Neighborhood Garden Club records
Scope and Content
This collection contains materials that document the club's social and civic activities. Scrapbooks detail the club's monthly meetings and special events attended. The club's ongoing civic project of the neighborhood parkway beautification is highlighted throughout the collection.
Dates
- 1931-1973, undated
Creator
- Neighborhood Garden Club (Atlanta, Ga.) (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Reproduction and Use
Unpublished manuscripts are protected by copyright. All requests to publish, quote, or reproduce must be submitted through the Kenan Research Center.
Administrative/Biographical History
The Neighborhood Garden Club of Atlanta, Georgia, was formed in 1931 to "develop the knowledge and love of gardening among amateurs; to aid in the protection of native trees and plants throughout the State of Georgia; to encourage civic planting and other related activities as the members may determine." The club is governed by officers elected by members, such as president, vice-president, and treasurer. The club is a member of The Garden Club of Georgia Inc. and the Federation of Women's Clubs of Georgia. The club has actively participated in flower shows and garden club conventions. Since 1937, the club's ongoing civic project has been the beautification of a section of parkway at the intersection of Peachtree Battle Avenue and Peachtree Road, which includes a veterans' monument erected in 1935 by the Old Guard of Atlanta. The club has also supported many organizations such as the American Red Cross, Grady Memorial Hospital, and the Milledgeville Hospital Garden Therapy Program.
Extent
3.54 linear ft. (one half document case and two oversize boxes)
Language
English
System of Arrangement
This collection is arranged alphabetically according to titles supplied by staff.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift, 1988 with subsequent additions
Description Control
This collection was reprocessed in 2013.
- Title
- Neighborhood Garden Club records
- Author
- Jennie Oldfield
- Date
- 2013
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid is written in English.
Repository Details
Part of the Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center Repository