The Zinsmaster Baking Company began in Duluth in 1913 as the Zinsmaster-Smith Bread Company, Harry W. Zinsmaster and R. F. Smith partners. The small local enterprise grew to one of national importance. Principal company staff retired in 1977 and 1978, and Zinsmaster was acquired by Metz Baking Company in January 1978.
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Interior view of the Glenwood Bakery / Swanson Bakery packaging department showing loaves, bagging machines and the pass-through window to the bakery sales floor.
Photograph of a man standing in front of a delivery truck. Delivering goods directly to homes was a common service in mid-century America. Peoples-Lehman Bakery was a South Minneapolis Jewish-owned business.
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University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives
West Duluth; wholesale bakers; Purity Bakers Corporation; 2332 West Superior Street; The Purity Store and workers; Our Own Coffee; Duluth Universal Flour; Romanesque architecture; men; boys; children; truck; snow; winter; business district; building 1889
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University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
An unidentified man carrying a basket with loaves of challah in it. A population census from 1927 indicates that there were about 4000 Jews living in Duluth at the time.
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University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives
Clara Swanson recalls: This is one of the large bakery trucks and the small advertising trucks. The advertising truck would hand out small sample loaves of bread to children.
Exterior view of the Swanson Bakery. Beside Swanson's Bakery the open lot was home to a miniature golf course. A close look reveals several players. At the center of the picture one can see the cornice and flag pole of the Glenwood State Bank, 1907, on the north side of Minnesota Avenue.