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From the S&S archives: Photo gallery: Grape harvest on the Rhine, 1947

Photos by Chris Butler, Stars and Stripes
European edition, Sunday, November 2, 1947

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A worker in the wine cellar of the Weingut Louis Guntrum.


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An expert tests a sample of juice for its sugar content.


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The grape harvest, on arrival from the field, is put in a large vat.


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Grapes and juice are ladled from the vat into the large pressing machine, which wrings the remainder of the rich juice from the grapes and pulp. From here the juice goes to large storage vats.


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Pickers assemble to sing as the last load of the 1947 harvest is brought in.


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