Harper, Adelle Bartlett, 1885-1974
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1885 - 1974
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Adelle Bartlett Harper papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1136
Scope and Content
This collection contains clippings, correspondence, notes, and scrapbooks that document Adelle B. Harper's life as well as members of her family. Material provides insight into Harper's flower shop business, club activities, family life, and her wide variety of interests. Scrapbooks offer details about Auverne Harper's enrollment in Woodberry Hall School for Girls in Atlanta and Shorter College in Rome, Georgia.
Dates:
1864-2017, undated
Harper family photographs and maps
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS366
Scope and Content
This collection contains photographs and maps that provide details about the Harper family. Most of the images depict Adelle Harper in her numerous roles as businesswoman and florist, author, genealogist, and mother. Also included are photographs of her husband, John, their children, and other family members at school settings, family gatherings, and in front of their various Atlanta residences. Of special note are images of Adelle and Auverne Harper at a Woman of the Year award...
Dates:
1905-1975
Harper's Flowers photographs and color drawing
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS239
Scope and Content
This collection consists of photographs of flower arrangements for wedding ceremonies, mainly of unidentified bridal parties, taken by various Atlanta photographers including Reeves Studios; Elliott's Peachtree Studios; Halberstadt Studios; Portraits by Lee; Ludi Studio; and Dean King of Decatur, Georgia. Photographs include interior images of religious institutions where each wedding ceremony was held as well as reception table settings. Also a part of the collection are photographs of...
Dates:
1930-1964, undated
Magnolia Garden Club records
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1135
Scope and Content
The Magnolia Garden Club records include clippings, minutes, newsletters, and scrapbooks, which document the club's social and civic history and activities. The oldest scrapbook, 1922-1949, primarily contains material in reference to Mrs. John (Adelle B.) Harper's speaking engagements and activities with both the Perennial Garden Club (1922-1934) and the Magnolia Garden Club (1935-1949). Three scrapbooks from 1969 highlight the club's community project for the Sheltering Arms Day Care....
Dates:
1922-2016, undated
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- Florists -- Georgia -- Atlanta 3
- Floral decorations -- Georgia 2
- Flower arrangement -- Georgia -- Atlanta 2
- Flower shows -- Georgia -- Atlanta 2
- Wedding decorations -- Georgia -- Atlanta 2
- Women -- Georgia -- Atlanta -- Societies and clubs 2
- Bridal bouquets -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Businesswomen -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Churches -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Clothing & dress -- 1920-1930 1
- Clothing and dress -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Confederate States of America -- History -- Societies, etc. 1
- Dairy farms -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Debutantes -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Family-owned business enterprises -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Floral decorations -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Floristry -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Flower arrangement -- Georgia 1
- Flowers -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Funeral decorations -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Gardening -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Gardening -- Georgia -- Atlanta -- Societies, etc. 1
- Gardening -- Georgia -- Societies, etc. 1
- Gardens -- 1930-1940 1
- Gardens -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Georgia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- Literature -- Societies, etc. 1
- Monuments & memorials -- Georgia 1
- Parade floats -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Photographers -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Table setting and decoration -- Georgia 1
- Wedding clothing and dress 1
- Weddings -- Georgia 1
- Weddings -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Women -- Georgia -- Societies and clubs 1
- Women gardeners -- Georgia 1 + ∧ less
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