Apples – Antique Wall Art
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
Apples comes to life in this historic image, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
The framed print arrives ready to hang; the unframed option suits custom framing. A conversation-starting piece for home, office, or as a meaningful gift. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past, founded in 2001, has served tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
Apples
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Few details survive in this record beyond its title, "Apples," and its placement among fruit and vegetable labels, so the picture is best understood through the trade it belonged to. Commercial fruit labels flourished in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when growers in orchard regions shipped crates by rail to city markets and needed bright, eye-catching art to set their produce apart on crowded grocery shelves. Apple images of this kind usually celebrated abundance, health and regional pride, often showing ripe fruit in lush color against a simple backdrop. Pictures like this one also show how advertising art and botanical illustration overlapped in the period.
| Original scan | 3,000 × 2,400 px · prints to 10 × 8 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 344694745_6dbcbfd6d6_o Apples |
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