YAKIMA — Produce labels identify and advertise. They feature original art and hint at history. Sometimes, it’s personal history. Walter Lindsey, an apple crate label hobbyist and collector who is one ...

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 ...

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 ...