Scope and content of the materials

The Percival Gallagher Papers document the personal and professional life of prominent landscape architect and partner of the Olmsted Brothers firm. In addition to research materials collected over the course of his life, Gallagher saved memorabilia from all aspects of his life, from handwritten notes about landscapes and gardens to travel souvenirs. In 2015, the IMA Archives digitized all of the photographs and select manuscript material from Gallagher's papers. The digitized collection has been made available online through the Indianapolis Museum of Art’s Digital Archives Portal.

Access Restrictions

Collection is open for research.

Arrangement

This collection has been divided into four series and five subseries.

Use restrictions

Unpublished manuscripts are protected by copyright. Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository and the copyright holder. Please contact the Archivist for more information.

Acquisition and appraisal

Gift of Helen Stearns Palmer on September 19, 2011.

Description control

- Material in the collection.- Brooks, Bradley C. Oldfields. Indianapolis: Indianapolis Museum of Art, 2004.- Karson, Robin. Report on the Life's Work of Percival Gallagher. Amherst, Mass.: [n.p.], 1993.- Olmsted, Frederick Law Jr. "Percival Gallagher Obituary." Landscape Architecture 24, no. 3 (1934): 167-68. Box 4, Folder 8, Percival Gallagher Papers, Archives, Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, Indianapolis, IN.

Index terms

Architecture

Brookline Village (Brookline, Mass.)

Garden and landscape history

Landscape architects

Landscape architecture

Oldfields-Lilly House & Gardens

Olmsted Brothers

Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1870-1957