Green Thumb Garden Club records
Overview
The Green Thumb Garden Club was a gardening club founded in Lawrence, Kansas, in 1959, and operated until at least 2009. This collection contains their scrapbooks, which functioned as presidential reports, award applications, and contained the club’s yearly history. These scrapbooks include award ribbons, news clippings, correspondence, member listings, financial reports, and photographs.
Dates
- Creation: 1961 - 2009
Creator
- Green Thumb Garden Club (Lawrence, Kan.) (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
No access restrictions.
Conditions Governing Use
Spencer Library staff may determine use restrictions dependent on the physical condition of manuscript materials.
Extent
1.25 Linear Feet (2 boxes + 2 oversize boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Physical Location
RH MS 1585
Physical Location
RH MS Q506
Physical Location
RH MS R523
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gifts, Ailene Bocquin, 1987; Mary Margaret Rowen, 2014.
Processing Information
Some of the collection was formerly located at RH MS D258. Some binders and scrapbook volumes have been disassembled to better preserve the content inside; in these cases, pages remain in their original volume order.
- Title
- Guide to the Green Thumb Garden Club Collection
- Subtitle
- Green Thumb Garden Club records
- Author
- Finding aid prepared by mmj. Finding aid encoded by mmj.
- Date
- 2023-4-5
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Finding aid written in English.
- Finding aid permalink
- https://hdl.handle.net/10407/9128821688
- Preferred citation
-
Green Thumb Garden Club records, RH MS 1585, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas
Repository Details
Part of the University of Kansas. Kenneth Spencer Research Library Repository