The Mandarin letterhead and envelope
date: label: date made
content: 1960s
notes: label: Description
content: Off-white letter and envelope with red lettering. On the upper left-hand corner of the envelope reads in red letters “The Mandarin 2209 Polk Street, San Francisco.” On the white letterhead, in the upper right hand corner of the letter spears a symbol, the name of the restaurant and an address. The symbol is of a woman in Chinese dress wear outlined in gold and underneath it in red letters reads “The Mandarin” and finally an address below “2209 Polk St., San Francisco GR 4-5438” in gold letters.
label: Description
content: A letterhead is the heading at the top of a piece of stationary, usually signaling the name and contact information of the company. An envelope is the packaging stationery that encloses the letterhead. The letterhead was first known as “letter paper” in the late 19th century. In the beginning of the 20th century, letterheads were customized to fit typewriters. By the 1940s, many companies began to place their logos on letterhead.
label: Description
content: The Smithsonian holds several letterheads and envelopes from different locations of Mrs. Cecilia Chiang’s restaurant, The Mandarin. The letters and envelope signal a formal business culture and the reliance of correspondence through the post office. These letterhead and envelopes certainly take us back to a time before computers and the internet.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Asian Pacific American Business
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content: Food
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift from Cecilia Chang
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2013.0127.05a
label: accession number
content: 2013.0127
label: catalog number
content: 2013.0127.05a
objectType: label: Object Name
content: letterhead and envelope
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: letterhead: 10 1/2 in x 7 1/4 in; 26.67 cm x 18.415 cm
label: Measurements
content: envelope: 4 7/8 in x 7 1/2 in; 12.4206 cm x 19.05 cm