Fashion Plate Northwest Apples crate label – Historic Reproduction
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Fashion Plate Northwest Apples crate label, preserved in this historic image. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Fashion Plate Northwest Apples crate label
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Fashion Plate was the brand name on this crate label, which marks it as the work of a particular Northwest apple shipper rather than a generic fruit picture. Crate labels like this were pasted on the ends of wooden boxes so that buyers in distant cities could recognize a grower's brand before they saw the fruit. Orchards in Washington and Oregon depended on railroads to reach eastern markets, and bright lithographed art helped a crate stand out on a loaded freight car or a grocer's shelf. The colors and layout show how the fruit industry used commercial art to sell its product.
| Original scan | 3,000 × 2,250 px · prints to 10 × 8 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | Slide118 |
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