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Landscape architecture -- Designs and plans

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Atlanta Real Estate Board appraisals

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1281
Scope and Contents These records comprise approximately 10,000 appraisals produced by the Atlanta Real Estate Board. These appraisals detail properties in Atlanta and surrounding cities within the Metro Atlanta area, including East Point, Decatur, Druid Hills, Sandy Springs, College Park, Brookhaven, and Marietta, as well as other areas in Fulton, DeKalb, Cobb, Clayton, Gwinnett, and other neighboring counties. The appraisals document the monetary value of properties throughout Metro Atlanta, serving...
Dates: 1919-1983, undated; Majority of material found in 1924-1983

Catherine M. Howett papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1289
Scope and Contents This collection contains articles, awards, book reviews, correspondence, event pamphlets and programs, and project materials that document the life and career of Catherine M. Howett. Also included are materials produced during the exhibition Land of Our Own curated by Howett and sponsored by Atlanta Historical Society (later Atlanta History Center) including a concept design, exhibition catalogue, and scrapbook. Of particular note are Howett's thesis,...
Dates: 1957-2015, undated

Catherine M. Howett photographs and landscape drawings

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS538
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1973-2004, undated

Earle Sumner Draper landscape architectural drawings

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS216
Scope and Content

This collection contains a landscape drawing of the Blue Ridge Forest Resort, a 17,000 acre resort in the Blue Ridge Mountains near Tryon, North Carolina, and a perennial garden planting plan for the Cason J. Callaway Estate in LaGrange, Georgia.

Dates: 1925-1930

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