Raynor HCA 2014-01
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 1/30/2014
Litho printed cloth patterns of “Aunt Jemima” and her husband “Uncle Mose.” Each character is two pieces, front and back, highly colorful, 8” x 16,” and trimmed in outline of each. Fine. These were premiums offered by Davis Milling Company intended to be stuffed and sewn together as dolls. The R. T. Davis Milling Company hired former slave Nancy Green as a spokesperson for the Aunt Jemima pancake mix in 1890.Nancy Green was born in Montgomery County, Kentucky, and played the Jemima character from 1890 until her death on September 23, 1923. As Jemima, Green operated a pancake-cooking display at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois, USA in 1893, appearing beside the "world's largest flour barrel".
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