Raubun Apple – Historic Print
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Description
Few images capture their era like this historic print of Raubun Apple. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
Framed, it is ready for the wall; unframed, it is ready for the frame you choose. Perfect for a home, office, library or classroom wall, and a gift with a story behind it. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Since 2001, Snapshots of the Past has shipped historic prints to tens of thousands of customers around the world.
Raubun Apple
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Set apart from the other varieties on this board, the Raubun appears here as a single, carefully drawn fruit. The plate comes from a USDA Yearbook from around 1906, when the department's pomologists used color illustrations to record and identify apple varieties across the country. The Baltimore firm A. Hoen & Company, a commercial lithographer, produced many of these fruit plates, and the work shows how precise early color printing was used for scientific description. Look closely at the skin color, shape and stem, which were the details growers relied on to tell one variety from another.
| Created / published | c. 1906 |
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| Notes | USDA Yearbook. A. Hoen & Company, Baltimore |
| Original scan | 1,685 × 2,514 px · prints to 6 × 8 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | USDA Apple |
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