Charles Fenno Hoffman “Indian Summer” (1828) Rufus Wilmot Griswold, ed. The Poets and Poetry of America, 16th ed. (Philadelphia: A. Hart, late Carey and Hart, 1851), 293:

http://books.google.com/books?id=ae8BaeVAcAEC&pg=PA293

 

Hoffman, Echo, or, Borrowed Notes, 32:

http://books.google.com/books?id=9zpDAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA32

 

Roberts’ Semi-Monthly Magazine for Town and Country, 2:527:

http://books.google.com/books?id=KVkAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA527

 

Herrig, Handbuch der Nordamericanischen National-Literatur, 113:

http://books.google.com/books?id=V28oAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA113

Victor Prevost, [Man seated on rustic bench in rock grotto]:

http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchdetail.cfm?trg=1&strucID=1927548&imageID=ps_rbk_cd3_46&total=1&num=0&word=prevost%2C%20rustic%20bench&s=1&notword=&d=&c=&f=&k=1&lWord=&lField=&sScope=&sLevel=&sLabel=&sort=&imgs=20&pos=1&e=w

 XXXIV.-The Nook in the Ramble, Perkins and Guild, Central Park, 61:

http://archive.org/stream/centralpark00guil#page/n133/mode/2up

“Oh! nature . . . ”-Hoffman, “Indian Summer.”

Griswold, Poets and Poetry of America, 293:

http://books.google.com/books?id=ae8BaeVAcAEC&pg=PA293

 

Hoffman, Echo, or, Borrowed Notes, 32:

http://books.google.com/books?id=9zpDAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA32

 

Roberts’ Semi-Monthly Magazine for Town and Country, 2:527:

http://books.google.com/books?id=KVkAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA527

 

Herrig, Handbuch der Nordamericanischen National-Literatur, 113:

http://books.google.com/books?id=V28oAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA113

“Glory, Honour, and Peace . . . ”

Bible, Rom. 2:10: “But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile.”

Fifth Annual Report of the Board of Commissioners of the Central Park, January 1862:

http://home2.nyc.gov/html/records/pdf/govpub/4051annual_report_manhattan_central_park_1861.pdf

See page 35:

Fifth Annual Commissioners Report, page 35

 

XIX.-The Ramble/Rustic Seat, Perkins and Guild, Central Park, 46:

http://archive.org/stream/centralpark00guil#page/46/mode/2up

 

G. W. Fasel, Arbor in the Ramble with terrace in the distance:

http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchdetail.cfm?trg=1&strucID=1804114&imageID=1659462&total=1&num=0&word=1659462&s=1&notword=&d=&c=&f=&k=1&lWord=&lField=&sScope=&sLevel=&sLabel=&sort=&imgs=20&pos=1&e=w

“Star - - Spangled Banner”

“Serenade to Hon. John Cochrane,” New York Herald, March 10, 1861, 8, col. A:

http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itw/infomark/858/899/2694495w16/purl=rc1_NCNP_0_GT3003708611&dyn=3!xrn_20_0_GT3003708611&hst_1?sw_aep=wash15020

 

Dodworth band and Marseilles Hymn

Twelfth Annual Report of the Board of Education, of the City and County of New York (New York: Wm. O. Bryant and Co., 1854), 60:

http://books.google.com/books?id=co0dAQAAIAAJ&pg=RA2-PA60&lpg=RA2-PA60

J. Barnett, “Rose of Lucerne,” score, 1800/1899:

http://diglib.lib.utk.edu/utsmc/main.php?bid=185

G. W. Fasel, Source of the spring in the Ramble:

http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchdetail.cfm?trg=1&strucID=1804113&imageID=1659461&total=1&num=0&word=fasel%2C%20source%20of%20the%20spring&s=1&notword=&d=&c=&f=&k=1&lWord=&lField=&sScope=&sLevel=&sLabel=&sort=&imgs=20&pos=1&e=w

Newspaper links-Music

“The $5,000 Prize Tale,” Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper (New York, NY), January 30, 1864, 293, col. A:

http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itw/infomark/14/353/207268328w16/purl=rc1_NCNP_0_GT3012571449&dyn=8!nxt_3_0_GT3012571449?sw_aep=wash15020

 

“Music at the Park,” Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper (New York, NY), July 23, 1864, 275, col. C:

http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itw/infomark/14/353/207268328w16/purl=rc1_NCNP_0_GT3012571597&dyn=26!nxt_17_0_GT3012571597?sw_aep=wash15020

 

“The Music Stand at Central Park, New York - Saturday Afternoon 5 O’Clock,” Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper (New York, NY), August 4, 1866, 312, col. A:

http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itw/infomark/670/358/10088197w16/purl=rc1_NCNP_0_GT3012574867&dyn=87!nxt_35_0_GT3012574867?sw_aep=wash15020

 

“Amusements in the City,” Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper (New York, NY), June 29, 1867, 226, col. D:

http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itw/infomark/670/358/10088197w16/purl=rc1_NCNP_0_GT3012578236&dyn=115!nxt_51_0_GT3012578236?sw_aep=wash15020

 

Newspaper links-Dodworth Band

“The Gentral Park,” Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper (New York, NY), October 28, 1865, 92, col. D:

http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itw/infomark/670/358/10088197w16/purl=rc1_NCNP_0_GT3012574409&dyn=68!nxt_16_0_GT3012574409?sw_aep=wash15020

 

“Epitome of the Week,” Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper (New York, NY), May 12, 1866, 115, col. C:

http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itw/infomark/670/358/10088197w16/purl=rc1_NCNP_0_GT3012576433&dyn=80!nxt_28_0_GT3012576433?sw_aep=wash15020

 

“Town Gossip,” Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper (New York, NY), August 31, 1867, 371, col. A:

http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itw/infomark/670/358/10088197w16/purl=rc1_NCNP_0_GT3012577479&dyn=118!nxt_54_0_GT3012577479?sw_aep=wash15020

 

“Annual Commencement of the New York Free Academy,” New York Herald, July 17, 1861, col. E:

http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itw/infomark/9/794/2140626w16/purl=rc1_NCNP_0_GT3003702903&dyn=22!xrn_22_0_GT3003702903&hst_1?sw_aep=wash15020

 

“Central Park Concerts,” New York Herald, October 12, 1861, 4, col. E:

http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itw/infomark/15/35/2397366w16/purl=rc1_NCNP_0_GT3003716445&dyn=3!xrn_7_0_GT3003716445&hst_1?sw_aep=wash15020

 

The Dodworth Saxhorn Band:

www.dodworth.org

 

Video 1: Dodworth’s 1853 arrangement of the Star Spangled Banner:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMB5tvXQoyc

 

Video 2: At the Band History Conference at the 2011 Great American Brass Band Festival:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKqSCnlN1_0

 

Video 3: “Garry Owen” at the 2011 Great American Brass Band Festival in Danville, Kentucky:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmJchrwaCn0

 

Video 4: At Greenfield Village, Dearborn:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NTCNv21KI0

 

Video 5: In a patriotic pavilion:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnEw7RWQbkM

Newspaper links-Horses

“Sale of Government Horses,” Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper (New York, NY), August 12, 1865, 324, col. B:

http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itw/infomark/14/353/207268328w16/purl=rc1_NCNP_0_GT3012572862&dyn=52!nxt_42_0_GT3012572862?sw_aep=wash15020

“Brothers, hasten to the battle field”

Vincent Percival, “Hasten brothers to the battle,” notated music, 1864:

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.natlib.ihas.200001779/default.html

“life’s wasted verdure . . . ”-Hoffman, “Indian Summer.”

Griswold, Poets and Poetry of America, 293:

http://books.google.com/books?id=ae8BaeVAcAEC&pg=PA293

 

Hoffman, Echo, or, Borrowed Notes, 32:

http://books.google.com/books?id=9zpDAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA32

 

Roberts’ Semi-Monthly Magazine for Town and Country, 2:527:

http://books.google.com/books?id=KVkAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA527

 

Herrig, Handbuch der Nordamericanischen National-Literatur, 113:

http://books.google.com/books?id=V28oAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA113

“O’er all the Cities and Forts once more”

Carter “A National Motto”, 11:586-87:

http://books.google.com/books?id=fdd2AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA586

http://www.maine.gov/tools/whatsnew/index.php?topic=arcsesq&id=409693&v=article

Fifth Annual Report of the Board of Commissioners of the Central Park, January 1862:

http://home2.nyc.gov/html/records/pdf/govpub/4051annual_report_manhattan_central_park_1861.pdf

See page 4:

Fifth Annual Commissioners Report, page 4, Vine Covered Walk

 

T. C. Roche, The Vine-Clad Walk:

http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchdetail.cfm?trg=1&strucID=762374&imageID=g91f219_030f&total=102&num=20&parent_id=96444&s=&notword=&d=&c=&f=&k=1&sScope=&sLevel=&sLabel=&lword=&lfield=&sort=&imgs=20&pos=30&snum=&e=w

 

XII.-The Vine-Covered Walk, Within, Perkins and Guild, Central Park, 39:

http://archive.org/stream/centralpark00guil#page/n67/mode/2up

 

Richards, Guide to the Central Park:

http://www.worldcat.org/title/guide-to-the-central-park/oclc/228669989&referer=brief_results

See pages 49-50:

Richards, Guide to the Central Park, 49-50

 

Wisteria Pergola:

http://www.centralparknyc.org/visit/things-to-see/south-end/wisteria-pergola.html

Newspaper links-Horses

“Sale of Government Horses,” Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper (New York, NY), August 12, 1865, 324, col. B:

http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itw/infomark/14/353/207268328w16/purl=rc1_NCNP_0_GT3012572862&dyn=52!nxt_42_0_GT3012572862?sw_aep=wash15020

“O! Choir of Spring . . . ”

William Cullen Bryant, “The Return of the Birds,” Atlantic Monthly (1864), 14:37:

http://books.google.com/books?id=opsGAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA37

 

Eliakim Littell, Littell’s Living Age, 3rd ser. (Boston: Littell, Son, and Company, 1864), 26:50:

http://books.google.com/books?id=ZJowAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA50

 

American National Biography Online, s.v. “Bryant, William Cullen”:

http://www.anb.org/articles/16/16-00213.html?a=1&n=bryant%2C%20william%20cullen&d=10&ss=0&q=1

“Aged man . . . ”-Miss H. F. Gould, “The Hoary Head.”

H. F. Gould, Poems by Miss H. F. Gould (Boston: Hilliard, Gray and Co., 1841), 3:120:

http://books.google.com/books?id=5woUAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA120

 

American National Biography Online, s.v. “Gould, Hannah Flagg”:

http://www.anb.org/articles/16/1600645.html?a=1&n=gould&s=10&d=10&ss=10&q=25

 

John Alonzo Clark, ed. The Christian Keepsake and Missionary Annual (Philadelphia: William Marshall and Co., 1840), 317:

http://books.google.com/books?id=A7oQAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA317

“Stars and Strips we Shall restore.”

Carter “A National Motto”, 11:586-87:

http://books.google.com/books?id=fdd2AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA586

http://www.maine.gov/tools/whatsnew/index.php?topic=arcsesq&id=409693&v=article

George Hayward, View in Central Park, N.Y. Bridge over the Ride:

http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchdetail.cfm?trg=1&strucID=709353&imageID=800732&total=218&num=100&word=14322&s=1&notword=&d=&c=&f=13&k=1&lWord=&lField=&sScope=Name&sLevel=&sLabel=Hayward%2C%20George&sort=&imgs=20&pos=112&e=w

 

Third Annual Report of the Board of Commissioners of the Central Park, January 1860:

http://home2.nyc.gov/html/records/pdf/govpub/4053annual_report_manhattan_central_park_1859.pdf

See page 31:

Third Annual Commissioners Report, page 31

 

“Dalehead Arch.” Bridges of Central Park (Greensward Foundation):

http://www.echonyc.com/~parks/books/bridges03.html

 

Dalehead Arch:

http://www.centralparknyc.org/visit/things-to-see/south-end/dalehead-arch.html

“Green meadows . . . ” (Miller substitutes “green meadows” for the original “brown meadows”)

Bryant, “Return of the Birds,” 37:

http://books.google.com/books?id=opsGAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA37

 

Littell, Littell’s Living Age, 26:50:

http://books.google.com/books?id=ZJowAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA50

III. - The Ledge at the Play-Ground, Perkins and Guild, Central Park, 30:

http://archive.org/stream/centralpark00guil#page/30/mode/2up

Queen Victoria on horseback, in the Royal Park at Windsor, after Joseph Bouvier:

http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw42124/Queen-Victoria-on-horseback-in-the-Royal-Park-at-Windsor

 

Newspaper links-Horses

“Town Gossip,” Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper (New York, NY), December 17, 1864, 195, col. B:

http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itw/infomark/14/353/207268328w16/purl=rc1_NCNP_0_GT3012571096&dyn=36!nxt_27_0_GT3012571096?sw_aep=wash15020

 

Thomas Nast, Central Park in Winter:

http://pudl.princeton.edu/sheetreader.php?obj=t148fh29z

See detail:

Thomas Nast, Central Park in Winter, detail

“Now let him whose heart’s desire . . . ”

Luther, Martin. Psalm CXVIII, “The Happy Man.” In Hymns of the Reformation, 99. London: Charles Gilpin, 1845:

http://books.google.com/books?id=gv5LAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA99

“I hear, from many a little throat . . . ”:

Bryant, “Return of the Birds,” 37:

http://books.google.com/books?id=opsGAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA37

 

Littell, Littell’s Living Age, 26:50:

http://books.google.com/books?id=ZJowAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA50

“ . . . nature Still I fondly turn to thee . . . ”-Hoffman, “Indian Summer.”

Griswold, Poets and Poetry of America, 293:

http://books.google.com/books?id=ae8BaeVAcAEC&pg=PA293

 

Hoffman, Echo, or, Borrowed Notes, 32:

http://books.google.com/books?id=9zpDAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA32

 

Roberts’ Semi-Monthly Magazine for Town and Country, 2:527:

http://books.google.com/books?id=KVkAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA527

 

Herrig, Handbuch der Nordamericanischen National-Literatur, 113:

http://books.google.com/books?id=V28oAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA113

G. W. Fasel, View of the Bridge at the outlet of the spring:

http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchdetail.cfm?trg=1&strucID=1804111&imageID=1659459&total=2&num=0&word=central%20park%20album%2C%20spring&s=1&notword=&d=&c=&f=&k=1&lWord=&lField=&sScope=&sLevel=&sLabel=&sort=&imgs=20&pos=2&e=w

“In her ear he whispers . . . ”

Alfred Tennyson, “The Lord of Burleigh,” in (e.g.) Poems (London: Edward Moxon, 1842), 2:201. (First publication of this poem):

http://books.google.com/books?id=VOENAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA201

Queen Victoria on horseback, in the Royal Park at Windsor, after Joseph Bouvier:

http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw42124/Queen-Victoria-on-horseback-in-the-Royal-Park-at-Windsor

 

Thomas Nast, Central Park in Winter:

http://pudl.princeton.edu/sheetreader.php?obj=t148fh29z

Thomas Nast, Central Park in Winter, detail

 

Other Sources

 

Newspaper links-Horses

“Town Gossip,” Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper (New York, NY), December 17, 1864, 195, col. B:

http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itw/infomark/14/353/207268328w16/purl=rc1_NCNP_0_GT3012571096&dyn=36!nxt_27_0_GT3012571096?sw_aep=wash15020

 

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, s.v. “Tennyson, Alfred”:

http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/27137?docPos=2

Newspaper links-Horses

“Town Gossip,” Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper (New York, NY), December 17, 1864, 195, col. B:

http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itw/infomark/14/353/207268328w16/purl=rc1_NCNP_0_GT3012571096&dyn=36!nxt_27_0_GT3012571096?sw_aep=wash15020

“If it prove so, then loving goes by . . . ”

William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, act 3, scene 1 (Leonato’s garden), in The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: Comprising His Plays and Poems (with a preface by Samuel Johnson) (Auburn and Rochester: Alden and Beardsley 1855), 138:

http://books.google.com/books?id=4lROAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA138

“Nor Stranger Seemed that hearts So gentle, So employed, Should . . . ”

Alfred Tennyson, “The Princess, A Medley,” in (e.g.) Poems by Alfred Tennyson, Poet Laureate (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1857), 2:275:

http://books.google.com/books?id=cYM-AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA275

XX.-The Ramble/A Walk, Perkins and Guild, Central Park, 48:

http://archive.org/stream/centralpark00guil#page/n97/mode/2up

“It is not timber, lead, and Stone”

William Cowper, “On Friendship” in (e.g.) William Hayley, The Life and Posthumous Writings of William Cowper, Esq.(New York: T. and J. Swords, 1803), 126:

http://books.google.com/books?id=75w4AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA126

 

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, s.v. “Cowper, William”:

http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/6513?docPos=5

Victor Prevost, Men standing on Willowdell Arch:

http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchdetail.cfm?trg=1&strucID=1931570&imageID=psnypl_rbk_881&total=1&num=0&word=prevost%2C%20willowdell%20arch&s=1&notword=&d=&c=&f=&k=1&lWord=&lField=&sScope=&sLevel=&sLabel=&sort=&imgs=20&pos=1&e=w

 

T. C. Roche, Arch covering the drive over the Walk east of the Mall:

http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchdetail.cfm?trg=1&strucID=762510&imageID=g91f219_047f&total=102&num=40&parent_id=96444&s=&notword=&d=&c=&f=&k=1&sScope=&sLevel=&sLabel=&lword=&lfield=&sort=&imgs=20&pos=47&snum=&e=w

 

“Willowdell Arch,” Bridges of Central Park (Greensward Foundation):

http://www.echonyc.com/~parks/books/bridges17.html

“A considerable proportion . . . ”

Eliza Wood Farnham, Life in Prairie Land (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1847), 373:

 http://books.google.com/books?id=5bRIAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA373

 

American National Biography Online, s.v. “Farnham, Eliza Wood Burhans,”:

http://www.anb.org/articles/15/15-00216.html?a=1&n=farnham&d=10&ss=0&q=3

Third Annual Report of the Board of Commissioners of the Central Park,January 1860:

http://home2.nyc.gov/html/records/pdf/govpub/4053annual_report_manhattan_central_park_1859.pdf

See page 34:

Third Annual Commissioners Report, page 34-35

 

Victor Prevost, View of arsenal from 5th Avenue Road:

http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchdetail.cfm?trg=1&strucID=1931572&imageID=psnypl_rbk_883&total=4&num=0&word=prevost%2C%20arsenal&s=1&notword=&d=&c=&f=&k=1&lWord=&lField=&sScope=&sLevel=&sLabel=&sort=&imgs=20&pos=2&e=w

 

“Denesmouth Arch,” Bridges of Central Park (Greensward Foundation):

http://www.echonyc.com/~parks/books/bridges16.html

 

Denesmouth Arch:

http://www.centralparknyc.org/visit/things-to-see/south-end/denesmouth-arch.html

“Here to Sit down, and feel that this Spot made”

Farnham, Life in Prairie Land, 223:

http://books.google.com/books?id=5bRIAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA223

IV.-Arbor, near Play-Ground,” Perkins and Guild, Central Park, 31:

http://archive.org/stream/centralpark00guil#page/n43/mode/2up

Newspaper links-Horses and carriages

“Town Gossip,” Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper (New York, NY), June 18, 1864, 194, col. D:

http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itw/infomark/14/353/207268328w16/purl=rc1_NCNP_0_GT3012571765&dyn=24!nxt_15_0_GT3012571765?sw_aep=wash15020

 

“Returning from the Races at Jersome Park, Fordham, N. Y. Carriages Passing the North End of Central Park and around Mount St. Vincent,” Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper (New York, NY), November 2, 1867, 104-5, col. A:

http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itw/infomark/670/358/10088197w16/purl=rc1_NCNP_0_GT3012578561&dyn=127!nxt_61_0_GT3012578561?sw_aep=wash15020

 

“Multiple News Items,” Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper (New York, NY), September 1, 1866, 371, col. B:

http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itw/infomark/670/358/10088197w16/purl=rc1_NCNP_0_GT3012576876&dyn=97!nxt_39_0_GT3012576876?sw_aep=wash15020.

 

Newspaper links-Horseback rider

“Gentleman Rider,”Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper (New York, NY), December 28, 1867, 235, col. B:

http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itw/infomark/670/358/10088197w16/purl=rc1_NCNP_0_GT3012577641&dyn=129!nxt_63_0_GT3012577641?sw_aep=wash15020

“Immediately above the bridge . . . ”

Farnham, Life in Prairie Land, 373:

http://books.google.com/books?id=5bRIAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA373

Third Annual Report of the Board of Commissioners of the Central Park, January 1860:

http://home2.nyc.gov/html/records/pdf/govpub/4053annual_report_manhattan_central_park_1859.pdf

See page 41:

Third Annual Commissioners Report, page 40-41

 

W. M. Chase, Arch Over Bridal Path:

http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchdetail.cfm?trg=1&strucID=763414&imageID=g91f220_058f&total=167&num=40&parent_id=96445&s=&notword=&d=&c=&f=&k=1&sScope=&sLevel=&sLabel=&lword=&lfield=&sort=&imgs=20&pos=58&snum=&e=w

 

W. M. Chase, Bridge No. 11, Central Park, with the Arsenal in the distance:

http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchdetail.cfm?trg=1&strucID=764086&imageID=g91f220_142f&total=167&num=140&parent_id=96445&s=&notword=&d=&c=&f=&k=1&sScope=&sLevel=&sLabel=&lword=&lfield=&sort=&imgs=20&pos=142&snum=&e=w

 

XLIV.-Archway Near Dove-Cote, Perkins and Guild, Central Park, 71:

http://archive.org/stream/centralpark00guil#page/n163/mode/2up

 

“Green Gap Arch,” Bridges of Central Park (Greensward Foundation):

http://www.echonyc.com/~parks/books/bridges15.html

 

Greengap Arch:

http://www.centralpark2000.com/database/green_gap_arch.html

Newspaper links-Horseback Rider

“Gentleman Rider,” Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper(New York, NY), December 28, 1867, 235, col. B:

http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itw/infomark/670/358/10088197w16/purl=rc1_NCNP_0_GT3012577641&dyn=129!nxt_63_0_GT3012577641?sw_aep=wash15020

L.-Archway West of Play-Ground, Perkins and Guild, Central Park, 77:

http://archive.org/stream/centralpark00guil#page/n181/mode/2up

 

“Greyshot Arch,” Bridges of Central Park (Greensward Foundation):

http://www.echonyc.com/~parks/books/bridges01.html

 

Greyshot Arch:

http://www.centralparknyc.org/visit/things-to-see/south-end/greyshot-arch.html

The Central Park. A Delightful Resort for the Toil-worn New Yorkers:

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/91790564/

 

Our Central Park - seats “exclusively for ladies”:

http://digital.nypl.org/mmpco/browseFTresults.cfm?&trg=3&strucID=575295&dstart=101&title=Our%20Central%20Park%20--%20Seats%20%22Exclusively%20For%20Ladies.%22&titleid=570315

“Still farther back . . . boasted Scenery of the old world”

Farnham, Life in Prairie Land, 373:

http://books.google.com/books?id=5bRIAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA373

Third Annual Report of the Board of Commissioners of the Central Park, January 1860:

http://home2.nyc.gov/html/records/pdf/govpub/4053annual_report_manhattan_central_park_1859.pdf

See page 38:

Third Annual Commissioners Report, page 38-39

 

Richards, “Central Park,”:

http://digital.nypl.org/mmpco/browseFTresults.cfm?&trg=3&strucID=574766&dstart=141&title=The%20Water%20Terrace%20And%20The%20Mall%20%28Now%20Building%29.&titleid=570315

 

Fifth Annual Report of the Board of Commissioners of the Central Park, January 1862:

http://home2.nyc.gov/html/records/pdf/govpub/4051annual_report_manhattan_central_park_1861.pdf

See page 52:

Fifth Annual Commissioners Report

 

XVI.-Terrace/The Grand Stairways, Perkins and Guild, Central Park, 44:

http://archive.org/stream/centralpark00guil#page/n79/mode/2up

 

Richards, Guide to the Central Park (New York: James Miller, 1866):

http://www.worldcat.org/title/guide-to-the-central-park/oclc/228669989&referer=brief_results

See front insert:

 

Bethesda Terrace:

http://www.centralparknyc.org/visit/things-to-see/south-end/bethesda-terrace.html

[Group poses under arbor umbrella]:

http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchdetail.cfm?trg=1&strucID=848170&imageID=g91f223_145zf&total=3&num=0&word=central%20park%2C%20umbrella&s=1&notword=&d=&c=&f=&k=1&lWord=&lField=&sScope=&sLevel=&sLabel=&sort=&imgs=20&pos=3&e=w

 

XXI.-The Ramble/Rustic Seat Near the Bow Bridge, Perkins and Guild, Central Park, 48:

http://archive.org/stream/centralpark00guil#page/48/mode/2up

Newspaper links-Boating

“Boating on the Lake at Central Park,” Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper (New York, NY), September 7, 1867, 391, col. D:

http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itw/infomark/670/358/10088197w16/purl=rc1_NCNP_0_GT3012578980&dyn=119!nxt_55_0_GT3012578980?sw_aep=wash15020

 

“Boating on the Lake at Central Park,” Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper (New York, NY), September 7, 1867, 393, col. A:

http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itw/infomark/670/358/10088197w16/purl=rc1_NCNP_0_GT3012578984&dyn=120!nxt_56_0_GT3012578984?sw_aep=wash15020

XXV.-Schiller, Perkins and Guild, Central Park, 52:

http://archive.org/stream/centralpark00guil#page/52/mode/2up

 

Areas Around Schiller:

XXII.-Arbor Near Schiller’s Bust, Perkins and Guild, Central Park, 50.

http://archive.org/stream/centralpark00guil#page/n97/mode/2up

 

XXIII.-Rustic Bridge Near Drip Rock, Perkins and Guild, Central Park, 50:

http://archive.org/stream/centralpark00guil#page/50/mode/2up

 

XXIV.-The Same Bridge and Drip Rock, Perkins and Guild, Central Park, 51:

http://archive.org/stream/centralpark00guil#page/n103/mode/2up

 

Central Park, Schiller monument:

http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchdetail.cfm?trg=1&strucID=766206&imageID=g91f249_006f&total=57&num=0&parent_id=96433&s=&notword=&d=&c=&f=&k=1&sScope=&sLevel=&sLabel=&lword=&lfield=&sort=&imgs=20&pos=6&snum=&e=w

 

Bust of Schiller:

http://www.centralparknyc.org/visit/things-to-see/south-end/johann-von-schiller.html

“The whole Park Seemed to me . . . ”

Farnham, Life in Prairie Land, 239:

http://books.google.com/books?id=5bRIAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA239

VIII.-The Mall, Perkins and Guild, Central Park, 35:

http://archive.org/stream/centralpark00guil#page/n55/mode/2up

 

XIII.-The Terrace/The Portals of the Mall, Perkins and Guild, Central Park, 40:

http://archive.org/stream/centralpark00guil#page/40/mode/2up

 

The Mall:

http://www.centralparknyc.org/visit/things-to-see/south-end/mall-literary-walk.html

 

Newspaper links-Bethesda Terrace

“Views in Central Park,” Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper (New York, NY), August 4, 1866, 307, col. D:

http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itw/infomark/670/358/10088197w16/purl=rc1_NCNP_0_GT3012574857&dyn=86!nxt_34_0_GT3012574857?sw_aep=wash15020

“A lily thou wast when i Saw thee first . . . ”

James Russell Lowell, “Song.” in (e.g.) The Poetical Works of James R. Lowell (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1857), 1:29:

http://books.google.com/books?id=BHYCAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA29

 

American National Biography Online, s.v. “Lowell, James Russell”:

http://www.anb.org/articles/16/16-01029.html?a=1&n=james%20lowell&d=10&ss=0&q=1

Third Annual Report of the Board of Commissioners of the Central Park, January 1860:

http://home2.nyc.gov/html/records/pdf/govpub/4053annual_report_manhattan_central_park_1859.pdf

See page 29:

Third Annual Commissioners Report, page 28-29

 

G. W. Fasel, View of the lake, iron bridge and island:

http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchdetail.cfm?trg=1&strucID=1804107&imageID=1659455&total=13&num=0&word=fasel%2C%20central%20park&s=1&notword=&d=&c=&f=&k=1&lWord=&lField=&sScope=&sLevel=&sLabel=&sort=&imgs=20&pos=11&e=w

 

XXXII.-The Bow Bridge, Perkins and Guild, Central Park, 59:

http://archive.org/stream/centralpark00guil#page/n127/mode/2up

 

Richards, Guide to the Central Park (New York: James Miller, 1866):

http://www.worldcat.org/title/guide-to-the-central-park/oclc/228669989&referer=brief_results

See pages 52-53:

Richards, Guide to Central Park

 

“Bow Bridge,” Bridges of Central Park (Greensward Foundation):

http://www.echonyc.com/~parks/books/bridges19.html

 

Bow Bridge:

http://www.centralparknyc.org/visit/things-to-see/great-lawn/bow-bridge.html

Newspaper links-Swans, geese, and ducks

“Town Gossip,” Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper (New York, NY), June 24, 1865, 211, col. C:

http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itw/infomark/14/353/207268328w16/purl=rc1_NCNP_0_GT3017410773&dyn=47!nxt_37_0_GT3017410773?sw_aep=wash15020

Newspaper links-Boating

“Boating on the Lake at Central Park,” Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper (New York, NY), September 7, 1867, 391, col. D:

http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itw/infomark/670/358/10088197w16/purl=rc1_NCNP_0_GT3012578980&dyn=119!nxt_55_0_GT3012578980?sw_aep=wash15020

 

“Boating on the Lake at Central Park,” Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper (New York, NY), September 7, 1867, 393, col. A:

http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itw/infomark/670/358/10088197w16/purl=rc1_NCNP_0_GT3012578984&dyn=120!nxt_56_0_GT3012578984?sw_aep=wash15020

“The daughters of the year . . . ”

Tennyson, “The Gardener’s Daughter,” in (e.g.) Poems by Alfred Tennyson, Poet Laureate, 2:28:

http://books.google.com/books?id=cs4VAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA28

 

Edward Lear, Illustration to Tennyson’s “The Gardener’s Daughter:” Mount Lebanon, Syria - ‘A Cedar spread his dark green layers of shade’:

http://collections.britishart.yale.edu/vufind/Record/1668670

 

Edward Henry Wehnert, The Gardener’s Daughter:

http://www.leicestergalleries.com/19th-20th-century-paintings/d/the-gardeners-daughter/15483

 

J. C. Horsley, The Gardener’s Daughter; or, the Pictures:

http://www.victorianweb.org/art/illustration/horsley/6.html

Third Annual Report of the Board of Commissioners of the Central Park, January 1860:

http://home2.nyc.gov/html/records/pdf/govpub/4053annual_report_manhattan_central_park_1859.pdf

See page 29:

Pine Bank Arch

 

XLIX.-The Flying Footbridge, Perkins and Guild, Central Park, 76:

http://archive.org/stream/centralpark00guil#page/76/mode/2up

 

“Pine Bank Arch.” Bridges of Central Park (Greensward Foundation):

http://www.echonyc.com/~parks/books/bridges02.html

 

Pinebank Arch:

http://www.centralparknyc.org/visit/things-to-see/south-end/pinebank-arch.html

“With Summer lightnings of a Soul So full of Summer . . . ”

Tennyson, “Miller’s Daughter,” in Poems by Alfred Tennyson, 2:103:

http://books.google.com/books?id=kemxpB2d-OIC&pg=PA103

 

John Everett Millais, The Miller’s Daughter:

http://www.victorianweb.org/art/illustration/millais/2.html

 

Kathryn Ledbetter, Tennyson and Victorian periodicals commodities in context (Aldershot, England: Ashgate, 2007) 178

http://books.google.com/books?id=PJWKfSrYwtgC&pg=PA178

“Beautiful Summer house . . . ”

Farnham, Life in Prairie Land, 373:

http://books.google.com/books?id=5bRIAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA373

XLVI. - Summer-House North of Arsenal, Perkins and Guild, Central Park, 73:

http://archive.org/stream/centralpark00guil#page/n169/mode/2up

“Hark the voices . . . ”

Moravian Church, Offices of Worship and Hymns (With Tunes), 3rd ed. (Bethlehem, PA: Moravian Publication Office, 1902), 71:

http://books.google.com/books?id=llXk4HvcEbkC&pg=PA71

 

 “ . . . when sorrow has changed . . . ”

Esther Copley, “Lines Written in a Son’s Album,” in Clark, Christian Keepsake and Missionary Annual, 209:

http://books.google.com/books?id=A7oQAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA209

 

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, s.v. “Copley, Esther”:

http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/55930

“the Cataract . . . its breast of waters broadly Swells, Between the banks that bear the Vine”

Borrowed from Lord Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, canto III, st. 1:

http://books.google.com/books?id=fvoFAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA34

 

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, s.v. “Byron, George Gordon Noel”:

http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/4279?docPos=2

G. W. Fasel, View of the Cave Facing the Lake:

http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchdetail.cfm?trg=1&strucID=1804109&imageID=1659457&total=1&num=0&word=view%20of%20the%20cave%20facing%20the%20lake&s=1&notword=&d=&c=&f=&k=1&lWord=&lField=&sScope=&sLevel=&sLabel=&sort=&imgs=20&pos=1&e=w

“A Speaking eye . . . Kind on You”

Copley, “Lines Written in a Son’s Album,” 209:

http://books.google.com/books?id=A7oQAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA209

Location of tree in Map of the Central Park, January 1, 1870

Thirteenth Annual Report of the Board of Commissioners of the Central Parkfor the Year Ending December 1869 (New York: Evening Post Steam Presses, 1870):

http://home2.nyc.gov/html/records/pdf/govpub/3999annual_report_manhattan_central_park_1869.pdf

Richards, Oak Tree

“How Shall we our course pursue . . . ”

Henry Bacon, A Service Book: With A Selection of Tunes and Hymns for Sabbath Schools (Boston: Tompkins and Company, 1849), 44:

http://books.google.com/books?id=Lw91NvWVfmQC&pg=PA44

II.-Archway, South of Play-Ground, Perkins and Guild, Central Park, 29:

http://archive.org/stream/centralpark00guil#page/n37/mode/2up

 

“Dipway Arch.” Bridges of Central Park (Greensward Foundation):

http://www.echonyc.com/~parks/books/bridges10.html

 

Dipway Arch:

http://www.centralparknyc.org/visit/things-to-see/south-end/dipway-arch.html

 

Jennifer C. Spiegler, and Paul M. Gaykowski, The Bridges of Central Park (Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 2006).

http://books.google.com/books?id=J3ZWCdWfKykC&pg=PA35

Newspaper links - Horseback rider

“Gentleman Rider,” Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper (New York, NY), December 28, 1867, 235, col. B:

http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itw/infomark/670/358/10088197w16/purl=rc1_NCNP_0_GT3012577641&dyn=129!nxt_63_0_GT3012577641?sw_aep=wash15020

“The vines and roses . . . ”

Farnham, Life in Prairie Land, 373:

http://books.google.com/books?id=5bRIAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA373

Richards, “Central Park,”:

http://harpers.org/archive/1861/08/the-central-park/

See page 291:

Richards, page 291

 

George Hayward, View in Central Park, 1861:

http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchdetail.cfm?trg=1&strucID=709354&imageID=800723&total=11&num=0&word=hayward%2C%20view%20in%20central%20park%2C%201861&s=1&notword=&d=&c=&f=&k=1&lWord=&lField=&sScope=&sLevel=&sLabel=&sort=&imgs=20&pos=4&e=w

 

T. C. Roche, Summer House west of the Pond, near Artists’ Gate, 6th Av. and 59th St.:

http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchdetail.cfm?trg=1&strucID=762318&imageID=g91f219_023f&total=102&num=20&parent_id=96444&s=&notword=&d=&c=&f=&k=1&sScope=&sLevel=&sLabel=&lword=&lfield=&sort=&imgs=20&pos=23&snum=&e=w

 

I.-Summer-House near Artist’s Gate, Perkins and Guild, Central Park, 28:

http://archive.org/stream/centralpark00guil#page/28/mode/2up

“There' no more at eve declining . . . ”

“A Dream of Heaven,” in (e.g.) The Christian Library: A Weekly Republication of Popular Religious Works (New York: Thomas George, Jr., 1835), 528:

http://books.google.com/books?id=wv9PAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA528

“Driprock Arch.” Bridges of Central Park (Greensward Foundation):

http://www.echonyc.com/~parks/books/bridges11.html

 

Driprock Arch:

http://www.centralparknyc.org/visit/things-to-see/south-end/driprock-arch.html

Newspaper links-Horseback rider

“Gentleman Rider,” Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper (New York, NY), December 28, 1867, 235, col. B:

http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itw/infomark/670/358/10088197w16/purl=rc1_NCNP_0_GT3012577641&dyn=129!nxt_63_0_GT3012577641?sw_aep=wash15020

“Great overhanging piles . . .”

Farnham, Life In Prairie Land, 366:

http://books.google.com/books?id=5bRIAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA366

XVIII.-Cascade North of the Terrace, Perkins and Guild, Central Park, 46:

http://archive.org/stream/centralpark00guil#page/n85/mode/2up

“We fabricate Spruce dandy noddies . . . ”

Thomas Green Fessenden, Terrible Tractoration, And Other Poems (Boston: Samuel Colman, 1837), 25:

http://books.google.com/books?id=XrGAgzfni9UC&pg=PA25

 

American National Biography Online, s.v. “Fessenden, Thomas Green”:

http://www.anb.org/articles/16/16-00533.html?a=1&n=fessenden&d=10&ss=1&q=3

“draw the curtain..”

Farnham, Life in Prairie Land, 227:

http://books.google.com/books?id=5bRIAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA227

Third Annual Report of the Board of Commissioners of the Central Park, January 1860:

http://home2.nyc.gov/html/records/pdf/govpub/4053annual_report_manhattan_central_park_1859.pdf

See page 32:

Third Annual Commissoners Report, Oval Bridge

 

Victor Prevost, Central Park in 1862:

http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchdetail.cfm?trg=1&strucID=1931576&imageID=psnypl_rbk_887&total=20&num=0&word=victor%20prevost&s=1&notword=&d=&c=&f=&k=1&lWord=&lField=&sScope=&sLevel=&sLabel=&sort=&imgs=20&pos=18&e=w

 

XLVIII.-The Oval Bridge, Perkins and Guild, Central Park, 75:

http://archive.org/stream/centralpark00guil#page/n175/mode/2up

 

Richards, Guide to the Central Park:

http://www.worldcat.org/title/guide-to-the-central-park/oclc/228669989&referer=brief_results

See pages 70-71:

Richards, pages 70-71, Oval Bridge

 

“Spur Rock Arch,” Bridges of Central Park (Greensward Foundation):

http://www.echonyc.com/~parks/books/bridges32.html

“As i Sat and gazed . . . ”

Farnham, Life in Prairie Land, 379:

http://books.google.com/books?id=5bRIAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA379

Third Annual Report of the Board of Commissioners of the Central Park, January 1860:

http://home2.nyc.gov/html/records/pdf/govpub/4053annual_report_manhattan_central_park_1859.pdf

See pages 42-43:

Third Annual Commissioners Report, pages 42-43, Oak Bridge

 

Richards, “Central Park,” 299:

http://digital.nypl.org/mmpco/browseFTresults.cfm?&trg=2&image_id=800924&title=Foot-Bridge%20Over%20The%20West%20Arm%20Of%20The%20Lake.&strucID=575209&dstart=41&titleid=570315&pstrucid=570315

 

George Hayward, View of Central Park, Oak Bridge:

http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchdetail.cfm?trg=1&strucID=709350&imageID=800725&total=4&num=0&word=hayward%2C%20central%20park%2C%20oak%20bridge&s=1&notword=&d=&c=&f=&k=1&lWord=&lField=&sScope=&sLevel=&sLabel=&sort=&imgs=20&pos=1&e=w

 

XXVIII.-The Oak Bridge, Perkins and Guild, Central Park, 56:

http://archive.org/stream/centralpark00guil#page/56/mode/2up

 

XXIX.-The Oak Bridge - Second View, Perkins and Guild, Central Park, 56:

http://archive.org/stream/centralpark00guil#page/n121/mode/2up

 

[View of a gazebo in Central Park, New York City]:

http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchdetail.cfm?trg=1&strucID=764294&imageID=g91f221_001f&total=114&num=0&parent_id=96446&s=&notword=&d=&c=&f=&k=1&sScope=&sLevel=&sLabel=&lword=&lfield=&sort=&imgs=20&pos=1&snum=&e=w

 

Richards, Guide to the Central Park:

http://www.worldcat.org/title/guide-to-the-central-park/oclc/228669989&referer=brief_results

See pages 50-51:

Richards, pages 50-51, Oak Bridge

 

“Bank Rock Bridge,” Bridges of Central Park (Greensward Foundation):

http://www.echonyc.com/~parks/books/bridges07.html

Newspaper links-Swans, geese, and ducks

“Town Gossip,” Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper (New York, NY), June 24, 1865, 211, col. C:

http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itw/infomark/14/353/207268328w16/purl=rc1_NCNP_0_GT3017410773&dyn=47!nxt_37_0_GT3017410773?sw_aep=wash15020

 

Newspaper links-Boating

“Boating on the Lake,” Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper (New York, NY), September 7, 1867, 391, col. D:

http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itw/infomark/670/358/10088197w16/purl=rc1_NCNP_0_GT3012578980&dyn=119!nxt_55_0_GT3012578980?sw_aep=wash15020

 

“Boating on the Lake at Central Park,” Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper (New York, NY), September 7, 1867, 393, col. A:

http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itw/infomark/670/358/10088197w16/purl=rc1_NCNP_0_GT3012578984&dyn=120!nxt_56_0_GT3012578984?sw_aep=wash15020

“The birds pour forth . . . ”

Similar to William Wordsworth, “Devotional Incitements,” in (e.g.) The Poems of William Wordsworth (London: Edward Moxon, 1849),1 78:

http://books.google.com/books?id=znOaqq89un8C&pg=PA178

 

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, s.v. “Wordsworth, William”:

http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/29973?docPos=9

Thomas Nast, Central Park in Summer:

http://pudl.princeton.edu/sheetreader.php?obj=4m90dv638

See detail:

Thomas Nast, Central Park in Summer, detail

Richards, Guide to the Central Park:

http://www.worldcat.org/title/guide-to-the-central-park/oclc/228669989&referer=brief_results

See pages 23-25:

Richards, pages 23-24, The Park Trees

Richards, pages 24-25, The Park Trees

Statue of Commerce, 8th Ave. entrance:

http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchdetail.cfm?trg=1&strucID=761550&imageID=g91f218_054f&total=127&num=40&parent_id=96443&s=&notword=&d=&c=&f=&k=1&sScope=&sLevel=&sLabel=&lword=&lfield=&sort=&imgs=20&pos=54&snum=&e=w

 

“Statue of Commerce,” in Clarence Cook, A Description of the New York Central Park (New York: F.J. Huntington and Co., 1869), 77-78:

http://books.google.com/books?id=0pM-AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA78

XXXVI.-The Bell Frame, Perkins and Guild, Central Park, 63:

http://archive.org/stream/centralpark00guil#page/n139/mode/2up

“Oh, Stream of life . . . ”

William Cullen Bryant, “The Stream of Life” in (e.g.) Life-lights of Song: Songs of Life and Labour, ed.David Page (Edinburgh: William P. Nimmo, 1864), 95:

http://books.google.com/books?id=QEoCAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA95

Seventh Annual Report of the Board of Commissioners of the Central Park (December 1863):

http://home2.nyc.gov/html/records/pdf/govpub/4085annual_report_manhattan_central_park_1863.pdf

See pages 16-17:

Seventh Annual Commissioners Report, pages 16-17

 

“Trefoil Arch,” Bridges of Central Park (Greensward Foundation):

http://www.echonyc.com/~parks/books/bridges20.html

 

Trefoil Arch (east side):

http://www.centralparknyc.org/visit/things-to-see/great-lawn/trefoil-arch.html

“Trefoil Arch,” Bridges of Central Park (Greensward Foundation):

http://www.echonyc.com/~parks/books/bridges20.html

 

Trefoil Arch (west side):

http://cornelisverwaal.photoshelter.com/image/I0000DZMuLZEB8UU

“When things are done . . . “

“M.” “The French Peasant.” The Gentleman’s Magazine, June 1813, 568:

http://books.google.com/books?id=Yq8UAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA568

“When languor . . . “

hymn, in (e.g.) Nehemiah Adams, Church Pastorals: Hymns and Tunes for Public and Social Worship (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1864), 347:

http://books.google.com/books?id=7HcOIX4v-w0C&pg=PA347

Newspaper links-Horses and carriages

“Town Gossip,” Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper (New York, NY), June 18, 1864, 194, col. D:

http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itw/infomark/14/353/207268328w16/purl=rc1_NCNP_0_GT3012571765&dyn=24!nxt_15_0_GT3012571765?sw_aep=wash15020

 

“Returning from the Races at Jersome Park, Fordham, N. Y. Carriages Passing the North End of Central Park and around Mount St. Vincent,” Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper (New York, NY), November 2, 1867, 104-5, col. A:

http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itw/infomark/670/358/10088197w16/purl=rc1_NCNP_0_GT3012578561&dyn=127!nxt_61_0_GT3012578561?sw_aep=wash15020

 

“Multiple News Items,” Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper (New York, NY), September 1, 1866, 371, col. B:

http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itw/infomark/670/358/10088197w16/purl=rc1_NCNP_0_GT3012576876&dyn=97!nxt_39_0_GT3012576876?sw_aep=wash15020

 “A Cave Discovered in the Central Park,” New York Times, September 7, 1857:

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F70C10FB3D581B7493C5A91782D85F438584F9

 

Richards, “Central Park,”:

http://harpers.org/archive/1861/08/the-central-park/

See page 298:

Richards, Central Park, page 298

 

T. C. Roche, The Cave, from the Ramble:

http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchdetail.cfm?trg=1&strucID=762278&imageID=g91f219_018f&total=102&num=0&parent_id=96444&s=&notword=&d=&c=&f=&k=1&sScope=&sLevel=&sLabel=&lword=&lfield=&sort=&imgs=20&pos=18&snum=&e=w

 

G. W. Fasel, View of the Cave Facing the Lake:

http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchdetail.cfm?trg=1&strucID=1804109&imageID=1659457&total=13&num=0&word=fasel%2C%20central%20park&s=1&notword=&d=&c=&f=&k=1&lWord=&lField=&sScope=&sLevel=&sLabel=&sort=&imgs=20&pos=7&e=w

 

XXVI.-The Cave, Perkins and Guild, Central Park, 54:

http://archive.org/stream/centralpark00guil#page/n109/mode/2up

See O'Malley, Lewis Miller's View of American Landscape for more on the images of Miller sketching.

Third Annual Report of the Board of Commissioners of the Central Park, January 1860:

http://home2.nyc.gov/html/records/pdf/govpub/4053annual_report_manhattan_central_park_1859.pdf

See page 66:

Third Annual Commissioners Report, pages 66

 

Richards, “Central Park,”:

http://harpers.org/archive/1861/08/the-central-park/

See page 299:

Richards, Central Park, page 299

 

T. C. Roche, Rustic Stone Arch, Near the Cave:

http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchdetail.cfm?trg=1&strucID=762406&imageID=g91f219_034f&total=102&num=20&parent_id=96444&s=&notword=&d=&c=&f=&k=1&sScope=&sLevel=&sLabel=&lword=&lfield=&sort=&imgs=20&pos=34&snum=&e=w

 

W. M. Chase, Rustic Arch in the Ramble:

http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchdetail.cfm?trg=1&strucID=763406&imageID=g91f220_057f&total=167&num=40&parent_id=96445&s=&notword=&d=&c=&f=&k=1&sScope=&sLevel=&sLabel=&lword=&lfield=&sort=&imgs=20&pos=57&snum=&e=w

 

Central Park. The Ramble:

http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchdetail.cfm?trg=1&strucID=761254&imageID=g91f218_017f&total=1&num=0&word=g91f218_017f&s=1&notword=&d=&c=&f=&k=1&lWord=&lField=&sScope=&sLevel=&sLabel=&sort=&imgs=20&pos=1&e=w

 

XXVII.-Rustic Arch, West of Ramble, Perkins and Guild, Central Park, 55:

http://archive.org/stream/centralpark00guil#page/54/mode/2up

 

“Ramble Arch,” Bridges of Central Park (Greensward Foundation):

http://www.echonyc.com/~parks/books/bridges08.html

 

Ramble Stone Arch:

http://www.centralparknyc.org/visit/things-to-see/great-lawn/ramble-stone-arch.html

G. W. Fasel, View of the Entrance of the Cave and Stone Bridge:

http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchdetail.cfm?trg=1&strucID=1804108&imageID=1659456&word=fasel%2C%20View%20of%20the%20Entrance%20of%20the%20Cave&s=1&notword=&d=&c=&f=&k=1&lWord=&lField=&sScope=&sLevel=&sLabel=&sort=&total=1&num=0&imgs=20&pNum=&pos=1

“Alone . . . ”

This is a translation of the German word, Einsam - Alone- lonely, retired, solitary, solitarily.

“And thus forever . . . “

“L.” “Why Weep’st Thou Mother?” in The Literary Garland, and British North American Magazine (Montreal: Lovell and Gibson, 1849), 7:352:

http://books.google.com/books?id=DGMNAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA352

 

Anonymous, “The Departed,” in The Ladies’ Repository, ed. L. L. Hamline (Cincinnati: J. F. Wright and L. Swormstedt, 1842), 2:120:

http://books.google.com/books?id=3hQxAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA120

Third Annual Report of the Board of Commissioners of the Central Park, January 1860:

http://home2.nyc.gov/html/records/pdf/govpub/4053annual_report_manhattan_central_park_1859.pdf

See page 37:

Third Annual Commissioners Report, pages 36-37

 

The Marble Arch:

http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchdetail.cfm?trg=1&strucID=761374&imageID=g91f218_032f&total=127&num=20&parent_id=96443&s=&notword=&d=&c=&f=&k=1&sScope=&sLevel=&sLabel=&lword=&lfield=&sort=&imgs=20&pos=32&snum=&e=w

 

The Marble Bridge at the Entrance to the Mall:

http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchdetail.cfm?trg=1&strucID=761366&imageID=g91f218_031f&total=127&num=20&parent_id=96443&s=&notword=&d=&c=&f=&k=1&sScope=&sLevel=&sLabel=&lword=&lfield=&sort=&imgs=20&pos=31&snum=&e=w

 

VI.-The Marble Arch and Alcove, Perkins and Guild, Central Park, 33:

http://archive.org/stream/centralpark00guil#page/n49/mode/2up

 

Richards, Guide to the Central Park:

http://www.worldcat.org/title/guide-to-the-central-park/oclc/228669989&referer=brief_results

See pages 38-39:

Richards, Central Park, page 38-39

 

“Marble Arch,” Bridges of Central Park (Greensward Foundation):

http://www.echonyc.com/~parks/books/bridges33.html

 

Marble Arch:

http://centralpark.org/index.php/2012/01/marble-arch-lost-bridge-of-central-park/

The Music Pavilion, Central Park:

http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchdetail.cfm?trg=1&strucID=848111&imageID=g91f223_089f&total=4&num=0&word=J.%20Ward%20&%20Son%20%28Firm%29&s=3&notword=&d=&c=&f=4&k=1&lWord=&lField=&sScope=&sLevel=&sLabel=&sort=&imgs=20&pos=2&e=w

 

Fifth Annual Report of the Board of Commissioners of the Central Park, 1862:

http://home2.nyc.gov/html/records/pdf/govpub/4051annual_report_manhattan_central_park_1861.pdf

See pages 32-33

Fifth Annual Commissioners Report, pages 32-33

 

IX.-The Music Pavilion, Perkins and Guild, Central Park, 36:

http://archive.org/stream/centralpark00guil#page/36/mode/2up

 

Newspaper links - Music

“The $5,000 Prize Tale,” Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper (New York, NY), January 30, 1864, 293, col. A:

http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itw/infomark/14/353/207268328w16/purl=rc1_NCNP_0_GT3012571449&dyn=8!nxt_3_0_GT3012571449?sw_aep=wash15020

 

“Music at the Park,” Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper (New York, NY), July 23, 1864, 275, col. C:

'

http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itw/infomark/14/353/207268328w16/purl=rc1_NCNP_0_GT3012571597&dyn=26!nxt_17_0_GT3012571597?sw_aep=wash15020

 

“The Music Stand at Central Park, New York-Saturday Afternoon 5 O’Clock,” Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper (New York, NY), August 4, 1866, 312, col. A:

http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itw/infomark/670/358/10088197w16/purl=rc1_NCNP_0_GT3012574867&dyn=87!nxt_35_0_GT3012574867?sw_aep=wash15020

 

“Amusements in the City,” Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper (New York, NY), June 29, 1867, 226, col. D:

http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itw/infomark/670/358/10088197w16/purl=rc1_NCNP_0_GT3012578236&dyn=115!nxt_51_0_GT3012578236?sw_aep=wash15020

 

Newspaper links - Dodworth Band

“The Central Park,” Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper (New York, NY), October 28, 1865, 92, col. D:

http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itw/infomark/670/358/10088197w16/purl=rc1_NCNP_0_GT3012574409&dyn=68!nxt_16_0_GT3012574409?sw_aep=wash15020

 

“Epitome of the Week,” Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper (New York, NY), May 12, 1866, 115, col. C:

http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itw/infomark/670/358/10088197w16/purl=rc1_NCNP_0_GT3012576433&dyn=80!nxt_28_0_GT3012576433?sw_aep=wash15020

 

“Town Gossip,” Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper (New York, NY), August 31, 1867, 371, col. A:

http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itw/infomark/670/358/10088197w16/purl=rc1_NCNP_0_GT3012577479&dyn=118!nxt_54_0_GT3012577479?sw_aep=wash15020

 

“Annual Commencement of the New York Free Academy,” New York Herald, July 17, 1861; col. E:

http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itw/infomark/9/794/2140626w16/purl=rc1_NCNP_0_GT3003702903&dyn=22!xrn_22_0_GT3003702903&hst_1?sw_aep=wash15020

 

“Central Park Concerts,” New York Herald, October 12, 1861, 4; col. E:

http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itw/infomark/15/35/2397366w16/purl=rc1_NCNP_0_GT3003716445&dyn=3!xrn_7_0_GT3003716445&hst_1?sw_aep=wash15020

 

“Brass Bands in the 1850s”:

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cwmhtml/cwmpres02.html

 

“Music and Meaning in Early America,” Common-Place 13, no. 2:

http://www.common-place.org/vol-13/no-02/

 

The Dodworth Saxhorn Band:

www.dodworth.org

 

Video 1: Dodworth’s 1853 arrangement of the Star Spangled Banner (which Miller cites in his “Guide”):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMB5tvXQoyc

 

Video 2:  At the Band History Conference at the 2011 Great American Brass Band Festival:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKqSCnlN1_0

 

Video 3: “Garry Owen” at the 2011 Great American Brass Band Festival in Danville, Kentucky:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmJchrwaCn0

 

Video 4: At Greenfield Village, Dearborn:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NTCNv21KI0

 

Video 5: In a Patriotic Pavilion:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnEw7RWQbkM

“When the two goats . . . ”

Richard Cecil, “Miscellanies” in The Works of the Rev. Richard Cecil, ed., Josiah Pratt, 2nd ed. (London: L. B. Seeley, and Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1816), 3:526:

http://books.google.com/books?id=cXcAAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA526

 

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, s.v. “Cecil, Richard”:

http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/4979?docPos=x18

V.-The Tricolored Archway, Perkins and Guild, Central Park, 32:

http://archive.org/stream/centralpark00guil#page/32/mode/2up

 

Playmates Arch:

http://www.centralparknyc.org/visit/things-to-see/south-end/playmates-arch.html

“Passing time away . . . ”

Charles Benjamin Tayler, Earnestness: The sequel to ‘Thankfulness’ (London: Sampson Low, 1850), 36:

http://books.google.com/books?id=ABsGAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA36

Newspaper links-Eagles

“The spring has come, and the eagles in the Central Park are as noisy as ever, and a part of them in good condition and thoroughly independent,” Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper (New York, NY), May 12, 1866, 114, col. D:

http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itw/infomark/670/358/10088197w16/purl=rc1_NCNP_0_GT3012576423&dyn=79!nxt_27_0_GT3012576423?sw_aep=wash15020

XI.-The Vine-Covered Walk, Perkins and Guild, Central Park, 38:

http://archive.org/stream/centralpark00guil#page/38/mode/2up

 

The Deer:

http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchdetail.cfm?trg=1&strucID=765910&imageID=g91f230_013f&total=44&num=0&parent_id=96449&s=&notword=&d=&c=&f=&k=1&sScope=&sLevel=&sLabel=&lword=&lfield=&sort=&imgs=20&pos=13&snum=&e=w

 

Newspaper links-Zoological Gardens

“A New Enterprise,” Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper (New York, NY), July 21, 1866, 286, col. B:

http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itw/infomark/670/358/10088197w16/purl=rc1_NCNP_0_GT3012575844&dyn=83!nxt_31_0_GT3012575844?sw_aep=wash15020

 

“Town Gossip,” Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper (New York, NY), August 24, 1867, 355, col. A:

http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itw/infomark/670/358/10088197w16/purl=rc1_NCNP_0_GT3012577440&dyn=117!nxt_53_0_GT3012577440?sw_aep=wash15020

XXII.-Arbor Near Schiller’s Bust, Perkins and Guild, Central Park, 50:

http://archive.org/stream/centralpark00guil#page/n97/mode/2up

XXXVII.-The Reservoirs, Perkins and Guild, Central Park, 64:

http://archive.org/stream/centralpark00guil#page/64/mode/2up

 “Tell me . . . “

Luther, Martin. Psalm CXVIII, “The Happy Man.” In Hymns of the Reformation, 98. London: Charles Gilpin, 1845:

http://books.google.com/books?id=gv5LAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA98

Seventh Annual Report of the Board of Commissioners of the Central Park (New York: W.C. Bryant & Co., 1863):

http://home2.nyc.gov/html/records/pdf/govpub/4085annual_report_manhattan_central_park_1863.pdf

See pages 38-39:

Seventh Annual Commissioners Report, pages 38-39

 

John William Orr, View on the Central Lake:

http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchdetail.cfm?trg=1&strucID=709293&imageID=800903&total=335&num=20&word=view%20on%20the%20central%20lake&s=1&notword=&d=&c=&f=&k=1&lWord=&lField=&sScope=&sLevel=&sLabel=&sort=&imgs=20&pos=37&e=w

 

XVII.-The Gondola, Perkins and Guild, Central Park, 45:

http://archive.org/stream/centralpark00guil#page/44/mode/2up

 

Newspaper links-Boating

“Boating on the Lake at Central Park,”Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper (New York, NY), September 7, 1867, 391, col. D:

http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itw/infomark/670/358/10088197w16/purl=rc1_NCNP_0_GT3012578980&dyn=119!nxt_55_0_GT3012578980?sw_aep=wash15020

 

“Boating on the Lake at Central Park,” Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper (New York, NY), September 7, 1867, 393, col. A:

http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itw/infomark/670/358/10088197w16/purl=rc1_NCNP_0_GT3012578984&dyn=120!nxt_56_0_GT3012578984?sw_aep=wash15020

“For frost . . . ”

Bryant, “Return of the Birds,” 37:

http://books.google.com/books?id=opsGAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA37

Richards, “Central Park”:

http://harpers.org/archive/1861/08/the-central-park/

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See page 305:

Richards, Guide to the Central Park, page 305

 

T. C. Roche, Observatory and Tunnel, West Side:

http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchdetail.cfm?trg=1&strucID=762638&imageID=g91f219_063f&total=102&num=60&parent_id=96444&s=&notword=&d=&c=&f=&k=1&sScope=&sLevel=&sLabel=&lword=&lfield=&sort=&imgs=20&pos=63&snum=&e=w

 

XXXVIII.-Street Tunnel Under Vista Rock, Perkins and Guild, Central Park, 65:

http://archive.org/stream/centralpark00guil#page/n145/mode/2up

Newspaper links-Horses and Carriages

“Town Gossip,” Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper (New York, NY), June 18, 1864, 194, col. D:

http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itw/infomark/14/353/207268328w16/purl=rc1_NCNP_0_GT3012571765&dyn=24!nxt_15_0_GT3012571765?sw_aep=wash15020

 

“Returning from the Races at Jersome Park, Fordham, N. Y. Carriages Passing the North End of Central Park and around Mount St. Vincent,” Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper (New York, NY), November 2, 1867, 104-5, col. A:

http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itw/infomark/670/358/10088197w16/purl=rc1_NCNP_0_GT3012578561&dyn=127!nxt_61_0_GT3012578561?sw_aep=wash15020

 

“Multiple News Items,” Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper (New York, NY), September 1, 1866, 371, col. B:

http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itw/infomark/670/358/10088197w16/purl=rc1_NCNP_0_GT3012576876&dyn=97!nxt_39_0_GT3012576876?sw_aep=wash15020.

 

Newspaper links-Horseback rider:

“Gentleman Rider,” Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper (New York, NY), December 28, 1867, 235, col. B:

http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itw/infomark/670/358/10088197w16/purl=rc1_NCNP_0_GT3012577641&dyn=129!nxt_63_0_GT3012577641?sw_aep=wash15020

T. C. Roche, Bronze Group of Eagles:

http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchdetail.cfm?trg=1&strucID=762366&imageID=g91f219_029f&total=2&num=0&word=bronze%20group%20of%20eagles&s=1&notword=&d=&c=&f=&k=1&lWord=&lField=&sScope=&sLevel=&sLabel=&sort=&imgs=20&pos=2&e=w

 

X.-The Vulture’s Banquet, Perkins and Guild, Central Park, 38:

http://archive.org/stream/centralpark00guil#page/n61/mode/2up

 

Eagles and Prey by Christophe Fratin:

http://www.centralparknyc.org/visit/things-to-see/south-end/eagles-and-prey.html