The Northwestern Miller: Dust Storms, Grasshoppers, Race, Gender and War – 1930-1939 (PDF)
£12.00
This is a PDF of a printed publication, which is available here.
Mills Archive Research Publication 16.
A valuable historical record; A4, 82pp with 70 illustrations, many in colour.
The Mills Archive Trust holds probably the most complete run of The Northwestern Miller, a journal published from 1873-1973. Appearing weekly for most of the century, it charted the growth and success of the Minneapolis-based American milling industry and included market reports from around the world. The AHRC/White Rose College grant scheme provided three month’s support for PhD student, Starlina Rose to digitise an extended run. She selected the 1930s as a most interesting decade and one that was not available online. We invited her to author this, the sixteenth of our Research Publications series to provide some insights into our planned digital archive of the journal.
The period from the Wall Street Crash until the outbreak of the Second World War was a momentous time in the shaping of America. The journal provides a contemporary and detailed account of the impact on the milling industry of the Crash, the ensuing depression and the cataclysmic drought that followed. It also illuminates a challenging and humbling narrative on prevalent social aspects such as racism and prejudice against women. All are covered in Rose’s account together with some intriguing details on the industry’s views of communist and fascist regimes in Europe at that time.
