This vintage cotton flour sack measures 15 inches wide x 35 inches long. There is some fabric pilling and yellowing, but no rips, tares, or major stains. The base color of the sack is natural/beige with red/blue printed graphics. Graphic on the front reads, 'Bread Flour Enriched, Bleached (Fortified With Calcium). Clasped Hands Logo. Donated By the People of the United States Of America Not To Be Sold Or Exchanged Weight: Net 100 Pounds.'
Graphic on the back reads, 'Alliance For Progress, Flour, Offered by the People of the United States of America, No Sale or Exchange' in 14 languages.
We believe this flour sack was originally produced sometime in the 1960s. Originally made to hold 100lbs of Bread Flour to, it appears to have been later altered and reused by Brownville Mills as a 50lb Turbinado Sugar Sack. When turned inside-out you will find stamped in blue ink "50lbs Net" "Brownville Mills" & "Brownville, Nebr" and in red/pink ink "Turbinado Raw Sugar" in two places.
Fun Historical Facts about this item:
*The "Clasped Hands" logo was made in 1953 by Elanor Gault, an employee in the Marking and Labeling Office of the Mutual Security Agency (which later became USAID). The logo was used from 1953 into the 1990s.
*The Alliance for Progress, launched by President John F. Kennedy in 1961, was a program aimed at improving relations with Latin America through economic cooperation and development.
*Cloth flour sacks moved primarily to paper or plastic sometime in the 1960s.
*Located in Brownville, Nebraska, Brownville Mills began as a health food store in 1953 and still functions today, though no milling is done at the site anymore.
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