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Guide to the Linden Garden Club Papers and Photographs 1924-2004
1924-2004
Metadata Details
- Title
- Linden Garden Club papers and photographs 1924-2004
- Creator
- Subject
- Linden Garden Club (Pittsburgh, Pa.), Gardening--Societies, etc, Civic improvement--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh, Horticultural exhibitions
- Description
- The Linden Garden Club papers and photographs include president, committee, and treasurer reports, meeting agendas, programs for annual meetings, presentation ideas, flyers, meeting minutes, garden market programs, and photographs. The reports and meeting minutes document how the club planned for the annual garden market and for the club programs. The club participation in the garden market is documented with schedules of events, participant forms, kick-off meeting minutes, flyers, correspondence from organizers, and financial information. Club projects mainly from the late 1970s are documented by a written summary of the club participation in the Neill Log House project, planting in the lobby of the Pittsburgh Blood Bank, and planting flowers at Lemington Home for the Aged. Of note, are many of the membership directories from 1976 to 2004 and meeting schedules and by-laws from 1937 to 1975. The photographs document club meetings, parties and garden market exhibits. Many of the photographs are labeled with identifying information., Linden Garden Club papers and photographs, 1924-2004, MSS 0805, Thomas and Katherine Detre Library and Archives, Senator John Heinz History Center, Cataloging of this collection was funded by a Basic Processing grant from NHPRC., Carol Lee Daniel Gift 2006 2006.0248, The Linden Garden Club was founded by Mrs. William H. Mercur in 1924 for women who lived near Linden Avenue in Pittsburgh, Pa. Along with its monthly meetings, the club held programs that included presentations on gardening or decorating, and tours of historic sites. It also collaborated with other garden clubs to hold garden and flower shows, and it participated in an annual spring garden show in Pittsburgh, initially called the Garden Market, but later called May Market. In addition to participating in exhibitions and holding programs, the club engaged in civic projects, such as growing a victory garden, showing a yearly garden exhibit at Sterritt School, planting flowers at Linden School, and planting at Neill Log House, a restored eighteenth century home in Schenley Park., Gift of Carol Lee Daniel., Processed MSS 0805 06/2012 K. Smith, Collection level finding aid available.
- Publisher
- Contributor
- Linden Garden Club (Pittsburgh, Pa.), Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center (depositor)
- Date
- 1924-2004
- Type
- Collection, Text
- Format
- Identifier
- Source
- Language
- eng
- Relation
- http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=hswpead;cc=hswpead;rgn=main;view=text;didno=US-QQS-mss805, pdcp_noharvest
- Coverage
- Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh
- Rights
- Copyright Not Evaluated. The copyright and related rights status of this Item has not been evaluated. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use., http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/