Table of Contents
- Repository
- UNC Asheville Special Collections and University Archives
- Title
- French Broad River Garden Club Coloured Slides and Photographs Collection
- ID
- M2010.02 ; OS2010.02
- Date [inclusive]
- 1935 – 1937
- Extent
- 1.5 Linear feet
- Description note
- Items include 1 manuscript box, 1 wooden box of magic lantern slides, 1 slide carousel, a folio, and mounted prints from folio.
- Location note
- Located in Special Collections. Box 1 in Row 6, Section 5. Other materials in lateral files along back wall.
- Language
- English
- Citation
- [Identification of item], French Broad River Garden Club Coloured Slides and Photographs Collection, D.H. Ramsey Library, University of North Carolina at Asheville 28804
Historical Information
The French Broad River Garden Club of Asheville was chartered in 1927 by a group of women passionate about gardening, horticulture, conservation, and civic planning. The club has consistently shown a dedication to promoting conservation, civic planning and planting, gardening and design, and horticultural education. Club initiative include donating local scholarships through annual fundraisers, working with partner organizations in Western North Carolina, implementing beautification and restoration projects in neighborhoods, parks, and historic gardens, documenting horticulture design and history for the Archive of American Gardens at the Smithsonian Institution, and promoting conservation through demonstration and education initiatives, programs, and grants. (From the French Broad River Garden Club’s website, accessed October 2023)
Scope and Contents
This collection contains lantern slides and prints of wild flowers of the region created for a presentation entitled Coloured Slides and Photographs Native Plants of the North Carolina Mountains Suitable for Naturalization Found Within a Radius of 80 miles of Asheville, originally shown at a meeting on May 21, 1936. Correspondence regarding the coloring of the slides, and a booklet of notes describing the plants shown, are also included, along with meeting minutes from 1935 – 1937 and a record of plants grown in members’ gardens.
Administrative Information
Publication Information
UNC Asheville Special Collections and University Archives
Ramsey Library, CPO # 1500
One University Heights
Asheville, North Carolina, 28804-8504
828.251.6645
speccoll@unca.edu
Access
The collection is open for research. Copyright may be retained by the creators.
Digital Access
74 photos taken from the glass plates are viewable here.
Custodial History
Donated by the French Broad River Garden Club Foundation
Accruals note
No additional accruals are expected.
Processing Information
Processed by Special Collections Staff
Collection Inventory
Box 1
- Meeting Minutes 1935 – 1937
- Correspondence regarding glass slides
- Native plants of the North Carolina mountains suitable for naturalization found within a radius of 80 miles of Asheville ; French Broad River Garden Club, Biltmore, NC ; unknown author, possibly Mrs. James G.K. McClure ; 1936. [Typed booklet with notes on each plant photographed; 2 copies, slight variations between copies
- List of club members, and plants grown
Lateral File 1 (Oversize):
- Glass lantern slides, 1936, colored
- 35mm slide copies of glass lantern slides
- Folio of prints, 1936, monochrome
Lateral File 2 (Oversize):
- Six pages from folio ; mounted