Antique produce labels

by Nick Vagnoni, Posted Apr 27th 2006 @ 5:39PM

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.

Filed Under: Farming, Food Oddities, Ingredients
Tags: ads, america, antique, blue sky, boxes, crats, fruit, labels, oddities, produce, vegetable, vegetables

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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.
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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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