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Board with two photographs of Goodwin's Cleaners & Dyers

ca. 1930

San Diego, California, United States, North and Central America

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Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

Board with two photos of Goodwin's Cleaners & Dyers, San Diego, California. .1a A photograph depicting a man standing inside Goodwin’s Cleaners & Dyers. The man stands just right of center, arms akimbo, wearing a dark hat, bowtie, and vest with a light colored shirt and pinstripe pants. Surrounding him, racks suspended from the ceiling hold clothing items on hangers. In the bottom left foreground, bolts of cloth rest on top of an apparatus. The photograph is held in a brown cardboard frame that is adhered to the board. At the bottom right corner of the frame is raised text reading [THE STEINBACH STUDIO / SAN DIEGO, CAL.]. .1b The other side of the board has a photograph depicting the same man standing in front of the exterior of the shop.

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Catalog reference: 2017.99.3.1ab

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