• The women of the bakery at Kroger made and decorated two cakes for the occasion, this one with frosting-crafted airplane parts and a colorful quilt.
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Close up of one of the cakes for “From Handicrafts to Factory Work in Women’s Lives” event

From Women Making History: The Revolutionary Feminist Postcard Art of Helaine Victoria Press by Julia M. Allen and Jocelyn H. Cohen

  • Sheet cake crafted by the women of the Kroger Grocery store bakery for "From Handiwork to Factory Work in Women's Lives," community program, Martinsville, Indiana, June 1982. This program was funded by an Outreach Grant from the Indiana Committee for the Humanities.
    From the Helaine Victoria Press Records, Special Collections, Smith College, catalog information:
    File name: smith_ssc_209_99S-31_b014_034
    Record number: 8314
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