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Collection

Portland Press Herald Still-Film Negatives Collection

Document Type

Still Image

Call number of Original

62357A

Contributing Institution

Portland Public Library Special Collections & Archives

Location

Portland, Cumberland, Maine, USA

Creation Date

11-12-1950

Format of Original

4 x 5" gelatin silver negatives

Description

Views of workers in cake-baking and decorating department at the Cushman Baking Company, 107 Elm Street. [Click this link for exterior views of the bakery.]

Top photo: Cake decorators Alden Noyes, Raymond Taylor, Angie Brown. The angel food cakes on the racks represent a half-day's work for the decorators' creations with "artistic scrolls, flutings, ribbons, and flower designs."
Bottom photo: Alden Noyes mixing cake frosting for the bakers' cake scroll work. The Cushman's cake department also make wedding cakes, including a 5-tier designed to serve 350 people.

Photos published in the Portland Sunday Telegram, on 12 November 1950

Keywords

Portland, Me., Downtown Portland, Bayside, Elm Street, Congress Street, Businesses

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