Apple Crate Label
name: label: referenced business
content: Skookum Packers Association
label: referenced business
content: Northwestern Fruit Exchange
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This Skookum brand apple crate was in use by the Northwestern Fruit Growers Association of Seattle, Washington, in the early 20th century. Skookum was a Chinook word denoting “excellence.” Native American imagery was frequently depicted on the crate labels of various fruit distributors to evoke the idea of rich, natural produce.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: United States: Washington, Wenatchee
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content: Work and Industry: Agriculture
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content: Food
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content: Crate Labels
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content: Agriculture
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: L.E. Leininger
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1979.0441.058
label: accession number
content: 1979.0441
label: catalog number
content: 1979.0441.058
objectType: label: Object Name
content: crate label
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (crate label material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (substrate material)
label: Measurements
content: crate label: 8 3/4 in x 10 1/2 in; 22.225 cm x 26.67 cm