Japanese Hand Laundry, c. 1910

ID: 4344 ~ Source: University of Washington Digital Collections
This file appears in: The Hillyard Hand Laundry

Hand laundries like the one depicted in this photograph were typical among businesses owned by Japanese immigrants. The Shiosaki family laundry would have looked similar to this Japanese hand laundry in Seattle.

This file appears in: The Hillyard Hand Laundry

By Anna Harbine
Being Japanese in Hillyard was not always easy. Home to a large community of railroad workers of every nationality, conflicts between the Japanese and other laborers were frequent, sometimes resulting…