Apple Crate Label
- Description (Brief)
- Labels are an important marketing device. They often go beyond merely identifying contents and are designed to help establish brand distinction and generate customer loyalty for a largely interchangeable product.
- This Trout brand apple crate label from Chelan, Washington was in use around 1900-1940. The label features a lithographed image of a leaping trout, meant to evoke a sense of nature popular among fruit crate labels during this period. Washington was one of the largest producers of apples during the early 20th century, and Wenoka Apples is the growers cooperative that marketed their fruits collectively.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- crate label
- referenced business
- Lake Chelan Fruit Growers
- Physical Description
- paper (crate label material)
- wood (substrate material)
- Measurements
- crate label: 8 3/4 in x 10 in; 22.225 cm x 25.4 cm
- Place Made
- United States: Washington, Chelan
- ID Number
- 1979.0441.001
- accession number
- 1979.0441
- catalog number
- 1979.0441.001
- subject
- Agriculture
- Food
- Crate Labels
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- Work and Industry: Agriculture
- Crate Labels
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
- Credit Line
- L.E. Leininger
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