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| Date: | 05 14 1937 |
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| Description: | Three men pressing garments at Savidusky's Cleaners plant, 827 E. Washington Avenue. |
| Date: | 05 17 1934 |
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| Description: | Interior of the Varsity Hand Laundry, located at 527 State Street. There are four women ironing, and several workers are standing behind them. A sign in th... |
| Date: | 04 18 1934 |
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| Description: | Interior of the Cardinal Hand Laundry, 619 State Street. Two women are ironing, while another woman is folding clothes while under the attention of their m... |
| Date: | 07 11 1929 |
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| Description: | Fleet of 19 3-F Steam Laundry trucks and one automobile with drivers sitting at the steering wheels in front of the office and plant at 731 - 747 E. Dayton... |
| Date: | 07 11 1929 |
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| Description: | Fleet of 19 3-F Steam Laundry trucks and one automobile with drivers in the driver's seats at the steering wheel. They are parked in front of office and pl... |
| Date: | 07 11 1929 |
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| Description: | Fleet of 19 3-F Steam Laundry trucks and one automobile with drivers standing beside the vehicles in front of office and plant at 731-747 E. Dayton Street. |
| Date: | 07 11 1929 |
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| Description: | Fleet of 19 3-F Steam Laundry trucks and one automobile, with drivers standing beside their vehicles in front of office and plant at 731-747 East Dayton St... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Advertising brochure for International Model D-15 delivery trucks. Features an image of a driver unloading linen from a delivery truck owned by Atlas Linen... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | A man drives a 1909 International Auto Wagon belonging to the Amikeco Laundry at 1601 Fullerton Avenue in Chicago. The truck has an enclosed body and crude... |
| Date: | 09 04 1925 |
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| Description: | A man sits behind the wheel of an International truck used by the Ideal Laundry Company. In the background is a building with a sign over the door that say... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | The driver of an International truck owned by Acme Laundry and Cleaners stands in the street near the driver's side door holding packages. The truck is par... |
| Date: | 05 19 1938 |
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| Description: | A man uses a Hebard shop mule owned by White Way Laundry to haul three-wheeled bins of bagged laundry. The shop mule, powered by an International P-12 powe... |
| Date: | 11 07 1953 |
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| Description: | Fire fighters standing on the roof of Quality Service Laundry at 1202 Regent Street as smoke is billowing out from below. |
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| Description: | An African American man wearing a hat, shirt, open vest, trousers, and boots, posing by a shoeshine stand in front of a commercial building. |
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| Description: | Two African American men working in a shoeshine shop. The younger man is shining the shoes of a white customer who is sitting in one of the chairs on the e... |
| 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... |
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| Description: | A window washer named Art holding a cigarette and posing with his squeegee. He was a familiar sight on State Street. |
| 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: | 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... |
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