Baule said labels were an idea borrowed from canned food because fruit couldn’t be inspected by buyers. “They can’t actually taste the apple that’s in the box, so you want to develop a ...

Eye-catching images depicting California as a paradise of health and sunshine blanketed the country during the state’s citrus heyday from the mid-1880s to 1955. Paper labels with vibrant colors ...

For more information, including how to remove labels from boxes, contact Pat Jacobsen, long time collector, dealer, and author of Jacobsen's Millennium Guide to Fruit Crate Labels. Jacobson can be ...

This allowed for irrigation and easier nut harvesting. Hollywood took advantage of fruit box labels to promote silent films. According to Borg, lug label themes also included the movies, reflecting ...

(For a schedule, see the information box with this story ... the only way they could see things would be these crate labels and the fruit inside. The citrus commission had guidelines, so certain ...

The brightly colored labels on apple boxes were strictly utilitarian ... help apple growers distinguish their products in a crowded fruit market. But now, decades after many of them were consigned ...

Each month features the picture of an old Washington fruit label, the kind packing companies affixed to each box to promote their brands. An introductory page discusses the role the labels played ...

which makes Minute Maid juice boxes, over labels advertising the drinks as being "good for you." (Northern District of California image via Courthouse News) SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — When looking for a ...

It wasn’t until he was in his early 20s that he hit upon something that few people were collecting — but lots of people wanted to buy: vintage fruit crate labels.

If you look in your cupboard and start reading nutrition labels on your favorite box of granola or your gummy vitamins, there's a good chance you'll notice a popular ingredient: fruit concentrate.

For instance, pears grown in Shandong province come wrapped in boxes printed with Japanese ... Shockingly, these "imported fruit" labels can be purchased online for just a few fen each.