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Creation Date
9-15-2017
Description
Log Cabin [2 pounds, paper corn meal bag] packed by the Yopp Seed Company in Paducah, Kentucky. The bag was manufactured by the Strong Robinette Bag Company in Bristol, Tennessee, and features a log cabin set in a pastoral scene. The bag's image is framed on the bottom and left with by a flowering vine. A farmer is at work chopping wood in the fore ground and his wife is to the left getting water from a well. Historic images of rural life, particularly vernacular structures, are popular on flour and meal bags.
Broadside S2435 (2000.3.32)
Keywords
Log Cabin, Flour bags, Meal bags, Yopp Seed Company, Paducah, Kentucky, Strong Robinette Bag Company, Bristol, Tennessee