Legal Tender Brand Apples crate label – Historic Reproduction
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This historic image of Legal Tender Brand Apples crate label brings a moment of history to your wall. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Legal Tender Brand Apples crate label
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Legal Tender was one of many brand names that Pacific Northwest and California growers pressed onto wooden crate labels in the early twentieth century, when the apple box was the main way a grower's fruit reached distant markets. The name itself, a nod to the currency of the day, was meant to suggest that the apples inside were as good as money. Crate labels like this one were colorful lithographed advertisements, and collectors and historians now study them for their typography, their vivid color, and what they reveal about how fruit was sold to shoppers across the country.
| Original scan | 960 × 720 px |
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| Reference | Slide157 |
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