Baskets of tomatoes in wooden bushel baskets – 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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Few images capture their era like this historic image of Baskets of tomatoes in wooden bushel baskets. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Baskets of tomatoes in wooden bushel baskets
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Rows of ripe tomatoes sit heaped in wooden bushel baskets, the kind growers and packers relied on for moving produce from field to rail car or market stall. Bushel baskets like these were the standard unit of farm shipping for generations, and their slatted sides let air circulate so the fruit did not sweat and rot on the way. Tomatoes were a prized summer crop in this era, and a picture of them packed for transport captures the working side of the produce trade that stocked town grocers. Fruit and vegetable crate labels of the period often used bright lithographed art to sell the goods, but a plain view like this shows the packing itself.
| Original scan | 4,783 × 3,368 px · prints to 16 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 1a34049u Tomatoes at the Yauco Cooperative Growers' Association, Puerto Rico |
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