Pat Hand Washington State Apples crate label – Antique Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
This rare historic image captures Pat Hand Washington State Apples crate label in remarkable detail. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Pat Hand Washington State Apples crate label
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The name Pat Hand sets this crate label apart from the other apple labels on the board, marking it as the brand of one particular grower or shipper. Labels like this were lithographed in bright colors and pasted to wooden crates so that apples could stand out on grocers' shelves far from the Pacific Northwest. In the early twentieth century, Washington's irrigated valleys were becoming major apple country, and such labels helped shippers build a reputation for quality in distant markets. Today they preserve a vivid record of how fruit was sold before refrigerated trucks and supermarkets reshaped the trade.
| Original scan | 3,000 × 2,250 px · prints to 10 × 8 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | Slide10 |
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