Gallons of wine at the Italian Vineyard Company, Guasti, 1936

Item Overview

Title

Gallons of wine at the Italian Vineyard Company, Guasti, 1936

Date Created

April 23, 1936

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

In a large hangar a long row of wooden gallons stands.
The evolution of California wineries is looked at, specifically the world's largest vineyard "Italian Vineyard Company" spreading 5000 acres, owned by Mrs. Secundo Guasti, Jr.
Photograph appears with the article, "'Human Element' Still Rules Wine-Making Art, but Modern Science Lends Its Wizardry, Too," Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec 1935: 10.

Caption

Text from newspaper caption: These 1900-gallon puncheons in the immense sweet-wine aging room of the Italian Vineyard Company's Guasti winery are really just babies. They are called "pun'kins" and are dwarfed by the towering rows of 35,000 and 45,000-gallon tanks in the same room. The winery has a 5,000,000 gallon storage capacity with an annual output sometimes near that figure.
Text from negative sleeve: 4971 - Interior shots of Guasti Winery in Ontario. 4/16/36 [stamped:] Apr 23 1936

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Subjects

Wine industry--California--Guasti
Barrels--California--Guasti

Names

Italian Vineyard Co.

Location

Guasti (Calif.)

Resource type

still image