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Title: The Sleepy Eye Mills, Sleepy Eye, Minn. Sleepy Eye cream
Creator: Wilmanns Bros. Co., printer
Contributor: Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued: 1891
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Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History
Rights Information: For information on use of Digital Library materials, please see Library Rights and Permissions: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Image of a Sleepy Eye Cream flour barrel label for Sleepy Eye Mills of Sleepy Eye, Minnesota; bust-length portrait of Native American Indian man "Old Sleepy Eye" with a straw of wheat stuck in his headwear; floral decoration in border.
Date supplied by cataloger based on printer and company history; Wilmanns Bros. began printing together in 1891, and Sleepy Eye Mills operated in Sleepy Eye, Minnesota, until approximately 1914. "Wilmanns Bros. Co. Milwaukee"--text, bottom center margin. "196 lbs. Net When Packed"--text, left of image. "Highest Patent Flour"--text, right of image.
Type: image
Extent: 1 lithograph : color printed
Identifier: priJLC_FOOD_001982
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http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/3832
Language: English
Subject: Indians of North America--Pictorial works
Portraits
Sleepy Eye Mills
Lithographs--Color--1875-1900. (gmgpc)
Lithographs--Color--1900-1925. (gmgpc)
Source: Jay T. Last Collection
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The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library

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