TELL brand apple crate label, R. Wachsmith, Yakima, Washington – Historic Print
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Step back in time with TELL brand apple crate label, R. Wachsmith, Yakima, Washington, a historic image rich in period detail. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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TELL brand apple crate label, R. Wachsmith, Yakima, Washington
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Yakima Valley in central Washington became one of the state's major apple districts in the early twentieth century, when irrigation turned its dry benchland into orchards and packing houses sprang up to ship fruit by rail. This crate label, printed for the TELL brand and bearing the name of R. Wachsmith of Yakima, is one of thousands of colorful lithographed labels that growers and shippers pasted to wooden boxes to sell their fruit in distant markets. Labels like this one advertised a grower's name or a brand as much as the apples inside, and they now serve as a record of how the Northwest fruit trade presented itself to buyers across the country.
| Original scan | 960 × 720 px |
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| Reference | Slide43 |
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