Gee Whiz Columbia River Fruits crate label with apples and peaches – Historic Reproduction
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
This rare historic image captures Gee Whiz Columbia River Fruits crate label with apples and peaches in remarkable detail. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Gee Whiz Columbia River Fruits crate label with apples and peaches
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Lead with what sets this label apart: it is a crate label for "Gee Whiz" brand fruit packed under the Columbia River name, showing apples and peaches together rather than apples alone, which was unusual for the apple-label designs that dominated the board. Columbia River Valley growers in Oregon and Washington shipped large volumes of fruit by rail in the early twentieth century, and crate labels were printed in bright chromolithographic colors to catch the eye of buyers on crowded grocery shelves and to build recognition for a grower's brand. Labels like this one were pasted onto wooden crates, so surviving examples show the wear of handling and shipping. Look for how the artist arranged the fruit to suggest abundance and freshness.
| Original scan | 960 × 720 px |
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| Reference | Slide120 |
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