UC Davis University Library, Special Collections

Maynard A. Amerine (1911-1998) was Professor of Viticulture and Enology at the University of California, Davis. He was an author, lecturer, bibliographer, and consultant on wine matters. This collection of over 1,500 menus and wine lists complements Amerine’s larger wine label collection. It spans several decades and chronicles dining experiences in United States and European restaurants, at bon voyage and welcome home celebrations, at UC Davis Department of Enology events and parties, at meetings of food and wine societies, aboard ships and airlines, and more. Menu styles vary from simple lists of items and prices to hand-illustrated works of art. …

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Includes labels from domestic and foreign wines and spirits. Most labels date between 1874-1969, though some date as late as 1992. In 1935, Amerine was hired by the fledgling University of California, Davis’ newly formed Department of Viticulture and Enology to help establish a solid technical foundation for the California wine industry. As he traveled California and the world, educating and counseling winemakers on how to improve the quality of their wines, he collected over 5,000 wine labels. These labels tell the story of the growing wine industry during a pivotal time. The majority of the labels are from the …

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The British Women Romantic Poets is a collection of works published by British women poets between 1789 and 1832. Texts are drawn from the UCD Library's Kohler Collection of British Poetry, over 14,000 texts housed in the Special Collections Department and on microfilm. A more detailed description of the project may be found here: http://digital.lib.ucdavis.edu/projects/bwrp/BWRPDesc.htm

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The collection contains mounted photographs used presumably by the Alameda County Schools Curriculum Materials Center and later by the Hayward Unified School District as a teaching tool. The photographs are related to three subjects: dairy farming, the Delta Mendota Canal Fish Diversion Facility, and cattle ranching in Alameda County. The photographs were presumably taken circa 1950-1959. Captions from the back of each photograph have been used in the descriptions.

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California Revealed is a State Library initiative to help California’s public libraries, in partnership with other local heritage groups, digitize, preserve, and provide online access to archival materials - books, newspapers, photographs, audiovisual recordings, and more - that tell the incredible stories of the Golden State. We also provide free access and preservation services for existing digital collections for partner organizations with in-house digitization programs. California Revealed is supported by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian.

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The northern California chapter of the California Vintage Wine Society was founded in 1963 with the mission to promote the appreciation of fine California wine through education, events, and procurement of its own wine cellar. From the beginning, notable UC Davis figures, like Maynard Amerine, were among the membership of like-minded wine lovers. This collection of digital surrogates consists of three scrapbooks produced by various society presidents between 1963 and 1995. They include programs, menus, photographs, records, and other materials related to the society's history. Currently the physical scrapbooks remain in the California Vintage Wine Society's care, but will be …

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Robert N. Campbell served as Professor of Plant Pathology at the University of California, Davis from 1959-1993. This collection contains ninety-three 35mm slides, most of which were taken by Campbell, during his academic career. Subjects include: campus scenes, people, agricultural machinery and practices, and the Central Valley.

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The Photograph album is a collection of 79 Gelatin DOP black and white photographs of the members of Davis Boy Scout Troop No. 1 and its activities from 1922 to 1927. Photographs show the activities of the Boy Scout troop and the buidling of the Davis Boy Scout Cabin.

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The Davis Downtown Community Art Project was one of the City of Davis's more high profile responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, corralling artistic and creative responses to life in quarantine from a wide range of ages and a diversity of community members. The project took the form of a contest in the late spring and early summer of 2020 in which community members from different age groups submitted photos of artwork, creative photography, and computer-rendered images, with the winners from each age group determined by Facebook likes. The winning selections were made into post cards and stickers, to support local …

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The Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering Records contain subject files, correspondence, files related to the American Society of Agricultural Engineers, and farm building plans. The collection also contains an index of images and associated negatives that were photographed by the department from circa 1915-1951. Subjects of the images include research by the department, various types of agricultural equipment such as: plows, harrows and rollers, cultivators, subsoilers, and harvesting and haying machinery, as well as agricultural buildings such as: barns, silos, corn cribs, poultry houses. This subset of the collection focuses on photographs and includes metadata from the index cards. …

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