Martha's Vineyard Museum
A Finding Aid to the Martha's Vineyard Garden Club Records, 1924-2010, undated
Table of Contents
Descriptive Summary
Repository | Martha's Vineyard Museum,
Gale Huntington Research Library 59 School Street P.O. Box 1310 Edgartown, MA 02539 (508)627-4441 |
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Call Number | RU 316 |
Creator | Martha's Vineyard Garden Club |
Title | Martha's Vineyard Garden Club records |
Date | 1924-2010, undated |
Extent | 9 boxes + 1 oversize (4.856 cubic feet) |
Language | The materials are in English. |
Abstract | The records of the Martha's Vineyard Garden Club consist of minutes, reports, yearbooks, newsletters, scrapbooks, correspondence and photographic materials created by the organization. |
Administrative Information
Access Restrictions
This collection has a small amount of restricted materials. Requests to access restricted materials should be directed to the library's staff.
Use and Reproduction Restrictions
Requests to reproduce material from this collection should be directed to the library's staff. Reproduction fees may apply.
Preferred Citation
Martha's Vineyard Museum, RU 316, Martha's Vineyard Garden Club Records.
Acquisition Information
Fliers, program and yearbooks, 1977-1982, gift of the Margaret Eppley Estate in 1992. (Accession no. 1992.037). 50th anniversary program, gift of James Richardson in 2003. (Accession no. 2003.065). Other correspondence, yearbooks and programs, 1929-1958, were acquired from unknown sources.
An accrual of Martha's Vineyard Garden Club records was received from the President of the Martha's Vineyard Garden Club, Catherine Minkiewicz in 2010. (Accession no. 2010.048).
Publication Information
Martha's Vineyard Museum
Gale Huntington Research Library59 School Street
P.O. Box 1310
Edgartown, MA 02539
(508)627-4441
Revision Description
Finding aid revised during subsequent processing and machine-encoded in January 2015 by Nathaniel Janick January 2015
Processing Information
Finding aid prepared and machine-encoded by Nathaniel Janick in January 2015.
Processing of this collection and creation of the original finding aid from 2013 was sponsored by the towns of Aquinnah, Chilmark, Oak Bluffs, Tisbury, and West Tisbury through the Massachusetts Community Preservation Act. Subsequent processing and machine-encoding of the finding aid was sponsored by the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.Index Terms
Genre(s)
- Annual reports
- Correspondence
- Fliers
- Programs
Geographic Name(s)
- West Tisbury (Mass.)
Subject(s)
- Civic improvement--Massachusetts--Martha's Vineyard
- Clubs--Massachusetts--Martha's Vineyard
- Environmental protection--Massachusetts--Citizen participation
- Flower shows
- Gardeners--Massachusetts
- Gardening--Societies, etc.
- Gardens--Massachusetts
- Horticultural exhibitions
- Horticulture--Societies, etc.
- Land use--Massachusetts--Planning--Citizen participation
Biography/Historical Note
Established in Edgartown in 1924 by Mrs. T. M. R. Meikleham and ten charter members, the Martha's Vineyard Garden Club was the first conservation-oriented organization on the island. Early members rallied around horticulture and preservation efforts including; planting trees and gardens, improving schoolyards, surveying and maintaining trees on public property, removing caterpillars from island vegetation, banning billboards, preserving stone walls, creating victory gardens, ragweed and gypsy moth eradication, disseminating information on plant diseases, participating in the island agricultural fair, holding flower shows, advocating for zoning regulations and other educational programming. The club continues to actively initiate and support efforts to preserve and beautify the island landscape.
Beginning in 1937 a building at the West Tisbury Mill Pond served as the headquarters to the Martha's Vineyard Garden Club. The club purchased the property in 1942 and established an endowment for its preservation in 1982. The club continues to manage the old mill property today. In 1984 the Martha's Vineyard Garden Club joined four other non-profit environmental organizations in the creation of the Mary P. Wakeman Conservation Center Trust. The Club now uses the Wakeman Conservation Center building on Lambert's Cove Road for its monthly meetings. These events include presentations on a wide variety of conservation and horticulture topics. In addition, the greenhouse at the Wakeman Center is used to propagate plants for the club's annual, spring plant sale.
Scope and Content of Collection
The records of the Martha's Vineyard Garden Club consist largely of annual yearbooks published by the organization, 1929-1981, but also include a flower show program and several pieces of correspondence, fliers and anniversary programs. The yearbooks contain lists of members, officers and committee members, annual reports and schedules of events. Programs celebrating the club's 25th and 50th anniversaries include a historical chronology of the organization and lectures.
Arrangement
The collection is arranged by record form and therein loosely chronologically.
Contents of Collection
Box | Folder | |||
Minutes, 1924-1929, 1936 | 1 | 1-2 | ||
Minutes, 1930-1933 | 1 | 3 | ||
Minutes, 1944-1953 | 1 | 4 | ||
Minutes, 1954-1960 | 1 | 5 | ||
Minutes, 1960-1963 | 1 | 6 | ||
Minutes, 1963-1970 | 1 | 7-8 | ||
Minutes, 1970-1972 | 1 | 9 | ||
Minutes, 1972-1976 | 1 | 10-11 | ||
Minutes, 1976-1980 | 2 | 1-2 | ||
Minutes, 1980-1983, 1989-1990 | 2 | 3-4 | ||
Minutes, 1982-1984 | 2 | 5 | ||
Minutes, 1985-1988 | 2 | 6 | ||
Minutes, 1983-1990 | 2 | 7 | ||
Minutes, 1989-1991 | 2 | 8 | ||
Minutes, 1993 | 2 | 9 | ||
Minutes, 1994 | 2 | 10 | ||
Minutes, 1998 | 2 | 11 | ||
Minutes, 1999 | 2 | 12 | ||
Minutes, 2000 | 2 | 13 | ||
Minutes, 2001 | 2 | 14 | ||
Minutes, 2002 | 3 | 1 | ||
Minutes, 2003 | 3 | 2 | ||
Minutes, 2001-2002 | 3 | 3 | ||
Minutes, 2003 | 3 | 4 | ||
Minutes, 2004 | 3 | 5 | ||
Minutes, 2005 | 3 | 6 | ||
Minutes, 2006 | 3 | 7 | ||
Miscellaneous reports, 1960-1989 | 3 | 8 | ||
Christiantown Chapel and Grounds Committee, 1983-1984 NoteThe contents in Box 4 were originally housed in three-ring binders. The materials in each binder were separated into sections according to the committe or officer that produced the materials. | 4 | 1 | ||
Conservation Committee, 1982-1983 | 4 | 2 | ||
Horticulture Committee, 1983-1984 | 4 | 3 | ||
Hospitality Committee, 1983-1984 | 4 | 4 | ||
House Committee, 1982 | 4 | 5 | ||
Membership Committee, 1983 | 4 | 6 | ||
Nominating Committee, 1983 | 4 | 7 | ||
Program Committee, 1982-1983 | 4 | 8 | ||
Publicity Committee, 1982-1984 | 4 | 9 | ||
School Program Committee, 1982-1983 | 4 | 10 | ||
Wildflower Preservation Committee, 1983-1984 | 4 | 11 | ||
Social Activities, 1982-1984 | 4 | 12 | ||
Newsletter Committee, 1983-1984 | 4 | 13 | ||
Special Reports, 1983-1984 | 4 | 14 | ||
Minutes, 1982-1984 | 4 | 15-16 | ||
Treasurer's Report, 1982-1983 NoteThis folder is restricted. | 4 | 17 | ||
Membership , 1982-1984 | 4 | 18 | ||
1st Vice President, Special Events, 1983-1984 | 4 | 19 | ||
Vice President of Oak Bluffs, 1984 | 4 | 20 | ||
Vice President of West Tisbury, circa 1983 | 4 | 21 | ||
Wildflower Committee Annual Reports, circa 1981-1992 | 4 | 22-23 | ||
25th Anniversary Program, 1949 | 5 | 1 | ||
50th Anniversary Program, 1974 | 5 | 2 | ||
50th Anniversary Program with clippings, 1974 | 5 | 3 | ||
50th Anniversary Program with clipping and script, 1974 | 5 | 4 | ||
Yearbooks, 1929, 1932-1933 | 5 | 5 | ||
Yearbooks, 1934-1935 | 5 | 6 | ||
Yearbooks, 1936-1937 | 5 | 7 | ||
Yearbooks, 1938-1939 | 5 | 8 | ||
Yearbooks, 1940-1942 | 5 | 9 | ||
Yearbooks, 1943-1948 | 5 | 10 | ||
Yearbooks, 1949-1956 | 5 | 11 | ||
Yearbooks, 1957-1968 | 5 | 12 | ||
Yearbooks, 1977-1981 | 5 | 13 | ||
Yearbooks, 1983-1985 | 5 | 14 | ||
Grist from the Old Mill newsletters, 1983-1994, 2007-2008 | 5 | 15 | ||
Box | ||||
Publicity scrapbook, 1960-1964 | 8 | |||
Box | Folder | |||
Publicity scrapbook, 1964-1966 | 6 | 1 | ||
Box | ||||
Publicity scrapbook, 1967-1970 | 8 | |||
Box | Folder | |||
Publicity clippings, 1944-1991 | 6 | 2 | ||
Newspaper clippings, 1991-1992 | 6 | 3 | ||
History of the Martha's Vineyard Garden Club, 1971 | 6 | 4 | ||
Materials regarding collaboration between Garden Club and Martha's Vineyard Regional High School, 1977-1986, undated | 6 | 5 | ||
Poster from 1986 litter project, 1986 | 6 | 6 | ||
Museum of Fine Arts Art in Bloom exhibit brochures and clipping, 1998-1999 | 6 | 7 | ||
Museum of Fine Arts Art in Bloom exhibit brochure excerpt, 2008-2009 | 6 | 8 | ||
Edgartown and Up-Island Garden Tours materials, | 6 | 9 | ||
Correspondence related to Earth Day celebration, 2000 | 6 | 10 | ||
Correspondence to Martha's Vineyard Commission relating to proposed Down Island Golf Club, 2000 | 6 | 11 | ||
Miriam Greene Hurley Memorial Fund correspondence, 2001 | 6 | 12 | ||
Correspondence regarding Roots and Shoots program, 2001 | 6 | 13 | ||
Roots and Shoots handbook, 1999 | 6 | 14-15 | ||
Old Mill Building Restoration Fund correspondence and clippings, 1999-2000 | 6 | 16 | ||
Old Mill restoration fundraising materials, circa 2000, undated | 6 | 17 | ||
Old Mill Rehabilitation photographs, circa 2001 | 6 | 18 | ||
Reminiscences of the Old Mill, 1980 NoteTalk given to the Garden Club. | 6 | 19 | ||
Miscellaneous correspondence, 1938, 1942 | 6 | 20 | ||
Fliers and program, 1979, 1982 | 6 | 21 | ||
Miscellaneous papers, 2008-2010, undated | 6 | 22 | ||
Flower Show photographs and negatives, 1963 NoteDuring arrangement, materials related to the Garden Club Flower Shows were separated between photographic materials and administrative records. | 7 | 1 | ||
Flower Show photographs , 1969 | 7 | 2 | ||
Flower Show negatives, 1972 | 7 | 3 | ||
Flower Show photographs, 1975 | 7 | 4 | ||
Flower Show photographs, 1979 | 7 | 5 | ||
Flower Show photographs, circa 1981 | 7 | 6 | ||
Flower Show photographs, 1983 | 7 | 7 | ||
Flower Show photographs, 1985 | 7 | 8 | ||
Flower Show photographs, 1987 | 7 | 9 | ||
Box | ||||
Flower Show photograph album, 1991 | 8 | |||
Flower Show scrapbook, 1993 | 8 | |||
"Music in Bloom" Flower Show scrapbook, 1997 | 8 | |||
Box | Folder | |||
Flower Show photographs, 2000-2002 | 7 | 10 | ||
Box | ||||
"Beauty & the Best" Flower Show photograph album, 2007 | 8 | |||
Box | Folder | |||
Flower Show administrative materials, 1963 | 7 | 11 | ||
Flower Show Committee report, 1966 | OS GEN 7 | 39 | ||
Flower Show administrative materials, 1969 | 7 | 12 | ||
Flower Show administrative materials, 1972 | 7 | 13 | ||
Flower Show administrative materials, 1975 | 7 | 14 | ||
Flower Show administrative materials, 1977 | 7 | 15 | ||
Flower Show administrative materials, 1979 | 7 | 16 | ||
Flower Show administrative materials, 1981 | 7 | 17 | ||
Box | ||||
Flower Show administrative materials, 1983-1985 | 8 | |||
Box | Folder | |||
Flower Show administrative materials, 1985 | 7 | 18 | ||
Box | ||||
Flower Show administrative materials, 1987 | 8 | |||
Flower Show administrative materials, 1989 | 8 | |||
Box | Folder | |||
Flower Show Committee Chairman's Report, 1993 | 7 | 19 | ||
Flower Show administrative materials, 1993 | 7 | 20 | ||
"Music in Bloom" Flower Show Report of the Committee, 1997 | 7 | 21 | ||
Materials related to Flower Show award ribbons, 1975-1989 | 7 | 22 | ||
Flower Show flyers, programs, and administrative materials, 1940, 1966-1985 | 7 | 23 | ||
Flower Show flyers, programs, and administrative materials, 1996-1999, undated | 7 | 24 | ||
Box | ||||
Membership Records, circa 1956-circa 1990 | 9 | |||