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Fancy Wedding Cake

Date: 06 26 1955
Description: Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Braatz top off the 26-layer wedding cake that Mrs. Braatz made for their daughter's wedding.
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Alice in Dairyland

Date: 1956
Description: Alice in Dairyland, Doris Olsen, holds a cream puff, always a favorite Wisconsin State Fair treat, as she talks with two bakers at the fair.
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Triggs Bakery Window

Date: 07 22 1954
Description: Bill Triggs Bakery window, 821 East Johnson Street.
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Triggs Bakery Window

Date: 07 22 1954
Description: Bill Triggs Bakery window, 2523 University Avenue.
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Gordy's Bake Shop

Date: 09 15 1954
Description: Gordy's Bake Shop display window, 1409 University Avenue.
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Gordy's Bake Shop

Date: 09 15 1954
Description: Gordy's Bake Shop display window, 1409 University Avenue, alternate view.
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Sam's Bakery Window

Date: 10 18 1955
Description: Halloween display in the window of Sam's Bakery, 735 University Avenue.
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Webers Pastry Kitchen Window

Date: 02 13 1956
Description: Webers Pastry Kitchen, 118 North Fairchild Street, display window featuring a Valentine cake display, including five sweetheart cakes.
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Wilcox Food Shop and Vic's Bakery

Date: 01 13 1955
Description: Exterior view of the Wilcox Food Shop, 1302 Mound Street, and Vic's Bakery, 1304 Mound Street. Vic's Bakery was owned by Victor Hammersley. Wilcox Food S...
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Edith Murray Holding a Pie

Date: 04 06 1953
Description: Edith Murray puts a pie in the oven at Bjelde Pie Shop, 302 North Frances Street. She is treasurer for Sweet Adelines of Madison.
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Edith Murray Holding Bjelde Pie

Date: 04 06 1953
Description: Edith Murray holds a pie she baked at Bjelde Pie Shop, 302 North Frances Street. She is treasurer for Sweet Adelines of Madison.
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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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Baker at Omar Baking Company

Date: 05 22 1952
Description: Art Janeck with loaves of bread in front of ovens at the Omar Baking Company, 3300 Commercial Avenue.
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Gardner Baking Company Move to New Plant

Date: 05 24 1952
Description: A Findorff truck is moving one of three eight-and-a-half bread mixers from the old plant of the Gardner Baking Company at 849 East Washington Avenue to the...
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Syttende Mai Parade

Date: 05 16 1954
Description: A crowd is lining Main Street in Stoughton to watch the annual Syttende Mai parade. The Norse Chalet Coffee and Pastry Shop is in the background.
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Union Women

Date: 08 30 1954
Description: Mabel Pope, assistant secretary of the Local 233 Bakers and Confectioner's Union, operates a bread-wrapping machine at the Kroger Bakery, located at 1053 E...
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Trucks: A Little Golden Activity Book

Date: 1955
Description: Cover of a Little Golden Activity Book for children titled "Trucks." Features a color illustration of International trucks, including an International S-10...
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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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Wisconsin State Journal Cookbook Recipe Contest

Date: 08 14 1958
Description: Agnes Tomlinson, Middleton, cuts a strawberry pie. She plans to enter the cookbook recipe contest for the Wisconsin State Journal.
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Recipe Contest Winner

Date: 10 08 1958
Description: Portrait of Agnes Landwehr who won a recipe contest for her fun buns.

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