Jack's Washington State Apples crate label with playing cards – Vintage Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
Jack's Washington State Apples crate label with playing cards comes to life in this historic image, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
Choose the framed print, ready to hang the day it arrives, or the unframed print for a frame of your own. It brings character to any room and makes a memorable gift. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past has been bringing history to the wall since 2001, for tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
Jack's Washington State Apples crate label with playing cards
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Jack's Washington State Apples crate label is distinctive for pairing its fruit imagery with a playing-card motif, a combination that set it apart from the plainer orchard labels that dominated the crate trade. Apple growers in Washington used colorful lithographed labels like this one to make their boxes stand out on crowded railroad platforms and in produce markets, where buyers often decided on appearance alone. Card suits and aces were a common eye-catching device on fruit crates of the early twentieth century, and labels of this kind are now valued as examples of commercial lithography and of the regional branding that helped sell Pacific Northwest apples across the country.
| Original scan | 3,000 × 2,250 px · prints to 10 × 8 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | Slide132 |
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