Luther Burbank and Elizabeth Waters Burbank standing with a block of petrified wood from the Petrified Forest near Calistoga, California, bound for New York, N. Y., 1921
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Description
Luther Burbank and Elizabeth Burbank stand next to a block of petrified wood bound for New York, N. Y., in 1921. The flat-bed truck loaded with the petrified wood from the Petrified Forest near Calistoga, California, is parked in front of Burbank's Tupper Street home in Santa Rosa. The wood was on its way to a permanent place in New York's City's Central Park. "5,560 pound Xmas present for New York City ..." See Dec 18 1922 New York Times article on wood coming to NY. Ollie Bockee owned the Petrified Forest at the time.
Prominent Sonoma County Residents Burbank, Elizabeth, 1887-1977 Burbank, Luther, 1849-1926 1921 Petrified forests United States California Sonoma Santa Rosa Tupper Street Sonoma Avenue
Place
Sonoma Avenue Park, Santa Rosa, California
Source
This photograph was scanned from "Ollie Bockee Petrified Forest of Sonoma County scrapbook, 1930-1962"
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