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  • Title: David Lubin papers
    Date (inclusive): 1899-1944
    Collection Number: 44005
    Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
    Language of Material: English
    Physical Description: 2 manuscript boxes, 6 oversize boxes, 1 oversize folder (14.4 Linear Feet)
    Abstract: Correspondence, writings, pamphlets, clippings, and photographs, relating to world agricultural problems, and activities of the International Institute of Agriculture. Includes papers of Laura Lubin Saqui, daughter of D. Lubin.
    Creator: Lubin, David, 1849-1919
    Creator: Saqui, Laura Lubin
    Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives

    Access

    The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.

    Use

    For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

    Acquisition Information

    Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1944.

    Preferred Citation

    [Identification of item], David Lubin papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

    Biographical Note

    10 June 1849 Born in Klodawa, Poland
    1853 Family moved to England
    1855 Family emigrated to America
    1861 Dropped out of school
    To 1873 Worked as a jeweler in San Francisco, a lumberyard worker in Los Angeles, a prospector for gold in Arizona, and a commercial traveler in New York and New Orleans
    1874 Opened David Lubin's One Price Store in Sacramento
    1884 Bought an orchard near Sacramento and land in Colusa County, helped found the California Fruit Growers' Union
    1891 Became the director of the International Society for the Colonization of Russian Jews
    1896 Moved to Europe to establish an international agricultural congress
    1900 Author of Let There Be Light
    1906 Appointed as a permanent U.S. delegate to the International Institute of Agriculture (IIA) in Rome
    1913 Received a Silver Cup Award from the IIA
    1917 Author, publisher, and distributor of An International Confederation of Democracies under a Constitution
    1 January 1919 Died in Rome

    Historical Note

    David Lubin, a merchant and farmer in Sacramento, created the idea of the International Institute of Agriculture (IIA). The institute's goals were to help farmers share knowledge, establish a cooperative system of rural credit, and control the marketing of farmers' products. In 1906, Lubin was appointed the permanent U.S. delegate to the IIA. In 1913 at the meeting of the IIA congress in Rome, Lubin received a Silver Cup Award for his efforts in establishing the organization. The IIA ceased its operations in 1945, when most of its assets were transferred to the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). The mandate of international cooperation in the field of agriculture is continued by the FAO, which named its library in honor of David Lubin. The David Lubin Elementary School is located a few blocks from the site of David Lubin's former home in Sacramento, California.

    Scope and Content of Collection

    Most of the papers relate to IIA operations and cover the period from 1905, when was IIA established, through 1944. The collection was donated to the Hoover Institution by Lubin's daughter Laura Lubin Saqui and includes her detailed "Table of Contents" (box 1), which is a useful finding aid to the Lubin papers.
    The Laura Lubin Saqui files include business correspondence and writings, as well as her delegate certificate and a photograph. Laura Lubin Saqui was a U.S. delegate to the 15th General Assembly of IIA in 1940. The files also include letters written by Colonel Harris Weinstock, half brother of David Lubin, while he toured Europe as a member of the American Commission on Rural Cooperative Credit in 1913. The Scrapbooks of David Lubin and Laura Lubin Saqui contain documents related to Lubin's career and IIA operation, including official and private correspondence, records and reports, photographs, writings, and clippings.

    Related Materials

    David Lubin personal archive, David Lubin Memorial Library, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Rome, Italy
    Magnes collection on David Lubin, Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley
    Simon Julius Lubin papers, Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley
    Norris E. Dodd papers, Hoover Institution Library & Archives

    Subjects and Indexing Terms

    Agriculture
    Agriculture -- International cooperation
    International Institute of Agriculture