D. H. Ramsey Library Special Collections and University Archives

French Broad River Garden Club
Coloured Slides and Photographs Collection

M2010.02.01 ; OS2010.02.01

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Title French Broad River Garden Club Coloured Slides and Photographs Collection
Identifier 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