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.
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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
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