Howett, Catherine M.
Person
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Catherine M. Howett papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1289
Scope and Contents
This collection contains articles, awards, book reviews, correspondence, event pamphlets and programs, and project materials that document the life and career of Catherine M. Howett. Also included are materials produced during the exhibition Land of Our Own curated by Howett and sponsored by Atlanta Historical Society (later Atlanta History Center) including a concept design, exhibition catalogue, and scrapbook. Of particular note are Howett's thesis,...
Dates:
1957-2015, undated
Catherine M. Howett photographs and landscape drawings
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS538
Scope and Contents
This collection contains photographs and landscape drawings that document the professional work and projects of Catherine M. Howett created during her career as a landscape architect and historian. Of particular interest are photographs of landscape plans and project models produced while Howett was a student at the School of Environmental Design (later College of Environment + Design) at University of Georgia.
Dates:
1973-2004, undated
James L. Hunter Diary and The Gardening Book of James L. Hunter, A Southern Planter
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS987
Scope and Contents of the Records
The collection contains the original gardening book of James L. Hunter with diary entries from September 1845 to March 1846. The diary details the plan for Hunter’s vegetable garden, the types of vegetables planted, and best practices for successful crops. The dated entries provide a clear timeline of Hunter’s gardening activities. Incidentally, the diary contains rote French exercises and math calculations on its final pages. The collection also includes Catherine Howett’s 1996 publication,...
Dates:
1845-1996
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- Exhibitions -- Georgia -- Atlanta 2
- Landscape architecture -- Conservation and restoration 2
- Landscape architecture -- Designs and plans 2
- Landscape architecture -- Georgia -- History 2
- Public art -- Georgia -- Atlanta 2
- Urban beautification -- Georgia -- Atlanta 2
- Urban landscape architecture -- Georgia -- Atlanta. 2
- Women authors 2
- Women historians 2
- Women in higher education 2
- Women landscape architects -- Georgia 2
- Diaries 1
- Gardeners -- Georgia -- Randolph County -- Biography 1
- Gardens -- Georgia -- Randolph County -- History -- 19th century 1 + ∧ less
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