White Star Laundry
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Color Sanborn map indicating White Star Steam Laundry located in 1920 at 212-218 East Grand Avenue, Des Moines, Iowa. Map indicates several rooms: laundry room with wood floor, washing room with cement floor, engine room with cement floor and 15HP engine, sorting room with cement floor, and a wagon shop with cement floor. Also indicates: No Watchman: Heat : Steam: Lights. Elec - Power: Steam & Elec. - Fuel Coal : City Water.
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White Star Laundry
At the turn of the 20th Century, many Des Moines residents sent their laundry out be laundered by others. White Star Laundry was one such company. It was owned by J.O. Anderson and operated out of the East Side of Des Moines. Anderson expanded his…