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Pacific Fruit & Produce Co. apple crate label – Antique Wall Art

Pacific Fruit & Produce Co. apple crate label — historic image
Pacific Fruit & Produce Co. apple crate label. 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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This rare historic image captures Pacific Fruit & Produce Co. apple crate label in remarkable detail. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.

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Among the many apple crate labels on this board, this one is tied to a specific shipper, the Pacific Fruit & Produce Co., and its lithographed design would have been meant to catch the eye of buyers in crowded produce markets. Crate labels like this were pasted onto the ends of wooden shipping boxes in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when railroads and refrigerated cars let western orchards send fruit to distant eastern cities. Bright chromolithography turned an ordinary crate into a small advertisement, and many of these labels now survive as examples of commercial art from the orchard trade.

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