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Title: Southern California Wine and Wine Industry Oral History Collection
Creator:
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. Special Collections and Archives
Identifier/Call Number: 0024
Language of Material: English
Contributing Institution:
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. Special Collections and Archives
Physical Description:
4.38 Linear Feet
(11 boxes)
Date (inclusive): circa 1970-2012
Abstract: The collection includes oral history interviews conducted by Cal Poly Pomona Special Collections and Archives, the City of
Rancho Cucamonga, the Upland Public Library, and the Temecula Valley Museum. The interviewees discuss various topics related
to Southern California wine history including agriculture, viticulture, local wineries, and agricultural labor.
The processing of this collection and the creation of this finding aid was funded by the generous support of the National
Historical Publications and Records Commission.
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Unpublished manuscripts are protected by copyright. Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository
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[Box/folder# or item name], Southern California Wine and Wine Industry Oral History Collection, Collection no. 0024, Southern
California Wine and Wine Industry Collection, Special Collections and Archives, University Library, California State Polytechnic
University, Pomona.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The oral history interviews were conducted by California State Polytechnic University, Pomona Special Collections and Archives
staff between 2002 and 2012. Additional interviews were donated to California State Polytechnic University, Pomona by the
City of Rancho Cucamonga in 1998 and 2006; by the Escondido Historical Society in 2003; by Jerry LaPointe in 2002; by the
Temecula Valley Museum in 2003; and by the Upland Public Library in 2001.
The collection includes oral history interviews conducted by Cal Poly Pomona Special Collections and Archives, the City of
Rancho Cucamonga, the Upland Public Library, and the Temecula Valley Museum. The interviewees discuss various topics related
to Southern California wine history including agriculture, viticulture, local wineries, and agricultural labor. Some of the
wineries mentioned include the Italian Vineyard Company, Cucamonga Winery, Orfila, Shadow Mountain, Romolo, Brookside, Virginia
Dare (Garrett & Co.), Galleano, and Filippi. There are also interviews relating to Fruit Industries, a wine cooperative formed
during Prohibition, and the Cucamonga Pioneer Vineyard Association, a cooperative of growers that ran a winery.
The collection also includes two interviews with Enrique Vasquez, who led a farm workers' strike in 1933 in San Bernardino
and Riverside Counties.
The collection is arranged alphabetically by the interviewee's last name.
Copies of the original recordings and transcripts of some of the interviews in this collection are available from the Upland
Public Library at https://archive.org/details/uplandlibrary and from the City of Rancho Cucamonga at https://www.cityofrc.us/about/local_history/stories/oral.
Other related materials for this collection include:
Cucamonga Winery Collection, Collection no. 0076, Southern California Wine and Wine Industry Collection, Special Collections
and Archives, University Library, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.
Donald Galleano Collection, Collection no. 0073, Southern California Wine and Wine Industry Collection, Special Collections
and Archives, University Library, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.
Gail G. Unzelman Collection of Historic Winery Photographs, Stationery, and Postcards, Collection no. 0027, Southern California
Wine and Wine Industry Collection, Special Collections and Archives, University Library, California State Polytechnic University,
Pomona.
Joseph Filippi Winery Collection, Collection no. 0028, Southern California Wine and Wine Industry Collection, Special Collections
and Archives, University Library, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.
Louis Cherpin Winery Collection, Collection no. 0080, Southern California Wine and Wine Industry Collection, Special Collections
and Archives, University Library, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.
Pauley Family Collection, Collection no. 0035, Southern California Wine and Wine Industry Collection, Special Collections
and Archives, University Library, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.
Romolo Winery Collection, Collection no. 0079, Southern California Wine and Wine Industry Collection, Special Collections
and Archives, University Library, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.
Southern California Wine and Wine Industry Ephemera Collection, Collection no. 0013, Southern California Wine and Wine Industry
Collection, Special Collections and Archives, University Library, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.
Southern California Wine and Wine Industry Photograph Collection, Collection no. 0012, Southern California Wine and Wine
Industry Collection, Special Collections and Archives, University Library, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.
Southern California Wine and Wine Industry Realia Collection, Collection no. 0084, Southern California Wine and Wine Industry
Collection, Special Collections and Archives, University Library, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.
William F. Heintz Papers, Collection no. 0030, Southern California Wine and Wine Industry Collection, Special Collections
and Archives, University Library, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.
The collection was processed by Rob Strauss and Alex Dan in September 2018.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Wine industry - California - History
Wine and wine making - California
Agricultural laborers--California.
Guasti (Calif.) -- History
Rancho Cucamonga (Calif.)--History
Brookside Winery
Cucamonga Winery
Fruit Industries, Ltd.
Galleano Winery
Garrett & Company (Weldon, N.C.)
Joseph Filippi Winery
Orfila Vineyards and Winery
Romolo Winery
Shadow Mountains Vineyard
Oral histories