"As the beverage we all know and love, coffee is beautifully fleeting, reflecting seasonality and the specific work of many hands from seed to cup. Yet as an industry, coffee has advanced to become the stuff of institutional archival preservation. On the latter front, the UC Davis Library says it has received three major coffee-related collections adding to its existing coffee-focused archives."
"The materials include rare books, photographs, business records and other archival items that, taken together, help illuminate key evolutionary moments within the specialty coffee industry. Beyond the library, the new materials are expected to add to the ongoing work of the UC Davis Coffee Center, the first academic research and teaching facility in the U.S. dedicated entirely to the study of coffee."
"Baldwin's donation includes an original handwritten Starbucks "manifesto" by late co-founder Gordon Bowker, the company's first guest book, early scrapbooks and photos and financial records. "The amount of apocrypha that flies around the internet is huge," Baldwin said in an announcement shared by the university. "My hope is people who are interested can turn to these documents as a reference and understand what it was truly like at the beginning.""
UC Davis Library received three major coffee-related collections from Starbucks co-founder Gerald "Jerry" Baldwin, Hacienda La Minita president Russ Kramer, and the Specialty Coffee Association. The materials include rare books, photographs, business records, and archival items that illuminate evolutionary moments in the specialty coffee industry. The donations will support the UC Davis Coffee Center's research and teaching. Baldwin contributed early Starbucks artifacts including a handwritten "manifesto," the company's first guest book, scrapbooks, photos, and financial records. Kramer supplied books, correspondence, and trade records, including a 1687 French text by Nicolas de Blégny. The SCA provided over 100 boxes of organizational records and publications.
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