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Milling Around: Kentucky Flour Bags

“Milling Around: Kentucky Flour Bags” features a representative sampling of the nearly two hundred bags held by WKU’s Department of Library Special Collections. The bags with bold and bright iconography document an industry that was once local but is now consolidated into huge conglomerates. At one time almost every hamlet of any consequence boasted one or more water- or steam-powered mills that produced flour and/or corn meal. This exhibit features both paper and cloth bags. After consuming the flour, customers used the bleached cotton bags for towels, cleaning rags, backing for quilts and even clothing. As a marketing ploy, many flour mills eventually sold their flour in printed cotton fabric bags of varied colors and designs. These bags were specifically made to be converted into fabric for clothing, quilting and other household uses. Paper bags began the standard by the mid-1950s. The Werthan Bag Company of Nashville, one of the largest companies of its type in the country, converted from cloth to paper bags exclusively in 1955.
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  • Advance Flour [flour bag] by Kentucky Library Research Collections

    Advance Flour [flour bag]

  • Auburn Leader [flour bag] by Kentucky Library Research Collections

    Auburn Leader [flour bag]

  • Baughman's No. 1 [flour bag] by Kentucky Library Research Collections

    Baughman's No. 1 [flour bag]

  • Belle of Warren [flour bag] by Kentucky Library Research Collections

    Belle of Warren [flour bag]

  • Big Ben [flour bag] by Kentucky Library Research Collections

    Big Ben [flour bag]

  • Bird of Paradise [flour bag] by Kentucky Library Research Collections

    Bird of Paradise [flour bag]

  • Blue Grass [flour bag] by Kentucky Library Research Collections

    Blue Grass [flour bag]

  • Bolted Corn Meal [bag] by Kentucky Library Research Collections

    Bolted Corn Meal [bag]

  • Boone [corn meal bag] by Kentucky Library Research Collections

    Boone [corn meal bag]

  • Coleman's Favorite [flour bag] by Kentucky Library Research Collections

    Coleman's Favorite [flour bag]

  • Early Rise Self-Rising Flour [flour bag] by Kentucky Library Research Collections

    Early Rise Self-Rising Flour [flour bag]

  • Eiderdown [flour bag] by Kentucky Library Research Collections

    Eiderdown [flour bag]

  • Family Pride [flour bag] by Kentucky Library Research Collections

    Family Pride [flour bag]

  • Fancy Bouquet [flour bag] by Kentucky Library Research Collections

    Fancy Bouquet [flour bag]

  • Forget Me-Not Enriched Self-Rising Flour [flour bag] by Kentucky Library Research Collections

    Forget Me-Not Enriched Self-Rising Flour [flour bag]

  • Francis Wholesale Company [corn meal bag] by Kentucky Library Research Collections

    Francis Wholesale Company [corn meal bag]

  • Glen Lily [flour bag] by Kentucky Library Research Collections

    Glen Lily [flour bag]

  • Glen Lily [flour bag] by Kentucky Library Research Collections

    Glen Lily [flour bag]

  • Gold Bond [flour bag] by Kentucky Library Research Collections

    Gold Bond [flour bag]

  • Grayson Lily [flour bag] by Kentucky Library Research Collections

    Grayson Lily [flour bag]

  • Happy Jane [flour bag] by Kentucky Library Research Collections

    Happy Jane [flour bag]

  • Harrison's [corn meal bag] by Kentucky Library Research Collections

    Harrison's [corn meal bag]

  • Health-Build [flour bag] by Kentucky Library Research Collections

    Health-Build [flour bag]

  • Jumbo [flour bag] by Kentucky Library Research Collections

    Jumbo [flour bag]

  • Kanawha Chief [corn meal bag] by Kentucky Library Research Collections

    Kanawha Chief [corn meal bag]

 
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