Columbia Records and J. Ullmann

How Columbia Records Are Made in China and the Men Who Make Them

[hoito: 烏利文洋行=J. Ullmann. Headquartered in Shanghai, it operated branches in Tientsin, Hong Kong, and Vladivostock at the time]

Source: The Music Trade Review, vol. 42, no. 11, Mar 1906, p. 44.

Lane Crawford's 1870s adverts in Japan

From The Japan Mail. A fortnightly summary of intelligence from Japan, for transmission to Europe and the United States, via Suez and San Francisco (a forerunner of today The Japan Times, Japan's largest and oldest English-language daily), published in Yokohama, of which the compositor and pressman rooms were staffed by Macanese and Japanese craftsmen respectively in the 1870s.

John Hartley and Chipman, Stone & Co.

Japanese advertisements of two foreign books importers in the early Meiji period: John Hartley and Chipman, Stone & Co.

John Hartley

Source: 《万国新聞紙》，第3集，1867年3月。

Source: 《横浜毎日新聞》，1873年11月14日。

Source: 《横浜毎日新聞》，1874年1月15日。

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Chipman, Stone & Co.

Source: 《横浜毎日新聞》，1873年9月2日。

Events at Gaiety Theatre, Yokohama in December 1875

The events organized by Mr. and Mrs. Vertelli and St. Andrew's Society of Japan on 10th Dec and 13th Dec respectively

source: The Japan Gazette, 10 December, 1875, p. 3.

source: The Japan Gazette, 28 December, 1875, p. 3.