American Rhododendron Society Records
Content Description
This collection consists of the records of the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the American Rhododendron Society. Correspondence, minutes, newsletters, and photographs pertaining to various activities of the chapter. The additions to this collection include information about regional chapters other than the Mid-Atlantic Chapter.
A major portion of the records deals with the administration of the Mid-Atlantic Chapter, such as the election of officers, finances, and programs for annual meetings. Minutes, newsletters of various chapters, inventories, catalogs, logbooks and studies of various members, printed articles, maps, and obituaries are also present.
The correspondence pertains to the registration of new hybrids, seed exchange, research on rhododendrons, publications, and rhododendron gardens.
Original guides to collection -
MSS 10553 - https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/u1750298
MSS 10553-a - https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/u1750303
Guides for previous additions with the collection numbers MSS 10553-b through MSS 10553-bu can be found in the catalog
Dates
- Creation: 1927 - 2022
Creator
- American Rhododendron Society (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research use.
Copyright
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Biographical / Historical
The American Rhododendron Society was founded in 1944 as an organization for amateur and professional growers of rhododendrons and azaleas. The organization conducts research, offers courses, compiles statistics, registers names of new clonal selections, and sponsors competitions. National meetings are held annually, usually in April or May.
Extent
100 Cubic Feet
0.1632 Gigabytes
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
The original order of the collection has been maintained, with some modifications. General correspondence files interspersed with separate files on meetings of the Middle Atlantic Chapter, as well as regional and national meetings of the American Rhododendron Society, comprise the bulk of the collection. Also included are minutes of the national organization. Addition 3 contains newsletters of chapters from across the country in 2022. Material within all folders is arranged chronologically.
Processing Information
This finding aid was created for creating access to recent and future additions. The guides for original acquisition and previous additions can be found in the online catalog.
- Title
- American Rhododendron Society Records Finding Aid
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- (Joseph Azzizi created Series), Ellen Welch
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library Repository
Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
P.O. Box 400110
University of Virginia
Charlottesville Virginia 22904-4110 United States