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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. .2a One side of the board has a photograph of a man inside a truck on the street in front of a dry cleaning shop. Both the shop and the truck have signs reading [GOODWIN’S / CLEANERS & DYERS]. The man sits in the driver’s seat of the truck, his proper left elbow on the open window frame, looking directly at the camera. To the right of the driver’s door is an extra tire on a rack. On the side of the truck, appearing inside the tire, is [16th & E Sts.] The storefront has two large display windows on either side of the front door. A sign in the corner of right-side window reads [SUITS / SPONGED & PRESSED].

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Catalog reference: 2017.99.3.2ab

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