Name/Title
Aunt Jemima Information FileEntry/Object ID
9999.BUS.31Scope and Content
Aunt Jemima Information File, File folder of various articles news clippings and other documents related to Aunt Jemima
Contents Include:
--News Clipping, "Aunt Jemima nears 100 Years", June 11, 1989
Aunt Jemima used dolls to promote its products in St. Joseph Missouri. Aunt Jemima, an imaginary soul as well as the pancake flour mix, was the brain child of the late Chris Rutt, who later was managing editor of the St. Joseph News-Press.
The first woman to play the role of Aunt Jemima, who was black was Mrs. Nancy Green. (Newspaper photo) Newspaper picture changed with the times)
In the Lobby of the Quaker Oats, Co. plant office in St. Joseph are six oil paintings by the N.C. Wyeth renowned artist who died in 1947. The paintings portray the legend of Aunt Jemima rising from plantation cook to supervision of pancake flour production. It all started in Chris Rutt's kitchen in St. Joseph, Missouri.
--News photo: "Aunt Jemima's boys" (Quaker Oats baseball team) 9-27-91.
--Report, Aunt Jemima History (copy of 80.1.42.)
--Book article: Aunt Jemima page from St. Joseph, a pictorial History by Mildred Grenier.
--News clipping; "Oh" what those oats did for St. Joseph" about Quaker Oats history and buy out. January 31, 1999.
---News photo: Davis Milling Co. October 2, 1994Lexicon
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