Image: St. Louis electrical bread slicer, 1930

Description: 1930 photograph from the magazine Popular Science with the caption, "The new electric bread slicing machine at work in a St. Louis, Mo. bakery. The operator is holding one of the sliced loaves." The accompanying article does not identify the bakery but this may have been the machine invented by Otto Frederick Rohwedder of Davenport, whose 2nd slicing machine was purchased by Gustav Papendick of Papendick Bakery Company in St. Louis who worked out a process to wrap the sliced loaf automatically.
Title: St. Louis electrical bread slicer, 1930
Credit: Google Books - (1930). "Slices a thousand loaves of bread an hour". Popular Science 116 (2): 64.
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