Vanderbilt Garden Club Records.

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Vanderbilt Garden Club Records.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/269289368

This collection contains records and other historical materials generated and kept by the Vanderbilt Garden Club for Campus Beautification, including correspondence, records of the presidents, constitution and by-laws, histories, notices of meetings, minutes of meetings, membership and dues lists, financial records, records of the Iris Project, audiotapes, a scrapbook including photographs, and other materials. A copy of the book The real dirt : a history of the Vanderbilt Garden Club for Campus Beautification (edited by Sharon Hogge and published 1998) is included, with some proofs and other related materials.

2.5 linear ft.

Vanderbilt University Library, Jean and Alexander Heard Library

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Vanderbilt University Library, Jean and Alexander Heard Library

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In 1927, Mary Henderson Kirkland, wife of Chancellor James Kirkland, called together a small group of faculty wives and wives of members of the Board of Trust and asked their help with the beautification of the campus. It was not until 1935 that a formal charter was drawn up and the Vanderbilt Garden Club for Campus Beautification became a reality. The Club undertook a number of projects to beautify the campus, including the Iris Project, in which they identified, purchased and planted old varie...