Harvard Business School’s Baker Library is now having a exhibition on Augustine Heard & Co., one of the most respected and powerful U.S. trading houses in China in the mid-19th century. Here’s the accompanying website for those of you who cannot come to the exhibition in person.
http://www.library.hbs.edu/hc/heard/index.html
The library also holds extensive records of American firms engaged in trade with and in nineteenth-century China, which offer rich professional and personal perspectives into early Sino-American relations, as well as insight into the complexities of the business lives of American traders in the treaty ports
http://www.library.hbs.edu/hc/heard/manuscript-collections.html
