Collection:
Juneau—Douglas City Museum
Object ID:
98.28.001
Accession#:
98.28
Credit Line:
Donated by Ethel Terashita.
Object Name:
Bag, Laundry
Title:
Juneau Laundry Bag
Date:
1930
Year Range from:
1920
Year Range to:
1942
Description:
Small laundry bag. White drawstring cotton bag with/ "JUNEAU LAUNDRY FRANKLIN STREET PHONE 359 JUNEAU, ALASKA" written in faded black block—style letters approximately 10 inches down from top of bag. Proper right bottom edge is rounded, all others are square.
Notes:
See 98.28 & 98.32.
Every year during Christmas holidays, Mr & Mrs. Walter H. Fukuyama, owners of the Juneau Laundry, showed their appreciation to their regular customers by giving them a gift. Bachelors received either Juneau Laundry bag or towel & table cover or runner was given to families. They were ordered well in advance & were never late in arriving. Papa painstakingly wrapped table cover or runner in white tissue paper & tied the package w/ red ribbon for families. Bachelors received their gift in their clean, wrapped laundry —— so it was a surprise then they opened their bundle.
Donor is daughter of Fukuyamas.
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Business
Ad
Laundry
Homelife
Asian
Ethnic Diversity
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