Tweed Museum of Art presents Brave, Strong, True: Selections from the Potlatch Collection of Roya...

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The Potlatch Corp./Northwest Paper Co. ran one of the most successful business-to business ad campaigns of the 1930s. On the advice of Chicago promoter Frank. I. Cash, Potlatch, headquartered in Cloquet, Minnesota, began using the image and reputation of the famed Royal Canadian Mounted Police, to sell the companys printing papers. In 1981, the Potlatch Corporation donated 374 of its famed Mountie illustrations to the Tweed Museum of Art, where they are preserved and made available in exhibitions. Free and open to the public. Held at the Tweed Museum of Art.
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