Covered produce market interior with crates and piled vegetables – Vintage Wall Art
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Description
Covered produce market interior with crates and piled vegetables 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.
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Covered produce market interior with crates and piled vegetables
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A stacked wall of wooden crates and heaped vegetables fills the frame of this covered produce market, with the goods themselves doing most of the storytelling. Markets like this were the working heart of many American towns in the late 1800s and early 1900s, when farmers hauled wagonloads in before dawn and sold directly to shoppers and grocers under one roof. The crates, the piled produce, and the open aisles all point to a trade built on volume and speed, before refrigerated trucks and supermarket chains reshaped how food reached the table. Look closely at how the goods are arranged, since the stacking was as much a display of the seller's wares as a practical way to store them.
| Original scan | 2,219 × 1,837 px · prints to 7 × 6 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | tif12648_CitymarketAustinTexas |
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