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Texas Garden Clubs, Inc., District III, Southern Zone, Summer Workshop, 1982-1993

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 36

Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

The bulk of materials in this collection pertain to the Anna Raguet Garden Club, Nacogdoches Council of Garden Clubs and Texas Garden Clubs, Inc., District III. Anna Raguet Garden Club records include letters, meeting minutes, newspaper clippings, photographs and negatives, scrapbooks, and yearbooks. Bank statements, check registers and receipts document the club’s expenses and community projects. Nacogdoches Council documents in the collection are guidelines, results and rules for the county’s annual flower show, bank statements and check registers, a scrapbook, and some meeting minutes. Most materials from Texas Garden Clubs, Inc. are correspondence and programs pertaining to the annual District III fall and spring conventions and summer workshops. There are also copies of the district newsletter and ‘The LONE STAR Gardener’ magazine.

Researchers might find some of the donation correspondence in the collection of particular interest. There are records about the Anna Raguet Garden Club helping to landscape the Sterne-Hoya House and the plaza in downtown Nacogdoches around the old post office (now the Convention and Visitor’s Bureau). The Nacogdoches Council of Garden Clubs funded the SFA Horticulture Club to landscape the public library in the mid-1980s.

This collection also has excellent contextual information on the history of garden clubs in East Texas. The histories of Texas Garden Clubs, Inc. and District III, as well as an account describing the dissolution of the Nacogdoches Garden Club, show how and why the Anna Raguet Garden Club came into existence.

Dates

  • Copyright: 1982-1993

Conditions Governing Access

Open for research.

Extent

From the Collection: 4.50 Cubic Feet

Language of Materials

English

Repository Details

Part of the East Texas Research Center Repository

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