`Orange Crate Art,” a recent exhibition in Boston of 600 labels from 1900 to the 1930s that decorated the ends of wood crates filled with oranges, apples and yams, revealed a period when ...

Perhaps you’ve seen the television ad with the talking sandwich: The one where the wheaty wonder speaks from the refrigerator shelf to a perplexed snack-seeker? The sandwich proclaims the ben… ...