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Fruit cake made by Ruth Jackson, Minturn, for President Franklin D. Roosevelt's 56th birthday, January 30, 1938.
From the Eagle Valley Enterprise, Jan. 28, 1938: Huge Birthday Cake Sent Prest. Roosevelt: Mrs. Ruth Jackson makes a beautiful greeting for president--nearly one month in constructing a wonderful piece of the culinary art for the occasion "A beautiful token of the regard in which Eagle county people hold their president, Franklin D....
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Ruth Jackson and the fruit cake made for President Franklin D. Roosevelt's 56th birthday, January 30, 1938. Five people in the photograph, unidentified.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Governor Teller Ammons and his wife, Esther (Davis) Ammons, on the occasion of his 42nd birthday, December 3, 1938. They stand on either side of a 5-tiered cake decorated with the state capitol building on top. and Colorado flora on the sides. The lettering on the cake reads: "Wishing our son of Colorado a very happy birthday December 3, 1938. Events come and go in lives of all mortal men, be whatever their hearth, clan or kin. But when a life...
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Former Colorado Governor Teller Ammons (left) on his 43rd birthday on December 3, 1938. Byron Price (middle) and Esther (Davis) Ammons (right) are also pictured. Teller Ammons served as Governor of Colorado from 1937-1939. The cake was made by Ruth Jackson, who earlier that year had made another cake celebrating the 56th birthday of former United States President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The lettering on the cake reads: "Wishing our son of Colorado...
