Alma Walker papers

Descriptive Summary
Title: Alma Walker papers
Creator: Walker, Alma Toevs, 1911-1989
Inclusive Dates: 1970-1989
Language(s): English
Extent: 22 Linear Feet 17 cartons, 3 document boxes, 1 oversized box
Collection Number: ms2696
Repository: Hargrett Library

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Collection Description

Historical Note

Alma Toevs Walker (1911-1989) was a botanist, environmental activist, and civic leader, of Athens, Georgia. She was married Lester C. Walker.

Scope and Content

This collection contains notebooks reflecting Walker's participation in Georgia organizations, especially Georgia Conservancy and Northeast Georgia Area Planning and Development Commission, and her more general interests including Athens, Ga., University of Georgia, and women's issues; together with brochures, books, and other loose material.

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Administrative Information

Custodial History

Gift of Dr. Lester Walker.

Finding Aid Publication

Finding aid prepared on: 2010 March 2.

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Related Materials and Subjects

Subject Terms

Related Collections in this Repository

Further information pertaining to Alma Toevs Walker can be found in Bartram Trail Society Papers, ms2044, and in the Lester Walker Collection, ms2595.

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Series Descriptions and Folder Listing

 

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Athens Area News

 

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Athens-Clarke Heritage Foundation

 

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Athens Council on Human Relations

 

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Bartram Trail Society

 

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Clarke County Communication Relations Division

 

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Conservation Foundation Newsletter

 

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7

Cumberland Island

 

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Environmental Defense Fund

 

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Friends of the Georgia Museum of Art

 

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Friends of the University of Georgia

 

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Botanical Garden/Friends of the State

 

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Botanical Garden of Georgia

 

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Friends of the University of Georgia

 

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Botanical Garden/Friends of the State

 

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Botanical Garden of Georgia

 

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Georgia Botanical Society

 

Georgia Conservancy

 

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Georgia Conservancy

 

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Georgia Conservancy

 

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Georgia Conservancy

 

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Georgia Conservancy-Committees

 

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Energy Policy

 

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Executive

 

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Forest and Woodlands

 

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Land Use Planning

 

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Georgia Conservancy-General Information

 

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Board Manual

 

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By-Laws

 

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Member Files

 

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Miscellaneous

 

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Georgia Conservancy Annual Conferences

 

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Georgia Conservancy Newsletter

 

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Georgia Conservancy Newsletter/Magazine

 

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Georgia Heritage Trust

 

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Georgia Heritage Trust Newsletter

 

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Georgia Horticultural Society

 

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Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation

 

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Georgia Waterline Letter

 

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Historic Oglethorpe County

 

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Faust Farm

 

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Smithonia

 

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Hyla-Newsletter of Sandy Creek Nature Center

 

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Kiplinger Washington Letter

 

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NEGAPDC

 

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Northeast Georgia Planning and Development Commission (NEGAPDC)

 

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NEGAPDC-Natural and Historic Resources Advisory Committee-Committee Handbook

 

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NEGAPDC-Natural and Historic Resources Advisory Committee

 

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NEGAPDC-Natural and Historic Resources Advisory Committee

 

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NEGAPDC Older Voice

 

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NEGAPDC Update

 

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Oglethorpe County

 

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Piedmont Heritage Council

 

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Preservation News

 

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The Rankin File

 

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Sigma Delta Epsilon

 

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Society of Sigma XI

 

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Taxonomy

 

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Travel Notebooks

 

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Unitarian Universalist Fellowship

 

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University of Georgia Alumni Society

 

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University of Georgia-Misc. Newspaper, Clippings

 

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Wilderness Society

 

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Women's Issues-Newspaper Clippings

 

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Botany

 

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Environmental

 

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Forestry

 

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General Georgia Information

 

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Miscellaneous

 

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Notebooks: AAAS/AIBS Newsletters

 

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Notebooks: Athens Council of Human Relations

 

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Notebooks: Boyle's Island

 

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Notebooks: Coastal Topics

 

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Notebooks: Energy Potential

 

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Notebooks: Environment, Georgia

 

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Notebooks: Environment, U.S.

 

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Notebooks: Environment, U.S.

 

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Notebooks: Georgia Conservancy, Athens Area Chapter

 

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Notebooks: Georgia Waterline

 

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Notebooks: Lands

 

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Notebooks: Lands

 

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Notebooks: Mercury; DDT-Mirex

 

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Notebooks: miscellaneous, science

 

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Notebooks: Northeast Ga. Nature Center

 

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Notebooks: Pollution; Atlanta

 

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Notebooks: Russell Dam and Lake

 

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Notebooks: Southeast Region

 

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Notebooks: UGA Botanical Gardens

 

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Atlanta Botanical Garden

 

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Book orders

 

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Cornicularia normoerica

 

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Cornicularia normoerica-chemistry

 

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Cornicularia normoerica-U.S. National Museum specimens

 

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Daily planner, 1967-1969

 

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Dover Publications

 

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Electron microscopy

 

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Electron microscopy-reprints & notes

 

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Electron photomicrographs

 

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International Lichenological Newsletter

 

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Library of Science

 

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Lichenology

 

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Oglethorpe Co.; Survey of Farmsteads

 

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Printed material/publications

 

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Printed material/publications

 

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Printed material/publications

 

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Reprints: cornicularia

 

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Reprints: chemical

 

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Reprints: cytological stains

 

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Reprints: fungus-alga ultrastructure

 

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Reprints: Thin-layer chromatography

 

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Solar homes

 

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South America-correspondence

 

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South America-travel

 

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Spectrophotometric data

 

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Zopf

 

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Certificates, photographs, and plaques, 1985 Community Cultural Award medal from the University of Georgia