Scope and Content

This collection contains materials including personal and business histories, details of civic and cultural organizations, and scrapbooks. A typescript copy of The Southern Garden is a part of this collection as well as a scrapbook that provides insight into the growth and development of the city of the Atlanta. A scrapbook created by Louise Hastings includes information on The Garden Club of Georgia, Inc. as well as other gardening clubs and societies.

Scope and Content This collection contains materials such as professional correspondence, accounting and financial records, and client plant lists, orders, and landscape drawings. Also included are correspondence and plant orders with numerous nurseries in the South. Additionally, personal letters, financial documents, and university correspondence are part of this collection. Of special note is correspondence with professor Ralph W. Curtis of Cornell University on his research on broad leafed evergreens...

Scope and Contents of the Records

The bulk of this collection visually documents activities and members present at the Southern Nursery Association’s annual conventions. Images of receptions, awards ceremonies, business breakfast meetings, past presidents’ club dinners, and other festivities are featured here. A few photographic prints in the collection document activities and members of the American Association of Nurserymen

Scope and Contents of the Records This collection contains minutes from the Southern Nursery Association’s annual meetings from most years between 1923 and 1988. Committee reports, financial statements, membership lists, and necrology reports (obituaries of recently deceased members) presented at the annual meetings are sometimes included. Receipt reports from 1923 to 1951 list the dues-paying members of the association with the amount paid for the year. Little material exists during the years of World War II. From 1952 to...