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SOME 16,000 archive documents about Shanghai's earliest companies, factories and hospitals will be revealed to the public for the first time beginning tomorrow at Shanghai Municipal Archives.
The exhibition will include photos and documents about the city's four major department stores - Sincere, Wing on, Xinxin and the Sun in the 1930s. It will also include information and Xiexin Textile Co, one of the earliest textile companies in the city. Xiexin Textile was opened by the grandfather of former Hong Kong politician Henry Tang, said Xu Xuan, a researcher with the archives.