Independent Brand Northwest Apples crate label, Yakima, Washington – Historic Print
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Independent Brand Northwest Apples crate label, Yakima, Washington comes to life in this historic image, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Independent Brand Northwest Apples crate label, Yakima, Washington
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Yakima Valley is the setting here, and this crate label for the Independent Brand of Northwest apples is a window onto the fruit-packing trade that made the region famous. Crate labels like this one were pasted onto wooden shipping boxes so that buyers in distant markets could recognize a grower's fruit at a glance, and bright lithographed art was a deliberate sales tool. Apple labels from the Pacific Northwest, especially those from the early twentieth century, often show orchards, mountains, and blossoms meant to suggest freshness and a healthy place of origin. Looking closely, you can see how packers competed for shelf attention with color and composition long before supermarkets relied on packaging.
| Original scan | 960 × 720 px |
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| Reference | Slide128 |
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