Manuscript Monday--CHS' oldest wine label?

This wine label, for Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo's Lachryma Montis Sonoma Red (vintage 1858), is perhaps the oldest in the CHS collection:

Wine label, Lachryma Montis Vineyard, Sonoma Red Wine, 1858, Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo miscellany, MS 2204, courtesy, California Historical Society, MS 2204.001.jpg

CHS holds several significant wine-related manuscript collections, including the records of the California Wine Association and the Paul Masson papers. A finding aid is now available for the Society's lovely wine label collection, which includes a wide variety of labels printed by San Francisco's Lehmann Printing and Lithographing Co. in the 1930s and 1940s (see: http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c89s1t7p/). Keep a look-out on Flickr Commons for some of the more interesting and beautiful examples.

Marie Silva
Archivist & Manuscripts Librarian
California Historical Society