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Urban beautification -- Georgia -- Griffin

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Garden Club of Griffin records

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1075
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

J. Newton Bell, Jr. landscape architectural drawings

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS271
Scope and Content

This collection contains landscape drawings of mostly residential projects, but also includes some commercial properties and parks in Griffin and other Georgia cities. Drawings include general landscape plans and plant lists as well as plans for walls, foundation plantings, and traffic islands. Of special interest is Bell's 1940 senior thesis drawing of a country estate for his parents.

Dates: 1940-1994, undated