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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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Fresh Bread from the Oven

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Description: A baker, clad in apron, pulls a tray of freshly-baked rolls from the oven.
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Man Icing a Cake

Date: 02 10 1938
Description: Man icing a small cake, taken for Kennedy Dairy Co.
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White House Cake

Date: 01 28 1934
Description: Three men are standing behind a cake shaped like the White House, baked by the Strand Baking Company, 2007 Atwood Avenue, for the Roosevelt Birthday Ball. ...
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White House Cake

Date: 01 28 1934
Description: One man is standing behind a cake shaped like the White House, showing the rear view of the White House, baked by the Strand Baking Company, 2007 Atwood Av...
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Turpin, Hiers and Pollard at Bjelde's Pie Shop

Date: 09 24 1932
Description: Snub Pollard, Walter Hiers, and Ben Turpin, about to throw pies at Bjelde's Pie Shop, located at 302 North Francis Street.
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Mel-O-Cream Doughnut Shop Interior

Date: 02 06 1931
Description: Five bakers standing in the kitchen of Mel-O-Cream Doughnut Shop, 548 W. Washington Avenue, with large bags of Golden Loaf flour.
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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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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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Heilman Baking Company Employee

Date: 02 13 1944
Description: A man is putting loaves of bread in an oven at the Heilman Baking Company.
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Chef Frosting a Cake

Date: 12 21 1944
Description: Otto Wiedholz, Vienna French Pastry Shop, 334 State Street, frosting a cake. Otto and his wife, Elsie, 414 Chestnut Street, are the owners of the pastry sh...
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Girl Scout Cookie Sales

Date: 03 01 1945
Description: Three Girl Scouts sampling cookies at the Strand Baking Company, 2007 Atwood Avenue, with a baker, Reider Strand. Left to right: Sandra Bird, 1325 Jenifer ...
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Keller's Bakery Truck

Date: 11 1926
Description: A driver sits behind the wheel of an International Model S truck used by Keller's Bakery of Brooklyn as a man loads a tray of goods into the back. The stor...
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Portrait of a Baker

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Description: A baker wearing a long apron holds two loaves of bread while posing for a studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop.
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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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Bakery Panorama

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Description: Wide angle view of the interior of a bakery, with one man standing by the oven on the right and another man standing near the center between racks of bread...
Poster

International Harvester Bakeries Poster

Date: 1932
Description: Advertising poster for International Harvester trucks as used by the bakery industry. The poster features a color illustration of a uniformed man holding a...
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City Bakery; Interior

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Description: Indoor view of a European American woman posing standing behind a high shop counter. In front of the counter is a large decorated cake that reads: "Grand O...
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City Bakery; Interior

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Description: Interior view of a bakery, with a man posing standing behind a counter wrapping two loaves of bread. The bread is displayed in glass cases. Identified as t...
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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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