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 ...

The brightly colored labels on apple boxes were strictly utilitarian. For more than a half-century, labels depicting bucolic vistas of Northwest orchards, children with cherubic faces, attractive ...

For such small pieces of paper, produce labels attract a lot of attention. Affixed to boxes of fruit or vegetables, they serve a utilitarian purpose by advertising what they are and where they come ...

A Sno-Kist fruit crate label, shown here in a provided photo, from before 1918. The labels were used to advertise the iconic fruits of the Northwest before the advent of cardboard boxes. Before the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A person holding a box of Welch's Fruit Snacks in a grocery store - ZikG/Shutterstock Fruits and vegetables are an important part ...