China Press Envelope, Shanghai

I’ve written a lot about the history and characters of the China Press newspaper, started by Tom Millard in 1910 in Shanghai and where Carl Crow got his start in the China Coast newspaper business (see my biography of Crow – A Tough Old China Hand and history of the old China press corps, Through the looking Glass). Anyway, it was a formative paper in Shanghailander circles and ran for many years till WW2. Here is one of their personalised envelopes with their #180 Avenue Edward VII address (Yan’an Lu), the centre of Shanghai’s English language publishing world, the cluster of newspaper and wire services offices, known as “Newspaper Row” (see my post on that here)