International Apples crate label, Thomas Hall & Sons, Portland – Historic Reproduction
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Few images capture their era like this historic image of International Apples crate label, Thomas Hall & Sons, Portland. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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International Apples crate label, Thomas Hall & Sons, Portland
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Apple crate labels like this one were printed to sell fruit grown in the Pacific Northwest to buyers across the country and abroad. The "International" brand name suggests a label meant to catch the eye of distant markets, while the Portland shipper, Thomas Hall & Sons, places it among the many packing houses that shipped Oregon fruit by rail in the early 1900s. Crate labels were often the most colorful printed material a grower or shipper produced, combining bold lettering, fruit imagery, and promises of quality. Today they are valued as small records of regional agriculture and of the commercial lithography that made them.
| Original scan | 960 × 720 px |
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| Reference | Slide131 |
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