Ashford Park Nurseries (Atlanta, Ga.)
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Norman C. Butts papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1057
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...
Dates:
1906-1968, undated
Norman C. Butts photographs and postcards
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS268
Scope and Content
This collection contains photographs and postcards which provide details of the personal, military, and professional career of Norman Butts in New York, France, and Georgia. Included are images of his early family life, college years at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, and landscaping projects in Atlanta, Georgia. Both Butts' work with Ashford Park Nurseries in Brookhaven and his own Atlanta landscaping business are represented. Of special interest are photographs of the gardens and...
Dates:
1880-1946, undated