Edwardian Advertising Postcard - Joseph Rank Flour Miller
Joseph Rank Flour Miller Postcard Postcards were extensively used as an advertising medium in Victorian and Edwardian Britain. Some were used for customer correspondence, many given away with the advertised product; others were issued at trade exhibitions or were given to schools and Sunday Schools for use as ' reward cards' for children . Attached is a poster style Edwardian postcard advertising the company we today know as Rank Hovis McDougal. The postcard dates from the early 1900's and features the original 1901 company name "Joseph Rank Limited" and their, then new and state of the art, Clarence Mills in Hull Yorkshire. To the top of the card is a brand name "As You Like It Flour", a bread flour that the company continues to offer today. Joseph Rank (1854 - 1943) was the son of a Hull miller. He worked for his father from his early teens but it wasn't a happy arrangement and, in1874 when his father died, Joseph was forced to make
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