National Laundry Company at 5th Ave. & 141st St., interior, New York City, 1929

safety negative

PHOTOGRAPHS
Rosenfeld and Sons
USA, NY, New York
1929-04-12
safety film, Kodak #35
8 x 10 x 0 in.

8x10 safety negative photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons on April 12, 1929. Image of interior of National Laundry Company at 5th Ave. & 141st St., New York CIty. Visible in image: women working at the National Laundry Co. in the factory pressing clothes. All the laundresses seem to be Afro American woman and all the supervisors appear to be white. Typed on original negative sleeve: “34786 4/12/29 / [Box] 1915-2 / The Progress Laundryman / 77 West Washington St- / Chicago, Ill. / Mr. R R Sherman / Interior of National Laundry Co / 5th Ave & 141st St-City“. CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection.

1984.187.34786

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection