The Richard Ferrell flour milling industry history collection, ca. 1860-2005.

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The Richard Ferrell flour milling industry history collection, ca. 1860-2005.

Collected by Richard Ferrell who once managed the Pillsbury's historic A Mill. Includes flour milling advertisements, marketing materials, promotional items, cookbooks, newsletters, periodicals, architectural drawings, moving images, sound recordings and photographs. Items produced by Minnesota-based millers form the core of the collection, but it also includes materials from companies in neighboring states, the Pacific Northwest, and Canada.

27.0 cu. ft. (20 boxes, 5 tubes, and 7 folders)

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SNAC Resource ID: 7330740

Minnesota Historical Society Library

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Washburn-Crosby Co.

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General Mills, inc.

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Minneapolis, MN. From the description of Pamphlet and handbill, ca.1930. (College of Physicians of Philadelphia). WorldCat record id: 122364952 In 1893 the Washburn-Crosby Company of Minneapolis opened a Buffalo office from which to distribute its flour throughout the East. A Buffalo flour mill followed in 1904, and in 1928 General Mills was organized with Washburn-Crosby as its nucleus. Washburn-Crosby was dissolved in 1937. General Mills Buffalo operations include a cereal...

Ferrell, Richard L.,

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Pillsbury-Washburn Flour Mills Company

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