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Women -- Georgia -- Societies and clubs

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 47 Collections and/or Records:

Southeastern garden clubs collection

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1117
Scope and Content This collection contains programs, guidebooks, and yearbooks for garden clubs mostly from south Georgia, but also from Alabama, South Carolina, and other southern states. Material provides details of membership, meeting programs, flower shows, and constitution and by-laws. Some items document club histories, achievements, activities, and civic projects. Included in the collection are annual meeting and convention programs from The Garden Club of Georgia, Inc. Of special interest are...
Dates: 1929-current
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Southeastern garden clubs collection

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
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Spade and Trowel Garden Club records

Town and Country Garden Club records

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS720
Scope and Content

This collection contains minutes, clippings, and correspondence that document the civic and social history of the club. Included in the collection is a series of scrapbooks that further detail the programs, activities, and flower shows hosted and participated in by the club. One scrapbook is dedicated to the club's community service project landscaping the grounds of the Sandy Springs Health Center.

Dates: 1949-1980, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Town and Country Garden Club records

Tulip Study Club records

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS626
Scope and Content

This collection contains correspondence, financial reports, and clippings that document the history of the social and civic activities of the club. Also a part of the collection are tulip show programs and clippings. Much of the material pertains to Marie Nicholson, club president from 1938 to 1948. A scrapbook from the Atlanta Tulip Show Association, in which many club members also served, provides more details of the Atlanta Tulip Show of 1946.

Dates: 1938-1987, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Tulip Study Club records

Wallace family papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS690
Scope and Content This collection primarily contains materials pertaining to Alexander McGhee Wallace’s involvement in the Civil War and Anne Wallace Howland’s contributions to the Carnegie Library of Atlanta. The materials include correspondence, datebooks, diaries, genealogical records, periodicals, programs, and newspaper clippings. This collection also contains a scrapbook assembled in memory of Alexander McGhee Wallace, a scrapbook pertaining to Anne Wallace Howland, several certificates and diplomas...
Dates: 1836-1987, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Wallace family papers

Wayside Garden Club scrapbook

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS721
Scope and Content

This collection contains a scrapbook that provides details on the civic and social activities of the club. Included in the scrapbook are clippings, correspondence, flower show ribbons, photographs, and a yearbook. Of special interest are photographs of the Osgood Sanders Nursery on Baker Street in Atlanta, Georgia.

Dates: 1948-1950
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Wayside Garden Club scrapbook

Woman's Council of National Defense (Georgia) collection

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS377
Scope and Content

This collection is comprised of a single scrapbook and bank book for the Woman's Council of National Defense. The scrapbook contains newspaper clippings and correspondence.

Dates: 1917-1918, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Woman's Council of National Defense (Georgia) collection