Congdon Refrigerated Apples crate label – Antique Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
Step back in time with Congdon Refrigerated Apples crate label, a historic image rich in period detail. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
The framed print arrives ready to hang; the unframed option suits custom framing. A fine choice for anyone who loves history, and a gift that gets noticed. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Since 2001, Snapshots of the Past has shipped historic prints to tens of thousands of customers around the world.
Congdon Refrigerated Apples crate label
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The Congdon name and the claim of refrigerated shipping set this label apart from the orchard scenes that fill much of its board. Crate labels like this were pasted onto wooden apple boxes so that buyers far from the orchard could recognize a grower's brand at a glance. Refrigerated rail cars, cooled with ice, let growers ship fruit over long distances to markets they could not otherwise reach, and the label sold that reliability as much as the fruit. Today these colorful lithographs are valued both as small works of commercial art and as records of how American growers marketed their crops.
| Original scan | 960 × 720 px |
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| Reference | Slide107 |
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