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As pictured. Someone painstakingly cut out each window in the piece. As is as pictured. Measures 40x20.
This is a large promotional print/lithograph of the Washburn-Crosby Co. mills in Minneapolis (at St. Anthony Falls), titled “WHERE GOLD MEDAL FLOUR IS MADE.” It shows the complex with labels for buildings like the Washburn A Mill and elevators, and the bottom text reads “WASHBURN CROSBY CO. DAILY CAPACITY 25,000 BARRELS.”
Company capacity figures help date it:
• Capacity was advertised at about 17,000–19,500 barrels daily in the mid-to-late 1890s.
• In 1900 the company was advertising 25,000 barrels daily.
• By late 1903 letterhead shows 30,000; a 1906 postcard version of a similar view shows 35,000; later materials reach 40,000.
The style, the specific capacity claim, the company name (Washburn Crosby Co., pre-General Mills 1928 merger), and the industrial view of the Minneapolis milling district all point to roughly 1900. Similar but later views (with higher capacities) appear on postcards from 1906 onward.
