Editorial Rooms and Old Home of Luther Burbank - Santa Rosa, California, 1915

THF277201 / Editorial Rooms and Old Home of Luther Burbank - Santa Rosa, California, 1915
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Artifact Overview

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 to sell seeds and souvenirs. The Luther Burbank Society, organized in 1910, used Burbank's old home as an editorial office and the Bureau for storage of their multi-volume series on Burbank, published in 1913-1914.

Artifact Details

Artifact

Photographic postcard

Date Made

1922-1928

Subject Date

1915

Location

Not on exhibit to the public.

Object ID

2019.95.1

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford.

Material

Paper (Fiber product)

Technique

Printing (Process)

Color

Black-and-white (Colors)

Dimensions

Height: 3.5 in
Width: 5.5 in

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