Model Wet Wash Laundry
#1030 Unknown Photographer In "Year Book - New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor, 1915 (1914-1915), opposite page 78. Caption: The Wet Wash Laundry. A pioneer laundry, at the service of the neighborhood, at cost - sanitary, cheap, clean, quick, reliable, good wages, light, airy. Pages 64 & 65. The Model Wet Wash Laundry The major activity of the Bureau [of Public Health and Hygiene] has been the establishment and operation of a model wet wash laundry. [Steps leading to establishment related.] A canvass of the homes in the neighborhood of the Milbank Bath Building, on East 38th Street [325], clearly indicated that such a laundry would be warmly welcomed. The second floor of the Bath was then altered, and the necessary laundry equipment installed in place of thirty-six shower baths. . . . The charges determined upon were 25 cents for a thirty-pound bundle brought to the laundry and called for, and 35 cents when the collection and delivery system was made use of. On November 16, the laundry began operations. Each month has shown a constantly increasing volume of business, the number of bundles washed per week increasing from 98 to 500. The heavy expenses of wagon service necessitated a change in the charge from 35 cents to 50 cents for bundles collected and delivered by wagon. Also in: Pamphlet "Constructive Social Measures, A Review of Two Year's Work," Department of Social Welfare, AICP, June 1915, opposite page 16. Caption: THE WET WASH LAUNDRY. Cleanliness and Sanitation in Clothes Washing - A close Relation between Decency and Health. Page 19. The Wet Wash Laundry ... at the present time operated to its full capacity, serving an average of about 425 families a week at a charge of 25 cents for 30 pounds of clothes, or 35 cents when collected and delivered . . . AICP "1917 Year Book" (1916-1917), page 13 top. Caption: WET-WASH LAUNDRY substitutes for eight hundred mothers at a cost of thirty-five cents weekly modern facilities and sterilizing process for back-breaking work without laundry conveniences. The Wet Wash Laundry was discontinued in 19.
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community_service_society
Community Service Society Records
Community Service Society records
4079675
New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor
Issuing body
Community Service Society of New York
Former owner
Issuing body
United States
New York (State)
New York (N.Y.)
Manhattan
East 38th Street, 325-327
NNC-RB
Box no. 296, Folder no. 32, Photograph no. 1030
Washing machines
Men
Laundry workers
Laundry machinery
Laundry industry
Laundry
Baskets
Milbank Memorial Bath (New York, N.Y.)
New York (N.Y.)
The Wet Wash Laundry was located in the Milbank Memorial Bath building. See image #0217 in this collection.
Photographer unknown.
still image
1914
circa 1914
photographs
reformatted digital
eng
2023-03-29T21:44:12Z
2023-03-29T21:44:12Z
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