Swan Brand Apples crate label, Perham Fruit Company, Yakima, Washington – Historic Reproduction
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A window into the past: Swan Brand Apples crate label, Perham Fruit Company, Yakima, Washington, 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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Swan Brand Apples crate label, Perham Fruit Company, Yakima, Washington
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Few details are fixed here beyond the name, so I'll stick to what the title tells us. The label belonged to the Swan Brand, a crate label issued by the Perham Fruit Company of Yakima, Washington, a town in the Yakima Valley that became one of the Pacific Northwest's major apple-growing centers in the early twentieth century. Crate labels like this one were pasted on wooden shipping boxes so that buyers in distant markets could recognize a grower's fruit at a glance. Their bright chromolithographed artwork, often showing orchards, scenery or idealized women and children, was a deliberate effort to make ordinary produce look appealing on a store shelf.
| Original scan | 960 × 720 px |
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| Reference | Slide180 |
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