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Filing devices Wing Sang Company

Description

Three metal filing devices, one board cover, one stand and one ring. Originally used in the offices of the Wing Sang Company to accumulate and maintain files of business around 1900 to the 1920s. "The Archive File" used to assemble a file in the serives titled Summary List of Ticket Sales 1928-1929. The ring reading "Shannon" was produced by Office Specialty of Newmarket, Ontario.

Item Metadata

Title
Filing devices
Creator
Wing Sang Company
Date Created
[between 1900 and 1928?]
Description
Three metal filing devices, one board cover, one stand and one ring. Originally used in the offices of the Wing Sang Company to accumulate and maintain files of business around 1900 to the 1920s. "The Archive File" used to assemble a file in the serives titled Summary List of Ticket Sales 1928-1929. The ring reading "Shannon" was produced by Office Specialty of Newmarket, Ontario.
Subject
Asian experience in North America; Office equipment and supplies
Person Or Corporation
The Yip family and Yip Sang Company
Genre
Physical Objects
Type
Still Image
File Format
image/jpeg
Identifier
CC_AR_00509
Collection
Wallace B. Chung and Madeline H. Chung Collection
Source
Original Format: University of British Columbia. Library. Rare Books and Special Collections. The Chung Collection. CC-AR-00509
Date Available
2018-05-15
Provider
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights
Images provided for research and reference use only. Permission to publish, copy or otherwise use these images must be obtained from Rare Books and Special Collections: http://rbsc.library.ubc.ca/
DOI
10.14288/1.0366422
Category
The Yip family and Yip Sang Company
RBSCLocation
Artefact storage
Aggregated Source Repository
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Rights

Images provided for research and reference use only. Permission to publish, copy or otherwise use these images must be obtained from Rare Books and Special Collections: http://rbsc.library.ubc.ca/