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| Title | Man carrying laundry from Maryatt truck, Seattle, 1935 |
| Photographer | Staff Photographer
Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
| Date | 1935 |
| Caption | Before it was common to have washing machines and dryers in homes and apartments, many Seattle residents sent their home laundry to commercial laundry companies. A delivery truck picked up the dirty laundry and took it to be washed, ironed, and folded. The truck then returned the clean laundry to the owner.
In this 1935 photo, a man is unloading bundles of laundry from a Maryatt Electric Laundry delivery truck. |
| Notes | Handwritten on image: Laundry Corded.
Handwritten on sleeve: LAUNDRIES, General.
Sign on truck reads: MARYATT ELECTRIC LAUNDRY. Leave Bundles Here.
Caption by MOHAI staff.
Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): January 5, 1935. |
| Subjects | Trucks--Washington (State)--Seattle; Cleaning establishments--Washington (State)--Seattle; Uniforms--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Places | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Digital Collection | Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | 1986.5.5173.1 |
| Ordering Information | To order a reproduction or to inquire about permissions contact photos@mohai.org or phone us at 206-324-1126. Please refer to the Image Number and provide a brief description of the photograph. |
| Credit Line | Seattle Post-Intelligencer Collection, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved |
| Repository | Museum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI) |
| Repository Collection | Seattle Post-Intelligencer Collection |
| Type | Image |
| Physical Description | 1 nitrate negative: b&w; 4 x 5 in. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from original negative as a 3000 pixel TIFF image in 8-bit grayscale, resized to 640 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop 6.0 and its JPEG quality measurement 3. |
