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Title
Caskhead depicting Bacchus at the Italian Swiss Colony
Date Created and/or Issued
1961
Publication Information
Italian Swiss Colony (Firm)
Contributing Institution
Sonoma County Library
Collection
Sonoma County Library Photograph Collection
Rights Information
The Sonoma County Library makes no assertions as to ownership of any original copyrights to digitized images and can claim only physical ownership of the image(s) described in this records. However, these images are intended for Personal or Research use only. Any other kind of use, including, but not limited to commercial or scholarly publication in any medium or format, public exhibition, or use online or in a web site, may be subject to additional restrictions including but not limited to the copyrights held by parties other than the Library. USERS ARE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE for determining the existence of such rights and for obtaining any permissions and/or paying associated fees necessary for the proposed use. Preferred credit line is: Courtesy, the Sonoma County Library. Please see additional reproduction and reuse information at https://sonomalibrary.org/locations/sonoma-county-history-and-genealogy-library/order-photo .
Description
Show Italian Swiss Colony employee in costume (actually "Little Old Winemaker--Me! actor from a series of television commercials, Ludwig Stossel) standing below caskhead. Caption on verso:"The giant caskhead, once a featured part of California wine industry's exhibit at a world's fair in San Francisco in 1939-40, is preserved at the winery. It depicts Bacchus, the Roman god of wine and grape growing, known as Dionysius in Greek mythology. The caskhead is preserved at the winery in Asti, California, 85 miles north of San Francisco." [Postcard no.] 1972.
Type
image
Format
color photographs
art (broad object genre)
postcards
Identifier
a4543c3b-dc22-4fca-af7d-975bd511a3ff
https://digital.sonomalibrary.org/documents/detail/170278
https://images.quartexcollections.com/sonomalibrary/thumbnails/preview/a4543c3b-dc22-4fca-af7d-975bd511a3ff
cstr_pho_035035
Language
English
Subject
Wine and Winemaking
Stossel, Ludwig
Italian Swiss Colony (Asti, Calif.)
1961-1970
Dionysus (Greek deity)
Wine and wine making
Wineries
United States
California
Sonoma
Asti
Asti Road
Place
26150 Asti Rd, Cloverdale, CA
Relation
Sonoma County Visionaries, Immigrants and Wine Makers Collection, about 1865-2005

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