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Chinatown printers type specimen catalogue, ca. 1934

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Chinatown printers type specimen catalogue, ca. 1934

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Description

Heading: (Chinese American)
Author: Bock Ngar Chy Co., Printers
Title: Leading San Francisco Chinatown printers type specimen Catalog of the 1930s
Place Published: San Francisco
Publisher:
Date Published: ca. 1934
Description:

Type Specimen Catalogue. 8x5", oblong, 44p. Original decorative wrappers, profusely illustrated. Text in Chinese with some English.

The most prominent printing company in San Francisco, Chinatown was founded by a Chinese-American, born in San Francisco and educated in both Chinese and American schools who worked in his father's import-export business before starting his own firm of printers and stationers after the San Francisco earthquake and fire.

Several years ago, we sold a large archive of business papers of this Company from the 1920s, related to their purchases of ink, type, paper, stationery, etc. This catalogue, which is in remarkably good condition, displays the Company's own products and services,with a wide variety of typefaces and graphics for advertisements, calling cards, and other printing jobs as well as such products as rubberstamps and corporate stamping machines. The Chinese-owned businesses named in the illustrations were located not only in San Francisco, but also Sacramento, Reno, Denver, Minneapolis, Canada and Mexico.

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Chinatown printers type specimen catalogue, ca. 1934

Name: Chinatown printers type specimen catalogue, ca. 1934
SKU: 73215151
Price: 650 USD
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