Antique produce labels

by Nick Vagnoni (Subscribe to Nick Vagnoni's posts)
Posted Apr 27th 2006 5:39PM
Filed under: Farming, Vegetables, Fruit, Food Oddities, America

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Here's a little taste of fruit and vegetable ephemera for all you antique lovers out there. These come from BlueSkySearch.com, a produce industry job resource site. They have page after page of these labels, some weirder than others, as well as a good page of history about them. I'm particularly fond of Cousin Elmer, who likes like he could almost be an R. Crumb creation. Follow the link below for a few others.

Here we have Texus tomatoes, for all you pronunciation buffs out there.

Some of these they just couldn't get away with now.

As a bonus, this is one of my favorites. Sadly, it isn't in their gallery.

Tags: ads, antique, blue sky, boxes, crats, fruit, labels, produce, vegetable

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4-27-2006 @ 6:19PM

floretbroccoli said...

I've seen quite a number of these on PBS's Antiques Road Show lately.

4-28-2006 @ 1:47PM

Allison said...

There's tons of these for sale on the net. Just google for "vintage crate labels". They can make attractive, informal art for kitchens and bathrooms when framed.

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