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Fruit Crate Labels
There are 13 pages of fruit crate labels in this section.
We hope you enjoy them! (Scroll down to see labels) | Next Page |
The Fruit Crate Labels below are representatives of the labels
which were the principal advertising medium used by commercial fruit
growers to advertise their produce to brokers, wholesalers, and buyers
from the late 1800s well into the 1900s.
The growth of the railroad system in the U.S., Canada, and
Australia, as well as other countries, was a principal factor in the
growth of commercial tree fruit production industry in those countries.
Railroads provided cheap and rapid transit to markets in the large
population centers, as well as supported international shipping of
that produce to overseas markets.
Initially in Pennslylvania and in many other areas, the growers
used metal stencil forms to put their names and brands on the wooden
crates and barrels containing their produce. This was done also by
brokers and wholesalers who made bulk purchases from the growers for
subsequent retail sales to markets. The goals of the stenciling was not
only to identify the source of the produce but more importantly to
get that produce before the consumers and to attract them to buy
their products as opposed to others.
To improve the produce sales potential and to grab the consumers
quicker, growers developed and used the paper labels you see below (and on following pages)
to glue to their wooden crates and barrels. Other produce growers
followed suit in using their own packaging labels.
The Fruit Crate Labels have Art, Cultural, Geographic, and
Sociological content.
The development of reliable cardboard packaging containers,
mechanized labor saving processing and packaging processes, thin
plastic packaging film from the mid-1900s on, soon led to the
paper Fruit Crate Labels being retired from use by the fruit industry.
They are works of art and are Collectibles now. There are a
number of web sites on the Internet where you can not only view
them in all their diversity, but purchase them as well.
The donated collection in the National Apple Museum in Biglerville,
PA was assembled over many years by a Mr. George Kira of Staten Island,
New York.
The Yakima Valley Museum in Yakima, Washington, and the British
Columbia Orchard Industry Fruit Museum in Kelowna, B.C., Canada also
have collections of these labels.
See our "Other Fruit-Related Museums" section: click on the "British
Columbia Orchard Fruit Industry Museum" in Kelowna, B.C. Canada line
to view a very nice booklet the museum published, with a number of
photographs, on Canadian Fruit Crate Labels.
ENJOY!
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Ellijay, Georgia
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Mountain Air Orchards
Hotchkiss, Colorado
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Ohio Fruit Growers
Ohio
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Ohio Fruit Growers
Ohio
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Henry P. Barret
Henderson, Kentucky
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Consolidated Orchard
Paw Paw, West Virginia
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