Developing Patronage:  
Chinese and Asian Pacific Heritage
9 September, 2017          
​9:30 am - 11:00 am 

Welcome to the opening program of the First Saturday PDX  2017 - 2018 Season! 

​​​“The most polite and gentlemanly treatment of all customers, however insignificant their business, is insisted upon. Proper respect must be shown to all-let them be men, women, children, rich or poor, white or black-it must not be forgotten that the Company is dependent on these same people for its business.”
 –  John Valentine, President, Wells Fargo General Instructions to agents, 1902
​Inspired by the discovery of gold in California in 1848, Henry Wells and William G. Fargo imagined an express and banking business that would connect the vibrant East Coast with the remote gold fields out in the West.  After opening Wells Fargo in New York on March 18, 1852, offices in San Francisco and Sacramento shortly followed in July.  From Wells Fargo archives and the History Museum, Steve Greenwood  will illuminate the history of Wells Fargo’s relationship with Chinese and Asian Pacific clients.
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Steve Greenwood is Museum Manager of Wells Fargo History Museum, Portland.​
Wells Fargo and the Asian Pacific Community: a valued relationship is on exhibition at the museum, details here:  www.wellsfargohistory.com/museums/portland/
        From our presentation:
​(For an enlarged view: click on image on PC,  or pinch to zoom on mobile devices)
Our educational program series has been developed in collaboration with PSU’s Institute for Asian Studies, and is free and open to the public.​  First Saturday PDX  full season schedule and descriptions available HERE

View our regular monthly location by clicking on the address below for directions:  
Portland State University, Academic & Student Recreation Ctr (ASRC),  Room 230
1800 SW 6th Ave, Portland OR 97201
Excellent MAX and bus transportation is right by the venue; plan your Trimet trip HERE.   There is also a nearby parking structure at SW 6th and Harrison with an entrance on 6th Avenue is also available.
View PSU Parking info:  
https://www.pdx.edu/transportation/hourly-visitor-parking​​​