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Baking Christmas Cookies

Date: 12 20 1958
Description: Mother and children enjoy baking, decorating, and eating Christmas cookies.
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Sucker Monocle

Date: 12 28 1962
Description: Jean Meyer plays with the sucker she got at a mother-daugher Christmas holiday tea.
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Kroger Grocery & Bakery Interior

Date: 11 25 1932
Description: Kroger Grocery & Bakery, 3 N. Pinckney Street, interior showing produce and bakery, alternate view.
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Kroger Grocery & Bakery Interior

Date: 11 25 1932
Description: Kroger Grocery & Bakery, 3 N. Pinckney Street, produce department, Christmas decor.
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Oscar Mayer Meat Products Display

Date: 12 13 1931
Description: Oscar Mayer meat products on display at a Christmas party.
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Christmas Chocolates

Date: 12 03 1979
Description: An employee of Kehr's Kandy Kitchen packages candy for holiday sales.
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Mother and Children Decorating Christmas Bread

Date: 12 05 1956
Description: Anne De Witt, 5502 Tolman Terrace, is being helped by her daughter Maureen De Witt, 4, to decorate Christmas bread while her other daughter, Beth De Witt, ...
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Mother and Children Wrapping Christmas Bread

Date: 12 05 1956
Description: Joan Meyer, 701 Baltzell Street, wrapping loaves of Christmas bread. Watching are children Donnie Meyer, 5, and Mary Jane Meyer, 4.
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Rosamond Doran Frosting Christmas Bread

Date: 12 05 1956
Description: Rosamond Doran, 4117 Yuma Drive, frosting a loaf of Christmas bread in her kitchen.
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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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Christmas Pudding-Woolson Spice Co.

Date: 1890
Description: Chromolithographed card issued by the Woolson Spice Co. to present Christmas greetings to its customers. The card depicts children around a Christmas tree,...
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Carson Gulley Christmas Card

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Description: Bea and Carson Gulley's Christmas card promoting their catering service. Text on the card reads: "A Blessed Christmas."
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International Harvester Christmas Box Contents

Date: 1918
Description: Display board of samples of items sent to "Harvester men at military camps" for Christmas. The display includes a toothbrush and toothpaste, a candy bar, t...
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International Harvester "Christmas Box" Contents

Date: 1917
Description: Contents of an International Harvester "Christmas Box", including Fig Newtons, a Hershey's Chocolate Bar, Medicinal Carbolic Soap, Colgate's Handy Grip Sha...
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Waiting for Santa Claus

Date: 12 24 1958
Description: Child sleeping in front of the fireplace, waiting for Santa Claus to arrive.
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Santa Hands out Candy after Parade

Date: 11 27 1948
Description: Santa Claus is handing out candy and popcorn at the Community Center to children and their parents after the Santa Parade sponsored by the Madison Business...
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"Roundy" With Four Dells Boys

Date: 12 23 1948
Description: "Roundy" with four men from Wisconsin Dells holding milk bottles full of donated money they collected for "Roundys" Fun Fund. Left to right are "Roundy" C...
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Syl with Cake and Christmas Tree

Date: 1901
Description: Syl sitting at a table with a birthday cake with eight candles. There is a Christmas tree in the background.
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Alice Ferguson, Madison Gas and Electric Home Services Director

Date: 12 07 1951
Description: Mrs. Alice Ferguson, Madison Gas and Electric (MG&E) home services director, is shown with the many varieties of Christmas cookies, candies, cakes, and hou...
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A Merry Christmas

Date: 1908
Description: Holiday postcard of Santa Claus and one of his reindeer encircled by a collar studded with holly, and jingle bells that have smiling faces on them. Santa i...

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