Pacific Wine and Spirit Review Now Accessible Online Via SFPL Catalog

You can now view Pacific Wine and Spirit Review from the comfort of your own home through the San Francisco Public Library's catalog.

The digitizing of this important wine trade periodical has been almost 23 years in the making. The Wine Librarians Association began the quest back in 1985 and discovered that the San Francisco Public Library had the most complete run of Pacific Wine and Spirit Review anywhere in the country. While the periodical started its run in 1879, SFPL's holdings begin in 1883 and continue to the final issue in 1919 at the beginning of Prohibition. At the suggestion of San Francisco City Archivist, Susan Goldstein, the volumes were digitized by the Internet Archive which uses state-of-the-art scanners that are easy on rare books.

The results are marvelous! See for yourself by following the link to the San Francisco Public Library's record for the Pacific Wine and Spirit Review and clicking on "Available online at archive.org".

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  1. I'm so happy to see this link! Great post.

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  2. Hmmm... the internet, archives and wine. Sounds like a typical evening in the life of the 6th Floor Blogger.

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