H.G. Hastings Company Photographs, 1912-1953.

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

H.G. Hastings Company Photographs, 1912-1953.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/298439370

This collection contains photographic prints of crops grown from H.G. Hastings Company seeds. In addition, the collection includes one image of H.G. Hastings, one photograph of a Hastings' Seed store in Atlanta, and one photograph of students at the Georgia State College of Agriculture, later part of the University of Georgia, in Athens.

8 photographic prints: b&w.

Atlanta History Center, Kenan Research Center / Cherokee Garden Library

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 7276363

Atlanta History Center, Kenan Research Center / Cherokee Garden Library

Related Entities

There are 3 Entities related to this resource.

H.G. Hastings Company (Ga.)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6jf1fts (corporateBody)

In 1889 in Interlachen, Florida, Harry George Hastings (1869-1962) established the H. G. Hastings Company, a mail-order business specializing in garden and field seeds as well as nursery stock. The business aided both farmers and home gardeners. By the mid-1890s, the company began producing a monthly newspaper instructing farmers on the best methods of plant cultivation, which would eventually evolve into The Southern Ruralist. In 1899, the company moved to Atlanta, a more centralized distributi...

Hastings, Harry George, 1869-1962.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w61c5s44 (person)

Georgia State College of Agriculture

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w60k8tmq (corporateBody)