Apple Crate Label
name: label: referenced business
content: W. B. Kile Company
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 Kile brand apple crate label was in use by the W.B. Kile Company of Yakima, Washington during the early 20th century. The lithographed label has a blue background with an illustration of two red apples on a branch, with the brand KILE above it in large letters. Yakima was part of the Wenatchee Valley apple producing region, which claimed to be the “Apple Capital of the World.”
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: 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: 1979.0441.022
label: accession number
content: 1979.0441
label: catalog number
content: 1979.0441.022
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: 9 in x 10 1/2 in; 22.86 cm x 26.67 cm