Scope and content

Accounts, balance sheets, and correspondence with stockholders and others relating to the question of disposal of plant and stocks after passage of the Volstead Act, to the sale of votes against the company, a resulting legal judgment, the seizure of a truckload of champagne, a sheriff's sale of the property, and a susequent suit by the federal government.

Abstract This collection documents administrative and financial affairs of the Pleasant Valley Wine Company through its founding in 1860 through the 1950s. Included are grape growing and vineyard records, business ledgers, retail sales reports and statistics, correspondence from manufacturers, wholesalers and clients, advertising material, tax returns and other government correspondence. Correspondence with the company's traveling salesmen document the economic and social conditions of the time,...