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RESEARCH SERVICES
 For anyone who wants to look up businesses, home addresses,
families, friends, neighbors, schools, churches, clubs, etc.,
Tess has some Hong Books (for all China), and a variety of
Shanghai directories for the following years: 1921, 1923, 1928,
1929, 1930, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1939 and 1941 (the last
pre-war one).
For the postwar years, she has: 1944,
1948-49 and 1949 but they list only businesses, with no
residential addresses; these are, however, covered in the
English-language telephone directories for 1941 and 1949. (Tess
also has a 1937 Hong Book and a 1939 Shanghai Directory in
German.)
 Her map collection spans the 1920s and 1930s (but
most are too large to photocopy). She also has 200+ detailed strip
maps for 1947 showing all the buildings on every street in both
the old concessions.
Although all of the Western cemeteries were long-ago destroyed,
she has a listing of all the reproduced
Western tombstones in one cemetery here.
(For a list of Shanghai’s
80+Jewish tombstones, contact
Dvir Bar-Gal).
Tess doesn’t charge for any of
this, but does hope for something in return. She is constantly
scouring the old markets here for research material. The more she
has, the more she is able to assist readers and researchers. She
especially treasures and uses manuscripts, diaries, letters,
newspaper clippings, old maps, photos, theatre programs, and
anything else that adds to her knowledge of expatriate life in
China over the past 150 years. |
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