The materials in this newly available manuscript collection were gathered by Richard Ferrell, who once managed Pillsbury’s historic A Mill. They include flour milling advertisements, marketing materials, promotional items, cookbooks, newsletters, periodicals, architectural drawings, moving images, sound recordings, and photographs. Items produced by Minnesota-based millers form the core of the collection, but it also includes materials from companies in neighboring states, the Pacific Northwest, and Canada.

You can view images from this collection in the Minnesota Historical Society’s Photo and Art Database.