In the first half of the 20th century the nations fruit and vegetables were shipped in wooden boxes. There has been much written about the topic, including here. Its counterpart, the picking box has been relegated to the shadows. In the late 1940s and 1950s the wooden crates would be phased out with the conversion to cardboard. However, the growers still preferred their picking boxes that were used in the orchards. In the 1960s, the Fruit Growers Supply Company were still manufacturing the wooden packing boxes.

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