Garden Club of Georgia.
Organization
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Founders Memorial Garden Project Collection
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS981
Scope and Contents of the Records
This collection documents the founding of the Ladies’ Garden Club of Athens and its early history through published materials, transcriptions of newspaper articles, and a manuscript detailing facts about the club. The bulk of the material, however, documents the development of the Founders Memorial Garden at the University of Georgia between 1936 and 1946. The collection primarily contains published articles and correspondence regarding financial contributions to the endeavor and development...
Dates:
1931-1976
Georgia Historic Landscape Initiative records
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1007
Scope and Content
This collection contains descriptive landscape surveys and accompanying research material such as correspondence, articles, maps, and garden sketches which document the history and current condition of historic landscapes included in the project. Many garden surveys are associated with a significant individual or house and provide social and cultural history as well as landscape history. Material varies according to the availability of information about each site.
Dates:
2002-current, undated
Helen Hawkins Clarke Collection
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS976
Scope and Contents of the Records
The Helen Hawkins Clarke collection contains landscape sketches drawn by Clarke. Photographs of Clarke at work and photographs of the work she completed in her garden are also included. Clarke’s clippings of photographs and landscape designs from popular magazines from the 1920s and 1930s constitute a large portion of the collection. The bulk of the collection dates from 1923-1938. The collection also contains two issues of Garden Gateways, correspondence regarding the restoration of the...
Dates:
1923-1982, undated
Louise B. Hastings papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1096
Scope and Content
This collection contains bulletins, pamphlets, and programs that describe the social and civic activities of Louise Hastings. Additional material includes detailed histories and events of The Garden Club of Georgia, Inc. Of special note are handwritten speeches that Hastings gave to regional clubs.
Dates:
1926-1978, undated
The Garden Club of Georgia, Inc. Historic Landscape and Garden Grant Program records
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1076
Scope and Content
This collection contains grant applications, reports, and supporting evidence, which document organizations seeking funds to assist with restoration and preservation projects of historic landscapes and gardens. Project follow-up reports are included where available. Of special interest are applications for multiple restoration projects at Atlanta's Oakland Cemetery. Also part of the collection are program materials that provide details of the grant program committee including chairman's...
Dates:
1996-2014
Filtered By
- Subject: Landscape architecture -- Georgia X
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- Subject
- Gardening -- Georgia -- Societies, etc. 3
- Landscape architecture -- Georgia 3
- Gardens -- Conservation and restoration -- Georgia 2
- Historic gardens -- Conservation and restoration -- Georgia 2
- Historic preservation -- Georgia 2
- Historic sites -- Conservation and restoration -- Georgia 2
- Landscape gardening -- Georgia -- History 2
- Women -- Georgia -- Societies and clubs 2
- Flower shows -- Georgia 1
- Gardening -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Gardens -- Design 1
- Gardens -- Georgia -- Athens 1
- Gardens -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Gardens -- Georgia -- Clarke County 1
- Historic buildings -- Georgia 1
- Historic gardens -- Georgia 1
- Landscape architecture -- Conservation and restoration 1
- Landscape architecture -- Georgia -- Athens 1
- Landscape architecture -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Landscape architecture -- Georgia -- Clarke County 1
- Landscape architecture -- Georgia -- Fulton County 1
- Landscape architecture -- Washington (D.C.) 1 + ∧ less
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