00994.xml Loris Sofia Gregory: An Inventory of Her Flour and Feed Bag Research Files at the Minnesota Historical Society Finding aid prepared by Shelby Edwards National Historical Publications and Records Commission. Minnesota Historical Society
St. Paul, MN.

Manuscripts Collection

Finding aid encoded by Shelby Edwards December 2011 Finding aid written in English. OVERVIEW Minnesota Historical Society Gregory, Loris Sofia. Flour and feed bag research files. 1890-2002 (bulk 1989-1992). Materials in English. Background research files, correspondence, fabric pattern samples, surveys, and other material related to private and public feed, flour, and dress print bag collections; bag manufacturing and textile milling companies; as well as fabric and sewing pattern companies compiled for the published article: Connolly, Loris. "Recycling feed sacks and flour bags: thrifty housewives or marketing success story?" Dress, Volume 19 (1992): 17-36. 2.0 cubic feet (2 boxes). See Detailed Description for shelf locations. CATALOG HEADINGS

This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Minnesota Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related topics should search the catalog using these headings.

Topics: Bagging. Clothing and dress -- Marketing. Dressmaking -- Patterns. Feeds -- Packaging. Flour industry -- Minnesota. Flour mills -- Minnesota. Places: Minneapolis (Minn.) Titles: Recycling feed sacks and flour bags. ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION Preferred Citation:

[Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. Gregory, Loris Sofia. Flour and Feed Bag Research Files. Minnesota Historical Society.

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Processing Information:

Processing and cataloging of this collection was supported with a Basic Project grant awarded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC).

Processed by: Shelby Edwards, December 2011

Catalog ID number: 007458506

 RELATED MATERIAL

DETAILED DESCRIPTION 123.E.17.2F "Recycling feed sacks and flour bags: thrifty housewives or marketing success story?" Dress, Volume 19 (1992): 17-36: Published article, 1992. Feed sacks and flour bags: function to fashion: synopsis, September 1989. Typescript. Selected bibliography, 1992. Photocopies and prints of article illustrations, undated, circa 1992. Collections surveys: Report of survey of individual and public collections, 1989. Collection survey responses, 1989-2002. 4 folders. Bemis Archives research: Correspondence, 1988-1990. Flour bag fashions, undated. Typescript. Partial inventory of holdings, undated. Photocopies of general articles, undated, 1933-1989. Photocopies of photographs, undated, circa 1908-1950s. Color snapshots of advertisements, undated, 1947-1964. Color flyer, Third Quarter, 1989. Minnesota Historical Society research: Database reports, undated. Photocopies of Feedstuffs articles, 1929-1952. Northrup King and Company materials, 1904-1945. General research: Photocopied articles and citations, undated. Photocopies and originals related to dating and identifying samples, undated. Quilt documentation/fabric dating, undated. Montgomery Wards, 1949-1957. Sears catalogs, 1931-1947. World War II Belgian relief flour sacks, undated. Poultry Tribune (Mount Morris, Illinois) 1930-1948.

Scattered issues.

Assorted publications, 1945-1989.

Includes Bagology (Chase Bag Company, Chicago, Illinois, August 1945); Saco-Lowell Bulletin (Saco-Lowell Mills, Boston, Massachusetts, January 1955, focused on dress print bags and Werthan Bag Corporation); The Seed Bag (Northrup King, Minneapolis, May 1958); Our First 100 Years (Percy-Kent Bag Company, Kansas City, Missouri, 1985); Membership Directory (Textile Bag Manufacturers Association, Northbrook, Illinois, 1989); and reproduction of Republican/Democrat paper bag (Percy Kent Bag Company) related to the 1948 presidential election.

 123.E.17.3B Articles used in research, 1800s-1950s. 6 folders. Commercial brochures related to sewing with flour bags, 1930s-1989. Cotton print fabric samples, 1890s-1940s. Lecture script with 43 slides, September 17, 1993.

Given by Connolly at the Costume Society annual meeting.

 Database list of Midwestern collectors/collections, May-June 1989. Photographs of Midwestern collections,

Color photographs taken by Connolly of documented flour/feed/dress print bags, quilts, related garments and milling artifacts in private and public Midwestern collections.