WINTER GARDEN – Like postcards from the past, old citrus crate labels tell the story of Central Florida. When orange-growing was king, the colorful artwork helped distinguish each brand of fruit ...

Eye-catching images depicting California as a paradise of health and sunshine blanketed the country during the state’s citrus heyday from the mid-1880s to 1955. Paper labels with vibrant colors were ...

The images evoke a simpler era, a time when citrus was king and the push was on to sell a slice of sunny, exotic California to the outside world. And so the citrus labels, soon to go on display at the ...

Dwayne Rogers got into collecting crate labels like a lot of other folks attracted to this hobby: He grew up in the fruit business. Rogers’ family owned a pear farm near Auburn. As a young man, he ...