Luther Burbank – Vintage Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Luther Burbank, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Luther Burbank
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Luther Burbank, the horticulturist and plant breeder, is the subject of this glass negative from the George Grantham Bain Collection at the Library of Congress. Burbank spent most of his career in Santa Rosa, California, where he developed hundreds of new plant varieties, including the Shasta daisy and the spineless cactus, and his work drew visitors from around the world. The Bain News Service, a New York photo agency, produced and distributed images of notable people and events in the early twentieth century, so this portrait reflects the press interest in Burbank as a public figure. The record gives no exact date, so the negative is best read as a document of his celebrity during the Bain era.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Temp. note: Batch eight loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 4,123 × 5,665 px · prints to 14 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-40154 |
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