Minute book and scrapbooks, 1928-1959.

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Minute book and scrapbooks, 1928-1959.

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Collection consists of: A volume of minutes dating from the first meeting of the club in 1928 to 1942; a scrapbook album containing 65 photographs (and some prints) of Beacon Hill gardens and Mass. Horticultural Society Flower Show exhibits and awards, 1929-1935, particularly featuring the gardens of club officers Gertrude B. Bourne (founder and first president) and Eleanor Raymond (treasurer), Mrs. Robert Cushman, Mrs. Charles Norton, and others, with a packet of postcards of Garden Club members' gardens from the 1950s; a scrapbook album of 61 photographs, ca. 1930s of Beacon Hill gardens and the 1930 Mass. Horticultural Society Flower Show. With a copy of Hidden gardens of Beacon Hill (Boston, 1959) and 17 original photographs by Clemens Kalischer.

3 boxes.

Boston Athenaeum

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Massachusetts Horticultural Society

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The Arnold Arboretum has had a long association with its sister institution the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. However, it was during Donald Wyman's tenure as Horticulturist of the Arnold Arboretum, from 1935 to 1969, that the relationship florished. In addition to being a Trustee of the Society, Wyman also served on many of the Society's committees. The various Prize Committes required visiting many Massachusetts' estates and gardens and these visits were often documented through photogra...

Kalischer, Clemens, 1921-....

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Photographer. From the description of Clemens Kalischer papers, ca.1946-1966. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122576736 ...

Beacon Hill Garden Club

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Raymond, Eleanor

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Eleanor Raymond was born in 1888 in Cambridge, MA, and following her graduation from Wellesley College, enrolled in the Cambridge School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (whose faculty was largely drawn from the faculty of Harvard’s School of Architecture). Upon her graduation in 1919, Raymond joined Henry Atherton Frost: the beginning of a professional career that was to span some sixty years of practice. Raymond’s prime interest was in residential housing: she designed one of the fir...

Bourne, Gertrude Beals, 1868-1962

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