Coral Gables Garden Club records

Collection

Coral Gables Garden Club records

• 1925-1999 (Creation)

25.17 linear feet (9 record storage cartons, 1 document case, 14 flat archival boxes)

Originally conceived and organized in 1925, the Coral Gables Garden Club has served the local city of Coral Gables in its planning by helping create and nurture its many gardens and beautiful landscapes. The club was founded by Eunice Peacock Merrick and Althea Merrick out of a shared love of horticulture and has grown considerably since then and maintained their commitment to civic improvement through gardening. Today, the club is composed of 150 community members who actively contribute to Coral Gables' local institutions and businesses, including providing scholarships and educational programs, as well as assisting youth-oriented gardening clubs.

Their records contain scrapbooks, meeting minutes, president papers, yearbooks, guestbooks, photographs, programs, pamphlets, news clippings, awards, ephemera, administrative documents, and other archival materials, all pertaining to the club and its various events and initiatives over the years.

This collection is organized into the following three series:

Series I: Administrative files (Boxes 1-6)

• CGGC yearbooks
• Newsletters
• Meeting minutes
• Officer reports
• President’s books
• Entrance files and news clippings
• Award applications, certificates, and event files

Series II: Scrapbooks and photographs (Boxes 7-24)

Series III: Plaques and posters (Box 24)

This collection is open for research.

Items from this collection are kept on-campus and may be requested from the first floor Kislak Center in the Otto G. Richter Library at University of Miami.

Coral Gables Garden Club records Finding Aid © 2021 University of Miami. All rights reserved. Requests to reproduce or publish materials from this collection should be directed to asc.library@miami.edu.

• English

• Latin

Gift from Coral Gables Garden Club, August 2022.

Select materials from the collection have been digitized and are available on the University of Miami Libraries Digital collections site

• George E. and Eunice P. Merrick collection
• Arva Moore Parks collection

Finding aid created by Yvette Yurubi, Archives Technician, 2021. Collection concluded processing by Yvette Yurubi, Processing Archivist, 12-13-24.

• Coral Gables (Fla.)
• Coral Gables (Fla.) -- History
• Coral Gables (Fla.) -- History -- Pictorial works

• Coral Gables (Fla.)

• Coral Gables Garden Club (Subject)

• Scrapbooks
• Photographs
• Administrative records
• Ephemera (general object genre)
• Pamphlets
• Clippings (information artifacts)
• Periodicals
• Awards
• Minutes (administrative records)
• Audiovisual materials
• Programs (documents)
• Posters