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Cherokee Garden Library print collection
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS248
Scope and Content
This collection contains botanical prints acquired by the Cherokee Garden Library from a variety of sources. Prints include watercolors, hand-colored lithographs, hand-colored copper engravings, and hand-colored plates from books. Some of the artwork is framed and subjects include camellias, fruit trees, ornamental plants, birds, and insects. Of special interest are rare 17th century hand-colored copper engravings by German botanist and apothecary Basilius Besler (1561-1629).
Dates:
1613-2014, undated
Eugene Boeke Dahlia Archive, American Dahlia Society print collection
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS219
Scope and Content
This collection contains nineteenth and twentieth-century dahlia prints.
Dates:
1804-2000, undated
Harvey Smith Jr. papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS576
Scope and Contents
This collection contains personal, business, and research papers collected by Harvey M. Smith Jr. Research papers include the history of textiles, potpourri, family history, the trade of enslaved persons, and Thomas Sheraton (1751-1806). Documents include notes, correspondence, periodical clippings, design plates, and appraisements. Civil War papers primarily focus on Confederate Naval financial records. Of particular note are account books and correspondence from Richard Taylor (1826-1879),...
Dates:
1692-1993, undated; Majority of material found in 1800-1980
Harvey Smith Jr. visual arts materials
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS450
Scope and Contents
This collection contains works collected by Harvey M. Smith Jr. and his original designs. Materials in this collection by Smith are illustrated works with a focus on the human figure, the natural world, decorative arts and designs and paintings by Claud J. Herndon. The collected works further include photographic prints and negatives of the Smith and Robertson families, and residences; photographs of Claud Herndon (1912-1980); and photography from Smith’s research on the history of...
Dates:
1648-1991, undated; Majority of material found in 1830-1991
Philip T. Shutze visual arts materials
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS351
Scope and Content
This collection contains architectural drawings, sketches, artwork, and photos of Shutze's professional work, his travels, his personal life, and his antiques. The architectural drawings are from the firms of Norrman, Hentz & Reid; Hentz & Reid; Hentz, Reid & Adler; Hentz, Adler & Shutze; and Shutze & Armistead, as well as drawings representing historic buildings designed by other architects and firms. Among his most well known buildings are Swan House owned by Edward and...
Dates:
1820-1993, undated
Sarah G. Towery botanical watercolors
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS362
Scope and Content
This collection contains 35 of 36 original botanical watercolors painted by Sarah G. Towery for Ryan Gainey's (1944-2016) book The Gathered Garden (2012). The thirty-sixth watercolor, "Ryan's Rainbow," is not included in the collection. Gainey, a world-renowned garden designer and horticulturist, commissioned Towery to complete 36 botanical watercolors. Towery reproduced, in watercolor, plants Gainey selected which he considered to be important in...
Dates:
2012
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- Decorative arts -- Georgia 1
- Department stores -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Draperies 1
- Druid Hills (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
- England 1
- Enslaved persons -- Maryland 1
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- Flowers -- History 1
- Flowers -- Southern States 1
- Fulton County (Ga.) 1
- Furniture 1
- Furniture design 1
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- Historic buildings -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
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- Portrait photography 1
- Postcards -- Southern States 1
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- Slavery 1
- Stores, Retail -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Synagogues -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
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- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
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- Names
- Smith family 2
- Smith, Harvey M., 1906-1994 2
- Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834 1
- Adler, Rudolph Satorius 1
- American Dahlia Society 1
- American Institute of Architects 1
- Atlanta Historical Society 1
- Besler, Basilius, 1561-1629 1
- Catesby, Mark, 1683-1749 1
- Cherokee Garden Library (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
- Confederate States of America. Navy 1
- Emory University 1
- Fratelli Alinari 1
- Gainey, Ryan 1
- Harvey Smith Company 1
- Hentz and Reid (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
- Hentz, Adler, and Shutze (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
- Hentz, Hal, 1883-1972 1
- Hentz, Reid, and Adler (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
- Herndon, Claud J., 1912-1980 1
- Menaboni, Athos, 1895-1990 1
- Mitchell, Margaret, 1900-1949 1
- Norrman, Hentz, and Reid (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
- Redoute, Pierre-Joseph 1
- Reid, J. Neel (Joseph Neel), 1885-1926 1
- Rich's (Retail store) 1
- Robertson family 1
- Sheraton, Thomas, 1751-1806 1
- Shutze and Armistead (Atlanta, Ga.). 1
- Shutze, Philip Trammell 1
- Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company 1
- Swan House (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
- Taylor, Richard, 1826-1879 1
- Tebbs & Knell (New York, N.Y.) 1
- Temple (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
- Thornton House (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
- Towery, Sarah G. 1 + ∧ less
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