Lewando's French Dyers and Cleaners.

Identifier

http://dp.la/api/items/89f364450b41eb347f390b1a28980880

Title

Lewando's French Dyers and Cleaners.

Date

1950

Description

Measuring knitted garments in preparation for cleaning and blocking at Lewando's. Lewando?s French Dying and Cleansing Establishment cleanses and dyes all kinds of fabrics and materials used as clothing or as draperies, upholstery or rugs for floors. The Laundry was fitted with Empire Laundry Machines from the Watertown. Lewando?s could turn out about 4500 collars and cuffs, 500 shirts each day or 10,000 pairs of gloves dyed a month or repair 5,000 shiny woolen garments in a year. During a year one to two hundred employees would worked according to the season. Lewando?s used six artesian wells and much of the Watertown Water Supply Company?s supply. A boiler of 120 and two forty-five horse-power supplied the motive-power and to furnish steam for heating and dying purposes. Three steam engines of six, eight and ten horse-power operated the laundry. By 1893, Lewando?s claimed to be the largest laundry in the United States.

Subject

Entrepreneurship
Brand name products
Industries--United States
Corporation
Incorporation
Business
Commerce
Business enterprises--Massachusetts--Watertown
Commercial buildings--Watertown (Mass.)
Lewando's--Watertown (Mass.)

Source

Digital Commonwealth

Relation

https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/7d278x715/thumbnail

Type

image

References

https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/7d278x715

Date

1950

Source

Digital Commonwealth

Subject

Entrepreneurship
Brand name products
Industries--United States
Corporation
Incorporation
Business
Commerce
Business enterprises--Massachusetts--Watertown
Commercial buildings--Watertown (Mass.)
Lewando's--Watertown (Mass.)

Citation

“Lewando's French Dyers and Cleaners.,” Center for Knit and Crochet Digital Repository, accessed October 10, 2026, https://digital.centerforknitandcrochet.org/items/show/7455.

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