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| Advertisement | Aunt Jemima's Pancake Flour (1894) |
| Company/Advertising Agency | R.T. Davis Mill Company |
| Publication Source | Westerner, Vol 2 (45), p. 6 |
| Publisher | Westerner Company |
| Publisher Location | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Publication Date | November 10, 1894 |
| Advertisement Text | "I'se in town, honey!" Aunt Jemima's Pancake Flour. A combination of the great food triumvirate: wheat, corn and rice. Does your husband complain of late breakfasts? Does he come home cross? Do you want more rest? Buy a package. Give him a pancake. Use pancake flour. |
| Contextual Notes | The Aunt Jemima pancake mix debuted in 1889. Under the new ownership of R.T. Davis in 1890, the company hired a spokeswoman and former slave named Nancy Green to portray Aunt Jemima.
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| Category | African Americans
Nutrition and food
Commercial products |
| Subjects (LCTGM) | Pancakes & waffles |
| Subjects (LCSH) | Flour; African Americans in advertising; Women in advertising |
| Geographic Coverage | United States
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| Digital Collection | Early Advertising |
| Digital ID Number | ADV0021 |
| Repository | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections Division |
| Repository Collection | Pacific Northwest Collection. 979.505 WES |
| 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 |
