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9 people are interested
Volunteer Docent for Historical Exhibition on Wine, Beer, Spirit, and Food Labels
ORGANIZATION: California Historical Society
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9 people are interested
Vintage: Wine, Beer, and Spirits Labels from the Kemble Collections on Western Printing and Publishing
This exhibition explores CHS's exquisite collection of vintage wine, beer, and spirits labels produced by the now-forgotten Lehmann Printing and Lithographing Company of San Francisco. Designed during the terrible privation and unrest of the Great Depression, Lehmann's labels graced hundreds of thousands of bottles of mass-manufactured, highly alcoholic wines and liquors, invoking deliciously unrealistic fantasies of peace, plenty, and the high-class life. Marrying design with consumer ideology, the Lehmann oeuvre represents a forgotten high point of American commercial art. The exhibition features hundreds of colorfully illustrated labels, ephemera, and stock label catalogue books from Lehmann Printing.
Open through April 23, 2017
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About California Historical Society
Location:
678 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94105, US
Mission Statement
The mission of the Society is to ensure that the history of California and the west is kept alive and made accessible for the enlightenment of everyone. To fulfill this mission, the organization is a resource for people who seek to know about California's past: the Society preserves, collects, interprets, publishes and exhibits materials about the history of California and the west.
Description
The California Historical Society, the State's official historical society, is a non-profit educational institution committed to serving the public at large. Knowledge of the past enables people to understand the present and to make informed decisions that will affect the future.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
678 Mission StreetSan Francisco, CA 94105
DATE POSTED
December 15, 2016
SKILLS
- History
- Literacy / Reading
- Exhibition Arts
- Research
- Teaching / Instruction
GOOD FOR
- Teens
REQUIREMENTS
- Must be at least 16
- Orientation or Training
- Minimum is six hours a/mth, mostly weekends/nights
- Interest in California Historical Society