Scrapbook, Atlanta Speech School garden project, 1963-1967
Scope and Content
This collection contains attendance ledgers, yearbooks, and scrapbooks that document the social and civic activities of the club. The scrapbooks include clippings, yearbooks, and flower show awards and ribbons. One scrapbook is devoted to the club's civic project landscaping the grounds of the Atlanta Speech School's new location on Northside Parkway in 1967. This scrapbook includes landscape drawings by landscape architect, William L. Monroe. Other materials include documentation on the development of the Mary Howard Gilbert Memorial Quarry Garden at the Atlanta Historical Society (later Atlanta History Center). Of special interest are Quarry Garden plant lists from plantsmen Eugene Cline and Frank Smith as well as histories of the quarry including a report by Atlanta History Center horticulturist, Sue Vrooman.
Dates
- 1963-1967
Creator
- From the Collection: Mimosa Garden Club (Atlanta, Ga.) (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for research.
Extent
From the Collection: 5.9 linear ft. (three oversize boxes and two document cases)
Language
From the Collection: English
Repository Details
Part of the Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center Repository