Sketch Showing Original Location of Luther Burbank Garden Office, Santa Rosa, California, January 30, 1941

THF291512 / Sketch Showing Original Location of Luther Burbank Garden Office, Santa Rosa, California, January 30, 1941
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Artifact Overview

Luther Burbank (1849-1926), a much-heralded American horticulturalist, gained a reputation for selectively breeding more than 800 new fruits, vegetables, flowers, and other plants. He opened a "Bureau of Information" in 1910 to sell seeds and souvenirs. Burbank's widow described it as the "little office" when she offered it to Henry Ford in 1928. This map documents its original locations in Santa Rosa, California.

Artifact Details

Artifact

Map (Document)

Date Made

30 January 1941

Location

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

64.167.13.47

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Ford Motor Company.

Material

Paper (Fiber product)
Card stock

Technique

Printing (Process)
Tracing (Technique)

Color

Black-and-white (Colors)
Tan (Color)

Dimensions

Height: 10 in (map)
Width: 7.75 in (map)
Height: 11 in (mount)
Width: 8.5 in (mount)

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    Luther Burbank Garden Office

    Luther Burbank (1849-1926), an American horticulturalist and author, gained a reputation for selective breeding that yielded more than 800 new fruits, vegetables, flowers, and other plants. He opened this Bureau of Information in 1910 at the corner of his 40-acre experimental garden in Santa Rosa to sell seeds and souvenirs. It served various purposes over the years until Burbank's widow offered it to Henry Ford in 1928.