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CLIFF Brand Apples crate label, Chelan Falls Orchards – Antique Wall Art

CLIFF Brand Apples crate label, Chelan Falls Orchards — historic image
CLIFF Brand Apples crate label, Chelan Falls Orchards. Historic image from the Fruit & Vegetable Labels collection.

(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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CLIFF Brand Apples crate label, Chelan Falls Orchards 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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CLIFF Brand Apples crate label, Chelan Falls Orchards

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Few crate labels from the Pacific Northwest apple trade carry a brand as short and punchy as CLIFF, and this one was printed for Chelan Falls Orchards in Washington's Chelan Valley. Fruit companies of the early twentieth century used bold, colorful lithographed labels like this to sell their produce on crowded grocery shelves, and the Chelan region, with its irrigated orchards along the Columbia, was known for shipping apples by rail to eastern markets. Notice how the label leans on scenic and brand-name design rather than just listing the variety, a common approach of the era when packers competed on looks as much as on quality.

Original scan3,000 × 2,250 px · prints to 10 × 8 in at 300 dpi
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