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| Title | Vineyard owned by Charles Somers, Stretch Island, 1943 |
| Photographer | French, Art
Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
| Date | 1943 |
| Caption | Washington was the 24th state to vote for Prohibition's repeal, and the national social experiment finally ended with the adoption of the Twenty-first Amendment to the Constitution on December 5, 1933. Immediately following the adoption of the amendment, a wave of commercial wineries were established. The first such "bonded" winery in the state was St. Charles Winery, founded by Charles Somers (and his son C. W. "Bill" Somers) on Stretch Island. |
| Notes | Written on sleeve: GRAPES, Vineyards on Stretch Island owned by Charles Somers
Caption information source: HistoryLink.org, Essay 8658: Wine in Washington State
Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): October 7, 1943. |
| Subjects | Grapevines--Washington (State)--Stretch Island; Orchards--Wasington (State)--Stretch Island; Wine industry--Washington (State)--Stretch Island |
| Places | United States—Washington (State)--Stretch Island |
| Digital Collection | Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | 1986.5.3874.5 |
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| Credit Line | Seattle Post-Intelligencer Photograph Collection, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved |
| Repository | Museum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI). |
| Repository Collection | Seattle Post-Intelligencer Photograph Collection |
| Type | Image |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from film positive as 4350 pixel TIFF image in 16-bit grayscale, resized to 700 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop CS4. |
