Ripe red tomatoes for sale here – Antique Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Step back in time with Ripe red tomatoes for sale here, a historic print rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Its plain message, "Ripe red tomatoes for sale here," sets this print apart from the many fruit and vegetable labels of its day. The printer, Loag, worked in Philadelphia, a city with a large market-garden trade, and cheap color woodcuts were a common way for sellers to catch the eye of passersby. By the 1860s the tomato had only recently shed its old reputation as a poisonous "love apple" and was gaining a place on American tables, which makes this small advertisement a useful sign of that shift.
| Created / published | Philadelphia : Loag the Printer & Eng., c1869. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : woodcut, color. |
| Genre | Advertisements 1860-1870.Woodcuts Color 1860-1870. |
| Subjects | Tomatoes--1860-1870. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,466 × 1,161 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217590 |
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