Nursery Labels, 1868

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Title

Nursery Labels, 1868

Description

19th growers traditionally used pencils on pine labels to identify their stock, but the development of printing presses led to mass-produced tags--a microcosm of revolutionary "branding" that was occurring to foods of all kinds.

Publisher

Date

1868

Source

"Woodward's Record of Horticulture," Vol. 2 (New York: Francis W. Woodward, 1868): 105

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Print journal illustration