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Spade and Trowel Garden Club records

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS717

Scope and Content

This collection contains clippings, correspondence, flower show programs, minutes, and yearbooks that provide details on the civic and social activities of the club. Also part of the collection are scrapbooks that highlight programs, projects, and club interests. Of special note is a scrapbook devoted to the club's civic project of landscaping the traffic island at Cherokee Road and Andrews Drive.

Dates

  • 1939-1981, undated

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is open for research.

Conditions Governing Reproduction and Use

Unpublished manuscripts are protected by copyright. All requests to publish, quote, or reproduce must be submitted through the Kenan Research Center.

Administrative/Biographical History

The Spade and Trowel Garden Club of Atlanta, Georgia, was organized in 1939 to "stimulate the knowledge of native trees, plants, and birds, and the encouragement of civic planting." The club was governed by elected officers such as president, vice president, and treasurer. The club was a member of The Garden Club of Georgia, Inc., the Junior Flower Show Association, and the Atlanta Garden Center. The club supported several civic projects for local hospitals, Sheltering Arms childrens' nurseries, and the Atlanta Historical Society. In 1973 the club began landscaping and maintaining the traffic island, designed by landscape architect Edward Daugherty, at Cherokee Road and Andrews Drive in the Buckhead neighborhood. The club hosted and participated in many flower shows, winning numerous awards.

Extent

9.88 linear ft. (one and one half document cases and seven oversize boxes)

Language

English

Additional Description

System of Arrangement

This collection is arranged alphabetically according to titles supplied by staff.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift, 1979 with subsequent additions

Description Control

This collection was reprocessed in 2015.

Subjects

Finding Aid & Administrative Information

Title
Spade and Trowel Garden Club records
Author
Jennie Oldfield
Date
December 2015
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin
Language of description note
Finding aid is written in English.

Repository Details

Repository Details

Part of the Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center Repository

http://www.atlantahistorycenter.com/
Contact:
130 West Paces Ferry Road
Atlanta GA 30305
404-814-4040