The Story
of a Winery.
Ansel Adams. Pirkle Jones. The people, correspondence and questions behind a photographic project.
A collection of correspondence, invitations and related records follows Ansel Adams, Pirkle Jones and the Paul Masson photography project. The Tony Casadonte collection brings 35 scans into a source-by-source reading edition. Research and interpretation by Thomas Brenner.
- 35
- Source scans
- 29
- Document groups
- 1958–1994
- Dated material, plus undated items
This introduction remains public. The reading edition, source images and complete transcriptions are temporarily available only to Thomas Brenner while publication permissions are reviewed. Existing reader invitations do not provide access to this collection.
Read the record.
Keep the questions.
The reading edition preserves the collection’s page-by-page arrangement: each scan sits beside its date, author, recipient, interpretation and limits. Pages from the same letter link together, including one letter split between two of the original archives.
Watermarked reading copies
Enlarge a source to inspect the text. Viniside reading marks identify the viewing copy while the preserved originals remain unchanged. Historical sources retain their applicable rights.
Search across the collection
Find people, dates, source IDs and subjects. Filter the four archives and separate winery-project evidence from surrounding personal and professional context.
Interpretation with limits
Source statements, retrospective accounts and unresolved questions stay distinct. Optional OCR expands discovery but is clearly marked as uncorrected.
Follow a subject.
The collection’s topic links open its search for the owner after sign-in. Reader access is paused while publication permissions are reviewed.
About these sources
Tony Casadonte supplied the four archives reviewed for this collection. They contain 26 correspondence or invitation items, two envelopes and one folder description, represented by 35 scans. Twenty-one scans concern the winery project directly; thirteen provide surrounding context, and one describes a folder.
The sender identified the source as the Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson. The exact collection, box and folder remain unverified. The IDs CCP-TC-183 through CCP-TC-217 are Viniside working references, not institutional call numbers.
This is an addition to Viniside’s dated research atlas. Its counts describe this collection only. Reading access does not grant permission to reproduce or redistribute the sources or analysis.
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