Sylvester Baxter (February 6, 1850–1927) was an American newspaper writer, poet, and urban planner in the Boston area. In 1893 he became the first secretary of the Massachusetts Metropolitan Park Commission and along with Charles Eliot was a chief force in the development of the Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston. (From Wikipedia) More about Sylvester Baxter:
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| | Books by Sylvester Baxter: Baxter, Sylvester, 1850-1927, contrib.: Looking Backward: 2000-1887 (with retrospectives on the book and author; Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., ca. 1931), by Edward Bellamy, also contrib. by Heywood Broun Baxter, Sylvester, 1850-1927: The Southwest in the American Imagination: The Writings of Sylvester Baxter, 1881-1889 (Frank Hamilton Cushing and the Hemenway Southwestern Archaeological Expedition, 1886-1889, v1; originally published 1996; this edition Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2002), ed. by Curtis M. Hinsley and David R. Wilcox (multiple formats with commentary at Open Arizona)
Additional books by Sylvester Baxter in the extended shelves: Baxter, Sylvester, 1850-1927: The Borda garden in Cuernavaca. (1908) (page images at HathiTrust) Baxter, Sylvester, 1850-1927: Boston park guide, including the municipal and metropolitan systems of greater Boston. (Small, Maynard and Co., 1898) (page images at HathiTrust) Baxter, Sylvester, 1850-1927: Boston park guide : including the municipal and metropolitan systems of Greater Boston (Small, Maynard & Co., 1898), also by William P. Bodwell, Charles D. Magginnis, and Charles H. Woodbury (page images at HathiTrust) Baxter, Sylvester, 1850-1927: Boston park guide : including the municipal and metropolitan systems of greater Boston (The author, 1895) (page images at HathiTrust) Baxter, Sylvester, 1850-1927: City building ([Boston?, 1908), also by Theodor Fischer and Massachusetts. Metropolitan improvements commission (page images at HathiTrust) Baxter, Sylvester, 1850-1927: The cruise of a land-yacht (The Authors' Mutual Pub. Co., 1891) (page images at HathiTrust) Baxter, Sylvester, 1850-1927: The cruise of a land-yacht (Little Brown, 1891), also by L. J. Bridgman (page images at HathiTrust) Baxter, Sylvester, 1850-1927: Fatinitza comic opera (Ditson, 1879), also by Franz von Suppé, Eugène Scribe, Theodore T. Barker, Richard Genée, and F. Zell (page images at HathiTrust) Baxter, Sylvester, 1850-1927: Holy Grail. (Curtis & Cameron, 1904), also by Edwin Austin Abbey and Boston Public Library (page images at HathiTrust) Baxter, Sylvester, 1850-1927: The Hotel Cluny of a New England village, (Salem Press Co., 1901), also by Thomas Franklin Waters and William Howe Downes (page images at HathiTrust) Baxter, Sylvester, 1850-1927: Looking backward, 2000-1887 (Houghton Mifflin company, 1926), also by Edward Bellamy (page images at HathiTrust) Baxter, Sylvester, 1850-1927: Looking backward, 2000-1887 (Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1898), also by Edward Bellamy (page images at HathiTrust) Baxter, Sylvester, 1850-1927: Looking backward, 2000-1887 (Houghton Mifflin, 1915), also by Edward Bellamy (page images at HathiTrust) Baxter, Sylvester, 1850-1927: Looking backward, 2000-1887 (Grossett & Dunlap, 1898), also by Edward Bellamy (page images at HathiTrust) Baxter, Sylvester, 1850-1927: Looking backward, 2000-1887 (Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1929), also by Edward Bellamy (page images at HathiTrust) Baxter, Sylvester, 1850-1927: The Morse collection of Japanese pottery (Essex Institute, 1887) (page images at HathiTrust) Baxter, Sylvester, 1850-1927: The old New world. An account of the explorations of the Hemenway southwestern archæological expedition in 1887-88, under the direction of Frank Hamilton Cushing. (Printed at the Salem Press, 1888) (page images at HathiTrust) Baxter, Sylvester, 1850-1927: Remaking a railway: a study in efficiency, being an appreciation of the new transportation epoch in New England. (New England Lines, 1910) (page images at HathiTrust) Baxter, Sylvester, 1850-1927: Significant comparisons of the cost of light furnished under municipal ownership with that by private corporations. (E.A. Johnson & Co., printers, 1891) (page images at HathiTrust) Baxter, Sylvester, 1850-1927: Spanish-colonial architecture in Mexico (J. B. Millet, 1901), also by Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue and Henry Greenwood Peabody (page images at HathiTrust) Baxter, Sylvester, 1850-1927: Spanish-colonial architecture in Mexico (J.B. Millet, 1901), also by Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue and Henry G. Peabody (page images at HathiTrust) Baxter, Sylvester, 1850-1927: Spanish-colonial architecture in Mexico (J. B. Millet, 1901), also by Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue and Henry Greenwood Peabody (page images at HathiTrust) Baxter, Sylvester, 1850-1927: The unseen house, and other poems (Four Seas, 1917) (page images at HathiTrust) Baxter, Sylvester, 1850-1927: Walt Whitman ... ([New England Magazine Co., 1892), also by George D. Black and Walter Blackburn Harte (page images at HathiTrust)
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