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Explore more than 100,000 collection items online through the Society’s digital collections. For over two decades, we’ve been scanning, photographing, and digitizing materials from our collections, creating a rich and growing digital archive that brings history closer to you.
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Universal Cleaners & Dyers
January 27, 1940
Exterior view of Universal Cleaners & Dyers Inc., laundry and dry cleaning, 1226 Regent Street.
Jacobson Motors
February 28, 1938
Olaf S. Jacobson Motors garage at 1501 Monroe Street (corner of Regent and Monroe Streets), featuring Pure Oil and Ford automobiles. This view was taken following Art Deco remodeling.
Meinke Trucks in front of Store
August 12, 1938
Three Ford V8 panel trucks and one automobile parked in front of Al Meinke Electric Refrigerator Service store, 1639 Monroe Sreet. On the left is Monroe Cleaners, 1637 Monroe Street.
Four Lakes Cleaners
January 28, 1947
Collins Drugs, 610 South Park Street; Four Lakes Cleaners, 612 South Park Street; Shorty's Tavern, 614 South Park Street, on the edge of the Greenbush neighborhood. Before expansion and alterations.
Mullarky's Spic and Span Inc. Dry Cleaners
March 8, 1951
An employee stands beside the new cleaning machine at Mullarky's Spic and Span Inc. dry cleaners, 3322 University Avenue.
Mullarkey's Spic & Span Cleaners
August 16, 1950
Exterior view of Mullarkey's Spic & Span Cleaners, 3322 University Avenue. Next door is Town & Country House Furniture at 3320.
