Dwayne Rogers got into collecting crate labels like a lot of other folks attracted to this hobby: He grew up in the fruit business. Rogers’ family owned a pear farm near Auburn. As a young man, he ...

WINTER GARDEN – Like postcards from the past, old citrus crate labels tell the story of Central Florida. When orange-growing was king, the colorful artwork helped distinguish each brand of fruit ...

Eye-catching images depicting California as a paradise of health and sunshine blanketed the country during the state’s citrus heyday from the mid-1880s to 1955. Paper labels with vibrant colors were ...

The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. Collector Larry Kotz ...

They were 10-by-11-inch paper squares of romance, slapped onto wooden crates and trucked north to market Florida fruit: part identifier, part advertising, part tourism. And part imagination in ...

YAKIMA, Wash. — Lifelong Yakima Valley resident Mike Doty collects fruit crate labels for the thrill of the hunt. “That’s what it’s all about. Stuff we’ve never seen before,” he said. Thomas Hull, a ...

Photoshop CS6 Extended tutorial showing how to design your own fruit crate label, plaster it onto a wooden crate and then weather it with abrasions, rips, and scratches.

For decades, Orange County lived up to its name as a major producer of citrus, despite significant ups and downs, until the killer freezes of the 1980s. On cool winter nights during our citrus heydays ...

The Duluth Crate Co. might not sound like much of a vessel for artistic creativity. But its founder and sole employee is quick to point out that the business’ name has less to do with the product he ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Collector Larry Kotz poses with his book on British Columbian fruit crate labels in his den in Vernon, B.C. (Tom Popyk/CBC - image ...