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3-F Laundry Boys Baseball Team

Date: 05 14 1938
Description: Outdoor group portrait of 3-F Laundry boys' baseball team, with 12 boys in uniform, and two men dressed in suits, in front of the 3-F Laundry plant, 731-74...
Photograph

Delivery Truck at Hershleder Furs

Date: 06 17 1931
Description: Hershleder's truck unloading bags of sawdust, used for cleaning furs, 529 State Street. Also shows Varsity Laundry, 527 State Street.
Photograph

Three Woman on Main Street

Date: 1895
Description: Three women (Jennie Parsons Kelly, left, and Lena Eisenback Post, center, and an unidentified woman on the right) on Main Street in front of Yep Ah Sing's ...
Book or Pamphlet

International Model D-15 Trucks

Date: 1940
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...
Book or Pamphlet

International Model D-15 Delivery Trucks

Date: 1939
Description: Front cover of an advertising brochure for International D-15 delivery trucks. Cover features an image of man delivering goods from a delivery truck owned ...
Photograph

International Auto Wagon belonging to Amikeco Laundry

Date: 1909
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...
Photograph

Window Washer

Date: 2010
Description: Goodyear employee washing storefront windows as three people and a dog are walking by. A dog can be seen mirrored in the window.
Photograph

500 Block of State Street

Date: 06 1967
Description: Composite panoramic view of the north side of the 500 block of State Street. Business include: The Towers (student apartments), Pantorium Dry Cleaners, The...
Photograph

Man Posing by Shoeshine Stand

Date: 
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.
Photograph

International Sprayer

Date: 1910
Description: An International Harvester "sprayer" mounted on a wagon, possibly intended for pesticide application (or in this context, window washing?). The wagon is pa...
Photograph

Windows Washed at the Madison Inn

Date: 06 29 1961
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...
Photograph

International KB-5 Line Truck

Date: 1947
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 ...
Photograph

Spring Clean Up

Date: 03 1962
Description: An unidentified man washing the sidewalk with a hose.
Photograph

Delivery Truck

Date: 09 02 1925
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...
Photograph

Delivery Truck

Date: 09 04 1925
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...
Photograph

Edgar William Gordon

Date: 01 15 1987
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 ...
Photograph

Laundry Delivery Truck

Date: 08 09 1927
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...
Photograph

Delivery Truck

Date: 12 13 1927
Description: View across street towards a man sitting in the passenger seat of a truck parked in front of the J. Krupp Custom Tailor storefront. The sign on the truck r...
Photograph

Great Northern Laundry Fleet of Trucks Lined Up for Parade

Date: 09 21 1927
Description: View towards a fleet of trucks for the Great Northern Laundry lined up for a parade. Men are sitting in the driver's seat of each truck which are parked at...
Photograph

Fleet of Trucks Lined Up for Parade

Date: 09 21 1927
Description: View from street towards a fleet of trucks lined up along a sidewalk at an angle. The truck at the end is decorated for a parade, and a sign on top of the ...

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