Mt Cashmere Brand apple crate label, Wenatchee, Wash. – Antique Print
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A window into the past: Mt Cashmere Brand apple crate label, Wenatchee, Wash., preserved in this historic image. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Mt Cashmere Brand apple crate label, Wenatchee, Wash.
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Few objects capture the Pacific Northwest's orchard economy as neatly as a wooden apple crate label. This one carries the Mt Cashmere brand, a name tied to the peak that rises above Wenatchee, Washington, the town that became a center of the state's apple industry in the early twentieth century. Crate labels like this were printed in bright color lithography and pasted onto the ends of shipping crates, so that growers could sell fruit on its appearance in distant markets. Shippers used the bold scenery and brand names to set their fruit apart on crowded grocery shelves, and today the labels preserve a record of how orchard towns marketed themselves.
| Original scan | 960 × 720 px |
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| Reference | Slide152 |
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