Burlington Garden Club Records

The collection contains scrapbooks, subject files, and meeting minutes. In the first carton there are eleven scrapbooks in total but they vary in content. The first seven were found in binders but were then split into sections of folders and these follow the original order of the binder. There are three binders that are still in use. These seven scrapbooks have material from the outreach committees, correspondence, and then newspaper clippings are the most prominent. The next scrapbook is labeled “loose scrapbook” because it was found in a logical order just without a binder. This one has the same content as the first seven. The last three scrapbooks are picture scrapbooks. These scrapbooks contain pictures from varying events of the garden club.

The next carton contains subject files. These include Garden Club events, official papers, and clubs they were associated with. The bigger groups of files are the papers about the Federated Garden Clubs of Vermont, newsletters, official programs, negatives and prints, and the rest are small groups and other events that the club held. There are also files on the National Council of State Garden Clubs and trips the club went on.

The final box contains minutes from 1984, 1986 and then 1990 to 2002. There are also executive board minutes which are more specific for the leadership of the club. These are from 1984 and 1998 to 2002. The minutes are the topics covered by each meeting held by the club.