Urban beautification -- Georgia -- Atlanta
Found in 28 Collections and/or Records:
Ansley Park Civic Association records
Ansley Park Garden Club records
This collection contains correspondence, yearbooks, minutes, financial reports, and President's notebooks that provide a social and civic history of the club. Scrapbooks offer details about programs, neighborhood projects, and flower shows. Of special interest are scrapbook images of members' gardens and neighborhood islands.
Atlanta Urban Design Commission records
Atlanta Urban Design Commission visual arts materials | Note: this collection is out for digitization and currently unavailable.
Brookwood Hills Garden Club photographs
This collection contains photographs of the park in Brookwood Hills including the playground, picnic and pool areas during restoration work by the club. Images show playground structures, picnic tables, planters, stone steps, as well as trees, shrubs, and other plants. Also a part of the collection are photographs of the club's Christmas decorations inside Rhodes Memorial Hall, Atlanta, Georgia. Of particular interest are club members and children shown during park workdays and events.
Cascade Garden Club records
This collection contains documents that provide a history of the social and civic activities of the club. Materials include clippings, correspondence, histories, minutes, and yearbooks. Scrapbooks offer more details on programs, projects, and club interests on a wide variety of gardening topics. Of special interest are scrapbook images of Cascade Road from approximately 1939.
Catherine M. Howett papers
Catherine M. Howett photographs and landscape drawings
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.
Central Atlanta Progress, Inc. Records
Cherokee Garden Club records
Cumberland-Sherwood Park records
This collection contains records produced during the planning of Cumberland-Sherwood Park. Records include a status report and budget proposal. Of particular interest are questionnaires completed by community members that detail opinions on which amenities to include in the park.
Deep Dene Garden Club scrapbook
This collection contains one bound scrapbook created by the Deep Dene Garden Club that details the civic and social activities of the club. Material includes poems, yearbooks, correspondence, clippings, drawings, and photographs that illustrate the club's garden interests and projects. The scrapbook clippings focus on flower arrangment and home decor.
Edward L. Daugherty papers
Expressway Beautification Association records
This collection contains reports, correspondence, and clippings that document the activities of the association. Included in the collection is a landscape planting report by the Federal Bureau of Public Roads that details the planting goals of the project. These materials illustrate the coordinated effort between the association, local landscape architects, and state and federal highway departments.
G. Boyd Leake landscape architectural drawings of the Georgia Trees Coalition
G. Boyd Leake records of the Georgia Trees Coalition
Lenox Park Garden Club records
Men's Garden Club of Atlanta, Inc. records
This collection contains materials that provide a history of the social and civic activities of the club. Included are correspondence, directories, and newsletters. Of special interest are letters describing the interest and support of the first state botanical garden for Georgia in 1938.
Merry Hills Garden Club scrapbook
This collection contains one scrapbook that describes the social and civic activities of the club. Documents include photographs, newsletters, clippings, and one yearbook. Of note are items highlighting the club's community beautification efforts located in the Merry Hills neighborhood and the Toco Hills Shopping Center on North Druid Hills Road.