Vintage Pineywoods Brand Sweet Potato Crate Label H B Howard Pittsburg Texas Color Lithograph Pine Forest American Made 🍎 antique_beverage_ephemera Not one of those mass-produced

Not one of those mass-produced facsimiles that a certain well-known furniture retailer sells for hundreds of dollars framed on particle board

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Vintage Pineywoods Brand Sweet Potato Crate Label H B Howard Pittsburg Texas Color Lithograph Pine Forest American Made 🍎 antique_beverage_ephemera Not one of those mass-producedDo You Remember When the Whole Country Shipped on Rails and Every Crate Told a Story? There is a particular kind of American beauty that almost disappeared entirely. It lived on the end panels of wooden produce crates, rolled out in brilliant color by the lithographic press, glued on in the packing shed, and then sent rattling down the rails to grocers and markets across the country. The men and women who made these labels the artists, the pressmen,