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Washburn Crosby Co.’s flour take medals whenever and wherever exhibited: Cincinnati 1880 -- Chicago 1893.

1893 · 61003 — Minneapolis MN: Washburn Crosby Co. Washburn’s Superlative Flour 1893. 12mo. 3.8 x 6 in. which folds out to 6.75 x 6 in. colour chromolithograph trade card illustrated recto & verso minor wear rubbing at fold crease minor shelfwear still VG exemplar from the library of Prof. Marvin Nathan. First edition of this nicely chromolithographed advertising souvenir folding trade card handed out by Washburn Crosby & Co. flour mills at the 1893 Columbian Exposition where they again won a gold medal for their “Superlative Flour.†Image shows sacks of flour being shipped across the Great Lakes with Columbia seated above illustration of gold medal ribbons on recto. Washburn 1818-1882 built his first flour mill in Minneapolis MN in 1866 with a capacity of 840 barrels per day but after fire and setbacks had erected a huge new mill in 1880 with state-of-the-art machinery which produced “Gold Medal†winning flour. Not in Dybwad & Bliss Annotated Bibliography: World’s Columbian Exposition Chicago 1893. Washburn, Crosby Co., Washburn’s Superlative Flour, unknown