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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.
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