Rip Van Winkle Brand Apples fruit label – Historic Reproduction
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this historic image of Rip Van Winkle Brand Apples fruit label. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Rip Van Winkle Brand Apples fruit label
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Rip Van Winkle was a sleepy-hollow legend that Washington Irving published in 1819, and the name made a natural brand for an apple crate, so this label trades on a story many American buyers already knew. Fruit crate labels like this one were printed in large runs by growers and packing houses, usually in bright lithographed colors, to catch the eye of shoppers and wholesalers on crowded produce platforms. Labels of this kind also show how commercial orchards used characters from popular fiction and local place names to sell their fruit, giving an ordinary crate a memorable identity.
| Original scan | 3,000 × 2,250 px · prints to 10 × 8 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | Slide19a |
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