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Title: Old-Time Fruit Crate Labels in Full Color (Dover Pictorial Archive Series) by Carol Belanger Grafton ISBN: 0-486-40006-9 Publisher: Dover Publications Pub. Date: 01 February, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: Fruit crate art still flourishing
Comment: I highly recommend this paperback book to anyone who has an eye either for graphic art or rural Americana. At first glance you might wonder what all the fuss is about fruit crate labels, then one particular illustration from Carol Grafton's brilliantly colored collection of 92 designs catches your eye and you are hooked.
As the concise yet historically accurate summary points out on the first page, these colorful, often whimsical, labels were affixed to wooden shipping crates of produce until the mid 1950's when they were replaced by more standardized cardboard boxes. For someone who grew up in agricultural America (as I did) these pictures are nostalgically evocative of a time and place that is disappearing fast. My favorites from this book are the multicolored duck representing Duckwall brand pears from Hood River, Oregon, a pelican made of lettuce, and a Strathmore bagpipe player (who knew there were Scots in Strathmore?).
Many of these same labels have been featured in an exhibit by the California Historical Society in San Francisco (because the lithographers were from local graphic design businesses) and on Antiques Roadshow. Thousands of the original labels themselves can still be purchased at fairly low cost (try internet sites) but this book includes many that are no longer available and so is a good introduction to collecting.
My only regret about this book is that all the pictures couldn't have been the half page size that many are and that there could have been twice as many of them; I would have gladly paid the price. As it is, this volume is an excellent introduction to crate art for a very low price. Maybe there will be a Volume II.
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Title: Old-Fashioned Luggage Labels (Stickers) by Carol Belanger Grafton ISBN: 0486421945 Publisher: Dover Publications Pub. Date: 01 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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Title: Full-Color Fruit Crate Labels CD-ROM and Book (Dover Electronic Series) by Dover Publications Inc ISBN: 0486999823 Publisher: Dover Publications Pub. Date: 09 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Old-Time Cigar Labels in Full Color (Dover Pictorial Archive Series) by Carol Belanger Grafton ISBN: 0486290522 Publisher: Dover Publications Pub. Date: 01 March, 1996 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Old-Time Fruits and Flowers Vignettes in Full Color (Dover Pictorial Archive Series) by Carol Belanger Grafton ISBN: 0486407047 Publisher: Dover Publications Pub. Date: 01 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: Full-Color Old-Time Label Art CD-ROM and Book by Dover ISBN: 0486995550 Publisher: Dover Publications Pub. Date: 26 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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