Samuel Newsom (1854-1908)

Name

Newsom, Samuel

Personal Information

Birth/Death:    (1854-1908)
Occupation:    American landscape architect
Location (state):    CA

AIA Affiliation

Not a member of the AIA.

Biographical Sources

Biographical Directories:
Entry in Macmillan Encyclopedia of Architects (New York: Macmillan, 1982)
Entry in Henry F. Withey, A.I.A., and Elsie Rathburn Withey, Biographical Dictionary of American Architects (Deceased) (Los Angeles: New Age Publishing Company, 1956. Facsimile edition, Hennessey & Ingalls, Inc., 1970)
Biographical information:
Contributed by Special Collections, Frances Loeb Library, Harvard Graduate School of Design:
Samuel Newsom, a California landscape designer, travelled to Japan in 1934 to study Japanese landscape design. He remained for five years, under the sponsorship of the Kokusai Bunka Shinkokai, mapping and photographing traditional gardens, public and private, in Kyoto and Tokyo. Newsom's first book, Japanese Garden Construction (1937) was published in Tokyo and formalizes the research he had conducted.

Related Records

Archival Holdings

Special Collections, Frances Loeb Library, Harvard Graduate School of Design
The Samuel Newsom Collection includes manuscript material, printed items and ephemera, hundreds of photographs and snapshots, and, most importantly, dozens of notebooks, which include both meticulously detailed measured drawings, as well as impressionistic sketches of gardens and parks.
For more information https://guides.library.harvard.edu/gsd/archives

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