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Florida fruit crate labels, 1920s-1950s

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  1. [3]
    cptcobalt
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    Here's a great collection of historic design—fruit crate labels from Florida-based fruit distributors. This collection could certainly be used as a corpus of design specimen. Be sure to actually...

    Here's a great collection of historic design—fruit crate labels from Florida-based fruit distributors.

    This collection could certainly be used as a corpus of design specimen. Be sure to actually click in on one of the browse buttons, there's a lot to flip through.

    Some of it has, uh, really aged, but some of the design looks great even today.

    5 votes
    1. [2]
      edenist
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      Love that droste effect on the Mike grapefruits! And the first link is very important to have shown around. It's important to make sure we never deny such history existed, and if you're horrified...

      Love that droste effect on the Mike grapefruits!

      And the first link is very important to have shown around. It's important to make sure we never deny such history existed, and if you're horrified by it.... good! Remember that!

      6 votes
      1. zara
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        Yeah, that first image made me cringe pretty bad... but that's good like you said. It's best to not censor the past and pretend things weren't as bad as they actually were.

        Yeah, that first image made me cringe pretty bad... but that's good like you said. It's best to not censor the past and pretend things weren't as bad as they actually were.

        2 votes