Content Description The USDA Bureau of Plant Industry Wine Research Collection consists of materials related to the establishment of a wine research program by the bureau in the 1930s. The collection contains correspondence, articles, reports, statistics, and maps regarding the wine industry, winemaking, grapes, wine varietals, vineyards, viticulture, and experimental wineries throughout the United States. About half of the materials relate to California and the University of California. Many of the letters...

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The William Henry Prestele Papers consist of watercolors, pencil sketches, tracings, notes, papers, plant specimens, and an album cover. The collection contains materials created as Prestele worked on illustrations intended for a monograph on American native grapes by Thomas Volney Munson.