Blue Flag Brand Pajaro Valley Apples crate label – Vintage Wall Art
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Few images capture their era like this historic image of Blue Flag Brand Pajaro Valley Apples crate label. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Blue Flag Brand Pajaro Valley Apples crate label
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Pajaro Valley, on the California coast near Watsonville, was known for apples, and this crate label carries the Blue Flag brand name that growers and packers used to sell fruit across the country. Crate labels like this one were pasted onto wooden boxes so that buyers in distant cities could recognize a shipper's fruit at a glance. Beyond the lettering and color, the label shows how the early twentieth-century fruit trade used bold graphic design to build trust and brand loyalty before supermarkets made packaging routine. Its ephemeral paper has survived in comparatively few copies, which makes it useful to historians of agriculture and printing.
| Original scan | 960 × 720 px |
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| Reference | Slide90 |
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