Black & white advertising postcard with colored Gold Medal Flour bag and photo of Minnie Freeman, merchant in Wamsley, Jefferson Township, Adams County, Ohio. Minnie Dell Freeman is listed in the Census of Adams County from 1870 to 1920. Caldwaller Washburn and John Crosby formed the Washburn-Crosby Company in 1877. They won the gold, silver, and bronze medals in the first International Millers Exposition. In 1928 the company merged with 26 other mills to create General Mills.
