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Article, illustration and photographs from the St. Louis Dispatch, January 24, 1909 entitled, "Bringing a Harem to Texas" about Dr. C C Young's importing Karakul sheep from Bokhara [Uzbekistan] to Holliday [Texas]. The illustraion shows a man in Arabic dress offering a platter with small men on it to a Western man in a top hat. There is a map of the Central Asian region and two photographs of women in Uzbek costume.

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Description of the trade increases in Canada between 1911 and 1912 focussing on both imports and exports.

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Description of the Grand Trunk Pacific company's steamship and train trade routes in 1912 Canada.

Scope and Contents At E87.71 there is a letter of Chalmers written at the 'Office for Trade, Whitehall' on 21 July 1788, to the sister of 'the late Mr. Richardson of Kensington' (William Richardson). The letter refers to his objective of doing 'justice to the memory of' Richardson, and goes on to mention the 'essay on the causes of the decline of Foreign trade, which I think was written by Mr. Richardson'. In the letter he says that the essay 'is very generally attributed to Sir Matthew Decker'. He hopes...

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Illustration on the cover of the magazine, Fragments, Vol. 1, No. 7, Wednesday August 27, 1919 of a British bulldog standing on a Union Jack flag with a dachsund with the words, 'German Trade' written on its side standing beneath the bulldog. Above the dogs is written, 'Look Out This Doesn't Happen!' and signed by Bruce Bairnsfather.