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Gardening

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: https://lccn.loc.gov/sh85053089

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Feronia Garden Club, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Scrapbooks

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4025
Abstract

Three scrapbooks of this Tuscaloosa, Alabama, garden club, covering the years, 1958-1967.

Dates: 1958-1967
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Letter from Rosa to Ella R. Crews, 1910 March 15

 File — Box 4257.017: [Barcode: 1006214242], Folder: 1
Scope and Contents

Letter from Rosa in Leaksville, North Carolina, to friend Ella R. Crews of Spartanburg, South Carolina. She discussed her recent illness ("the grip" or influenza), gardening, planting, embroidery, clothings, jewelry, and a friend's divorce. The envelope is addressed to Miss Ella R, Crews, but Rosa calls her Stella.

Dates: 1910 March 15
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / Wade Hall Collection on American Life / SOUTHERN REGION

Martha Jane Coleman Banks commonplace book

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0111
Abstract

Commonplace book containing diary entries, recipes, miscellaneous writings, newspaper clippings, and poems; created by Martha Jane Coleman Banks of Columbus, Mississippi.

Dates: Circa 1848-1865
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

George Stritikus papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1360
Abstract

This collection contains materials on floriculture in Alabama, including papers on roses and on old English boxwoods, a plant inventory of Fendall Hall, Eufaula, Alabama, and indexes of plants mentioned in books on Alabama and Georgia plantations and homes, plus photos, garden plans, and written descriptions from Stitikus's traveling exhibit, "Alabama : Her People, Houses and Gardens," (1986).

Dates: 1981-1986
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections