Garden Club of Griffin records
Scope and Content
This collection, mostly photocopies, contains yearbooks, articles, histories, and meeting announcements that document the civic and social activities of the club. Also included are histories and a yearbook for the Federated Garden Clubs of Griffin and Spalding County. Of special interest is a guidebook to gardening that the club published in 2008.
Dates
- 1946-2014, undated
Creator
- Garden Club of Griffin (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Unpublished manuscripts are protected by copyright.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 Garden Club of Griffin, Georgia, was founded in 1928 to "foster the knowledge and love of gardening and flower arranging among amateurs, to aid in the protection of native trees, and birds, and to encourage civic planting." The club is governed by elected officers such as president, vice president, and treasurer. The club is a charter member of The Garden Club of Georgia, Inc. (GCG) and is active within the Redbud District of the GCG. The club is also a member of the Deep South Region of the National Garden Clubs, Inc. and the Federated Garden Clubs of Griffin and Spalding County. The club has participated in numerous civic beautification projects such as planting and landscaping Griffin city parks, highways, medians, schools, cemeteries, hospitals, and public libraries. In 2008 the club published A Guide to Gardening in Middle Georgia to celebrate its 80th anniversary.
Extent
0.42 linear ft. (one document case)
Language
English
System of Arrangement
This collection is arranged alphabetically according to titles supplied by staff.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift, 2014 with subsequent additions
Description Control
This collection was processed in 2015.
- Civic improvement -- Georgia -- Griffin
- Federated Garden Clubs of Griffin and Spalding County (Ga.)
- Flower shows -- Georgia -- Griffin
- Garden Club of Griffin (Ga.)
- Gardening -- Georgia -- Griffin -- Societies, etc.
- Urban beautification -- Georgia -- Griffin
- Women -- Georgia -- Griffin -- Societies and clubs
- Title
- Garden Club of Griffin records
- Author
- Jennie Oldfield
- Date
- December 2015
- 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