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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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As Things Appear at the Bakery

Date: 04 2014
Description: A man and a woman are standing behind the counter at Lane's Bakery. The glass display case has three rows of baked goods. There are three tall movable rack...
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Final Touch

Date: 01 1973
Description: A baker puts the final touch on the frosting of a layer cake with a spatula. A pile of cake boards and an unfrosted cake are on the table in front of him.

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