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W. Jerome & Dora Higgins

Date: 11 27 1949
Description: W. Jerome & Dora Higgins celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary with a cake in their home at 316 Grand Avenue. Jerry Higgins is blind and runs the newsst...
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Women Preparing Baked Goods

Date: 08 15 1942
Description: Side view of a group of women at a Civilian Defense Rally standing behind a counter with loaves of bread. Behind them is a table of covered cake pans and o...
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Woman and Children at Cake Table

Date: 08 15 1942
Description: A woman and children sit around a picnic table with a variety of cakes displayed.
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Girl Scout Selling Cookies

Date: 03 16 1950
Description: Troop 118 Girl Scout Pauline Heland of 228 Langdon Street gets an order for Girl Scout cookies from Francis F. Bowman, Jr., president of the Madison Commun...
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Seybold Baking Company Truck

Date: 04 10 1935
Description: View from under an awning of a man standing next to an International Model C-20 truck used by the Seybold Baking Company. He is handing a loaf of "O Boy" b...
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Hostess Truck at Standard Oil Station

Date: 1935
Description: J.P. Whalen of the Continental Baking Company loads an International truck marked: "Hostess Cake" with boxes outside the Hilltop Market service station.
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National Biscuit Company Truck

Date: 12 17 1934
Description: A man loads boxes marked "Sky Flake Biscuits" onto the bed of an International Model C-35 truck owned by the National Biscuit Company. Advertisements on th...
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Flora Mears

Date: 05 02 1950
Description: Miss Flora Mears, 116 East Gilman Street, cuts a birthday cake provided by the members of the Madison Art Guild of which she was an active member for many ...
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Purity Baking Company Metro Truck

Date: 1950
Description: A man unloads a box from the rear of an International LM-120 with Metro body owned by the Purity Baking Company. The truck is parked on the side of a stree...
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Bamby Donut Truck

Date: 1950
Description: A man removes a wire tray filled with wrapped packages from an International LB-110 truck owned by the Excelsior Baking Company. The truck is parked along ...
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Teen Summer Jobs

Date: 08 09 1950
Description: Peggy Huiskamp, soon to be a Wisconsin High School senior, holds a tray of cookies at her summer job at Langdon's Home Bakery and Delicatessen on State Str...
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Joseph "Roundy" Coughlin

Date: 09 18 1950
Description: "Roundy" Joseph Leo Coughlin (right) celebrated his birthday. When asked his age Roundy responded in typical fashion, "What the heck, a dollar's only worth...
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Hillcrest Homemakers Club

Date: 10 04 1955
Description: Members of the Hillcrest Homemakers club standing around a cake on a table while celebrating their 10th anniversary. Left to Right: Drake, Toepplelman, Die...
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Syl with Cake and Christmas Tree

Date: 1901
Description: Syl sitting at a table with a birthday cake with eight candles. There is a Christmas tree in the background.
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Children of the American Revolution

Date: 03 13 1951
Description: Members of the Timothy Hatch Society of the Children of the American Revolution take part in the commemoration ceremony in recognition of the founding of M...
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Madison Vocational School Cake Decorating Class

Date: 1951
Description: Victor Hammersley, a professional baker and teacher, supervises as Elizabeth Zweifel and Mae Grelle decorate a cake at the Madison Vocational School.
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Winkie, Vilas Zoo Elephant

Date: 06 30 1951
Description: Two men and Vilas Zoo Director Harold Hayes standing with group of children during the celebration of the first anniversary of Winkie the elephant's arriva...
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Baking Company Truck

Date: 1915
Description: View from across the street of a man driving an International Model M truck for the Chas. Seip Baking Company on a snow-covered street. Tire chains have be...
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Men in Company Truck

Date: 1913
Description: Two men sit in an International Model M truck operated by the "Consumers Stale Bread Company." The truck is parked outside a brick building.
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Alice Ferguson, Madison Gas and Electric Home Services Director

Date: 12 07 1951
Description: Mrs. Alice Ferguson, Madison Gas and Electric (MG&E) home services director, is shown with the many varieties of Christmas cookies, candies, cakes, and hou...

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