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Wesselingh family archives: figurines showing Eight immortal fairies (Pat Sin Leng), ca 1937

Submitted by Charles in Shanghai on Sun, 2019-10-06 04:09

Jan Wesselingh was an employee of Netherlands Harbour Works Co. from Amsterdam, working in Guangzhou (Canton) before WWII and in Hong Kong after WWII. I was brought in contact with two of his sons by Theodor A.R. Strauss, 1988-1993 secretary of Nederlandse Reünisten Vereniging China (NRCV, Dutch Reunists Association China), of which Jan Wesselingh was a member.

Can you please help to find out more about the meaning of the figurines?

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Courtesy Wesselingh family archives <Read more ...>

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):

1937

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Wesselingh family archives: Huangpu District, Guangzhou, 1938

Submitted by Charles in Shanghai on Sun, 2019-10-06 04:06

Jan Wesselingh was an employee of Netherlands Harbour Works Co. from Amsterdam, working in Guangzhou (Canton) before WWII and in Hong Kong after WWII. I was brought in contact with two of his sons by Theodor A.R. Strauss, 1988-1993 secretary of Nederlandse Reünisten Vereniging China (NRCV, Dutch Reunists Association China), of which Jan Wesselingh was a member.

More narrative will follow.

Courtesy Wesselingh family archives <Read more ...>

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):

1938

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Holland-China Trading Company: portrait Van den Poll at Guangzhou office, 1918

Submitted by Charles in Shanghai on Sat, 2019-06-22 15:23

Charles Gesner van der Voort had started his career in Rotterdam, at Holland-China Trading Company (HCHC). In 1938, he went to Shanghai for the firm. The Japanese interned him, and most other Dutch nationals, from 1943-45. In camp, he met his wife Nancy and they married after the war. After a leave in The Netherlands, they returned to the Orient, where Charles continued to work for HCHC in Hong Kong.

Twenty years before Charles started, in 1918, a photo album was made of the Hong Kong office and office staff. The Guangzhou office was also photographed. <Read more ...>

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):

1918

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Holland-China Trading Company: portrait P. Stuyfbergen, manager Guangzhou office, 1918

Submitted by Charles in Shanghai on Sun, 2019-06-16 14:16

Charles Gesner van der Voort had started his career in Rotterdam, at Holland-China Trading Company (HCHC). In 1938, he went to Shanghai for the firm. The Japanese interned him, and most other Dutch nationals, from 1943-45. In camp, he met his wife Nancy and they married after the war. After a leave in The Netherlands, they returned to the Orient, where Charles continued to work for HCHC in Hong Kong. <Read more ...>

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):

1918

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Holland-China Trading Company: Guangzhou (Canton) office, 1918

Submitted by Charles in Shanghai on Fri, 2019-06-14 14:53

Charles Gesner van der Voort had started his career in Rotterdam, at Holland-China Trading Company (HCHC). In 1938, he went to Shanghai for the firm. The Japanese interned him, and most other Dutch nationals, from 1943-45. In camp, he met his wife Nancy and they married after the war. After a leave in The Netherlands, they returned to the Orient, where Charles continued to work for HCHC in Hong Kong.

Twenty years before Charles started, in 1918, a photo album was made of the Hong Kong office and office staff. This photo shows the Guangzhou office, Canton at the time. <Read more ...>

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):

1918