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Life in a Laundry: Chinese in Pre-World War II Yonkers
Document 7
Document 7: LC-USF34-013506-C. Parks, Gordon. Washington, D.C, Johnnie Lew's Chinese laundry. America from the Great Depression to World War II: Black-and-White Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945. Library of Congress, available online at www.loc.gov.
Document 7 Short-Answer Questions
- Document 7 shows the interior of a typical Chinese laundry of the depression era. What adjective would you use to describe the room, and why?
- What would it be like to work ten-hour days in such a room?
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