CAN Vegetables, Fruit AND the Kaiser Too – Vintage Print
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CAN Vegetables, Fruit AND the Kaiser Too comes to life in this historic image, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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CAN Vegetables, Fruit AND the Kaiser Too
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The title plays on two meanings of "can": the tin that holds preserved food, and the act of getting rid of something. Putting the German Kaiser, Wilhelm II, on the same list as the canned produce made a pointed joke that would have landed easily during the First World War, when anti-German feeling ran high in the United States. Fruit and vegetable can labels of this period were colorful lithographs meant to catch a grocer's eye, and wartime humor like this shows how packers borrowed current events to sell their goods.
| Original scan | 4,004 × 5,000 px · prints to 13 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 37 |
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