Flour mill row in Minneapolis ca. 1877, before the 1878 flour-dust explosion. Pictured are, left to right: Washburn A Mill, Crown Mill, Empire Mill, Pillsbury B Mill, Excelsior Mill, a paper mill, and Northwestern Mill.
Flour sack from George W. Florida’s Rockford Roller Mills on display in the Ames-Florida-Stork House. Made ca. 1895; photographed in 2014. Used with the permission of the Rockford Area Historical Society.
Headline of an article on the flour milling strike of 1903 published on the front page of the Minneapolis Tribune on September 24, 1903. Accessed through an institutional subscription to ProQuest historical newspapers at the Minnesota History Center.