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My Mamma Uses Atlas Flour

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Description: A little girl with corkscrew curls poses glumly. She wears a bib advertising Atlas Flour.
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Water Power

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Description: View across water towards buildings along the shoreline. The building on the left has a sign that reads: "Neenah Mills".
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Fergus Falls Cyclone Wreckage

Date: 06 22 1919
Description: Panoramic view of Fergus Falls after a cyclone ravaged it. Grand Hotel (middle), and Catholic Church (right), have been labeled. Red River Milling Company ...
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Flour Mill Fire

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Description: Fire at the elevator of the Atlas Flour Mill. Two men are working a water hose tower in the center, and fire fighters are aiming jets of water at the buil...
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Webster and Stonehouse Flour Mill

Date: 06 09 1938
Description: View from across road of six men and one woman standing outside the Webster and Stonehouse flour mill. Another man stands in the back of a truck to the rig...
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Burkhardt Mill

Date: 1918
Description: A dam and small mill building on the Willow River. The plant, built by Christian Burkhardt as part of the Burkhardt Milling and Electric Power Company, ope...
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Man and Boy with International Model M Truck

Date: 1914
Description: Man seated in an International model M truck loaded with sacks of flour, and with letters along the roof that read: "Crescent Roller Mills." Beside the tru...
Photograph

Lewis Factory and Globe Milling Company

Date: 04 29 1900
Description: View of the Globe Milling Company, built in 1848, and the Lewis Factory on the Rock River. In the distance is a dam, bridge, and barbershop.
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Ogilvie's Flour Mills C-35 Truck

Date: 1936
Description: An International C-35 truck with a 175-inch wheelbase owned by Ogilvie's Flour Mills Company parked in front of the company factory. The factory was locate...
Map or Atlas

Barron County, State of Wisconsin

Date: 1871
Description: This map of Barron County, Wisconsin, shows the township and range grid, towns, sections, cities and villages, post offices, dwellings, schools, roads, swa...
Photograph

Quaker Corn Flakes Truck

Date: 1936
Description: An International C-35 truck owned by the Quaker Oats Company parked in front of the Quaker Oats factory in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. Sacks of flour ...
Postcard

Elm Grove

Date: 1912
Description: View along stream towards people standing in front of buildings and near a stone bridge. The buildings include a post office and a feed mill. Caption reads...
Photograph

Delivery Trucks

Date: 02 24 1928
Description: A man is sitting in the driver's seat of a delivery truck for Robin Hood Flour. The truck bed has a stake body, and is filled to the top with sacks of flou...
Photograph

Grain Delivery Truck

Date: 06 05 1928
Description: View towards a man sitting in the driver's seat of a Gillespie Grain Co. Ltd. truck, with an open truck bed loaded with sacks of oats. In the background is...
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Flour Delivery Truck

Date: 11 02 1928
Description: A flour delivery truck is backed up to a loading dock. Two men are working with full flour sacks on a cart in the open doorway. The sign on the truck bed r...
Map or Atlas

Flouring Mill of John Ochsner

Date: 1877
Description: A page from an illustrated historical atlas showing four residences, a hotel and the flouring mill of John Ochsner.

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