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Alta Vista Garden Club Records, SHM MS-36 1963-2009

SHM MS-36

Biographical Note

Alta Vista Garden Club was organized and became a Federated Garden Club starting in 1951. The Club was initially started in order to stimulate interest in and knowledge of the different forms of gardening - predominantly regarding private gardens and general improvement of home grounds - to aid in the protection of native trees, plants and wildlife and to promote general civic improvements in the City of Prescott. The Club limits its membership to thirty-five members, who over the years have contributed thousands of dollars and hours towards projects to enhance and beautify Prescott.

Some of these projects include the Sharlot Hall Museum Rose Garden, landscaping at Love Field, Acker Park, Miller Valley School, Yavapai County complex at the rodeo grounds, the pond of the Yavapai Regional Medical Center, Yavapai Guidance Center, Prescott Fine Arts Association Gardens, Yavapai College Sculpture Gardens, Heritage Park Zoo and the YMCA building. Also, the Club has planted trees at every public school in the Prescott area as well as the Salvation Army Worship Center, the VA Hospital, Memorial Park, and the Pioneer Home. Moreover, the Club has planted specimen trees along Haisley Road to promote the use of Sunburst Locust, have provided plants and gardening advice to new Habitat for Humanity homeowners and have donated books about gardening, horticulture and flower arranging to the Prescott community.

In addition, club member Mildred Lee initiated Operation Wildflower, Lady Bird Johnson’s national roadway beautification program, in Arizona and the club continued their donations of wildflower seeds to the Arizona Department of Transportation for many years. Furthermore, in the past the Club has sponsored Prescott Home Garden Tours. All these projects are made possible by the fundraising activities sponsored by the Alta Vista Garden Club.

Scope and Content

These records consists of organization history, copies of news clippings regarding the Alta Vista Garden Club, Genny Ingram’s 1996 Docent Project – Botanical Identification and Personal Plant Notebook, Garden Talk flyers from Watter’s Garden Center Morimer’s Nursery correspondence and club’ participation notes and scrapbooks of the Club from 1963-1971 and 1980-1981. The scrapbooks include, club documents, correspondence, news clippings about club meetings and events, photographs of the club officers and members, brochures or pamphlets regarding national garden conventions or conferences and awards and ribbons.

System of Arrangement

Restrictions

Conditions Governing Access

None.

Conditions Governing Use

Unpublished and published manuscripts are protected by copyright. Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository and the copyright holder. The Sharlot Hall Museum may not own copyright to all parts of this collection. It is the responsibility of the user to obtain permission to publish from the owner of the copyright (the institution, the creator of the record, the author or his/her transferees, heirs, legates, or literary executors). The user agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the State of Arizona and the Sharlot Hall Museum - this includes its Board of Trustee officers, employees, outside contractors, and agents from and against all claims made by person asserting that he or she is an owner of copyright.

Controlled Access Terms

Administrative Information

Custodial History

The collection of three scrapbooks was donated to Sharlot Hall Museum in 2000 by the Alta Vista Garden Club member Agnes Daniels and Frances Martinez and was assigned accession number 2000.053. The scrapbooks were processed and placed into a non-standardized arrangement and organization scheme and were originally cataloged in Document Box 467. Apparently, no finding aid was created for this document box. The collection was re-processed using a DACS compliant finding aid and was re-assigned a new manuscript number, SHM MS-36, in March 2014.

Accruals: Frances Martinez, a past Club member, donated an accrual on April 4, 2014 (Accession #2014.046). This club is still active and there may be accruals by former or current club members in the future.

Preferred Citation

Alta Vista Garden Club Records SHM MS-36. Sharlot Hall Museum Library & Archives.

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