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We have developed a tour of Burbank's life journeys using GoogleEarth.
If you would like to view the tour click HERE.
2023/07 E. A. Burbank Timeline image
1900 Calendar cover of
1898 Standing Bull oil
2023/06 E. A. Burbank Timeline image - The Sunflower
The Sunflower
2023/03 E. A. Burbank Timeline Image - Home
Home
2023/01 E. A. Burbank Timeline image - Home Near Stanford
Home Near Stanford
2022/11 E. A. Burbank Timeline Image - Shrimp Fisherman CAmp
S.F. Shrimp Fisherman's Camp
2022/09 E. A. Burbank Timeline Image
Flowers
2022/04 E. A. Burbank Timeline Image
German Man
2022/04

Several new items from one of Burbank's relative's private collection (2006/09)

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Scotty Dog (1934) - Fishing Boat (1936) - Mountains (Undated)

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Chick (Undated) - Madeline (Undated)
2021/05

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Hopi Indian House - Lincoln's Post Office - Redwood Trees
Octavia Fellin Public Library
Special Collections and Archives
2021/04 E. A. Burbank Timeline Image
Print, Brush & Pencil, Chicago, 1899 (Prints)- from oil, 1898
2020/11
  • Moved to domain D50.org for ease of access.
  • General update of links as several organizations had changed their URL structure.
2020/07 E. A. Burbank Timeline Image - Cat
Cat (Undated)
2019/12 E. A. Burbank Timeline Image   E. A. Burbank Timeline Image
African American Girls
(Undated) and (1899)

2013/03

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Shield (1899)
2007/04 E. A. Burbank Timeline Image
Pueblo Girl - Walpi (1909)
Sangre De Cristo Arts & Conference Center
Pueblo, CO
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Chief Naiche (1897) and Chief Blue Horse (c. 1898)
Denver Art Museum Collection
© Denver Art Museum
2007/02

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Tobacco & Cigars
Postcard, 1938

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E. A. Burbank Timeline Image - Lynx Award Logo
Advanced Web Design
Silver Award

2007/01

Mr. Burbank on Geronimo
1899 ChicagoRecord

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Lynx Award Logo
Lynx Award
Bronze Award

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Indian Bookkeeping
Basalt, Colorado Journal
01-07-1899

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Seasons of Change
Bronze Award

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Three hundred pages of Burbank's letters to his wife in 1897 & 1898
Courtesy of the Montana Historical Society

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Postcard from a private collection:

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Alfred E. Neuman
Postcard, Undated

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Updates from a private collection:

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Chief Joseph
Tin Litho, 1898

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Shasta Springs
Pencil Sketch, 1895

and

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Men
Pencil Sketch, Undated

and

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Trees
Pencil Sketch, Undated

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A library benefactor has provided funds for the purchase of:

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Munich Man
Oil, 1888/98

and

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Tudor Style Home
Original Pencil Sketch, 1946

and

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President Abraham Lincoln
Print, 1939

2006/12

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Go-Shono,
Print ad on cardboard

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Northwest Herald story 12-15-2006

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Try the new FLASH version
of our 2004 Exhibition photo-gallery

if you need plugins:

Get Flash Player Get Acrobat Reader

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1915
Chief Becente
1899
Chief Red-Cloud
Undated
Siem-o-nad-o

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Site search page added

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1901 Calendar

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E. A. Burbank Timeline Image - WM8C Excellence Award
WM8C

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Heritage of Perm
1 of 15 selected from 286 submissions in 2006

2006/11

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1936 autographed postcard - Mission Carmel

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1906 Dec 16th Glenn Transcript Newspaper

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GoogleAnalytics
See where the site is being viewed by Locations
and where our visitors come from with Sources

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While we have not checked every page
we do seem to comply with
Level A conformance icon, W3C-WAI Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0

2006/10

1901 Pan American Exhibition Catalogue
From GoogleBooks

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Boneta, Commanche
in the "undated" tab
Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum

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Burbank in
GoogleBooks:

Treasures on New Mexico Trails: A Guide to New Deal Art and Architecture
The Frontier in American Culture
California Historical Society Quarterly
Catalogue of the Exhibition of Fine Arts
Cheyenne Memories of the Custer Fight
Oregon Historical Quarterly
A National Image: The American Painting and Sculpture Collection in the San Antonio Museum of Art
American Characters: Selections from the National Portrait Gallery
New Mexico Historical Review
Joseph Imhof: Artist of the Pueblos
Monster Slayer
Geronimo and the End of the Apache Wars
The American Indian Wars
Language of the Robe: American Indian Trade Blankets
Masked Gods: Navaho and Pueblo Ceremonialism
American Art Directory
Pratt Institute Monthly
Proceedings [of The] Annual Business Meeting
Charter, Constitution, By-laws, Membership List, Annual Report
The Nation
and more

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C.O.P.P.A Link logo
FTC privacy link added (though not required)

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HTML validation Valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional process started
for compliance with World Web Consortium standards

Future additions and modification will comply with:
Valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional and Valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional
when possible.

Special
Entry
20 Sept 2006
E. A. Burbank Timeline image

E. A. Burbank Timeline

wins three "Outstanding Website" Awards for

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Arts, Family, and Non-Profit

Read the Press Release

2006/09

A library benefactor has provided funds for the purchase of
Jamestown, CA Train Station and Nevills Hotel
Original Pencil Sketch, circa 1906

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Several new items from one of Burbank's relative's private collection.

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Several items from a private collection.

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Cover, A-Series Limited Prints
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Kab-Oo-Se
1901
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GJOA Golden Gate Park
1944
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Hay Press
1946
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Straight Crazy
1898
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Unnamed
Undated
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Vicksburg, MS Caves
1944
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Vicksburg, MS Monument
1944
With images from the
National Park Service
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Woodland Caribou
1946

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"Burbank Tour" created in GoogleEarth Communities
(You will need to install GoogleEarth to see)
Click here to download tour file after installation

2006/08 Chicago Tribune
Supplements - from 1902
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Black, Arapahoe
May 07
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Chief Pretty Eagle, Crow
May 31
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Standing Bull, Southern Cheyenne
May 13

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1900 novel by GRACE GALLATIN SETON-THOMPSON

A WOMAN TENDERFOOT

Includes references to Burbank as "Burfield"

http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/7wtdf10.txt

2006/05 Gi-Aum-E Hon-O-Me-Tah
undated magazine page?

Red Winged Blackbird and Bull
undated

Leaving Home for the Carlisle Indian School
Undated Poster-print

Photographs of Burbank 1905
Jo Mora

Chief Pretty Eagle
Autographed print

Discovered I had failed to add several Butler oils to
the "undated" tab set of thumbnails - they have been added.

NewspaperARCHIVE.com articles added:
1901
/05/26 Kansas City Star
1901/10/27 Decatur Review
1902/09/02 Portsmouth Herald (NH)
1905/06/15 Arizona Republican
1945/04/14 Winnipeg Free Press

First images from a private collection of fifty original pencil sketches - once we
have all of them in higher resolution images they will be added to the tabs.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

M. De Haaff Photogravures 1909
Chief Red Cloud | Chief Joseph

2006/04/11 1899 Aztec Calendar

May 1941 The Desert Magazine

NewspaperARCHIVE.com articles added:
1899/02/18 Reno Evening Gazette
1906/03/21 Nevada State Journal
1945/01/07 Oakland Tribune

Introductory main page added

Permissions page updated

Chronology (Chrono) updated

Tab image names simplified and tab system repaired.

2005/10/22 Pencil Sketch
Hall in Old House, Mittenwald Germany, May 14, 1892

Four small oils
in 1944

2005/10/20 E. A. Burbank Timeline image
Harvard-Diggins Library
acquires oil on board portrait of:
Boy With A Candle
2005/10/09 Two scrapbooks from the Julsen Collection
Gerald Peters Gallery
Including several "A-Series" prints we had been missing
2005/10/06 Book review of
Burbank Among the Indians
Pacific Northwest Quarterly
April, 1945
2005/09/16 Convert to Adobe GoLive
2005/09/02 Casa Del Rey Hotel
card (1928)

Photogravure of Chief Geronimo (© 1909)

The Westerners Brand Book Number 13 (1969)
Los Angeles Corral

2005/08/20 E. A. Burbank Exhibit
at the
Gerald Peters Gallery
Santa Fe, NM
19 Aug - 30 Sep 2005

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"A-Series" prints 3 & 16 added:
Chief Black Coyote
No Flesh

2005/05/26 Updated information on missing "A-Series" prints (3, 8, 18, & 19)
From AZ Historical Society - images soon...
2005/05/21 E. A. Burbank Timeline image
Harvard-Diggins Library
acquires oil on board portrait of:
Go-Shono, Apache Medicine Man

Hearst Art Gallery
St. Mary's College of California
Kit Carson (1936) & Cleric (1937)

2005/04/18 Broadman Publishing "Book Talk"
Review of "Burbank Among the Indians"
March 1945

Starting on CSS/XML version of
Burbank Among the Indians

2005/04/09 Article and images from the
The Sunday Inter Ocean
(Chicago newspaper)
24 October 1897

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University
In Undated / Beinecke
Note: These images are on-line at the Beinecke due to our efforts!

2005/03/04 Burbank's personal author's copy of
The George Catlin Indian Gallery
in the US National Museum - Smithsonian Institution

by Donaldson, 1887
published by the Government Printing Office
Autographed by Burbank in 1901
2005/02/28
E. A. Burbank website receives:

American Association of Webmasters February 2005 Silver Web Award for "...formal recognition and acknowledge the hard work and dedication that each applicant has put into constructing their web sites using their own brand of style creativity, and content ... for those Webmasters and Designers who obviously spend a lot of time building and creating their sites, not just to benefit themselves, but to also make a positive contribution to the World Wide Web Community by 'Bringing The World Closer To Us.' " Awards page added to site.

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Darvill Rare Books Catalog (Undated)

Peabody Museum of Archeology and Ethnology at Harvard University
54
oil paint on gelatin silver photograph (in Undated / Peabody)

2005/02/14 Pastel drawing of Fruit, for his niece Madelon (1901)

The Land of Sunshine article "Painting the First Americans"
plus frontispiece "A Child of the Desert"
Vol. XII, No. 6, May, 1900

Text from The Nation, August 9, 1900

2005/01/29 Article and images from Dec 1904 "The Craftsman" magazine

Print of Chief Brave-Bird (Brule Sioux) and two others (1902)

Beautiful red conte sketch of Dorothy Lamour (1939)

Four Aces (1946)

Dog World magazine front cover from Jan 1937

2005/01/14
Index of: ALL, Documents, Owner, Non-Portrait Art, Portrait Art, Tribe
Statistics page added

A significant and disturbing event in Burbank's life discovered (1880)

Major update to "Chronology"

M. Melissa Wolf's Master's Thesis supporting documents:
Stories from The Pony Express news: 1945, 1946, 1947, & 1964
March 1966 Pony Express - California History Foundation /
University of the Pacific presentation (11 pages)
Town and Country Review (undated)
Pony Express: images added for the Apr 1949 issue
Photographs of Burbank taken by Charles F. Lummis in 1900
November, 1908 - The Border

The Monthly Illustrator for the First & Third Quarter 1895 (library purchase)

Munich Diary (1889) updated with image of the steamer Fulda

Updated the 2004 folder to include September's Exhibition and Burbank Reprinting

Links to "Burbank Among the Indians" added from 1944 & 1946

Added image of red conte crayon Un-named Ukie to 1906 folder

Text from Burbank's uncle's book "The Life of Edward E. Ayer" added to 1929

2004/12/24 Phoenix Art Museum's
Ne-I-So-Meh, Yuma, 1904
We left the frame on this one - take a look.

Napa River, 1931, pencil sketch, private collection

Old Nick and W. Park Richardson, M.D.,
both 1920, oil on canvas, private collection

First pass of a Master's Thesis on Burbank
from the University of San Diego (1983) (with permission).
Contains tons of information on Burbank's travels
from libraries in the Southwest including including quotes
from many letters to and from Burbank.

Burbank's Ancestor Tree in
pdf and jpg format
(Generated by Family Tree Maker 2005)

2004/10/05 A special gift to the library from California - original Geronimo pencil sketch

Burbank Exhibition at
Harvard Diggins Library
Catalog
Photos

Caxton Press approves on-line version of
"
Burbank Among the Indians"

Rockford Art Museum's
Munich Sketch Book (1887-1891)
and
Burbank's Photograph Collection

Gi-aum-e Hone-o-me-tah story updated in 1910

Fine Arts Journal article added to 1911

2004/08/20 Started adding Prints
Added eight Art Institute of Chicago images to 1898
Exhibit Pamphlets 1898/1899/1910
Descriptive text added to Orcas Island, WA sketches
More Butler Institute Undated Oils

Original early Burbank pen & ink discovered -
Look for "Lake Geneva" in Undated

Event posters!
Print Plate Cleaning, Printing, Conserving
Burbank Exhibit

2004/08/04 Butler Institute images uploaded:
E-Wa 1898 (Geronimo's daughter)
Iron Crow 1899
Butler Institute Undated Oils
2004/07/31 All TOCs updated (on-going)
Butler Institute images uploaded (1906/07/08/09)
We discovered why Burbank mailed a postcard to Harvard-Diggins Library in 1937!
The names of Burbank's portrait subjects have been picked up by Google (try one)

News from the Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site:
New website devoted to their many images: Navajo Portraits
We are adding links from our pages to their genealogical information - Sample

2004/07/06 Original pencil sketches of Orcas Island, WA donated to Harvard-Diggins
Butler Institute images uploaded (1900/01/04/05)
Table of Contents added - adding sorted versions:
All Art by OWNER
Portraits by OWNER by Subject's NAME and TRIBE
Non-Portrait Art by Owner
2004/06/23 Funding and 1890 pages added
Art Institute of Chicago Exhibition Records (1894/95/96/97/99/1900/01/18)

Speaking of the AIC - their newest member magazine
announces the acquisition of eight Burbanks!

First of the Butler Institute oils uploaded (1897/98/99)
Next version will include Butler's red conte crayon sketches
scanned into Adobe Photoshop® and "auto color adjusted"

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2004/06/08 Top frame tabs grouped to reduce vertical scrolling
Multiple-morphing images introduced on main page
additional private collection items added (1936/37/39/46)
Start of maps collection
Updated/corrected/added several newspaper articles
1887/1999/2001 added
NW Herald Jerry Kuyper articles 1 2 3 4 5 6
Image of photo at the Denver Public Library
Started upload of the 237 images from the Butler Institute of American Art
2004/06/02 1937 Bay Bridges postcard
Chief Black Coyote and Chief Blue Horse stories
1911, 1912, 1914
Many rugs/blankets in undated
additional private collection items added (1946/47)
2004/05/25 Items from two private collections added
Articles and images from the April 1949 "Pony Express News"
Images added from new donations to Harvard-Diggins Library
Several documents related to re-interment in Harvard (1984)
Added some Munich Diary entries (1889)
Added Harvard Herald Nostalgia articles (1978/79/undated 1 & 2)
and many others
2004/05/17 Chronology, fine print added. Some Newberry Library images added
2004/05/14 Mostly Hubbell Trading Post images

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