Tuesday, September 13, 2022 – FRUIT CRATES ART MADE EVERYTHING LOOK DELICIOUS
FROM THE ARCHIVES
TUESDAY, SEPTMEBER 13, 2022
THE 780th EDITION
FRUIT CRATE ART
WIKIMEDIA COMMONS
Lettuce crate label, Air Chief Brand, Lehmann Printing and Lithographing Co. (16693462346).jpg
Repository: California Historical Society
Collection: Crate, can, and bottle label collection
Date: Undated
Call Number: Kemble Spec Col 08
Digital object ID: Kemble Spec Col 08_005.jpg
General note: Farley Fruit Company, main office, Salinas, California
Preferred citation: Lettuce label, Air Chief Brand, Lehmann Printing and Lithographing Co., Crate, can, and bottle label collection, Kemble Spec Col 08, courtesy, California Historical Society, Kemble Spec Col 08_005.jpg.
Lemon crate label, Comet brand, Western Litho. Co . (16735883781).jpg
Repository: California Historical Society
Collection: Crate, can, and bottle label collection
Date: Undated
Call Number: Kemble Spec Col 08
Digital object ID: Kemble Spec Col 08_046.jpg
General note: Picked and packed by Central Lemon Association, Villa Park, Orange County, California
Exposition Brand Sunkist lemons crate label, ca 1912 (MOHAI 8323).jpg
The Alaska -Yukon-Pacific Exposition was held in Seattle in 1909 as a way to highlight the development of the region, and to spotlight Seattle as a gateway to Alaska and Asia. Exhibits were a major attraction of the AYPE and featured in most of the buildings on the Fairgrounds. Intended to be educational, exhibits were used to show off the products, people, and culture of the sponsoring country, state, county or organization. One state that showed particularly spectacular exhibits was California. These imaginative displays included a lemon made of lemons, an elephant of walnuts, and a cow of almonds. This brightly colored “Exposition Brand” Sunkist lemon crate label prominently features the Grand Prize certificate that the Johnson Fruit Co. of California, packers of Sunkist lemons, won for their exhibit of lemons at the Alaska -Yukon-Pacific Exposition.
Covina oranges cougar brand fruit crate label 1920.png
Fruit packing label: Cougar Brand Covina Oranges, Grown and Packed by Covina Citrus Association, Covina, California
Sending you a carload of oranges Santa Fe RR.jpg
Citrus crate label, Red Rock Brand, Lehmann Printing and Lithographing Co . (16116977973).jpg
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