Grape-Nuts Food advertisement: Growing Little Folks – Historic Print
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A window into the past: Grape-Nuts Food advertisement: Growing Little Folks, preserved in this historic image. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Grape-Nuts Food advertisement: Growing Little Folks
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A Grape-Nuts advertisement promising to help "growing little folks" offers a window into how packaged breakfast foods were sold to American families. C. W. Post developed the cereal in Battle Creek, Michigan, and introduced it in 1897, pitching it as a wholesome, ready-to-eat alternative to home-cooked breakfasts. The name is a puzzle, since the product contains neither grapes nor nuts. Ads of this kind leaned on parents' hopes for strong, healthy children, a theme that ran through much of the food and patent medicine advertising of the period.
| Original scan | 633 × 885 px |
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| Reference | 1537 |
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