Chan Foon's Laundry, Majoribanks Street, Wellington 1969

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Title

Chan Foon's Laundry, Majoribanks Street, Wellington 1969

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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

Collection

Te Papa Collections Online

Description

This view into a laundry features Ng Kew (1905-1983) when he was ironing customers’ laundry at Chan Foon and Co, 5 Majoribanks Street, Mt Victoria, Wellington. Behind him are dozens of packages containing customers’ laundry. Ng Kew and his wife Ng Moy She owned Chan Foon from 1946. It was the last operating Chinese laundry in Wellington when it closed in 1981.

Format

Image

Date created

1969

Creator

Tom Shanahan

URL

https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/609131

Related subjects

Laundries (Rooms & spaces) / Laundry / Men / Screens / business enterprises / Ng Kew / Chinese / silver / photographic paper / photographic gelatin / gelatin silver prints / black-and-white prints / black-and-white photographs / works of art / black-and-white photography / Contemporary / Wellington

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