Comments on: Airships and Oranges: The Commercial Art of the Second Gold Rush http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/design/2012/03/airships-and-oranges-the-commercial-art-of-the-second-gold-rush/ Thu, 23 May 2013 15:32:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 By: Pat http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/design/2012/03/airships-and-oranges-the-commercial-art-of-the-second-gold-rush/#comment-8 Pat Fri, 02 Mar 2012 22:38:02 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/design/?p=107#comment-8 Nice article. If you want more, I spent 30 years collecting and writing about label art, and I am the historian of the Schmidt Litho Company. Happy to help in the future. -- Pat Jacobsen Nice article. If you want more, I spent 30 years collecting and writing about label art, and I am the historian of the Schmidt Litho Company. Happy to help in the future. — Pat Jacobsen

]]> By: Marilyn Sommerdorf http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/design/2012/03/airships-and-oranges-the-commercial-art-of-the-second-gold-rush/#comment-7 Marilyn Sommerdorf Fri, 02 Mar 2012 16:14:02 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/design/?p=107#comment-7 This is a most interesting site. Thanks for putting it together. In my area, the foothills of Northern California, there is a festival every year celebrating mandarin fruit. http://www.mountainmandarins.com/festival.htm This region has been a fruit growing district of some renown. Over the years citrus and deciduous fruit have been a large precentage of the agricultural economy. http://www.csrmf.org/events-exhibits/whats-new/railroad-museum-to-debut-enticing-new-exhibit-qpick-me-fruit-crate-art-a-the-california-dreamq Follwo the above link to our current fruit crate label display at the California State Railroad Museum. A whole new crop will be coming later this month. This is a most interesting site. Thanks for putting it together.

In my area, the foothills of Northern California, there is a festival every year celebrating mandarin fruit.
http://www.mountainmandarins.com/festival.htm

This region has been a fruit growing district of some renown. Over the years citrus and deciduous fruit have been a large precentage of the agricultural economy.

http://www.csrmf.org/events-exhibits/whats-new/railroad-museum-to-debut-enticing-new-exhibit-qpick-me-fruit-crate-art-a-the-california-dreamq
Follwo the above link to our current fruit crate label display at the California State Railroad Museum. A whole new crop will be coming later this month.

]]> By: Robin Horton / Urban Gardens http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/design/2012/03/airships-and-oranges-the-commercial-art-of-the-second-gold-rush/#comment-6 Robin Horton / Urban Gardens Fri, 02 Mar 2012 15:14:30 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/design/?p=107#comment-6 Fascinating post, for both the history and the stunning visuals. I am from California, but never knew how the orange industry influenced development there and ultimately the industry's own demise. Gotta go get some of those beautiful labels now. Fascinating post, for both the history and the stunning visuals. I am from California, but never knew how the orange industry influenced development there and ultimately the industry’s own demise. Gotta go get some of those beautiful labels now.

]]> By: Brent Eades http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/design/2012/03/airships-and-oranges-the-commercial-art-of-the-second-gold-rush/#comment-4 Brent Eades Thu, 01 Mar 2012 22:45:14 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/design/?p=107#comment-4 How lovely and evocative. Reminiscent of the kinds of packaging I'd see in my grandmother's kitchen back in the 50s. Schmidt's work is indeed art in its own right. How lovely and evocative. Reminiscent of the kinds of packaging I’d see in my grandmother’s kitchen back in the 50s.

Schmidt’s work is indeed art in its own right.

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