Oranges Shipping Crate
Oranges Shipping Crate
- Description (Brief)
- This shipping crate label was used by Strathmore brand oranges grown and packed by the Strathmore Packing House Company of Strathmore, California during the early 20th century. The lithographed label has a red and green tartan border, with a blue background and an image of a Scottish man wearing a kilt and playing a bagpipe. The label also has an illustration of the Scottish thistle on the left. The label has the Sunkist orange logo on it, a designation given to high quality oranges grown by members of the California Fruit Growers Exchange.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- crate label
- referenced business
- Strathmore Packing House Co.
- Place Made
- United States: California, Strathmore
- Physical Description
- paper (crate label material)
- wood (substrate material)
- Measurements
- crate label: 11 1/4 in x 11 1/2 in; 28.575 cm x 29.21 cm
- ID Number
- 1979.0441.380
- catalog number
- 1979.0441.380
- accession number
- 1979.0441
- 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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