Waldorf Brand Apples crate label with bellboy holding apple – Historic Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
A window into the past: Waldorf Brand Apples crate label with bellboy holding apple, preserved in this historic image. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
Order it framed and ready to hang, or unframed to match a frame you already love. It makes a striking addition to a living room, study or office, and a thoughtful gift. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past has been bringing history to the wall since 2001, for tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
Waldorf Brand Apples crate label with bellboy holding apple
Order a print
Thank you. Your order went through, and a receipt is on its way by email.
Secure checkout · SSL encryptedPowered by Stripe and PayPal
Free shipping in the lower 48 states. The checkout page shows the picture, size and price before you pay.
Here a uniformed bellboy holds up an apple, a design that ties the Waldorf name to the hotel's hospitality and gives the fruit a bit of urban polish. Crate labels like this one were printed in large numbers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when railroads and refrigerated cars let growers ship apples to distant city markets. Brands leaned on eye-catching lithographed art to stand out on crowded produce stalls and to signal quality to buyers. Because the label's subject is a hotel bellboy rather than an orchard scene, it shows how fruit marketers borrowed the imagery of respectable urban life to sell their goods.
| Original scan | 3,000 × 2,250 px · prints to 10 × 8 in at 300 dpi |
|---|---|
| Reference | Slide58 |
More from the Fruit & Vegetable Labels collection
Snapshots of the Past helps heritage brands, museums, historians and storytellers tell stories with history: historic prints, image licensing and historical storytelling drawn from more than 25 years of research and curation.
