Details
Contributor Gugler Lithographic Company, printer.
Title The best flour inside. [graphic] : View of the famous Washburn, Crosby Co. flour mills and St. Anthony Falls, Minneapolis, Minn.
Publisher Milwaukee : Gugler Litho. Co
Publisher WIS. Milwaukee. 1890
Date [ca. 1890]
Physical Description 1 print : chromolithograph ; 16 x 10 cm. (6.25 x 4 in.)
Description Illustrated, metamorphic trade card depicting a windmill with panels that open to show bags and a barrel of "Superlative" and "Gold Medal" flour in the foreground and in the background, a bird's eye view of the Washburn-Crosby Co.'s flour mill complex, including "Mill C Elevator", adjacent to the St. Anthony Falls in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Also shows a train crossing the Mississippi River near the falls on the curved Stone Arch Bridge, which was built in 1883 by railroad tycoon James J. Hill for his Great Northern Railway. Cadwallader C. Washburn's business began as the Minneapolis Milling Company at the St. Anthony Falls site ca. 1856. John Crosby entered the partnership in 1877. Consolidated into General Mills in 1928 with twenty-six other national mills.
Notes Advertising text printed on verso promotes the "Superlative" and "Gold Medal" brands of flour produced by the Washburn-Crosby Co. of Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Digitized.
Subject Stone Arch Bridge (Minneapolis, Minn.)
Washburn-Crosby Co.
Flour & meal industry -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis.
Mills -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis.
Railroad bridges -- Minnesota -- Minneopolis.
Flour.
Railroads.
Windmills.
Geographic subject Mississippi River.
Saint Anthony Falls (Minn.)
Genre Trade cards -- 1880-1890.
Chromolithographs -- 1880-1890.
Metamorphic pictures -- 1880-1890.
Bird's eye views -- 1880-1890.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| trade card - Washburn [P.9993.2]
Accession number P.9993.2