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Title: Chinese booklet, 1900s [Go to resource]
Description: Huntley & Palmers' Superior Reading biscuits are introduced to a young Chinese consumer by his elders in this advertising image. The Far East market was very important to the company's income and profits in the 1900s. From the 1850s Huntley & Palmers had trading contacts in China and the Far East. In 1874 the company boasted that 'seldom a ship sails from England that does not bear within his ribs a Reading Biscuit'. By then the company held a royal appointment to supply the Japanese court. In 1906 the Far East including China accounted for 35% of the company's overseas trade, almost as much as the European market. Format: image/jpeg License: http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 Publisher: Huntley & Palmers Rights holder: Reading Borough Council (Reading Museum Service) Subjects: social history
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peopleTemporal: start=1900-01-01; end=1920-12-31; Source: Sense of place SE Identifier: http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... Language: en-GB Format: image/jpeg Go to resource More Like this...
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