Museum Artifact: Cardboard cans of Quick Mother’s Oats, Quaker Rolled White Oats, and Quaker Best Yellow Corn Meal, c. 1920s
Made By: The Quaker Oats Company, 80 E. Jackson Blvd., Chicago, IL [Downtown / The Loop]
Research is underway on this one and a full write-up will be coming soon.
I am a decendant of the Quaker oats company, My Mother is an heiress to the family and company. I have an extensive collection of items, personal diary journals of Robert and John Stuart, Passports,old preserved advertisements from publications etc, almost every cereal box ever made and the empty container all the related items from aqusitions. I have been going through to cherry pick an exhibition of the Original family items and some of the timeline of products, up to date items. I have 60 to 130 year old bound book type letters from prestigious banks such as Northern Trust whom his cousin or relative founded. Also letters from and Princeton university. They speak highly of him and condole our family of his death. These places among others were places he served as a board member and advisor. The letters mention his contributions to the United States, Truman, and being appointed to the Hoover Committee. He was a very humble man though. I have secured and stored silver dinner ware used by the Stuarts or my great and also great great grandfathers / mothers, The grandfather clock the first settlers from Scotland Stuarts brought over on the ship. I have the stories of my still living mother and her multitude of collected data and genealogy. Anyway the point is I wish to currently and eventually put this stuff in a museum to honor it as I have no place to store most of it and fear it will eventually be lost in time. I counted 28 large plastic bins of empty product containers, and a plethora of company related items. Let me know before I throw the empty product containers, and advertisements away or give them to someone to sell or dispose of. Im holding on to some things for now but have way too many product containers etc so please let me know
Hello – I just acquired an outstanding figural statue of the Quaker Oats man. It is about 4.5 feet tall and he has a box of oats in one hand and a scroll that says “Pure” in the other hand. This display piece came from the Quaker Oats plant in Jackson, Tennessee. I know it is old but would like to find out more history on the age and background of the item.
Is there a company museum or expert on Quaker Oats that you might know?
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Rick Humphreys
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I was cleaning out a linen cabinet today and found 2 sacking pieces with printing: One says “Quaker Pellets, Process patented Oct. 17, 1922, made by The Quaker Oats Company, Address Chicago, U,S,A, 100 LBS.” The other says, “Sugared Schumacher Feed, Reg U.S. Pat. Off, Made by The Quaker Oats Company, Address chicago, U.S.A. 100 LBS. Bet Weight. Does anyone want these?
Hi Annemarie, if you could send a few photos of the items to contact@madeinchicagomuseum.com, we can take a look and let you know if we might be able to include them in our exhibit. Thanks! –Curator, Made In Chicago Museum