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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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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 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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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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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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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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Baker Holding Loaf of Bread

Date: 04 11 1928
Description: A baker is standing and holding a loaf of Gardner's Double Duty bread, with shelves of bread in the background. The man is wearing Else Russell's Best Flou...
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High School Student War Work

Date: 09 21 1944
Description: Three high school students loading a truck at Gardner Baking Company. From left: Edward Witek, Central High, Russell Kundert, Vocation High, and in the bac...
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White Star Bakery

Date: 1935
Description: Two International trucks used by the White Star Bakery are parked outside the bakery's storefront at 1473 Main Street. Each truck's driver stands beside hi...
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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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"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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Lubavitch House Shmurah Matzoh

Date: 04 14 1989
Description: A young child is rolling dough with a rolling pin. She is wearing a paper hat that reads "Lubavitch House Matzoh Bakery." An adult. partially out of frame,...
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Yankie Fogel at Lubavitch House

Date: 04 14 1989
Description: A man in an apron and baker's hat is smiling and holding a pole, with several rolled matzoh on it. On the left are several children wearing paper hats. At ...
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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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Bakery Delivery Truck

Date: 07 12 1929
Description: Three-quarter view from left rear of a delivery truck parked at a curb. A man is holding a basket while standing at the back of the truck, which has it's b...

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