The practical dry cleaner, scourer, and garment dyer : comprising dry or chemical cleaning; purification of benzine ..
A 1907 Philadelphia trade manual by William T. Brannt, published by H. C. Baird & Co., covering dry cleaning, benzine purification and garment dyeing for working cleaners and dyers. The pictures are plain black-and-white line engravings and halftone photographs of cleaning apparatus: a crank-operated drum, a copper still with condenser and storage tanks, a hand-cranked washing tub and a geared rotary washer on iron legs. A designer could draw on their sturdy mechanical forms, riveted metal surfaces and exposed cranks and gears for industrial or vintage workshop graphics.
