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Image ID	15050
Title	Reiss & Co.: Silk boxes ready for transportation
Collection	Virtual Shanghai
Location	Shanghai
Year	1917
Date	1917
Caption in album or on mount	REISS & CO. 2,3. Silk for transportation
Image type	Black and white photograph
Material form of image	Book
Note(s)	Originally a Manchester-based firm. In 1846, it opened a branch in Canton, then in 1849 in Shanghai. It was mostly involved in the export of cotton goods (Cameron, 1917, p. 423-26)
Keyword(s) [en]	silk ; box ; warehouse ; godown
Source(s)	Cameron, W. H. Morton, Present day impressions of the Far East and prominent and progressive Chinese at home and abroad. The history, people, commerce, industries and resources of China, Hongkong, Indo-China, Malaya and Netherlands India (1917) page number: 425
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