Labels often speak for themselves. They are small ads promoting a product to either wholesalers or consumers. They picture the hairstyles, fashions, architecture, and transportation of the day. Trademarks, printing styles, colors, bar codes, and even wording—a vegetable name like telephone peas—contain clues to the age of a label.
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