Kenneth Spencer Research Library Archival Collections

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.

Overview The Lawrence Flower Club was organized in 1925. In 1929, the group became part of the Kansas Association of Garden Clubs. Activities have included flower shows, the public planting of trees and flowers, and work with children and shut-ins. This collection contains scrapbooks containing photographs and clippings, minute books, treasurers' books, yearbooks, and other miscellaneous papers and mementos, documenting the activities of the Lawrence Flower Club from the 1920s to 2009. The club...