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Women gardeners -- Georgia

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Deep Dene Garden Club scrapbook

 Collection
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

Dogwood District records of The Garden Club of Georgia, Inc.

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1058
Scope and Content

This collection contains awards, publications, flower show brochures, and histories that document the social and civic history of the club. Also included in the collection are director's reports that offer annual reports, financial records, meeting minutes, and newsletters. One scrapbook provides details on The Garden Club of Georgia conventions and activities of member garden clubs.

Dates: 1948-2011, undated

Evelin Huffman Webb papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1070
Scope and Content

This collection contains flower show school coursework, scoresheets, and flower show programs that provide a history of Webb's flower arranging interests and judging pursuits. Also part of the collection are scoresheets for symposiums that Webb attended in other states. Of special interest is a seed catalog from H. G. Hastings Company.

Dates: 1935-1999, undated

Hastings family papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS752
Scope and Content

This collection contains materials including personal and business histories, details of civic and cultural organizations, and scrapbooks. A typescript copy of The Southern Garden is a part of this collection as well as a scrapbook that provides insight into the growth and development of the city of the Atlanta. A scrapbook created by Louise Hastings includes information on The Garden Club of Georgia, Inc. as well as other gardening clubs and societies.

Dates: 1891-1991, undated