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Builing a bread oven

Black and white photograph (1930s): three men building an outdoor bread oven. Background: branches covered with earth or mortar. Behind: wooden building with a shingle roof. Scene of artisanal construction of an outdoor bread oven.

Archives de la Côte-du-Sud, Horace Miner Collection.

Men from Saint-Denis-De La Bouteillerie building a bread oven in 1936. Many households baked this daily staple in their own oven.