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Author: Cindy Lambert

To Plow Or Not To Plow

The horse drawn plow. We’ve all seen it, at least in photographs in the history books. There’s a sort of magic to the image of plowing the land. An illusion mostly. Eventually the horse drawn plow was replaced with engine power. Why?

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WHP Enology Collection Objects: #3 Sikes’ Hydrometer

The science series of the Wine History Project continues with an article about the hydrometer, and specifically the Sikes’ hydrometer that is part of our important collection of objects of all things related to wine. This is the third object to be researched of the six object which we have collected relating to enology.

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Wine Lists from Maison Nicolas, France

One quarter (25%) of the Nicolas Catalogues have been scanned into our WHP Collection archives by our archivist, Daniel Anderson. Can you guess the artists for each one? Here are the options you have: Charles Loupot, Paul Iribe, Roger Limouse, Bernard Buffet, Claude Schurr, Maurice Savin, Maurice-Elie Sarthou, Andre Derain

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History In Person – Using Digital, Exhibit, Research, and Video Methodologies

A collection is a group of things and often that group is created by someone. As an example, many children have a collection of comic books. They have gathered or collected these comic books and with every year as they get older the collection gets larger, and later may be forgotten. The same is true of many collections. Today, the most popular collectibles are coins, stamps, baseball pins, vinyl records, toys, trading cards, and wine.

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