Vintage Pineywoods Brand Sweet Potato Crate Label H B Howard Pittsburg Texas Color Lithograph Pine Forest American Made 🍎 antique_beverage_ephemera What exactly was this product

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which means this box dates itself almost to the season without a single additional clue

a crockery pitcher

that it served as the direct inspiration for the Pontiac Grand Prix when that model launched in 1962

Vintage Pineywoods Brand Sweet Potato Crate Label H B Howard Pittsburg Texas Color Lithograph Pine Forest American Made 🍎 antique_beverage_ephemera What exactly was this productDo 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,