Paper labels with vibrant colors were pasted on the sides of wooden orange crates during the 70-year ... Label designs during this period promoted the fruit as a source of vitamin C and a staple ...

A Sno-Kist fruit crate label, shown here in a provided photo, from before 1918. The labels were used to advertise the iconic fruits of the Northwest before the advent of cardboard boxes.

Delicious produce is not the only thing of value to come from old fruit crates. According to The Saturday Early Show's Collectibles Expert Tony Hyman, the label could be worth far more than the ...

Vivid color and fanciful settings were a staple of the Florida fruit crate labels that identified wood shipping containers in the U.S. from the late 1800s to the 1960s. The Immokalee Pioneer ...

Dwayne Rogers got into collecting crate labels like a lot of other folks attracted to this hobby: He grew up in the fruit business. Rogers’ family owned a pear farm near Auburn. As a young man ...

Almost everyone has seen a fruit crate with its colorful labels attached to the ends of the wooden box. However, such labels with their bright, bold and beautiful artwork were for the most part ...

“It’s the same thing: We’d strip the fruit off the trees, and now we strip the money off the tourists.” The labels died out in the 1950s, when newfangled cardboard boxes made wooden crates ...

A mosaic of a local fruit label greets visitors near the front doors of the Yakima Valley Museum. YAKIMA, Wash. — Lifelong Yakima Valley resident Mike Doty collects fruit crate labels for the ...

California’s labels were an inch or so larger. They were pasted on the sides of the shipping crates sent north by steamship or train. Chicago and New York had the biggest fruit auction centers.

Colonial legacy But the history of fruit-growing in the Okanagan is also one of colonization, and that, too, is reflected in some of the labels, says David Jefferess, a cultural studies professor ...