Varsity Steam Laundry, 1905
Year
1905
Description
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.
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