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| Advertisement | Cream of Wheat (1907) |
| Company/Advertising Agency | Cream of Wheat Company |
| Publication Source | Trade Register, Vol 28 (18), p. 6 |
| Publisher Location | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Publication Date | May 4, 1907
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| Advertisement Text | Climate has no terrors for Cream of Wheat. Sells all the time. Summer and winter. Kelley-Clarke Co., Agents. |
| Contextual Notes | In 1893, wheat millers at the Diamond Milling Company in Grand Forks, North Dakota invented a new breakfast porridge. Cream of Wheat packages featured an African American chef named Rastus.
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| Category | Nutrition and food
Commercial products
African Americans |
| Subjects (LCTGM) | Prepared cereals |
| Subjects (LCSH) | Breakfast cereals; African Americans in advertising |
| Geographic Coverage | United States
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| Digital Collection | Early Advertising |
| Digital ID Number | ADV0086 |
| Repository | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections Division |
| Repository Collection | Pacific Northwest Collection. 979.705 TRA |
| Object Type | Advertisement |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from text at 200-400 dpi, saved in TIFF format, enhanced and resized using Adobe Photoshop, and imported as JPEG2000 using Contentdm software's JPEG2000 Extension. 2008 |
