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ID121
NameBusiness conditions in Hongkew Section, Shanghai
TitleObservations of Conditions in Hongkew -- Little Tokyo
Year1938
AuthorDoodha, Frank N.W., Clerk to Commercial Attache, Shanghai; Smith, A. Viola, Trade Commissioner, Shanghai
CollectionNARA, General records of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce (RG151)
Sub collectionTrade Promotion, Foreign Trade, Business Conditions (China, 1938-45)
Reference NumberFile Class 411, Box 1750
Repository typeArchive
Description

Report dated April 30, 1938 entitled "Observations of Conditions in Hongkew -- Little Tokyo" (15p) that consists of observations made by the clerk to the Commercial Attache in Shanghai, upon the occasion of his recent personal tour through the Hongkew area in Shanghai, which is said to give illumiating sidelights upon conditions of trade in that former thriving section of Shanghai. 

Contents (about 15p.)

  • Jewelry shops
  • Clothing and sundry goods stores
  • Tailor establishments
  • Cigarette stores
  • Stationers
  • Provision stores
  • Wines
  • Beer
  • Aerated waters
  • Bread
  • Macaroni and Vermicelli
  • Tinned moat
  • Fresh fish
  • Matches 
  • Fruits and vegetables
  • Cement
  • Sugar
  • Foreign flags
  • Electrical goods
  • Radios and radio parts
  • Refrigerators
  • Automobiles, trucks, busses and motor-cycles 
  • Automobile parts and accessories 
  • Motor tires
  • Bicycles
  • Gramophones
  • Clocks and watches
  • Rice and cereals
  • Rice
  • Scrap iron
  • Sodium Bicarbonate
  • Flash lights and batteries
  • Cameras
  • Dispensaries
  • Knitting wool
  • Old newspapers 
  • Rubber bands
  • Leather goods
  • Motor fuels
  • Glass and Porcelain
  • Prices of merchandise at Hongkew

 

Comment

File Class 411, Box 1750, 1938-45, p.22-36. 

See also: Records Relating to Commercial Attaches' Reports, China (Peiping), 1938, Box 126, folder "Foreign Service - Copies of Reports - Peiping - 1937 - March-April", p.98-111. 

Provides very detailed information regarding the brandnames, origins and retail prices of the products available in the store surveyed by the clerk. 

 

Keywordswar ; Japanese ; loss ; Hongkew ; shop ; price ; brand ; origin ; jewelry ; clothing ; sundry ; cigarette ; stationery ; foodstuff ; electrical ; automobile ; music ; clock ; ware ; newspaper
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