Urban beautification -- Georgia -- Atlanta
Found in 20 Collections and/or Records:
Ansley Park Garden Club records
This collection contains correspondence, yearbooks, minutes, and financial reports that provide a social and civic history of the club. Scrapbooks offer details about programs, neighborhood projects, and flower shows. Of special interest are scrapbook images of members' gardens and neighborhood islands.
Atlanta Urban Design Commission records
Atlanta Urban Design Commission visual arts materials
Brookwood Hills Garden Club photographs
This collection contains photographs of the park in Brookwood Hills including the playground, picnic and pool areas during restoration work by the club. Images show playground structures, picnic tables, planters, stone steps, as well as trees, shrubs, and other plants. Also a part of the collection are photographs of the club's Christmas decorations inside Rhodes Memorial Hall, Atlanta, Georgia. Of particular interest are club members and children shown during park workdays and events.
Cascade Garden Club records
This collection contains documents that provide a history of the social and civic activities of the club. Materials include clippings, correspondence, histories, minutes, and yearbooks. Scrapbooks offer more details on programs, projects, and club interests on a wide variety of gardening topics. Of special interest are scrapbook images of Cascade Road from approximately 1939.
Central Atlanta Progress, Inc. Records
Cherokee Garden Club records
Deep Dene Garden Club scrapbook
This collection contains one bound scrapbook created by the Deep Dene Garden Club that details the civic and social activities of the club. Material includes poems, yearbooks, correspondence, clippings, drawings, and photographs that illustrate the club's garden interests and projects. The scrapbook clippings focus on flower arrangment and home decor.
Edward L. Daugherty papers
Expressway Beautification Association records
This collection contains reports, correspondence, and clippings that document the activities of the association. Included in the collection is a landscape planting report by the Federal Bureau of Public Roads that details the planting goals of the project. These materials illustrate the coordinated effort between the association, local landscape architects, and state and federal highway departments.
Lenox Park Garden Club records
Men's Garden Club of Atlanta, Inc. records
This collection contains materials that provide a history of the social and civic activities of the club. Included are correspondence, directories, and newsletters. Of special interest are letters describing the interest and support of the first state botanical garden for Georgia in 1938.
Merry Hills Garden Club scrapbook
This collection contains one scrapbook that describes the social and civic activities of the club. Documents include photographs, newsletters, clippings, and one yearbook. Of note are items highlighting the club's community beautification efforts located in the Merry Hills neighborhood and the Toco Hills Shopping Center on North Druid Hills Road.
Park Pride landscape architectural drawings
Park Pride records
This collection contains minutes, clippings, and a report providing details of Atlanta parks prior to the creation of Park Pride. Also included in the collection are conceptual and master park plans and visioning reports which document the work of Park Pride and the communities with which they partner. Periodicals published by Park Pride as well as conference materials from annual meetings hosted by Park Pride are also a part of the collection.
Peachtree Dunwoody Garden Club records
This collection contains materials that document the social and civic history of the club. Several of the club's beautification projects are detailed and scrapbooks provide further information on the gardening topics studied such as the effects of automobile exhaust on gardens, soybeans, and soil lead poisoning.
Peachtree Garden Club records
Planters Garden Club records
This collection includes histories, minutes, yearbooks, and scrapbooks documenting the Club's membership meetings, civic and social activities, as well as special projects.