California native plants nurserywoman, civil rights activist, and humanitarian
By: Gerda Isenberg ; with an introduction by Bart O'Brien ; interviews conducted by Suzanne B.Riess in 1990, 1991.
Contributors: Riess, Suzanne B.; O'Brien, Bart C.; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.
Published: 1991
Subjects: Horticulturists -- California -- Interviews.; Native plant gardening -- California.
Genres: Interviews.
Other titles: California horticulture oral history series.
Description: Isenberg discusses her German family background and garden school education; marriage, and farming and ranching in California; 1931 European Book Shop, San Francisco; assisting German and Austrian refugees, pre-WW II; Japanese-American relocation; work with Palo Alto Fair Play Council and American Friends Service Committee; Yerba Buena Nursery, Woodside, CA: ferns, native plants, nursery management, intern program.