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Title	Mason's Steam Laundry
Date	1893
Description	This circa 1893 photograph captures the staff of Mason’s Steam Laundry as they pose before the business’s complex at Twelfth and D Streets. The engines driving the business’s growth were native-German Fred Mason and his wife Caroline, a native of Illinois. A shirt factory at 520 J Street was also under their ownership, starting in 1878. Two years later, in 1880, they started the pictured location at the southwest corner of Twelfth and D Streets. After Fred died in 1902, Caroline took full control the business for another 40 years. She branched out in 1919, when she purchased the defunct public pool at Twenty-First and O Streets and turned it into a laundry. She spurned her shirt factory business in the same year. Caroline died in 1942, just a few years after merging her business with Cascade Laundry.
Format	6 x 8.5 in. on 8 x 10 in.; b&w
Holding Institution	Sacramento Room, Sacramento Public Library
Rights	This image may be protected by Copyright Law (Title 17 U.S.C.). Copyright restrictions applying to the reproduction and use of this image are available from the Sacramento Public Library.
Street/Neighborhood	12th and D Streets (1893) or 2030 O Street (1905); Downtown
City/County	Sacramento
Subjects	Laundries Portraits Storefronts Business Enterprises
Collection	Sacramento Room Photograph Collection
Identifying Number	411