Fruit Crate Labels

Fruit Crate Labels

"Beginning in the 1880's, the Transcontinental Railroad made coast-to-coast shipments of produce possible. As a result, a form of advertising art known as fruit crate labels came to be. These vibrant collectible works of art were created from a wide range of iconographic images in order to entice the public to buy the produce. Fruit Crate Labels were intended to be pasted onto the ends of crates ... " [More]

Also see, the Crate Label Museum.