Guide to the Eastern Wine and Grape Miscellany,
1850-20--

Collection Number: 6695

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

Contact Information:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
(607) 255-3530
Fax: (607) 255-9524
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http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
Compiled by:
Evan Fay Earle
Date completed:
April 2006, August 2007, January 2008
EAD encoding:
Evan Fay Earle April 2006, August 2007, January 2008
Date modified:
Evan Earle, October 2011

© 2006 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library

DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Eastern Wine and Grape Miscellany, 1850-20--.
Collection Number:
6695
Quantity:
6.5 cubic ft.
Forms of Material:
Memorabilia, Newspapers, Photographs, Printed Materials, Publications
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
Wine and grape industry ephemera, including brochures, newspaper clippings, and other printed material
Language:
Collection material in English

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Descriptive materials regarding wineries, vineyards, and associated businesses and organizations in the Eastern wine and grape industries. It's geographic scope will include all of the U.S. states east of the Rocky mountains. Currently the majority of the material covers New York State, particularly the Finger Lakes region. Types of materials include but are not limited to: news clippings, magazine articles, brochures, wine trail maps, tasting sheets, price lists and product catalogs.
SUBJECTS

Names:
New York State Agricultural Experiment Station.

Subjects:
Grape industry.
Grape industry--New York (State).
Grapes--New York (State)--Finger Lakes Region.
Viticulture.
Viticulture--New York (State).
Viticulture--New York (State)--Finger Lakes Region.
Wine and wine making.
Wine and wine making--California
Wine and wine making--Canada
Wine and wine making--Illinois
Wine and wine making--Indiana
Wine and wine making--Massachusetts
Wine and wine making--Michigan.
Wine and wine making--New York (State).
Wine and wine making--New York (State)--Finger Lakes Region.
Wine and wine making--Ohio.
Wine and wine making--Pennsylvania.
Wine and wine making--Rhode Island
Wine and wine making--Texas
Wine and wine making--United States.
Wine and wine making--Virginia
Wine and wine making--West Virginia

INFORMATION FOR USERS

Guide lists folders in order as they appear in the boxes.
Cite As:
Eastern Wine and Grape Miscellany, #6695. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
Items are arranged in specific regions if possible. Documents containing information regarding a broader area over several regions may still contain region and even winery specific information. Undated folders will contain items with bulk dates from 1980s to 2000s. New York State winery items divided by region using in part the Uncork NY website www.newyorkwines.org for winery location information.
SERIES LIST

Series I. Ephemera
Series II. Oversized Ephemera
Series III. Videos
CONTAINER LIST

Date
Description
Container
Series I. Ephemera
Canandaigua Lake Area winery brochures
 Box 1
Canandaigua Lake Area news clippings
 Box 1
Keuka Lake winery brochures
 Box 1
Keuka Lake news clippings
 Box 1
West side Seneca Lake winery brochures
 Box 1
West side Seneca Lake news clippings
 Box 1
East side Seneca Lake winery brochures
 Box 1
East side Seneca Lake news clippings
 Box 1
Cayuga Lake winery brochures
 Box 1
Cayuga Lake news clippings
 Box 1
Canandaigua Lake wine trail brochures
 Box 1
Keuka Lake wine trail brochures
 Box 1
Seneca Lake wine trail brochures
 Box 1
Cayuga Lake wine trail brochures
 Box 1
April 2007
Hudson Cattell, Covering the Eastern Wine Beat talk at the NYS Agricultural Experiment Station. Also see the videos of this event.
Box 2
1978
The First New York State Fair Wine Awards Tasting Competition
Box 2
2003
Concord Grape Belt Heritage Association
 Box 2
2005
Lake Erie Regional Grape Program and New York State Integrated Pest Management Program
Box 2
Non-wine related industry brochures of places on NY wine trails
Box 2
Includes Bed and Breakfasts, museums, the Rose Inn.
1940s-1950s
New York State winery advertisement clippings
Box 2
1960s-1980s
New York State wine ephemera
Box 2
2005
New York State Supreme Court direct shipping decision news clippings
Box 2
2005
New York Wine and Culinary Center Canandaigua news clippings, includes tasting sheets from events
Box 2
2005-
Constellation Brands - news clippings including takeover of Vincor International Inc..
Box 2
ca 2000s
New York State - Chautauqua and Lake Erie area ephemera
Box 2
Includes parts of Ohio, Pennsylvania. Includes early 1900s Chautauqua Grape Belt postcards, history of the grape belt items..
Double A Vineyards Inc.
 Box 2
New York State- Niagara and Lake Ontario area ephemera
Box 2
Vizcarra Vineyards at Becker Farms
 Box 2
Warm Lake Estate
 Box 2
Also includes information about Niagara escarpment region and wine trail.
New York State- Hudson Valley area ephemera
 Box 2
In particular Millbrook and North Salem Wineries.
New York State- Long Island area ephemera
 Box 2
New York State- Upstate and Thousand Islands ephemera
Box 2
New York State associated wine industry ephemera. Includes CD-ROM presentation of a feasibility study for Cornell University Wine Stewards, done for a class.
Box 2
Includes wine tours and wine stores
New York winery, vineyard, and fruit tree surveys
Box 2
1850-1900
Pleasant Valley, Gold Seal, Montage, Urbana, Seneca Chief clippings
Box 3
Includes November 1890 article from American Garden about wine making and grape growigng by Bauder of PV.
ca. 1934
List of bonded wineries and their dates.
 Box 3
1970s
Taylor, Bully Hill, Great Westerm Gold Seal (Charles Fournier), Urbana ephemera. Includes Vineyard to Fermenter paper by Domenic A. Carisetti, Taylor winemaker.
Box 3
1960-1976
The Taylor Wine Company, Inc. Annual Reports, bound together
Box 3
Seaton C. Mendall former owner.
July 22, 1980
Conversation with Jimmy Frisk & Mike Brace of Taylor Wine Company
Box 3
Audio cassette originally recorded by Walter S. Taylor of Bully Hill. Frisk and Brace were employees of the Taylor Wine Company. Includes discussion of Greyton H. Taylor, Fred Taylor, Clarence Taylor, what Frisk and Brace were paid, ancedotes, and a party at which there will be the naming of a goat, perhaps the Bully Hill goat.
1996-2007
Files, brochures, and correspondence relating to the origins of Cornell's Eastern Wine and Grape Archive, early collecting, and wine history references.
Box 3
Includes info on the Philip Wagner collection, American Society for Enology and Viticulture involvement, lists of sources / books of wine history useful for the collection. Correspondence include Bruce Reisch, Justin Morris, and others. This info is available as digital files on CD-975 in folder. Also included is a copy of the paper "Wine Making In Canada and the Eastern United States" by Jacklin, Sharron, and Fordon, See also call number SB387.2 I575 2007 for other material relating to the conference where this paper was presented..
2002
Mike Fordon files regarding Taylor and Pleasant Valley Wine Company movies and their conservation
Box 3
ca. 1995
Swedish Hill Winery new employee packet
 Box 3
ca. 1960-1971
Boordy Vineyards, Philip Wagner
 Box 3
ca. 2000s
Cornell University wine related ephemera and clippings
Box 3
ca. 2000s
Geneva / Cornell University "Grape Crusher" clippings
Box 3
New York State Agricultural Experiment Station Geneva ephemera
Box 3
Includes lables by George Remaily for Geneva Cellars
New York State Agricultural Experiment Station and New York Wine and Grape Foundation research grants (3 folders)
Box 3
1984
Tending the Vineyards: Renewed Growth for New York's Grape/Wine Industry
Box 3
1970s-2000s
Uncork New York press kit and brochures
Box 3
Includes Guide to 1977-1978 New York wines
1950s-2000s
National - wine and grape industry retailers
Box 3
Includes 19907 brochure for U.S. Bottlers' Supply Company
1950s-2000s
National - wine and grape industry information, cookbooks, wine making. Cork brochure; Year in the life of a winemaker pamphlet; How to read a wine label brochure; etc..
Box 3
Material from Viticulture 2007 tradeshow in Rochester
Box 3
eSkye
 Box 5
Wine and grape associations
 Box 5
1970s-2000s
Grape and grower specific ephemera, includes prices, vineyard costs
Box 5
National Grape Cooperative Association, Inc. and Welch Foods Inc.
Box 5
Wine bottle tags
 Box 5
Miscellaneous United States and International winery brochures and ephemera: Alabama, Chile, Japan, Kentucky, Maryland, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, Oregon, Texas.
Box 5
California ephemera, includes 1975-1978 calendars showing wineries
Box 5
Indiana and Illinois ephemera
 Box 5
New England, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Vermont ephemera
Box 5
Michigan, Minnesota ephemera, includes La Salle Wines and Champagne, Inc. stock certificate.
Box 5
Florida, Maryland, North Carolina and South Carolina ephemera
Box 5
Ohio ephemera
 Box 5
Pennsylvania ephemera
 Box 5
Pennsylvania Association of Wine Growers and Penn State Extension
Box 5
Virginia and West Virginia ephemera
 Box 5
Canada Ontario Niagara on the Lake region wineries
Box 5
Canada Ontario Niagara on the Lake region trails, societies, associated industry ephemera (two folders)
Box 5
1989
New York Wine Course and Reference Binder.
 Box 6
Current course packet can be found online here.
1950s
National - wine and grape news clippings
Box 6
1960s
National - wine and grape news clippings
Box 6
1970s
National - wine and grape news clippings
Box 6
1980s-
National - wine and grape news clippings
Box 6
New York State general news clippings
 Box 6
Some info on the 1986 grape crash.
New York State wine selling in grocery store clippings
Box 6
Finger Lakes area wine and grape industry news clippings (two folders + many loose publications)
Box 6
Finger Lakes general area tourism and wine trail brochures and maps, wine guild (two folders)
Box 6
New York State wine event ephemera (two folders)
Box 8
Includes Cayuga Wine Trail Wine and Herb Fest
Seneca Lake Winery Whale Watch event
New York Heritage Collection unveiling, with wine labels
European Wine Ephemera (two folders)
Box 8
Series II. Oversized Ephemera
1970s-1980s
Posters: Finger Lakes Fall Festival October 1979; Wickham Vineyards (Hector, NY); Dr Konstantin Frank's vineyards
Box 4
1980s-2000s
"Uncork New York" Wine Advertising posters from the New York Wine and Grape Foundation. Includes maps of the principal New York State Wine Districts, a poster listing New York State Gold Wines and Vineyards, and treatments of the sherry "Uncork New York" logo and its application to letterheads by Ketchum Public Relations, 1987
Box 4
ca. 1986
Advertising proofs for New York wines
 Box 4
ca. 1960
Wine catalog for Sherry Wine & Spirits Co. Inc. Includes prices and descriptions of wine and liquor. Also includes listings for some vintages for sale dating back to 1818. Illustrated with drawings by Pablo Picasso with article about him by Alfred Frankfurter.
Box 4
Large photo of the George Remaily Seedless grape; Posters of Delaware, Niagare, Cataruba and isabella grapes. Large pictures of the Graaf Reinet Museum and its exhibit of the "Largest Living Grape Vine in the World"
Box 4
January 5, 2003
Star Gazette articles on the New York wine industry
Box 4
1975-1978
4 Calendars: California Wineries
 Box 4
Series III. Videos
2006
Savor the flavor, romancing America's grape. Lake Erie Concord grape belt, produced by the Concord Grape Belt Heritage Association.
DVD #47
This item is in collection #6718, listed here for cross reference.
1964
Wine Country ... USA produced by Taylor Wine Co.
Box 7 DVD #56
DVD copied from original film reel.
1969
Wine is to Enjoy produced by Great Western Wines
Box 7 DVD #57
DVD copied from original film reel.
1969
One Hundred Vintage Years produced by Gold Seal Vineyards
Box 7 DVD #58
DVD copied from original film reel.
April 17, 2007
Hudson Cattell, Covering the Eastern Wine Beat talk at the NYS Agricultural Experiment Station.
Box 7 DVD #96
ca. March 1938
Wines by Taylor. Presented by the Taylor Wine Company Hammondsport, NY. Conceived and directed by Greyton H. Taylor, Fred C. Taylor, and Clarence W, Taylor.
Box 7 DVD #169
DVD copied from original film reel. VHS copy available in collection #6718, V-732. Also on Betacam tape V-733.
ca. 1940
The Story of Wine: The Pleasant Valley Wine Company. Produced by Richard M. Moore, Rochester Cinema Lab.
Box 7 DVD #170
DVD copied from original film reel also on Betacam tape V-734.
December 1, 1988
The U.S. - Canada Free Trade Agreement: An Emerging Market for New York Wines. Student video project for class in export marketing, made with Uris Media facilities. (VHS)
Box 7 V-841
April 17, 2007
Hudson Cattell, Covering the Eastern Wine Beat talk at the NYS Agricultural Experiment Station. (VHS)
Box 7 V-842