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Papers and audiocassettes, 1932-1950, 1991-1992

Manuscript Collection 1225

• Information about the Fayetteville Garden Club
• Information about the Collection
• Contents of the Collection

The Fayetteville Garden Club, founded in January 1932, organized programs about home gardening, landscaping, horticulture, conservation, and flower arranging and sponsored community beautification such as planting of shade trees in the city.  The members also held yearly spring picnics and arranged garden plant exchanges.  The Fayetteville Garden Club was affiliated with the Fayetteville Council of Garden Clubs organized in 1949, the Arkansas Federation of Garden Clubs, Inc., and the National Council of State Garden Clubs.

Lois J. Imhoff, Fayetteville, Arkansas, donated her collection to the Special Collections Division on March 25, 1992.

The collection consists of yearbooks, photocopies of newspaper articles, minutes of the meetings, membership lists, and three audio cassettes with the club members' interviews conducted by Lois J. Imhoff.

Processed by Vera Ekechukwu, Special Collections Division, University of Arkansas Libraries,  Fayetteville, Arkansas, in December 1998.

Box 1

 1. Yearbooks, 1951, 1963-1966, 1968-1969.
 2. Newspaper clippings, 1932-1939.
 3. Newspaper clippings, 1940-1950.
 4. Membership lists (1932-1950), minutes (n.d.), and other records.
 5. Audiocassettes, No. 1-3.