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Columbus, Georgia, circa 1953. "Snow's Laundry." With plenty of free parking for your car, bike or wagon. 4x5 negative from the News Archive. View full size.
The Speed Graphic illustrated has the drop-bed feature deployed --- which the photographer apparently did not while using a wide angle lens.
He would be sitting in front of the Warren Williams apartment complex, which is a post-WWII subsidized housing project. The complex still stands today, even though Snow's is gone.
I can't get a clue.
[Looks a lot like the out-of-focus front end of a Speed Graphic, the most common 4x5 press camera. -tterrace]
Only the lefthand section of the building remains.
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