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Adelle Bartlett Harper papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1136
Scope and Content

This collection contains clippings, correspondence, notes, and scrapbooks that document Adelle B. Harper's life as well as members of her family. Material provides insight into Harper's flower shop business, club activities, family life, and her wide variety of interests. Scrapbooks offer details about Auverne Harper's enrollment in Woodberry Hall School for Girls in Atlanta and Shorter College in Rome, Georgia.

Dates: 1864-2017, undated

Captain Francis L. and Elizabeth P. Edmondson papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS1109
Scope and Content This collection contains documents that provide professional and personal details about Captain Francis and Elizabeth Edmondson and the Edmondson family. Material includes United States Navy correspondence and publications documenting Edmondson's navy career. Personal interests of Francis and Elizabeth are illustrated through Civil War history clippings, publications from civic organizations, and Cyclorama Restoration, Inc. correspondence. Also a part of the collection are Elizabeth...
Dates: 1878-2008, undated

Cherokee Garden Club records

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Collection number: ahc.MSS650
Scope and Content This collection contains minutes, newsletters, yearbooks, histories, and president's notebooks that document the civic and social history of the club. President's notebooks include correspondence, minutes, newsletters, reports, financial records, and membership information. Also a part of the collection are scrapbooks which illustrate the club's many projects including two scrapbooks devoted to the "Christmas Trees Around the World" project and a scrapbook devoted to the restoration project...
Dates: 1928-2019, undated

Deep Dene Garden Club scrapbook

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Collection number: ahc.MSS1189
Scope and Content

This collection contains one bound scrapbook created by the Deep Dene Garden Club that details the civic and social activities of the club. Material includes poems, yearbooks, correspondence, clippings, drawings, and photographs that illustrate the club's garden interests and projects. The scrapbook clippings focus on flower arrangment and home decor.

Dates: 1940-1990; Majority of material found within 1940 - 1949

Flower Arrangers Club of Georgia records

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Collection number: ahc.MSS1114
Scope and Content

This collection contains materials that document the civic and social activities of the club. Included are clippings, minutes, yearbooks, and flower show programs. Also a part of the collection are four scrapbooks that detail the programs and projects of the club. Of special interest are items from Marie J. Fort, well known flower arranger, flower show judge, lecturer, and author.

Dates: 1943-1997, undated

Flower Show ephemera

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Collection number: ahc.MSS971
Scope and Content This collection contains flower show brochures and programs from shows and exhibits in Atlanta and the Southeast. Shows were sponsored by Atlanta garden clubs and plant associations such as the Atlanta Flower Show Association, the Atlanta Camellia Society, and The Garden Club of Georgia, Inc. The collection also contains clippings and correspondence. These materials offer a variety of horticultural information including plant varieties and classification, cultivar popularity, and floral...
Dates: 1924-2005, undated

Four Seasons Garden Club records

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Collection number: ahc.MSS1053
Scope and Content

This collection contains minutes, yearbooks, and scrapbooks that document the social and civic history of the club. Minutes include financial and presidential reports. Scrapbooks provide further detail about the club's flower show participation as well as programs and civic work. Much of the material highlights the garden club activities and speaking engagements of Mrs. Isabelle L. Spearman, one of the club's founding members and past president of the Georgia Daffodil Society.

Dates: 1942-1993, undated

Green Thumb Garden Club photographs

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Collection number: ahc.VIS272
Scope and Content

This collection contains photographs and slides that provide details of the social and civic activities of the club. Images include flower arrangements and flower show displays, vegetable crops in the Tullie Smith House (later Smith Family Farm) garden, and members at club meetings. Of special interest are images of the courtyard garden at the Haven Home, as well as members helping residents with garden therapy projects.

Dates: approximately 1954-1976

Iris Garden Club photographs

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Collection number: ahc.VIS253
Scope and Content This collection contains photographic prints and negatives that document the social and civic activities of the club. Meetings, floral arrangements, and garden scenes are part of the material. Some of the floral arrangements were from club members' participation in local flower shows. Also included are photographs of the club's landscaping project at the Iris Garden and Woodland Glen in Winn Park, Atlanta. Of special interest are photographs of the club's Orchard Terrace project at the...
Dates: approximately 1930-1963, undated

Junior Flower Show Association scrapbooks

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Collection number: ahc.MSS414
Scope and Content

This collection contains three scrapbooks that provide details of the social activities and flower shows of the association.

Dates: 1948-1956

Marsha P. Webb papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS1069
Scope and Content This collection contains flower show programs, award books of evidence, publicity articles, and correspondence that provide a history of Marsha Webb's career as a national flower show judge and internationally known flower arranger. Also included are documents that detail her involvement with numerous organizations such as the The Garden Club of Georgia, Inc., the Atlanta Botanical Garden, National Garden Clubs, Inc., and WAFA (World Association of Flower Arrangers). Of special interest are...
Dates: 1939-2013, undated

Peachtree Garden Club records

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Collection number: ahc.MSS681
Scope and Contents of the Records This collection contains minutes, committee reports, financial statements, membership information, and correspondence that documents the civic and social activities of the club. Materials from Presidents Brenda Dreyer and Dean Smith comprise a substantial section of the collection from the years 1999 to 2003. Also in the collection are scrapbooks as well as GCA manuals and meeting programs from the GCA Annual and Zone Meetings beginning with 1932. A large amount of material details the GCA...
Dates: 1923-2019, undated

Peachtree Garden Club visual arts materials

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Collection number: ahc.VIS289
Scope and Content This collection contains images of club members participating in civic and social activities. Photographs of club projects such as the Atlanta History Center Swan Woods work days and decorating the Shepherd Center are included. Also a part of the collection are images of club meetings, luncheons, and garden and home tours. A large number of photographs document the restoration of the Swan Woods and its designation as the first Garden for Peace, an international network of gardens that...
Dates: 1955-2017

Tea Olive Garden Club scrapbook

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Collection number: ahc.MSS982
Scope and Content

This collection contains one scrapbook that documents the social and civic history of the club. The scrapbook includes correspondence, clippings, yearbooks, and photos. Flower show programs, and awards, as well as horticultural information are also a part of the scrapbook.

Dates: 1950-1958

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Garden Club of Georgia. 3
Atlanta Flower Show Association 2
Edmondson, Elizabeth P. 2
Garden Club of America 2
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Peachtree Garden Club (Atlanta, Ga.) 2
Swan Woods (Atlanta, Ga.) 2
Thornton House (Atlanta, Ga.) 2
Atlanta Botanical Garden 1
Atlanta Cyclorama & Civil War Museum. 1
Atlanta Historical Society 1
Atlanta History Center 1
Brady, Auverne Harper, 1908-2010 1
Cherokee Garden Club (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Cherokee Garden Library (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Colonial Flower Shop (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Cyclorama Restoration, Inc. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Deep Dene Garden Club (Atlanta Ga.) 1
Dekalb County Chamber of Agriculture and Commerce (Ga.). Women's Division 1
Edmondson family 1
Edmondson, Francis L. 1
Florence Crittenton Home (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Flower Arrangers Club of Georgia 1
Fort, Marie Johnson 1
Four Seasons Garden Club (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Garden Club of Georgia. Dogwood District 1
Georgia Botanical Society 1
Georgia Daffodil Society 1
Green Thumb Garden Club (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Griffin, George 1
Harper family 1
Harper's Flowers (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Harper, Adelle Bartlett, 1885-1974 1
Haven Home (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Heath, Eugene Schofield, 1880-1972 1
Imaginitif Study Club (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Iris Garden Club (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Johnson Estates Garden Club (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Junior Flower Show Association (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Model Laundry (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
North Georgia Council of Flower Show Judges 1
North Georgia Judges Council 1
Reid, J. Neel (Joseph Neel), 1885-1926 1
Snell, Weis C. 1
Southeastern Flower Show 1
Spalding Garden Club (Dunwoody, Ga.) 1
Spearman, Isabelle L. 1
Stone Mountain Confederate Monumental Association 1
Swan House (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Tea Olive Garden Club (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Tullie Smith House (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
United States. Office of Naval Research 1
University of Georgia. College of Environment & Design 1
Webb, Marsha P. 1
Woodberry Hall School for Girls (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
World Association of Flower Arrangers 1
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