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Although from 2010, the box features a Betty Crocker logo and design.
An ad for Colorvision cake includes a Betty Crocker baking quiz, suggestions, and bright graphics. Posted by Flickr user Classic Film, July 10, 2015.
This Colorvision cake ad appeared in a 1952 edition of Family Circle magazine. Posted by Flickr user Classic Film, June 8, 2015. CC BY-NC 2.0.
General Mills did not invent cake mix, but in the early 1950s, Betty Crocker helped make it nationally popular as a staple of the American pantry.
Morgan’s Mexican & Lebanese Foods at 736 Robert Street, St. Paul, November 1980.
Miners—many of them probably northern European immigrants—in the pit of the Soudan mine, Tower, 1890.
Sample card of glass seed beads sold at the Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post between 1920 and 1959.
Items for sale and trade inside Mille Lacs Trading Post, ca. 1935.