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| Date: | 02 1978 |
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| Description: | View of a downtown street featuring bars, restaurants, and a laundromat. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View across street towards a man loading bags of laundry into the back of an International D-Line Metro truck owned by Troy Laundry parked along the curb i... |
| Date: | 09 01 1956 |
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| Description: | Jane Koberstein talks to customer Mike Seaber at the Welsh and Aspinwall D-X station, 2035 University Avenue, during the Catholic Junior League all-girl ca... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | An International Harvester "sprayer" mounted on a wagon, possibly intended for pesticide application (or in this context, window washing?). The wagon is pa... |
| Date: | 06 29 1961 |
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| Description: | Madison Inn employee Allen Wheeler using a window-washing brush attached to 60-foot long handle with a thin hose which carries soap and water threaded thro... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | View from street looking towards the facade of the Alford Brothers Laundry located at 113-115 Carroll Street. This was a large business with twenty-five em... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | View from sidewalk of a man holding a bag of laundry standing near the partially open side door of an International KB-5 truck parked at a curb. The truck ... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | View across street towards a an International KB-5 truck parked along a curb. Behind the truck is man talking to a woman at the open front door of a house.... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | The travelers are washing their clothes in the St. Croix River. There are a number of logs at the river's edge. |
| Date: | 09 02 1925 |
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| Description: | View across road towards a man sitting in the driver's seat of a delivery truck. A sign on the side of the truck reads: "Economy Laundry." Behind the truck... |
| Date: | 09 02 1925 |
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| Description: | View across street towards a delivery truck for Mutual Laundry parked near the curb. In the background is a brick, one-story building. The sign painted on ... |
| Date: | 09 04 1925 |
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| Description: | View across street towards a man sitting in the driver's seat of an Ideal Laundry Co. truck parked along a curb. Behind the truck is a building with an arc... |
| Date: | 09 10 1925 |
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| Description: | Three delivery trucks in a row on a street. There are buildings and a water tower in the background. |
| Date: | 07 03 1926 |
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| Description: | View of four men posing with three delivery trucks for Federal Laundry. There is a large brick building in the background. |
| Date: | 07 03 1926 |
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| Description: | View across street towards two men sitting in the driver's seats of two laundry delivery trucks. The trucks are parked at an angle in front of a brick buil... |
| Date: | 07 03 1926 |
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| Description: | View across street towards a man loading a rug into the back of a delivery truck. There is a man sitting in the driver's seat. The building in the backgrou... |
| Date: | 11 17 1986 |
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| Description: | A man and his son washing their car together. Caption reads: "Victor Driver, 4, helped his stepfather, Thomas Holder, wash his car Sunday on N. 13th St. as... |
| Date: | 01 15 1987 |
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| Description: | View looking out window at a man who is washing the window. Caption reads: "Edgar Gordon spreads cleanliness and happiness." Edgar William Gordon was a ... |
| Date: | 01 20 1927 |
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| Description: | Two New York City street cleaning trucks parked in front of a brick building. |
| Date: | 08 09 1927 |
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| Description: | View across street towards a man sitting in the driver's seat of the Oak Terrace Laundry truck. The truck is decorated with striped swags. Houses are in th... |
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