Violet Cunning shows the camera a bottle and corks, Guasti, 1936

Item Overview

Title

Violet Cunning shows the camera a bottle and corks, Guasti, 1936

Date Created

April 23, 1936

Date

1936-04-23

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

Violet holds a bottle in one hand, showing the camera down the neck of the bottle and in the other hand holds three large corks.
The evolution of California wineries is looked at, specifically the world's largest vineyard "Italian Vineyard Company" spreading 5000 acres, owned by Mrs. Secundo Guasti, Jr.
Photograph appears with the article, "'Human Element' Still Rules Wine-Making Art, but Modern Science Lends Its Wizardry, Too," Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec 1935: 10.

Caption

Text from newspaper caption: It looks impossible but it isn't! These giant corks are soaked and then driven into the tiny necks of the champagne bottles when a weight falls on them. Violet Cunning is the girl.
Text from negative sleeve: 4971 - Interior shots of Guasti Winery in Ontario. 4/16/36 [stamped:] Apr 23 1936

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Cunning, Violet Maria, 1912-2000
Italian Vineyard Co.

Location

Guasti (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Cork--California--Guasti
Bottles
Wine industry--California--Guasti