As noted in an earlier post I made in 2012, a listing of Chinese businesses in the U.S. was published in 1946 and called, Handbook of Chinese in America. It is extensive, but it is unknown how complete it was as a business probably had to pay to be listed.
I could not find any copy for sale but a handful of university libraries had copies. I borrowed one via Interlibrary loan and xeroxed the roughly 250 pages of listings which have been valuable for my research.
Today, I stumbled upon a beautifully scanned copy from the National Central Library in Taiwan. I include a screenshot of 2 pages, 414-415. The first 408 pages are in Chinese; you can jump ahead if you enter a page number between 409 and 651 in the little window at the top of the screen.
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