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Pillsbury A Mill, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Subjects
Factories & MillsManufacturingRailroads & Trains
Card type
Lithograph
Front of Pillsbury A Mill, Minneapolis, Minnesota, lithograph postcard
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Back of Pillsbury A Mill, Minneapolis, Minnesota, lithograph postcard
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About this postcard

The card shows the Pillsbury Mills complex in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with the mill's name and a large "A" on the facade and railroad boxcars on tracks in the foreground. Completed in 1881, the Pillsbury A Mill was for a time the world's largest flour mill and became a defining landmark of Minneapolis's Mississippi riverfront milling district. A bridge railing and utility pole frame the lower-left foreground.

Postcard Details

Message · English, in pen

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PublisherSweet
23. PILLSBURY MILLS, MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. COPYRIGHT BY SWEET — MPLS. --- PILLSBURY MILLS, MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. — Minneapolis is in the heart of an immense lumbering region, with an annual output of lumber from the various mills of about 300,000,000 feet. It is also the largest flour manufacturing place in the world, having over 25 mills with a combined capacity of over 60,000 barrels a day. FOR ADDRESS ONLY
PostmarkedND
Stamp
Addressed to
Larisa Hanson

Carpenter, IA

Postcard record

PostmarkedND
PublisherSweet
Series23
ConditionGood
Place addressedLarisa Hanson, Carpenter, IA
Place depictedPillsbury Mills, Minneapolis, MN
Place mentionedPillsbury Mills, Minneapolis, MN
Stamp1c George Washington, green, perforated on all sides
NotesWhite border; printed card number 23 at upper left; copyright line at right; visible crease at upper left and edge wear. Postmark: HONA N. DAK. 1913. Divided-back litho card with printed Pillsbury Mills ad copy; 1¢ green Washington stamp; light edge wear and toning.

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Pillsbury A Mill, Minneapolis, Minnesota, postcard, n.d.. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/pillsbury-a-mill-minneapolis-minnesota. Accessed October 24, 2026.