American Fruit Piece – Antique Wall Art
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
This rare historic image captures American Fruit Piece in remarkable detail. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
Framed, it is ready for the wall; unframed, it is ready for the frame you choose. A fine choice for anyone who loves history, and a gift that gets noticed. 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.
American Fruit Piece
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Titled simply *American Fruit Piece*, this work belongs to the broad family of crate art that growers pasted onto wooden shipping boxes so their fruit would stand out on crowded railway platforms. Labels of this kind were usually color lithographs, a process that let printers build rich reds, golds, and greens affordably enough for large print runs. The generic title suggests the design promoted fruit in general rather than one grower's name, which sets it apart from the more specifically branded labels on this board. Today such labels give researchers a window into how American growers marketed their produce to buyers across the country.
| Original scan | 10,021 × 7,710 px · prints to 33 × 26 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 15 |
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