Apple Crate Label
Apple Crate Label
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- 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 Kile brand apple crate label was in use by the W.B. Kile Company of Yakima, Washington during the early 20th century. The lithographed label has a blue background with an illustration of two red apples on a branch, with the brand KILE above it in large letters. Yakima was part of the Wenatchee Valley apple producing region, which claimed to be the “Apple Capital of the World.”
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- crate label
- referenced business
- W. B. Kile Company
- Place Made
- United States: Washington, Yakima
- Physical Description
- paper (crate label material)
- wood (substrate material)
- Measurements
- crate label: 9 in x 10 1/2 in; 22.86 cm x 26.67 cm
- ID Number
- 1979.0441.022
- accession number
- 1979.0441
- catalog number
- 1979.0441.022
- Credit Line
- L.E. Leininger
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- Work and Industry: Agriculture
- Crate Labels
- Agriculture
- Food
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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