Henderson, Edith, 1911-
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1911 - 2005
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Atlanta's Woman of the Year photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS455
Scope and Contents
This collection contains photographs of Atlanta's Woman of the Year awardees, sponsors, and committee chairs for each year. Of particular note is a photograph of Atlanta's Woman of the Year founder, Charles H. Jagels, in 1943, as well as photographs of Mayors William B. Hartsfield (1890-1971) and Ivan Allen Jr. (1911-2003) with Woman of the Year awardees. Among the hundreds of women selected for Woman of the Year, notable awardees include Leila Denmark (1898-2012) in 1953, Ruth Blair...
Dates:
1943-1972
Constance Knowles Draper Collection
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS968
Scope and Contents of the Records
The Constance Knowles Draper Collection includes images of Mrs. Draper’s home and garden on Cherokee Road. The collection also contains Mrs. Draper’s lecture to the Peachtree Garden Club on Ferrell Gardens in LaGrange, Georgia. The bulk of the collection includes images of these gardens; Mrs. Draper used many of these in her Peachtree Garden Club lecture. In addition, the collection contains material documenting the landscape work that Edith Harrison and Constance Draper completed for Cason...
Dates:
1921-1939
Edith Henderson papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS980
Scope and Contents of the Records
The bulk of this artificial collection consists of weekly articles Henderson wrote for the Atlanta Journal/Constitution that provided practical design advice to readers. The collection contains articles from 1942, 1943, and 1950-1977. The collection includes some original manuscripts. More frequently, however, the articles included here are copies of the published version from the Atlanta Journal/Constitution. Occasionally,...
Dates:
1923-2005, undated
Edith Henderson visual arts materials
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS217
Scope and Content
This collection contains Henderson's landscape drawings for a residential property in Atlanta; an original rendering of the Clark Howell Homes, as part of the Housing Authority project in which Henderson took part; and over 200 of Henderson's slides on various gardening topics. Also a part of the collection are Henderson's pencil sketches of gardens, garden structures and statuary, as well as trees and landscapes.
Dates:
1933-1992, undated
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Gardens -- Design 2
- Landscape architects -- Georgia 2
- Landscape architecture -- Georgia 2
- Landscape gardening -- Georgia 2
- Women landscape architects -- Georgia 2
- Architecture, Domestic -- Georgia -- LaGrange 1
- Architecture, Domestic -- Southern States 1
- Blue Springs (Harris County, Ga.) 1
- Businesspeople -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Ferrell Gardens (LaGrange, Ga.) 1
- Gardens -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Gardens -- Georgia -- Fulton County 1
- Gardens -- Georgia -- LaGrange 1
- Gardens -- Georgia -- Troup County 1
- Historic buildings -- Georgia 1
- Women -- Awards -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Women -- Georgia -- Atlanta -- Societies and clubs 1
- Women artists -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Women civic leaders -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Women educators -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Women in community organization -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1 + ∧ less
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