Shearer Orchards Washington State Apples crate label – Historic Reproduction
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This historic image of Shearer Orchards Washington State Apples crate label brings a moment of history to your wall. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Shearer Orchards Washington State Apples crate label
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Shearer Orchards put its name on a crate label that pairs the orchard brand with the words "Washington State Apples," a pairing that points to the Pacific Northwest's rise as a major apple-growing region in the early twentieth century. Crate labels like this one were printed in bright color lithography and pasted to wooden boxes so that buyers at distant markets could tell one grower's fruit from another's. Because the label names the state rather than a single town, it also reflects the way growers used regional identity to sell apples nationwide. Labels of this kind now serve as a record of how fruit was packed, branded and shipped before refrigerated rail and modern packing lines changed the trade.
| Original scan | 960 × 720 px |
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| Reference | Slide179 |
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