14.02

Postcard, Advertising

1920 Approximate

Wasesca Milling Company, Cottage Cereal. 5 1/4" x 3 1/4" color lithographed postcard advertising the Waseca Milling Company, Cottage Cereals' message, "Eat Your Way to Good Health"; artwork shows the 3-story company warehouse or plant with a delivery dock, a truck, and a train track to the right; postcard addressed to Laura Korman, Waldorf, Minn. (There is ink writing on the front, and scribbling also over the message on back.)

Waseca Business: Waseca Milling Company, Cottage Cereals. Irish immigrant Nicolas Breen was proprietor of this business and owner of the building. A digital copy of a business note sent from John Breen to his brother Francis Breen on the N. J. Breen & Sons, Waseca Cereal Mills letterhead is attached to this record.