Sticker

A buff coloured sticker with ornamentation in green ink. A scrolled pattern is printed around the border, enclosing an image of an Asian woman positioned above a fire breathing dragon, in the top left hand corner of the sticker. The woman is enshrined in what appears to be a radiating circle. Next to the image are the words 'China Gift Store', 'Miss Sym Choon', and then 'Phone, Central 4857' and the address '235-237 Rundle Street Adelaide'. Underneath this, four dotted lines have been printed, most likely for writing on in lieu of using the sticker as a label.
Gladys Sym Choon was a member of the Sym Choon family, who lived and operated as retail traders on Rundle Street from the 1920s to the 1980s. John Sym Choon, Gladys' father, was one of a small number of Chinese settlers in Adelaide in the 1890. Unusally, he was able to bring his wife So Yung Moon to South Australia in 1899 just prior to the introduction of the White Australia Policy that prohibited the migration of Chinese wives. The Sym Choon's are both representative of Chinse migrants of the period, and the issues they faced under the White Australia Policy, and, in some respects, unusual, in terms of the ways in which their social position improves.