For Long Life Eat Rip Van Winkle Brand Apples – Historic Reproduction
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Few images capture their era like this historic image of For Long Life Eat Rip Van Winkle Brand Apples. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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For Long Life Eat Rip Van Winkle Brand Apples
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Rip Van Winkle, the title figure of Washington Irving's 1819 story, sleeps for twenty years in the Catskills, so this label borrows his fame to suggest that an apple a day might stretch a life. Crate labels like this one were usually printed in bright color by commercial lithographers and pasted to wooden boxes, where a brand name had to catch a buyer's eye in a crowded market. Irving's story was already widely read by the time such labels appeared, so shoppers would have recognized the reference at once.
| Original scan | 960 × 720 px |
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| Reference | Slide20 |
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