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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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Bakery Delivery Truck

Date: 04 17 1928
Description: Uneeda Biscuit Co. truck parked in front of the Nabisco Wafer Plant.
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Party Banquet for Gardner Baking Co. Families

Date: 04 11 1928
Description: Group portrait of Gardner Baking Co. families wearing paper party hats sitting at two long banquet tables. There are Purity Bread signs over the tables whi...
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Bakery Delivery Truck

Date: 08 07 1928
Description: A man is standing at the back of a bakery delivery truck. He is holding a basket, and the back doors of the truck are open, showing shelves of bread and ot...
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Man Loading Bread into Delivery Truck

Date: 12 12 1927
Description: View from street towards a man loading bread into the back of a delivery truck. Three small American flags are attached to the front of the hood.
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Peterson Baking Co. Truck

Date: 08 31 1927
Description: View of a man sitting in the driver's seat of a truck parked on a bridge. The sign painted on the truck reads: "Peterson Baking Co."
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Fleet of Delivery Trucks for Petersen Baking Co.

Date: 08 31 1927
Description: View across cobblestone street towards truck drivers sitting in four delivery trucks in front of a billboard and a brick building. The signs on the buildin...
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Fleet of Trucks

Date: 02 27 1928
Description: A fleet of trucks parked in a row in front of storefronts. The signs painted on the side of the trucks reads: "Eat Tasty Pound Cake, 'It's The Best.'"
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Man Driving Delivery Truck

Date: 08 31 1927
Description: A man is sitting in the driver's seat of a delivery truck parked at the curb in front of Acme Bakery. The sign painted on the truck reads: "Aunt Betty Brea...
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Delivery Truck

Date: 07 05 1927
Description: Driver's side view of delivery truck parked along a curb near a building. The sign painted on the side of the truck reads: "The World's Largest Pie Bakers,...
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Delivery Truck

Date: 07 05 1927
Description: Right side view of truck parked on a road. The sign painted on the side of the truck reads: "Victory Cake Co., S. Miller Distb. Newark, N.J."
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Bakery Delivery Truck

Date: 05 04 1927
Description: View across street towards a bakery delivery truck parked along a curb. A sign painted on the side of the truck reads: "French & Italian Pastry." A buildin...
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Bakery Delivery Truck

Date: 06 18 1927
Description: View along curb towards a bakery delivery truck parked at an angle at the sidewalk. The sign painted on the side of the trucks reads: "Strands Butter-Nut B...
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Sperry Trophy Presentation

Date: 06 11 1941
Description: Dave Taylor presenting Sperry Trophy to Louis L. "Speed" Gardner with Herman and Louis Gardner looking on.
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Display Window

Date: 07 10 1926
Description: A&P Tea Co. display window, American Stores Company, "Uneeda Biscuit." National Biscuit Company (Nabisco), 4th of July.
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Fleet of Bakery Delivery Trucks

Date: 08 10 1926
Description: View across street towards three delivery trucks parked in a row at an angle along a curb. A man is sitting in the driver's seat of each truck. Signs on th...
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Felix's Bakery Display Window

Date: 06 10 1930
Description: Display of wedding cakes in window of bakery of Felix Odehnal, 715 University Avenue.
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Gothic Temple Cake

Date: 09 21 1933
Description: Gothic Temple Cake created by Reidar Strand and Oswald Christensen at Strand's Bakery's booth at the East Side Business Men's Association (ESBMA) Fall Fest...
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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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Vienna & French Pastry Shop Window

Date: 11 14 1934
Description: Vienna & French Pastry Shop, 334-336 State Street display window with sign reading: "Welcome Back! Alumni... Pat O'Dea for the greatest Wisconsin Homecomin...

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