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| Date: | 11 17 1936 |
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| Description: | Refurbished facade of Madison Theatre, 111 Monona Avenue. The building includes the temporary quarters of Savidusky's Cleaners and Dyers. |
| Date: | 11 19 1936 |
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| Description: | Night view of the Madison Theatre at 111 Monona Avenue. Two women are in the box office. The marquee reads "Premiere Opening Day." Jimmy Dodge's restaurant... |
| Date: | 04 28 1935 |
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| Description: | Quality Laundry Service building at 10 N. Charter Street. Sign reads: "Wet Wash, Rough Dry." |
| Date: | 10 25 1934 |
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| Description: | Delivery truck for Pantorium Cleaners, 558 State Street, with Hanks mansion, located at 525 Wisconsin Avenue, in the background among trees. |
| 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: | 12 07 1933 |
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| Description: | Company truck for the Madison Rug Factory at 8 S. Livingston Street, with advertising for cleaning, resizing, remaking, weaving, and shampooing services. |
| Date: | 06 16 1933 |
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| Description: | Madison Steam Dye Works, 116 S. Pinckney Street. |
| Date: | 07 07 1931 |
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| Description: | 3F Steam Laundry curb service, 731 University Avenue. Showing employee taking laundry from an automobile. A sign posted on the tree on the right reads: "Cu... |
| Date: | 06 17 1931 |
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| Description: | Hershleder's truck unloading bags of sawdust, used for cleaning furs, 529 State Street. Also shows Varsity Laundry, 527 State Street. |
| 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: | 1895 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 10 06 1933 |
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| Description: | A delivery man getting into an International truck used by the Individual Laundry System laundry and cleaners. A sign on top of the truck asks "Why - Drudg... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 12 15 1923 |
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| Description: | International S-speed truck owned by Quality Laundry Service, Inc. parked on a street. The company served restaurants, hotels and individual households. |
| 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: | 10 15 1945 |
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| Description: | Glass container for Mautz Self Polishing Wax for Mautz Paint and Varnish Company. |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Industrial safety poster warning against carelessness around elevators. Includes an image of a woman scrubbing floors. |
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