Southern Nursery Association Records, 1923-1999.

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Southern Nursery Association Records, 1923-1999.

This collection contains minutes from the Southern Nursery Association's annual meetings from most years between 1923 and 1988. Committee reports, financial statements, membership lists, and necrology reports (obituaries of recently deceased members) presented at the annual meetings are sometimes included. Receipt reports from 1923 to 1951 list the dues-paying members of the association with the amount paid for the year. Little material exists during the years of World War II. From 1952 to 1958, transcripts of the association's annual meetings exist. The collection also contains programs for several annual meetings held during the 1920s through the 1940s and trade show programs from 1985 to 1987. In addition, a convention program from 1999 celebrates the association's one hundredth anniversary. Minutes from the board of director's meetings are included from 1959 to 1988. Limited correspondence related to the association's annual meetings and financial affairs is included. The collection also contains a published history of the Southern Nursery Association.

1.46 linear ft. (3 document cases and 1 half document case).

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Southern Nurserymen's Association

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American Association of Nurserymen

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Southern Nursery Association

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The Southern Nursery Association (SNA) is a non-profit, professional trade organization that was formed when nine southern members of the American Association of Nurserymen (AAN) envisioned a regional organization to negotiate with the railroads that served the southern nursery business. These charter members appointed a committee to draft a constitution and by-laws and in August 1899, nearly fifty southern nurserymen met to discuss the problems they faced. At the time, the survival of the nurse...