154r4: Antique Fisher Flour Mills/Broadcasting Ephemera

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This is an assortment of photos, letters and documentation from the Fisher Flour Mills. The owner of an unusual combination of businesses, Fisher Companies Inc. operates as the holding company for three distinct businesses--Fisher Mills Inc., Fisher Broadcasting Co., and Fisher Properties Inc.--involved in flour milling, radio and television broadcasting, and real estate, respectively. Majority owned by members of the Fisher family, Fisher Companies originated as a flour milling company in 1911, then went on to diversify into a host of other business, including radio broadcasting in the mid-1920s, television broadcasting in the early 1950s, and real estate in the early 1970s. For a half century the Fisher family businesses were stewarded by O.D. Fisher, who founded the Fisher family's catalytic business concern, Fisher Flouring Mills, then developed the Fisher family fortune for the ensuing five decades. By the mid-1990s, Fisher Companies, through its subsidiaries, owned flour mills and flour distribution centers, television and radio stations, and various real estate properties.