French Broad River Garden Club M2010.02.01 ; OS2010.02.01 |
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Title | French Broad River Garden Club Coloured Slides and Photographs Collection |
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http://toto.lib.unca.edu/findingaids/mss/french_broad_river_garden_club/ default_french_broad_river_garden_club.htm |
Creator | French Broad River Garden Club Foundation |
Subject Keyword | French Broad River Garden Club ; gardens ; Asheville, NC ; wild flowers ; conservation ; gardens ; cultivars ; rhododendron |
Description | The Asheville based French Broad River Garden Club Foundation was chartered in 1927 and admitted to the Garden Club of America in 1930. The collection is centered on lantern slides and prints of wild flowers of the region forming, Coloured Slides and Photographs Native Plants of the North Carolina Mountains Suitable for Naturalization Found Within a Radius of 80 miles of Asheville, originally shown at a meeting on May 21, 1936. Correspondence regarding the coloring of the slides, and a booklet of notes describing the plants shown, are also included, along with meeting minutes from 1935 - 1937, and a record of plants grown in members' gardens. |
Publisher | Special Collections, D.H. Ramsey Library, University of North Carolina at Asheville 28804 |
Contributor | Pat O'Cain ; Vinton Murray |
Date digital | 1979-04-02 |
Type | Text ; image ; |
Format | 1 manuscript box ; 1 wooden box of magic lantern slides; 1 slide carousel ; folio ; mounted prints from folio |
Source | D. H. Ramsey Library Special Collections, Manuscript Collections M2010.02.01 and two lateral files OS2010.02.01 |
Language | English |
Coverage temporal | 1935 - 1937 |
Coverage spatial | Asheville, NC |
Rights | Intellectual property rights: Retained by donor ; Copyright: Retained by the authors of certain items in the collection, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law. |
Donor | Donor no. 411 |
Acquisition | 2010-02-09 |
Citation | French Broad River Garden Club Coloured Slides and Photographs Collection, D.H. Ramsey Library, University of North Carolina at Asheville 28804 |
Processed by | Special Collections staff, 2010 HW |
Last update | 2010-03-14 hw; 2013-11-18 gh ; 2014-04-01 cr |
Inventory | |
M2010.02.01 | Meeting Minutes 1935 - 1937 Correspondence regarding glass slides Native plants of the North Carolina mountains suitable for naturalization found within a radius of 80 miles of Asheville ; French Broad River Garden Club, Biltmore, NC ; unknown author, possibly Mrs. James G.K. McClure ; 1936. [Typed booklet with notes on each plant photographed; 2 copies, slight variations between copies] List of club members, and plants grown |
OS2010.02.01 Lateral file 1 |
Glass lantern slides, 1936, colored 35mm slide copies of glass lantern slides Folio of prints, 1936, monchrome |
OS2010.02.01 Lateral file 2 |
Six pages from folio ; mounted |