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Title: [Mark Twain Flour]
Contributor: Voigt Milling Company
Date Created and/or Issued: [ca. 1900]
Publication Information: [Grand Rapids, Michigan] : Voigt Milling Company
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: 2001-0010.
Poster advertising Mark Twain Flour with bust-length portrait of Twain surrounded by wheat.
Voigt Milling Company was founded in 1898 and added Mark Twain Flour to their line by 1900, continued marketing under that name until 1951, and went out of business in 1955. They may hold the record for exploiting Twain's name and image longer than any other company.
Type: image
Format: Portraits.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 print : lithograph, color ; 21 3/8 x 13 3/4 in.
Identifier: (C)001380406CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVV-3662
Language: English
Subject: Twain, Mark,, 1835-1910--Portraits
Advertising
Flour & meal industry--Michigan--Grand Rapids
Portraits
Prints
Lithographs
Broadsides
Place: Michigan
Grand Rapids

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