Found 2 collections related to China -- Commerce -- United States

Everett Frazar (1834-1901), American diplomat and merchant, was appointed consul-general for Korea at New York in 1883. His firm, Frazar and Company, did business in China, Japan and Korea. He served as president of the American Asiatic Association. Collection consists of correspondence, official documents, business papers, newsclippings, and other papers of Frazar and his son, Everett W. Frazar (b. 1867). Materials relate chiefly to Frazar's activities as consul-general, 1883-1900; to the business of the mercantile firm of Frazar and Company, 1884-1923; and to the American Asiatic Association, 1898-1948. less

Richard Pollard (1829-1908) was an insurance agent in Lynchburg, Virginia, and a trader during the 1850s in the Chinese import/export business. He served in the Confederate Army during the U.S. Civil War and was active in the Court St. Methodist Episcopal Church in Lynchburg after the war. In 1908 his daughter, Bettie Pollard Glass, founded the Pollard and Glass insurance agency in Lynchburg with Anna L. Jones. Collection consists of Pollard's business papers and correspondence and other papers of his family and related families in Lynchburg. Business papers, 1840s-1909, include correspondence, documents relating to Pollard's insurance career, notes and accounts concerning the China trade, and diaries describing his church activities and spiritual development. Family correspondence, 1840s-1917, is chiefly that of Richard Pollard and members of his immediate and extended family and includes letters from family members serving in the Confederate Army. Also, essays and diaries by family members, photographs, clippings and other printed matter. Diaries include account of naval cruise to Europe during 1866-1867 kept by one of the officers (relation to Pollard family not known). less