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- "A Field of Burbank's Shasto Daisies, Santa Rosa, Cal.," circa 1915 - Luther Burbank (1849-1926), an American horticulturalist, gained a reputation for selective breeding that yielded more than 800 new fruits, vegetables, flowers, and other plants. One of his most enduring inventions, the Shasta daisy, released in 1901, took him 17 years to perfect. He praised its grace, beauty, abundance of bloom, hardiness, and persistence, even as he released three "new" Shasta daisy varieties in 1904.
- circa 1915
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"A Field of Burbank's Shasto Daisies, Santa Rosa, Cal.," circa 1915
Luther Burbank (1849-1926), an American horticulturalist, gained a reputation for selective breeding that yielded more than 800 new fruits, vegetables, flowers, and other plants. One of his most enduring inventions, the Shasta daisy, released in 1901, took him 17 years to perfect. He praised its grace, beauty, abundance of bloom, hardiness, and persistence, even as he released three "new" Shasta daisy varieties in 1904.
- White City Amusement Park, Chicago, Illinois, circa 1910 - This postcard features the midway of Chicago's White City Amusement Park and the city's unofficial motto "I will." Both the name "White City" and the slogan "I will" were synonymous with the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition. When the amusement park opened in 1905, the parks' owners utilized the imagery and architecture of the 1893 fair to attract crowds.
- circa 1910
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White City Amusement Park, Chicago, Illinois, circa 1910
This postcard features the midway of Chicago's White City Amusement Park and the city's unofficial motto "I will." Both the name "White City" and the slogan "I will" were synonymous with the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition. When the amusement park opened in 1905, the parks' owners utilized the imagery and architecture of the 1893 fair to attract crowds.
- Burbank's Experimental Farm, Sebastopol, Near Santa Rosa, California, 1913 - 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 relocated from Massachusetts to California in 1875 and bought land in Sebastopol starting in 1885. Burbank employed around 15 laborers by 1913 on this 18-acre experimental plot. They cultivated lilies, as this postcard depicts, and other plants.
- November 02, 1913
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Burbank's Experimental Farm, Sebastopol, Near Santa Rosa, California, 1913
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 relocated from Massachusetts to California in 1875 and bought land in Sebastopol starting in 1885. Burbank employed around 15 laborers by 1913 on this 18-acre experimental plot. They cultivated lilies, as this postcard depicts, and other plants.
- Diagonal Walks, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich., 1914 -
- 1914
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Diagonal Walks, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich., 1914