Kenan Research Center Finding Aids

Scope and Content

This collection contains minutes, scrapbooks, and yearbooks that document the civic and social activities of the club. A twenty-five year anniversary book highlights the club achievements including numerous awards from Southeastern flower shows and civic work with local area hospitals.

Scope and Content

This collection contains materials that document the history of the club, including meeting minutes and reports, flower show programs and awards, yearbooks, clippings, and correspondence. Scrapbooks also detail the social and civic activities of the club.

Scope and Contents of the Records This collection documents the founding of the Ladies’ Garden Club of Athens and its early history through published materials, transcriptions of newspaper articles, and a manuscript detailing facts about the club. The bulk of the material, however, documents the development of the Founders Memorial Garden at the University of Georgia between 1936 and 1946. The collection primarily contains published articles and correspondence regarding financial contributions to the endeavor and development...

Scope and Content

This collection includes material that documents the civic and social activities of the club. Minutes, clippings, and yearbooks provide details on the club's meetings, flower shows, and civic work. Several scrapbooks are dedicated to individual civic projects including the Tullie Smith House field crops garden and the grounds of the Fairhaven School. Garden plans for the school drawn by landscape architect Eugene Martini are also part of the collection.

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This collection contains scrapbooks that provide details of civic and social activities of the Ladybugs Garden Club. The scrapbooks include photographs, yearbooks, correspondence, and program materials that highlight the club's interests. Flower show programs and awards are also a part of the collection. Of special note are items that offer insight into the club's civic work creating and maintaining gardens and greenspaces for numerous organizations.

Scope and Content

This collection contains materials that detail the civic and social history of the club. Included in the collection are histories, yearbooks, clippings, and program materials. Also a part of the collection are reports that highlight special projects and horticultural interests of the club and serve as applications for awards with regional and national garden club organizations.

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This collection contains bulletins, pamphlets, and programs that describe the social and civic activities of Louise Hastings. Additional material includes detailed histories and events of The Garden Club of Georgia, Inc. Of special note are handwritten speeches that Hastings gave to regional clubs.

Scope and Content The Magnolia Garden Club records include clippings, minutes, newsletters, and scrapbooks, which document the club's social and civic history and activities. The oldest scrapbook, 1922-1949, primarily contains material in reference to Mrs. John (Adelle B.) Harper's speaking engagements and activities with both the Perennial Garden Club (1922-1934) and the Magnolia Garden Club (1935-1949). Three scrapbooks from 1969 highlight the club's community project for the Sheltering Arms Day Care....

Scope and Content The collection consists primarily of a series of scrapbooks documenting the activities of Marie Nicholson as president and member of the Tulip Study Club, president of the National Tulip Society, and an active speaker and organizer of tulip festivals in Atlanta. Also included in the collection is correspondence pertaining to Nicholson's involvement with clubs and various civic organizations within the Southeast region. The collection contains a series of posters Nicholson created detailing...

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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.

Scope and Content

This collection contains materials documenting the club's history. Included are minutes, scrapbooks and project reports that detail the club's civic and social activities. A significant amount of material illustrates the club's involvement in the Atlanta History Center Boxwood Memorial Garden.

Scope and Content

This collection contains material that documents the club's history. Included in the collection are scrapbooks which detail the club's social activities, as well as civic projects, flower shows, and club programs.

Scope and Content This collection includes minutes, scrapbooks, yearbooks, and correspondence that document the club's social and civic activities. Minutes include financial reports as well as membership information. Scrapbooks provide further information on programs, projects, and members and their families, such as Dr. Louie D. Newton, a well known Atlanta minister, and his wife. An additional scrapbook from Mrs. Sherwood (Lula Belle) L. Astin, club president in 1934, provides further details of the...

Scope and Content This collection contains programs, guidebooks, and yearbooks for garden clubs mostly from south Georgia, but also from Alabama, South Carolina, and other southern states. Material provides details of membership, meeting programs, flower shows, and constitution and by-laws. Some items document club histories, achievements, activities, and civic projects. Included in the collection are annual meeting and convention programs from The Garden Club of Georgia, Inc. Of special interest are...

Scope and Content

This collection contains minutes, clippings, and correspondence that document the civic and social history of the club. Included in the collection is a series of scrapbooks that further detail the programs, activities, and flower shows hosted and participated in by the club. One scrapbook is dedicated to the club's community service project landscaping the grounds of the Sandy Springs Health Center.