Antique 1930s Miramar Brand Sunkist Lemon Crate Label 🍋 Montecito California, Crocker-Sperry folk_art_illustration This was not decorative nationalism

This was not decorative nationalism for its own sake

names now unrecorded in any source I've been able to track down — clearly understood branding instinct decades before that was a common phrase: give the place a character

the Allied occupation of Japan ran from 1945 to 1952 under General Douglas MacArthur

Color-printed paper labels for tin cans required precise registration across multiple press passes

If you can find that code on your label

Antique 1930s Miramar Brand Sunkist Lemon Crate Label 🍋 Montecito California, Crocker-Sperry folk_art_illustration This was not decorative nationalismRestoring the Real Name on This Label: MIRAMAR This is an original, unused MIRAMAR Brand lemon crate label, grown and packed by the Crocker Sperry Co. of Montecito, Santa Barbara County, California. A correction is owed here, and it is made plainly: this listing's title had drifted, over time, to lead with the word "Sunkist" but Sunkist is not the brand of this label. It is the trademark printed on the small illustrated tissue wrapper depicted in one