K-O Brand Apples crate label with boxing glove – Vintage Wall Art
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This historic image of K-O Brand Apples crate label with boxing glove brings a moment of history to your wall. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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K-O Brand Apples crate label with boxing glove
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Few crate labels from the early twentieth century combined fruit with prizefighting imagery as directly as this one, with a boxing glove used as the central graphic for the K-O Brand. The name plays on the boxing term "knockout," a pun that would have been immediately clear to buyers in an era when pugilism drew large crowds and newspaper attention. Packers of western apples commonly chose bold, eye-catching art like this to stand out among crowded produce stalls, so the label is as much advertising as identification. Look closely at the lettering and color blocking, which show how lithographers worked to make a crate readable from across a warehouse or railcar.
| Original scan | 3,000 × 2,250 px · prints to 10 × 8 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | Slide139 |
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