Agriculture - Overview
From butter churns to diesel tractors, the Museum's agricultural artifacts trace the story of Americans who work the land. Agricultural tools and machinery in the collections range from a John Deere plow of the 1830s to 20th-century cultivators and harvesters. The Museum's holdings also include overalls, aprons, and sunbonnets; farm photographs; milk cans and food jars; handmade horse collars; and some 200 oral histories of farm men and women in the South. Prints in the collections show hundreds of scenes of rural life. The politics of agriculture are part of the story, too, told in materials related to farm workers' unions and a group of artifacts donated by the family of the labor leader Cesar Chavez.
"Agriculture - Overview" showing 80 items.
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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 Foot Hill brand apple crate label was in use in Wenatchee, Washington around 1900-1940. The image of a rising sun over the mountains and the slogan "From the Foothills of the Cascades" evokes a sense of nature that was often used in fruit crate labels. The apples were shipped by Tyrrell’s of Wenatchee, Washington. Wenatchee was one of the largest American apple producing regions during the early 20th century.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- referenced business
- Tyrrell's
- ID Number
- 1979.0441.003
- accession number
- 1979.0441
- catalog number
- 1979.0441.003
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
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 Northern Line brand apple crate label from Wenatchee, Washington was in use during the beginning of the 20th century. The apples were shipped by the Northern Fruit Company, Inc., an apple grower cooperative in Washington. The label features a picturesque nature scene of a lake surrounded by pine trees with mountains rising in the background. Fruit crate labels often depicted landscapes like this to evoke the idea of rich, natural produce.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- referenced business
- Northern Fruit Co. Inc.
- ID Number
- 1979.0441.005
- accession number
- 1979.0441
- catalog number
- 1979.0441.005
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
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 Rivas brand apple crate label was used by the Oneonta Trading Corporation of Wenatchee-Yakima, Washington during the first half of the 20th century. The blue and red crate label was lithographed by the Ridgway Lithograph Company of Seattle, Washington. The Wenatchee-Yakima region of central Washington was a large producer of apples during the early 20th century.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- referenced business
- Oneonta Trading Corp.
- ID Number
- 1979.0441.006
- accession number
- 1979.0441
- catalog number
- 1979.0441.006
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
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 Butler’s Pride apple crate label was used by the Butler Trading Company of Wenatchee, Washington during the early 20th century. The paper label on wooden crate side is blue with a colorful image of a red apple hanging from a branch.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- referenced business
- Butler Trading Co., Inc.
- ID Number
- 1979.0441.009
- accession number
- 1979.0441
- catalog number
- 1979.0441.009
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
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 apple crate label was used by Spark’s Orchards during the beginning of the 20th century. Spark’s Orchards was based in Wenatchee, Washington, a region that was well known for its apple production, especially in the early 1900s.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- referenced business
- Sparks Orchards
- ID Number
- 1979.0441.010
- accession number
- 1979.0441
- catalog number
- 1979.0441.010
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
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 Chelan View apple crate label was used by the J.D. Hamilton Fruit company of Wenatchee, Washington during the early 20th century. The lithographed label has an illustration of two red apples in the foreground, with an orchard on a hill next to a lake, with mountains looming in the background. Fruit crate labels often depicted landscapes like this to evoke the idea of rich, natural produce.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- referenced business
- J. D. Hamilton Fruit Co.
- ID Number
- 1979.0441.013
- accession number
- 1979.0441
- catalog number
- 1979.0441.013
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
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 Horan’s apple crate label was in use by Horan Brother’s Inc. of Wenatchee, Washington during the early 20th century. The lithographed label is made of three horizontal stripes. The top stripe is brown, then white, then red, with the middle white stripe bearing the symbol of two lions holding a shield with an interlocking “HB” in the center. The lithography was done by Stecher-Traung of San Francisco, California.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- referenced business
- Horan Bros., Inc.
- ID Number
- 1979.0441.014
- accession number
- 1979.0441
- catalog number
- 1979.0441.014
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
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 See! See! Brand apple crate label was used by Washington Sales, Inc., of Wenatchee, Washington during the early 20th century. The lithographed label was produced by the Schmidt L. Company of Seattle, Washington. The label features an illustration of a boy with oversized head holding an oversized apple on a beach. This label promoted the health benefits of eating apples, showing that eating apples led to healthy, ruddy children.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- referenced business
- Washington Sales, Inc.
- ID Number
- 1979.0441.018
- accession number
- 1979.0441
- catalog number
- 1979.0441.018
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
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 Blue W brand apple crate label was in use by the Dow Fruit Company of Wenatchee, Washington during the early 20th century. The lithographed label was produced by the Traung Label Company of Seattle, Washington. The orange label has a large blue “W” in the center, with a small red apple on the branch to the lower left. The Wenatchee Valley in the Columbia River basin was one of the largest apple producing regions in the United States, claiming to be the “Apple Capital of the World.”
- Location
- Currently not on view
- referenced business
- Dow Fruit Company
- ID Number
- 1979.0441.021
- accession number
- 1979.0441
- catalog number
- 1979.0441.021
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
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 Up-River brand apple crate label was used by the Oneonta Trading Corporation of Wenatchee-Yakima, Washington during the early 20th century. The label was lithographed by the Ridgway Lithograph Company of Seattle, Washington. The label has an image of three red apples hanging on a branch. The Oneonta Trading Corporation derives its name from the Native American words for “mountain” or “where the rocks crop out.”
- Location
- Currently not on view
- referenced business
- Oneonta Trading Corp.
- ID Number
- 1979.0441.024
- accession number
- 1979.0441
- catalog number
- 1979.0441.024
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center