The growing commercial laundry business in Chicago, Illinois early in the 20th century. A delivery man picks up a bundle of shirts at the door of a private residence. Trucks deliver wash to the commercial laundry plant. Drivers unload laundry packages. Wash being fed into large, industrial, electrically driven washing machines. Attendant seals rolling chambers filled with clothes. He adds soap and cleansers at stages. Clothes are then fed into dryers: View of a large industrial commercial hydro-extractor dryer revolving at high speed to remove water. Next the clothes are fed into a large drying drum. A woman takes out shirts from a machine and places them in a basket with a label that reads 'Palace Model Laundry'. Women operate large mangles or wringer machines and fold laundry emerging from the rollers.
A laundry in operation in the city of Chicago, Illinois, United States. Shirts being starched as girls run a collar and cuff starching machine. The shirts piled up on a table. Dampening machines in operation during dampening and ironing process. Women workers mend torn garments and replace missing buttons as they work on sewing machines.
Operations at a commercial laundry plant in Chicago, early in the 20th century. Shirts being fed into a washing machine. Collars being ironed. Racks of collars. Ironed collars being fed through a humidifying machine. The collars pass through shaping and finishing machines. Baskets of finished collars. Women workers assort and assemble collars and shirts. On a Saturday afternoon laundry delivery trucks being loaded. The trucks leave to deliver the laundry. A man returns laundry to a private residential house.
Lumber industry in the United States. Logs of wood being loaded onto flat cars. A locomotive pulling logs in mountains. Driving mechanism of the locomotive at work. Men roll logs of wood on a boom. The logs being rolled into a conveyor lift to a mill.
Scenic views in the early 1900s of the Rocky Mountains in the United States. Tourists go up and down a flight of stairs on the side of the South Cheyenne canyon wall near Colorado Springs, Colorado. The Seven Springs waterfall of the South Cheyenne Creek is seen, with tourists and a burro at the bottom of the canyon. (Now known as the Broadmoor Seven Falls.) View of the deep gorge cut by Seven Falls. A 1000 feet high granite gorge. A man walks over a deeply eroded rock formation over snow and ice (has appearance of glacier) west of the foothills as the mountains become steeper. Steel beams over a railroad track in a canyon beside a river at the mouth of a mountain tunnel.
The Rocky Mountains in the United States. A mountain lodge in the Rocky Mountains. A view of the mountains. Old volcanoes in the Sangre de Cristo Range. Winding roads at the foothills of the Rocky Mountains.
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