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Dec
Cereal boxes are a staple of the morning for many Americans, but do you know how they came to be? Cereal box production first started in 1898 with the invention of breakfast cereal by Dr. James Caleb Jackson of Battle Creek, Michigan. His cereal was marketed as “Granula” and it sparked an entire industry of boxed cereals created by Dr. John Harvey Kellogg with his “Kellogg’s Corn Flakes” brand. Cereal boxes have been a favorite of advertisers, artists, and designers throughout time. In its heyday, cereal boxes were far more than just a container for the cereal. They were graphic…