Red Star Brand Apples crate label, Pajaro Valley – Historic Print
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Few images capture their era like this historic image of Red Star Brand Apples crate label, Pajaro Valley. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Red Star Brand Apples crate label, Pajaro Valley
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Red Star Brand is the detail that sets this crate label apart: it names a single grower's pack rather than a generic apple variety, and the Pajaro Valley in Santa Cruz and Monterey counties, California, was a major apple-growing district in the early 1900s. Crate labels like this were lithographed in bright colors and pasted onto wooden shipping boxes so that buyers in distant eastern cities could recognize a brand at a glance. Shipping fruit by rail made these labels a form of advertising as well as identification, and many collectors now study them for their graphic design and the picture of Western agriculture they preserve.
| Original scan | 960 × 720 px |
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| Reference | Slide16 |
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