A complimentary blotter from The George Sam Hand Laundry:
Laundry receipt from 1889, front and back:
Laundry card, front and back:
Business card:
Wells Fargo cover to Quong Sing, Weaverville, front and back:
Cover to Stanley, BC, currently a ghost town with perhaps one building standing. UPDATE: I drove through Stanley recently and noted two buildings--- one now under renovation. Also the old Stanley graveyard has been cleaned up.
Cancelled at Quesnelle (now spelled Quesnel) in 1898, to Hock Kee:
These are pieces of a letter or manuscript found stuck in the wall of an
old fallen down log cabin. They were varnished onto shingles to preserve them
as they were very fragile.
Old letter on thin tissue paper:
Manuscript about the Chinese Taoist Temple of San Francisco:
Old box from Bow On Tong Co. store in Vancouver's Chinatown, at 13 Pender St. West.
Old unstamped cover with letter(different from the one shown above). Red letter pages from Weaverville cover.
Airmail cover from Canton, China to Kamloops, BC-- received in Falkland, BC:
Airmail cover from Canton, China to Kamloops, BC:
Three books-- Found in old local antique stores in British Columbia 25 years ago. The small red book is a Chiu Yick English-Chinese dictionary.
The Canadian Bank of Commerce account book with entries
January 1932-- Chinese account.
Photographs:
This photo was taken in the Yucho Chow Studio, 518 Main St. Vancouver, BC. The writing indicates that it is a group of clergymen but no other identification is made. Yucho Chow Studios was one of two Chinese portrait studios in Vancouver during the early 1900s. This photo is not dated. It was difficult to get a picture of this photograph as it is too large for the scanner.
Documents:
Immigration Certificate dated 1918-- front:
-- reverse:
Immigration Certificate dated 1924-- front:
-- reverse:
Chinese Consular (Vancouver, BC) Certificate dated 1943:
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