Between the Covers

Hardcover. Narrow quarto. Blue padded three-ring binder. A collections of 84 vintage black and white photographs taken of many different booths at a Taiwanese trade show. Each image is 4" x 6". Most of the companies are largely promoting electronics, machine parts, and industrial goods apparently to both Western and Eastern customers. Many of the companies which are still in business today were in their infancy when this show occurred. Some of them include Sanyang Industrial, King Kong Iron Works, Shihlin Electrical and Engineering, Tung Shin Fine Metal Works, Taiwan Ship Building Company, Taiwan Refrigeration Industrial Company, Taiwan Wire Rope Industrial Corp., and others. Signage is for the most part in both Chinese and English, among the browsers at the show are Western business men and American military officers, as well as Chinese businessmen and women in the appropriate *Mad Men*-era business attire.

Item #386319