Sir Apple crate label with red and green apples – Historic Print
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This historic image of Sir Apple crate label with red and green apples brings a moment of history to your wall. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Sir Apple crate label with red and green apples
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Sir Apple is one of the many crate labels that fruit growers pasted onto wooden shipping boxes in the late 1800s and early 1900s, when orchards in the Pacific Northwest and other apple districts relied on rail lines to reach eastern markets. This label pairs a bold red apple with a green one, a common color scheme that helped buyers tell varieties apart at a glance. Crate labels were often the most elaborate printing a small growers' cooperative could afford, so they doubled as advertising and as a record of the orchards that packed them. Look closely at the lettering and the colored lithography, which shows how commercial art of the period tried to make fruit look irresistible on a crowded grocer's shelf.
| Original scan | 960 × 720 px |
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| Reference | Slide30 |
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