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Thornton House (Atlanta, Ga.)

 Organization

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Cherokee Garden Club records

 Collection
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

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

Iris Garden Club photographs

 Collection
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

Iris Garden Club records

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS669
Scope and Content

This collection contains scrapbooks, yearbooks and minutes which document the club's social and civic activities. Also part of the collection are landscape plans for the Orchard Terrace of the Thornton House project. Several scrapbooks focus on the Iris Garden and Woodland Glen that the club created in Winn Park of the Ansley Park neighborhood.

Dates: 1928-2009, undated

Philip T. Shutze visual arts materials

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS351
Scope and Content This collection contains architectural drawings, sketches, artwork, and photos of Shutze's professional work, his travels, his personal life, and his antiques. The architectural drawings are from the firms of Norrman, Hentz & Reid; Hentz & Reid; Hentz, Reid & Adler; Hentz, Adler & Shutze; and Shutze & Armistead, as well as drawings representing historic buildings designed by other architects and firms. Among his most well known buildings are Swan House owned by Edward and...
Dates: 1820-1993, undated

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Ansley Park (Atlanta, Ga.) 3
Flower shows -- Georgia -- Atlanta 3
Architects -- Georgia -- Atlanta 2
Architecture, Domestic -- Georgia -- Atlanta 2
Gardening -- Georgia -- Atlanta 2
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Gardening -- Societies, etc. 2
Winn Park (Atlanta, Ga.) 2
Women -- Societies and clubs 2
Architect-designed houses 1
Architectural drawing -- Georgia 1
Architecture, Domestic -- Georgia 1
Architecture, Domestic -- Southern States 1
Atlanta (Ga.) -- Buildings, structures, etc. 1
Botanical illustration 1
Botanical libraries -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Buildings -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Camellias 1
Civic improvement -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Commercial buildings -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Conservation of natural resources -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Decoration and ornament -- Plant forms 1
Department stores -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Druid Hills (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
England 1
Environmental protection -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Etchings 1
Flower arrangement 1
Flower arrangement -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Flowers in art 1
Fulton County (Ga.) 1
Furniture 1
Gardening -- Georgia -- Atlanta -- Societies, etc. 1
Gardens -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Historic buildings -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Hospitals -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Houses -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Interior architecture 1
Interior decoration 1
Interiors -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Irises (Plants) -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Landscape architecture -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Landscape architecture -- Georgia -- Fulton County 1
Landscape architecture -- Washington (D.C.) 1
Nature in art 1
Office buildings -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Parks -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Piedmont Park (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Postcards -- Southern States 1
Schools -- Georgia -- Hapeville 1
Scrapbooks -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Scrapbooks -- Italy 1
Stores, Retail -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Synagogues -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Theaters -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Urban beautification -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Wallpaper 1
Women -- Georgia -- Atlanta -- Societies and clubs 1
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