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Nakoma Welfare League Members

Date: 12 17 1956
Description: Members of the Nakoma Welfare League making cookies for the annual young people's party. Pictured left to right: Kathleen Clark, Esther Poehling, Merla DeG...
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Iola Kreamer displaying Christmas Baking

Date: 12 05 1956
Description: Iola Kreamer, 306 East Sunset Court, Shorewood Hills, displaying a sample of her Christmas baking, including cookies, candies, and fruit cakes.
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Couple Celebrating Anniversary

Date: 11 31 1955
Description: A couple posing with a cake at their silver wedding anniversary party.
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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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Corporal Duane Haralson and Parents

Date: 02 16 1944
Description: Corporal Duane Haralson with his parents, Rufus and Naomi, in the kitchen of their home at 604 Schiller Court. He was home after two years service in the M...
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WAVES Celebrating a Birthday

Date: 02 29 1944
Description: Slightly elevated view of group of women gathered around a table. "Leap year baby" of 1924, Anita Burr, is shown with a birthday cake, after enlisting in t...
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Man Making Donuts at Bread Manufacturer

Date: 02 13 1944
Description: Bread company employee making donuts, possibly at the Heilman Baking Company.
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"We Say What We Think Club"

Date: 05 30 1950
Description: WIBA radio personalities, Selma (Mrs. Cornelius) Sorenson, Sibylle (Mrs. George) Mitchell, Isabel (Mrs. August) Baumann, Grace (Mrs. John) Langer, and Ruth...
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Snow-Covered Main Street

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Description: Wagons and sleighs on a snow-covered Main Street. Looking west on Main Street toward the intersection of the Main Street and First Street. Storefronts, fro...
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Ellen Sabin

Date: 12 02 1944
Description: Miss Ellen Sabin, president emerita of Milwaukee-Downer College, cutting the birthday cake at her 94th birthday party hosted by the Milwaukee-Downer club o...
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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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Carson Gulley Standing Behind Buffet Table

Date: 01 30 1945
Description: Elevated view of chef Carson Gulley, standing behind a buffet table.
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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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Girl Scout Cookie Sales

Date: 03 01 1945
Description: Mrs. Austin T. Breyer (Daisy), 2730 Lakeland Avenue, ordering Girl Scout cookies from Scouts Mary Ripp, left, 2202 Lakeland Avenue, a member of Troop 12 of...
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Girl Scout Cookie Sales Co-Chairs

Date: 03 01 1945
Description: Co-chairmen of the Girl Scout Cookie sale (left to right), Mrs. Robert T. Walker (Ruth), 733 Huron Hill, and Mrs. Charles W. Ellis (Agnes), 122 Lakewood Bo...
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Couple Cutting Wedding Cake

Date: 04 15 1945
Description: Dr. Forde A. McIver and Ruth Raymond Huegel McIver are cutting their wedding cake. He is the son of E. Roderick McIver, Darlington, S.C., and she is the da...
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Cow Brand Saleratus

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Description: Trade card advertising Dwight's celebrated Cow Brand of Soda and Saleratus. Saleratus is an early name for baking powder.
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Fitzpatrick Children's Birthday Party

Date: 01 10 1947
Description: Six young children seated around a table at a birthday party. Taken for Lawrence Fitzpatrick, managing editor of the "Wisconsin State Journal".
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East Side Business Men's Association

Date: 01 20 1947
Description: Officers of the East Side Business Men's Association posing with the tier cake made for the Association's Silver Jubilee banquet at the Hotel Loraine. Pict...
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Pilgrim Congregational Church

Date: 01 23 1947
Description: Seven ladies of the Women's Guild of Pilgrim Congregational Church, 953 Jenifer Street, holding trays and standing around a reception table, observing the ...

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