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Baker and Bread

Date: 05 14 1964
Description: A baker removes multiple loaves of bread from the oven for consumption in both bakery and restaurant.
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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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Gardner Bakery Truck

Date: 10 22 1936
Description: Gardner Bakery truck and driver parked in front of Madison Machine and Engine Company, 844 E. Washington Avenue. Taken for Diamond T Truck Sales.
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Gardner Baking Co. Employees

Date: 10 14 1934
Description: Group portrait of Gardner Baking Co. drivers/salesmen from out of town, taken outdoors near 849 E. Washington Avenue. Breese Stevens Field is in the backgr...
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Gardner Baking Co. Employees

Date: 10 14 1934
Description: Group portrait of Gardner Baking Co. drivers/salesmen from Madison, taken outdoors near 849 E. Washington Avenue. Breese Stevens Field is in the background...
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Kroger Grocery & Bakery Interior

Date: 11 25 1932
Description: Kroger Grocery & Bakery, 3 N. Pinckney Street, showing fruit, vegetable, and bakery displays with a clerk behind the counter.
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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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Gardner Bakery

Date: 04 02 1928
Description: Gardner Baking Company, showing men taking Purity Bread from ovens, 849 E. Washington Avenue.
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Gardner Bakery Donut Making

Date: 04 02 1928
Description: Gardner Baking Company making Purity Doughnuts. Doughnuts are coming down a chute from a machine, and a baker is standing and attending one of the machines...
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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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Dolton Bakery International Auto Wagon

Date: 1912
Description: A man is driving a 1909 International Auto Wagon with an enclosed body belonging to Dolton Bakery.
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Baker Operating Baking Machinery

Date: 02 13 1944
Description: A man at the Heilman Baking Company operating a bread and bun machine that cuts dough pieces into proper sizes for bread loaves and for buns.
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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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International F-31 Truck Operated by Huston's

Date: 1919
Description: International model "F" or "31" truck operated by Huston's "Baker of Better Biscuits." A man is sitting in the driver's seat of the truck, and there are ch...
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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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Brauer Bakery

Date: 1937
Description: A man stands in front of a 4 can milk cooler with two milk jars in his hands at the Brauer Bakery. Loaves of bread are on a table with a scale, a cake, an...
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Johnson's Bakery

Date: 1941
Description: A male worker wearing a hat and apron at Johnson's Bakery removING a pan from an International reach-in cooler.

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