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The Seagram Collection

Gift to Special Collections

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The Seagram Museum of Waterloo donated its 900-volume rare book collection as well as its early archival collections to the UW Library in August, 1997.

Included in the collection are a seventeenth century treatise on wine making "Trattato della coltivazione delle viti e del frutto" as well as a 1736 American imprint on the topic of temperance entitled "Distilled spiritous liquors: the bane of the nation." Archival materials include documents illustrative of the history of the Seagram Company's Waterloo plant as well as photographs and other material on the Seagram family."


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Last Updated: January 26, 2006