Janus: Photographs of the Dalwood Vineyards, near Branxton, New South Wales, Australia, 1886

RCS/Y3086B contains:
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9B	Golden Shiraz vines, age 26 years. In 1886, average production 1340 gallons per acre
9C	Showing Vintage Manager testing Grape must, in glass tube, with Keene's percentage Saccharometer
10	View of NW [i.e. north-west] corner of Dalwood Cellars, showing cellar-hands, wine press-house, cooper's residence, offices, etc
11	View of Coopergae and Vineyard gate beyond on the left
12	View of Distillery
13	View of interior portion of principal wine press room, showing screw presses and tubs, fermenting vats of 1000 gallons each, covered with canvas cloths, and centrifugal pump drawing off wine must into cask in cellar beyond
14	Showing interior portion of new wine press-room, portion of wine press, 4 casks of 1000 gallons each, and 2 casks of 4000 gallons each
15	Showing ends of casks containing 2800 gallons each, etc., on the right; rows of wine butts, with fermenting bubbles, in the centre; and row of casks of 1200 [gallons] each on the left
16D	Showing row of 4 casks, containing over 3000 gallons each
16E	Showing row of wine-butts in hot-room
17F	Picture of Show cards, showing principal medals, etc., awarded up to 1873
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Photographs of the Dalwood Vineyards, near Branxton, New South Wales, Australia, 1886

Title	View of interior portion of principal wine press room, showing screw presses and tubs, fermenting vats of 1000 gallons each, covered with canvas cloths, and centrifugal pump drawing off wine must into cask in cellar beyond
Reference	Y3086B/13
Extent and Medium	Good condition, apart from fading at bottom edge.

Content and context

260 x 210 mm. Photograph printed from broken plate. An interior view of a building with wooden joists and pillars, with a corrugated iron roof. The screw-presses are at the right, the pump in the centre with worker standing beside it and the fermenting vats on the left.

Further information

The building can also be seen on the left in Y3086B/10.

Indexed

Index Terms

Australia

New South Wales

Oceania

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