As Napa Valley’s industries and workforce expanded in the nineteenth century, technology grew and developed alongside. Immigrants worked in agriculture, factories, started businesses, and used changing technology to their advantage.

78 Records 

Date: ca. 1910

Courtesy of David Meagher

Telephone

Date: ca. 1900

A.V. Smith Collection

Grape-Growing and Wine Making Manuals by George Husmann

Date: ca. 1888

NCHS Collection

Paddock-Hawley Iron Co. Catalog

Date: ca. 1889

NCHS Collection

Washboard 

NCHS Collection

Almanac

NCHS Collection