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"Foster Parents" Meeting

Date: 03 09 1955
Description: Walter and Marion Krause sample doughnuts at a meeting held for 120 Madison and Dane County foster parents at Gardener's Baking Company. The men have cared...
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Girl Scout Cookies

Date: 02 2014
Description: Girl Scouts selling cookies at Festival Foods on Copeland Avenue.
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Bride Feeding Wedding Cake to Groom

Date: 05 2012
Description: Unidentified bride and groom with wedding cake. The bride is feeding a slice of wedding cake to the groom. The cake is frosted in gold with white flowers a...
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Wedding Cake

Date: 01 25 1958
Description: Wedding cake with topper of two bells and a bow at the wedding reception of Mary (Kustermann) Esser (b. 1934) and J. Thomas Esser (b. 1934).
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University of Wisconsin Badgers Honor All-American Pat Richter

Date: 12 07 1961
Description: Members of U.W. basketball team presenting a cake to their new basketball teammate, Pat Richter, at a party in honor of his being named to the UPI All-Amer...
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"Tasting Tea" at Ann Emery Hall

Date: 12 05 1961
Description: Bette Gebhardt, Milwaukee, left, and Gretchen Brown, Kankakee, Illinois are serving Grasshopper Pie, one of the desserts offered at Ann Emery Hall's "Tasti...
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"Tasting Tea" at Ann Emery Hall

Date: 12 05 1961
Description: Sandy Sinn, 3405 Blackhawk Drive, sitting beside a chocolate-frosted Yule Log decorated with candles and Christmas wreaths for the "Tasting Tea" at Ann Eme...
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"Tasting Tea" at Ann Emery Hall

Date: 12 05 1961
Description: Katie Knode, Fredonia, New York, with a frosted Cherry Angel Food Cake. The co-eds pictured in this series are all freshmen or sophomores at Ann Emery Hall...
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Hilldale Shopping Center First Anniversary

Date: 10 19 1963
Description: Several youth are eyeing the mammoth first anniversary birthday cake at the Hilldale Shopping Center on Midvale Boulevard.
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Teen-age Baking Contest

Date: 11 18 1964
Description: Richard Krejcarek, age eighteen from Manitowoc and first-year student at the Madison Vocational, Technical, and Adult school, is the winner of the teen-age...
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Blessed Sacrament Girl Scout Troop

Date: 11 20 1964
Description: Members of Blessed Sacrament Cadette Girl Scout troop shown preparing to serve pastries at a "tasting tea" at the school. They baked the food themselves a...
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Bake Sale by Beatles' Fan Club

Date: 11 05 1964
Description: Five members of the West Side Branch of the Beatles' Fan Club that participated in a bake sale to benefit the Empty Stocking club. These joyous Beatle fans...
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Children Celebrating their Great-Grandmother's 100th Birthday

Date: 01 25 1921
Description: Studio portrait of five children posed in front of a cake, celebrating their great-grandmother's 100th birthday. The child in the center is holding a sign ...
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Anniversary Portrait

Date: 1918
Description: Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of an elderly couple for their 50th anniversary. The woman is sitting, and the man is standing. ...
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Governor Albert G. Schmedeman with Guests

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Description: Governor Albert Schmedeman sits at his desk for a group portrait. To his right stand three men wearing suits, and to Schmedeman's left stand five women wea...
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Wiley with Cake

Date: 1948
Description: Congressman Alexander Wiley, at left, and another man on the right, holding a cake decorated with the Great Seal of the State of Wisconsin.
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Barber's Closet Konditorei Menu

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Description: One-page menu for konditorei, or Sunday afternoon coffee and pastry, at the Barber's Closet, a bar located in the Hotel Washington, 636 W. Washington Avenu...
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CUNA Mutual Insurance Society 30th Anniversary

Date: 08 12 1965
Description: Three men posing behind a cake. One of them is holding up a cupcake displaying a traditional credit union symbol. Left to right are the decorated commemora...
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Birthday Party

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Description: Group portrait of men and women sitting at a table in the corner of a room, perhaps a restaurant, at a birthday party. There is a cake with candles in the ...
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As Things Appear at the Bakery

Date: 04 2014
Description: A man and a woman are standing behind the counter at Lane's Bakery. The glass display case has three rows of baked goods. There are three tall movable rack...

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