Blue Goose fruit label, Melcher brand, Bella Vista Fruit Farms – Vintage Print
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Blue Goose fruit label, Melcher brand, Bella Vista Fruit Farms comes to life in this historic image, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
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Blue Goose fruit label, Melcher brand, Bella Vista Fruit Farms
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Few details survive about this particular label beyond its title, but the name it carries is distinctive: the Blue Goose brand, printed for the Melcher packing line and attributed to Bella Vista Fruit Farms. Crate-end labels like this one were pasted onto wooden apple boxes in the early twentieth century, when growers shipped fruit by rail to distant city markets and needed eye-catching art to set their produce apart on crowded grocers' shelves. Brand names often paired with animals, landscapes, or bold color schemes, so a goose motif on a blue ground was a typical attention-getter of the period. Looking closely at the lithographed color and the lettering shows how much commercial design effort went into fruit packing.
| Original scan | 960 × 720 px |
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| Reference | Slide91 |
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