File:Vashon Island "big red strawberry" postcard, ca 1908 (MOHAI 5313).jpg

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English: Vashon Island "big red strawberry" postcard, ca. 1908   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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English: Vashon Island "big red strawberry" postcard, ca. 1908
Description
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In the early part of the 20th century, Vashon Island marketed itself as "The Home of the Big Red Strawberry." This Big Red Strawberry postcard includes a map of Vashon and Maury Islands showing steamer connections to Seattle and Tacoma. According to the back of this postcard, postmarked August 1908, Vashon Island farmers shipped some 75,000 crates of strawberries from the island that summer.

Full title: Vashon Island, gem of Puget Sound and home of the big red strawberry. Written on verso: Message: Portage, Wash., Aug. 13 1908. I am glad that you got home safe and sound after the trip to Orting. I am having a fine time on Vashon Island. Original postcard (lithograph)" ca. 1908. Copied in 1998 by the Museum of History and Industry.

  • Subjects (LCTGM): Strawberries; Islands
Depicted place
English: Vashon Island (Wash.)
Date circa 1908
date QS:P571,+1908-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium
English: 1 negative: safety film, b&w
Dimensions height: 2.2 in (57.1 mm); width: 2.7 in (69.8 mm)
dimensions QS:P2048,2.25U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,2.75U218593
institution QS:P195,Q219563
Current location
Museum of History and Industry
Accession number
5313
Source
English: Museum of History and Industry
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This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1929.
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Postcard Collection, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved

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