Independent Brand fruit crate label with Liberty Bell – Antique Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Independent Brand fruit crate label with Liberty Bell, preserved in this historic image. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Independent Brand fruit crate label with Liberty Bell
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Few crate labels of this type pair a fruit with a national symbol quite so directly as this one, which places a Liberty Bell beside the name of an apple brand. Independent brand labels like this were printed by growers and packing houses to stand out on crowded fruit stands and in railway shipments, where a bright, recognizable image helped buyers pick out one grower's apples from the rest. The Liberty Bell, a patriotic emblem familiar to American shoppers, was a common choice for borrowing a sense of quality and national pride. Labels such as this one are now valued as small examples of commercial lithography and of how orchards marketed their fruit.
| Original scan | 960 × 720 px |
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| Reference | Slide130 |
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