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This circa 1900 promotional postcard for Phoenix Flour Mills shows boaters along the Sacramento River. The company was founded in 1853 and, by 1890, its crew of 25 to 30 workers were producing 150 barrels of flour per day. Phoenix also made corn meal, buckwheat, graham and rye flour, rye meal, hominy, and granulated or breakfast wheat.
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