Scope and Contents From the Collection: The H.H. King Flour Mills Co. collection is divided into eight series: Blueprints, 1895-1954; Customer Coupons, 15 April-1 November 1932; Correspondence, 1911-1949; Employee Timecards, 1934-1943; Equipment Catalogs, 1914-1955; Legal Documents, 1855-1969; Miscellaneous, 1915-1975; and Volumes, 1896-1958.Blueprints, 1895-1954This series contains a wide variety of blueprints related to the numerous mills located on the site of the H.H. King complex. These prints contain...

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This series contains seventy-two volumes pertaining to the company’s cashbooks, time books, payroll records, various wheat records, and other miscellaneous records

Abstract The H.H. King Flour Mills Co. collection contains information concerning the company between 1855 and 1975. The H.H. King Flour Mills Co. began in 1923 as an outgrowth of several earlier flour milling businesses in Faribault including those of Milledge Sheffield in the 1890s and later his son B.B. Sheffield. Henry H. King partnered with B.B. Sheffield to form the Sheffield-King Milling Co. in 1902. King bought Sheffield’s remaining interest in 1906 and continued to use the former named until...