Pat Jacobsen

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Thomas P. "Pat" Jacobsen is a historian who began collecting labels and other agricultural advertising in August 1978, and has worked continuously toward the preservation of this unique art-form ever since. He has travelled extensively along the Pacific Coast of America and throughout The West in search of labels, artifacts and information on all aspects of agricultural advertising and the western printing industry. His travels have taken him as far as Spain, Italy, Throughout western Europe, The Netherlands, Tasmania, Australia, across Canada and throughout Washington, Oregon, California, Idaho, Florida and many American states seeking labels and the history of their use worldwide, and has built the largest collection of such labels currently known. He has spent nearly twenty-three years researching each agricultural region along the Pacific Coast from Salmon Arm, British Columbia to Arizona, collecting fruit and vegetable crate labels, can labels and agricultural advertising posters and recording the histories of their use. He has developed networks of thousands of collectors and interested institutions around the world and put what he has learned into exhibits, lectures, slide-shows, state and county fairs, over 100 magazine and newspaper articles (including EBAY Magazine -- July 2000), numerous books, seven television documentaries & public t.v. projects, videos, CD-ROMs and other presentations (including his 100+ page Web site

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