Demeter Garden Club records, [manuscript] 1951-1983.

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Demeter Garden Club records, [manuscript] 1951-1983.

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The Demeter Garden Club Records include the club's creed and constitution, a small business ledger, and the minutes of the club's meetings. The collection has three scrapbooks that contain newspaper clippings of the various events hosted by the garden club, certificates, and photographs. Materials include club constitutions, a creed, three scrapbooks, yearbooks, and membership directories.

2 linear ft. (3 boxes)

University of Arkansas - Fayetteville, University Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 8211269

University of Arkansas - Fayetteville, University Libraries

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University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Libraries. Special Collections.

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Arkansas Federation of Garden Clubs.

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Demeter Garden Club (Fayetteville, Ark.)

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The Demeter Garden Club was formed in 1951, as a social horticultural group separate from the Daughters of Demeter, an older organization of the University of Arkansas, which was founded in 1927. The group participated in various floral activities such as sponsoring "flower show schools," in which lectures were given discussing the preservation and care for cut flowers, practicing for flower shows, and especially, the visual presentation and overall aesthetic value of arrangements. Although a re...