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Guide to the Pucketos Garden Club Records, 1929-2014 AIS.2014.02

1930-2000

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Title
Pucketos Garden Club Records 1930s-2000s
Creator
Pucketos Garden Club (New Kensington, Pa.)
Subject
Garden Club Federation of Pennsylvania., Pucketos Garden Club (New Kensington, Pa.), Environmental protection--Pennsylvania--Westmoreland County, Gardening--Pennsylvania--New Kensington--Societies, etc, Gardening--Pennsylvania--Westmoreland County--Societies, etc, Societies, Societies--Pennsylvania, Women
Description
The Pucketos Garden Club Records contains primarily materials created by the garden club between the 1930s and 2000s. It contains seven series including flower show materials, awards, newspaper clippings, committee meeting minutes, club communications, yearbooks, and material related to People Against Litter, an environmentalist group created by the Pucketos. In addition, the collection contains photographs, albums, and yearbooks., This collection is comprised of materials from the Pucketos Garden Club of New Kensington, Pa.. It contains manuscript materials, photographs, and scrapbooks documenting the activities of the club., Processing Information: This collection was processed by Katelyn Quirin in 2015., Pucketos Garden Club Records, 1929-2014, AIS.2014.02, Archives Service Center, University of Pittsburgh, The Puketos (Poe-key-tos) Garden Club was created in 1933 in New Kensington, Pa., at the suggestion of T.H. Hurt, the president of a men's garden club that was disbanding. Forty women attended the first meeting on September 14, 1933 and elected Mrs. H. Burns Smith as the first president. The club adopted its bylaws and constitution on October 2, 1933. Membership ranged from 80 women to around 60 today. The name "Puketos" developed as a tribute to their local history. It comes from Puckety Creek, which enters the Allegheny River, and the Pucketa Indian Trail, which runs from Export, Pa., to present day New Kensington. The activities of the club are outlined in their constitution: "to encourage the planting of gardens, to study methods of plant cultivation, to stimulate interest in cooperative gardening, to aid in the protection of wild flowers and birds, to cooperate in neighborhood betterment." Specifically, the club members participated in field trips to different gardens around Pittsburgh and the surrounding area, flower shows presented by the Pucketos and other local garden clubs, state competitions, and planting projects throughout the New Kensington area. During the second half of the twentieth century, the club placed an increase focus on environmental protection. In 1986, Ruth Barkley, the club's Litter Awareness Chair, created the People Against Little program that was active through the 1990s. The focus on environmentalism continues today as multiple committees report on environmental concerns. The Pucketos documented their activities primarily through scrapbooks of photographs and newspaper clippings, as well as yearbooks and administrative papers., Garden Club of Allegheny County Records, 1913-2012, AIS.2006.07, Archives Service Center, University of Pittsburgh. Fox Chapel Garden Club Records, AIS.2011.10, Archives Service Center, University of Pittsburgh. Garden Club of Forest Hills Records, 1923-2011, AIS.2013.07, Archives Service Center, University of Pittsburgh. Historic Landscape Survey of Allegheny County Records, 1970-2002, AIS.2005.01, Archives Service Center, University of Pittsburgh.
Contributor
University of Pittsburgh (depositor)
Date
1930-2000
Type
Collection, Albums, Clippings (Information artifacts), Minutes, Photographs, Scrapbooks, Yearbooks.
Identifier
pitt:US-PPiU-ais201402
Language
eng
Relation
http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=ascead;cc=ascead;q1=Pucketos%20Garden%20Club;rgn=main;view=text;didno=US-PPiU-ais201402, pdcp_noharvest
Coverage
Pennsylvania, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, New Kensington, Pennsylvania, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, New Kensington (Pa.), Westmoreland County (Pa.)
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