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Saturday morning bread baking at Al's Bakery, Loomis and Taylor Streets, Chicago, Illinois

Saturday morning bread baking at Al's Bakery, Loomis and Taylor Streets, Chicago, Illinois

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Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers.
Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: 0-6, Al (Alfonso Davino) cutting and weighing dough for the loaves (2 1/2 lbs.); 7, Roger Davino (Al’s brother) making a braided loaf; 8-10, Al weighing dough; 11-12, Al and Roger; 13-14, Al weighing dough; 15, the new loaves rising; 16-17, Elizabeth Mathias (fieldworker) leaning against the dough machine taking notes; 18, Al weighing; 19-21, Al's father, the founder of the bakery, in a photo taken in the 1930s; 22-30, Guiseppe Esposito (an immigrant who helps Al on Saturday morning) - forming the loaves for another rising before they are put in the oven; 31-32, Al and Roger stand near the wooden pallets where the loaves are rising; 33-34, Guiseppe and the wooden pallets; 35-36, Guiseppe and fieldworker Elizabeth Mathias

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01/01/1977
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chicago
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