Container List
Series 1
Winemaking in California files,
circa 1940-1983
Physical Description: carton 1-12; carton 13, folder 1-16; oversize folder 1
Subseries 1.1
Biographical files,
circa 1940-1983
Physical Description: Carton 1, folder 1-18
Scope and Content Note
Biographical materials about persons connected to the history of the California wine industry.
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically.
Subseries 1.2
Wineries alphabetical files,
circa 1940-1983
Physical Description: Carton 1, folder 19-20; carton 2-4; carton 5, folder 1-22
Carton 1, Folder 20, Carton 2, Folder 1
Carton 4, Folder 9
C. Mondavi (and Charles Krug)
Carton 4, Folder 17-19, Carton 5, Folder 1
Carton 5, Folder 19-22, Carton 6, Folder 1
Subseries 1.3
Geographical files,
circa 1940-1983
Physical Description: Carton 6-7; oversize folder 1
Carton 6, Folder 2-3
Alameda/Contra Costa Counties
Carton 6, Folder 5
Lake and Mendocino Counties
Carton 6, Folder 22-24, Carton 7, Folder 1-2
Carton 7, Folder 9-11, Oversize Folder 1
Santa Clara/Santa Cruz County
Carton 7, Folder 13-14
Solano/Sacramento Counties
Subseries 1.4
Subject files,
circa 1930-1983
Physical Description: Carton 8-10; Carton 11, folder 1-24
Carton 8, Folder 1-3
Statistical reports from 1970s-1990s
Carton 8, Folder 4
Federal and state records
Carton 8, Folder 6-7
Grape Growers Directory of 1884 and 1891
Carton 8, Folder 9
California State Agricultural Society transactions, 1856-1973
Carton 8, Folder 10
Examiner Series, 1889-1890
Carton 8, Folder 19
Pioneer Museum, Stockton; Holt-Atherton Center
Carton 8, Folder 22
California Vineyardists Association
Carton 9, Folder 1-2
California Wine Association
Carton 9, Folder 3
Pro-rate and other stablization plans for Central California wineries
Carton 9, Folder 14-15
University of California viticulture and enology
Carton 9, Folder 20
Wine Museum of San Francisco
Carton 10, Folder 9
Gift packaging of California wines
Carton 10, Folder 10
Shipping grapes/fresh grapes
Carton 10, Folder 12
Wahrenbrock report and Shear correspondence
Carton 10, Folder 13-15
University of California Press book on wine
Carton 10, Folder 17
Woodrow Wilson and prohibition
Carton 10, Folder 19-31
Chronological materials, 1919-1980
Carton 11, Folder 3
County production, grapes by type (1930, 1950)
Carton 11, Folder 6
California Wine history, for seminar
Carton 11, Folder 7
Winery and vineyard equipment
Carton 11, Folder 8
Flor Sherry, Rietz, Cella Grape Juice
Carton 11, Folder 18-20
State Viticulture Commission
Carton 11, Folder 21
Wine in California--chronology
Carton 11, Folder 22
Wine, Panama Pacific International Exposition
Subseries 1.5
Book production files,
circa 1980-1983
Physical Description: Carton 11, folder 25-29; carton 12; carton 13, folder 1-16
Scope and Content Note
Manuscript chapters of Winemaking in California (carton 11-12) as well as a range of book production files (carton 12-13),
such as press releases; mailings and promotions; correspondence with publishers; correspondence with libraries and museums
regarding rights; and copies of pictorial materials to be used in book.
Series 2
Research and writing files,
circa 1930-1990
Physical Description: Carton 13, folder 17-36; carton 14-23; carton 24, folder 1-24; box 1; oversize folder 1
Subseries 2.1
Canning in California and other food topics,
circa 1930-1990
Physical Description: Carton 13, folder 17-36; carton 14, folder 1-31
Scope and Content Note
Includes files and/or manuscripts on the following: Tea Garden Products; California Packing Corporation; S and W Foods; Filice
and Perrelli Canning Company; Sacramento Frosted Foods, Incorporated; Sebastopol Cooperative Cannery; Packing and canning,
general; olives; fortune cookies; Schmidt lithography; California canning history; salt; University of California food research;
asparagus; artichokes; Spice Islands Company; food in Canada; ricotta; Mariani Frozen Foods; First National Conference on
Packaging Wastes; apples; peaches; Monterey jack cheese; Tuolumne apples.
Subseries 2.2
Bay Area bakeries and bread,
circa 1930-1990
Physical Description: Carton 14, folder 32-37; carton 15, folder 1-13
Scope and Content Note
Includes files and/or manuscripts on the following: general bakery information; french bread in San Francisco; Parisian French
Bread; Boudin Bakery; Bidou Baking Company; Larraburu Brothers; Columbo Bakery; Universal Bakery (Richmond, California).
Subseries 2.3
Santa Clara economic development and electronics industry,
circa 1930-1990
Physical Description: Carton 15, folder 14-42; carton 16, folder 1-9
Scope and Content Note
Includes files and/or manuscripts on the following: Santa Clara county agriculture; Santa Clara county science; electronics;
and particular electronics companies operating in Santa Clara county during the 1950s and 1960s.
Subseries 2.4
Printing and fine presses in Northern California,
circa 1930-1990
Physical Description: Carton 16, folder 10-31; carton 17; carton 18, folder 1-4; box 1; oversize folder 1
Scope and Content Note
Includes files and/or manuscripts on the following: young fine printers; Amaranth Press; Wesley Tanner; Five Trees Press;
Two Windows Press; Rebis Press; Poltroon Press; miscellaneous small press information; little magazines; amateur printers;
Cranium Press; COSMEP; Giligia Press; Wallace Kibbee; bookbinding; Kelsie T. Harder; Grabhorn Press; Red Hill Press; hand
presses; Graham Mackintosh; MacKenzie and Harris; Giovanni Mardersteig; Scrimshaw Press; Hal Stallings book exhibit; Turtle
Island Foundation; Twin Rocker handmade paper; Unicorn Press; new printing techniques; Panjandrum Press; book production in
Northern California; western publishing; Lane Publishing. Box 1 includes audiocassettes of interviews conducted by Teiser
with the following printers/publishers: Jack Shoemacker of North Point Press, Robert Hawley of the Oyez Press, Clifford Burke
of the Cranium Press, and Dennis Koran of Panjandrum Press.
Subseries 2.5
San Francisco history,
circa 1930-1990
Physical Description: Carton 18, folder 5-29; carton 19-20; carton 21, folder 1-17
Scope and Content Note
Includes files and/or manuscripts on the following: Carton 18: Teiser's research notes from the San Franciso Examiner; transcriptions
of J.L. Van Bokkelen's letters to Robert Patten; Wells Fargo Nitroglycerin explosion of 1866; The Dance of Death (book); San
Francisco business buildings in the 19th century; Durant case; California brewing history; Ivy Green/George Barnes; notes
from the Here Today newspaper column; rum versus water controversy; Freddie Francisco columns; Morgan Hill; Hightower murder;
Dr. Cornelius Herz. Carton 19: Milo Abercrombie; Ashe family; Windeler Cave; Twin Valley School; Union Iron Works; George
R. Lawrence; Aaron Ross; Old Fort Point; Alcatraz; Charles Wells Banks; Coit Tower; San Francisco trees; Chinese Historical
Society. Carton 20: Muni Pier; Folsom estate; Ned Greenway; 4th of July Party (SF and Leese); Hugh James Glenn; Goad sisters;
Harden-Hickey; De Bretteville family; Atherton versus Wilcox; Bacon Place; Lucky Baldwin; Maurice Barrymore; Beale versus
Marriott; Raymond Bierce; Biscaccianti; Bohemian Club; Bonnet murder; Newton Booth; Botkin-Dunning; Nat J. Brittain; Cliff
House; Burlingame and polo club; San Francisco characters; Sir Harry Westwood Cooper; Jim Corbett; Curtis murder (Tivoli Theater);
Dashaways; Debutantes of 1947-48; Del Monte Hotel; Chicken Divine; Fisk-Mansfield-Lawlor; J.C. Duncan; Charles Kohler; Southern
California secession attempts and Haraszthy; What Cheer House; San Francisco restaurants; Milligan case; Peter Britt; old
companies in Northern California; Bethlehem Steel; Cogswell statues. Carton 21: San Francisco Marine Exchange; M. A. R. De
Poli; Willard Worden; Commandments to California Wives (book); Juana Briones; Francisco C. Arce; San Francisco breweries;
John Wieland; Fredericksburg Saloon; Teiser's manuscript on Sarah Althea Hill entitled San Francisco Scandal; California postcards.
Subseries 2.6
Gold Rush towns and topics,
circa 1930-1990
Physical Description: Carton 21, folder 18-26
Scope and Content Note
Includes files and/or manuscripts on the following: Columbia, California; Columbia Historic Park; Columbia Fire Department;
Downieville, California.
Subseries 2.7
Assorted other topics,
circa 1930-1990
Physical Description: Carton 21, folder 26-28; carton 22-23; carton 24, folder 1-16
Scope and Content Note
Includes files and/or manuscripts on the following: Carton 21: Richmond-San Rafael Ferry; San Francisco Flower Terminal. Carton
22: SF Flower Terminal; Evie's Head; Pullman shops; National Realiteria; Richmond Blueprint Company; Plastic House; book clubs;
libraries; earthquake mechanism lab; Nogales; Golden Gateway redevelopment; Frazer River; McMillin's Mausoleum; End of the
Trail (sculpture by James Earl Fraser); elephants at the Portland Zoo; electronics in the Bay Area; quicksilver. Carton 23:
Quicksilver; signs; H.S. Crocker; Brian Bufano; beds; Vashon Island; Barney Taylor, Monterey; Tubac, Arizona; Wells Fargo;
Sam Gordon; Theodore LeRoy property research. Carton 24: Theodore LeRoy property research.
Subseries 2.8
Book Reviews and Ideas,
circa 1930-1990
Physical Description: Carton 24, folder 17-24
Scope and Content Note
Clippings of book reviews Teiser published in Bay Area newspapers and two files of ideas of columns and articles.
Series 3
Personalia and general correspondence,
circa 1930-1990
Physical Description: Carton 24, folder 25-28; carton 25
Scope and Content Note
Some general correspondence as well as assorted personalia and miscellany from Ruth Teiser and her colleague Catherine Harroun.
Includes personal and family photographs.
Series 4
Audio-cassettes,
circa 1991
Physical Description: Box 2
Scope and Content Note
Three audio cassette tapes containing Teiser's Regional Oral History Office interview with Hans Kornell; one audio cassette
with material relating to Stephen Vincent, John McBride and P. Vangelisti; and one audio cassette entitled "Rexroth on San
Francisco cultural development."