Fruits of the Tropics lithograph with pineapple and bananas – Vintage Wall Art
(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 antique lithograph of Fruits of the Tropics lithograph with pineapple and bananas. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Fruits of the Tropics lithograph with pineapple and bananas
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Pineapples and bananas take center stage in this lithograph, a bright example of the fruit-crate label art that flourished in the United States and Europe around the turn of the twentieth century. Crate labels were pasted onto wooden shipping boxes so that buyers in cities could recognize a grower's fruit at a glance, and their designers leaned on saturated color and tropical scenes to suggest freshness and exotic origin. Pineapples were a costly novelty in cold northern markets at the time, which made them a natural emblem for this kind of advertising. Look closely at the layered inks, which show how much work went into printing a label meant to be tossed away after one shipment.
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,154 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 7 |
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