J.W. Johnson Machinery Company photograph

The photograph shows the J.W. Johnson Laundry Machinery Company of Upper Sandusky, Ohio. The two-story brick building sits on the corner of two dirt roads. Four Chinese characters are painted across the second floor. More buildings sit to the right, some bearing advertisements for Mail Pouch Tobacco. In 1905 the Johnson Laundry Machinery Co. was severely damaged in a fire, but the business continued until at least 1912. Photograph by Harry Evan Kinley (1882-1969), a native of Upper Sandusky. Kinley was active in local events and organizations, and spent his professional career as a clerk at his father's store, and later as a traveling salesman for the Marion Paper & Supply Company (1934-1962). Kinley was also an avid lifelong photographer, and the bulk of the Harry Kinley Collection is comprised of glass plate negatives documenting the Kinley family, the city of Upper Sandusky and Wyandot County and surrounding areas