Fruit Crate Label
name: label: referenced business
content: G. Winthrop Coffin
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Labels are an important marketing device. They often go beyond merely identifying contents and are designed to help establish brand distinction and generate customer loyalty for a largely interchangeable product.
label: Description (Brief)
content: This Governor Winthrop brand fruit crate label was used by the G. Winthrop Coffin distribution company of Seattle, Wenatchee, and Yakima, Washington. The lithographed label was produced by the Union Lithograph Company, Inc. of San Francisco, California. The blue label features an illustration of men taking a small rowboat ashore from their large ship, the <i>Arbella</i>. John Winthrop took the <i>Arbella</i> from England to the New World, where he was the Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony on and off from 1630-1649.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: United States: Washington, Seattle
label: Place Made
content: United States: Washington, Wenatchee
label: Place Made
content: United States: Washington, Yakima
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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: 1979.0441.043
label: accession number
content: 1979.0441
label: catalog number
content: 1979.0441.043
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 3/8 in; 22.225 cm x 26.3525 cm