Chinese Festival Night, 1923 - advertising

These advertisements from the Chinese Festival Night program are a snapshot of some of the many Chinese owned businesses in Sydney in the 1920s. Included are a few non-Chinese businesses who found it worth their while to also advertise. The mixture of Chinese and non-Chinese advertising was common in the Chinese language newspapers of the period also.

Chinese Festival Night, 1923 - advertising

Image Courtesy of: Natalie Chin-Nam

The Chinese businesses:

Cafe

Importers x 5

Herbalists x 3 

Vegetable wholesalers x 8

Newspaper

Warehouse

The Non-Chinese businesses:

Printer

Tailor (in Chinese)

Furniture Company

Insurance company (in Chinese)

Bank (in Chinese)

Shipping Company

Chinese Festival Night, 1923 - advertising

Image Courtesy of: Natalie Chin-Nam

Peking Cafe

Image Courtesy of: Natalie Chin-Nam