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Photographer: J.T. Lambrou
Taken: September 3, 2021
Caption: Dry Goods Marker
Additional Description: Inset photo (lower left) caption: Before commercial laundries began to advertise in the 1870s, laundry was done at home. By 1888 Ann Arbor Steam Laundry was the first to use coal-fired power. In 1905 Varsity Laundry owners H.B. Tenny and Fred Lantz posed in their doorway at 215-217 South Fourth Avenue with the women who did ironing, mending, and hand touch-up work. The coal man wears a long black coat.
Submitted: September 14, 2021, by J.T. Lambrou of New Boston, Michigan.
Database Locator Identification Number: p610168
File Size: 2.133 Megabytes

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