Thank you for visiting the Online Grape Belt Archive!
In this collection, you will find digital records compiled and curated by John Thomas Slater over the course of 20 years of his research into the vast and important history of agriculture, especially grapes, wine, and spirits, in Chautauqua County and beyond.
If you have any questions about the collection or specific items within, please contact us at the Barker Historical Museum by E-Mail or phone. For other information, please visit our website.
Please note, to the best of our knowledge, all digital files contained herein are made available either by permission of the owners of the original versions of these items, or are out of copyright and available to the public freely. If you are the owner of any of the originals with rights to them, please reach out to us and we would be honored to discuss their access in the archive, or take them down from public use if requested.
All artifacts on this archive are made available freely for public use with fully open access, regardless of their intended use for commercial, research, personal, artistic, or other purposes. If you intend to use these in any public application, we do ask that you give full credit to both the Barker Historical Museum and the Lake Erie Grape Belt Archive. If you plan to use these for commercial applications and are able to do so, donations can be made directly to the Barker Historical Museum through our website (scroll to the bottom), or contacting us by phone, email, or postal mail.
Most recent additions to the collection
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Aerial Photograph of the Sunshine Packing Co. Aerial photograph of the Sunshine Packing Co. in North East, PA. -
D.A.V. & P. Roundhouse Black and white photograph of the D.A.V. & P. (Dunkirk, Allegheny Valley & Pittsburgh Railroad) roundhouse in Dunkirk, NY. The circa 1930s photo is of the DAV&P Dunkirk roundhouse during the period the railroad served the Red Wing Grape Juice Co. plant in Fredonia. -
James O'Brien Photograph of James O'Brien. From John Thomas Slater: The late James O'Brien was the former president of the Chautauqua County Historical Society and an early champion of and contributor to the Lake Erie Grape Belt History Project. At his urging, I created the first of several PowerPoint programs on Grape Belt History that I presented before the CCHS and subsequently at a conference co-sponsored by the New York Wine & Grape Foundation. -
Photograph of the Kling Factory fire Black and white photograph of the Kling Factory still on fire. Taken from a field with some distance between the taker and the factory. Similar to Photograph of the Kling Factory fire, identifier 4004.511 -
Photograph of the Kling Factory fire taken from a field Photograph of the Kling Factory fire taken from a field. Black and white photograph of the Kling Factory fire. In the foreground, two men walk through the field. In the background is the three-story brick building still on fire.