Yakima Valley Apples crate label, Wapato Fruit & Cold Storage Co. – Vintage Print
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Few images capture their era like this historic image of Yakima Valley Apples crate label, Wapato Fruit & Cold Storage Co.. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
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Yakima Valley Apples crate label, Wapato Fruit & Cold Storage Co.
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Few object types capture the Pacific Northwest's orchard economy quite like the crate label, and this one carries a particular name: a Yakima Valley apple brand issued by the Wapato Fruit & Cold Storage Co. Yakima Valley in central Washington became a major apple-growing region after irrigation projects opened its dry benchland to orchards in the early 1900s. Packing houses like Wapato's, which combined sorting and cold storage, let growers hold fruit for distant markets, and the colorful lithographed labels pasted to wooden crates were the main advertising these companies had. Worth noticing are the brand name, the typography, and any orchard scenery, since the artists were selling a place as much as the fruit.
| Original scan | 960 × 720 px |
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| Reference | Slide67 |
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