Columbia Belle Apples crate label, Quality Washington State Apples – Antique Print
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Columbia Belle Apples crate label, Quality Washington State Apples comes to life in this historic image, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
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Columbia Belle Apples crate label, Quality Washington State Apples
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Here the lithographed label is the subject itself: a crate end bearing the brand name "Columbia Belle" and the promise of "Quality Washington State Apples." Crate labels like this were printed in large runs and pasted onto wooden shipping boxes so that a grocer or buyer could recognize a regional brand at a glance. Washington's orchards, especially in the Yakima and Wenatchee valleys, grew into a major apple-shipping industry in the early twentieth century, and cooperatives and packers relied on bold color and simple slogans to compete for attention on crowded railway platforms and store shelves. Today such labels are valued less for the fruit they advertised than as small records of how produce was packaged and sold.
| Original scan | 960 × 720 px |
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| Reference | Slide107 |
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