(BUSINESS) Paul E Johnson A Black inventor writes in support

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(BUSINESS.) Paul E. Johnson. A Black inventor writes in support of the immigration status of his German employee. Letter Signed to "Emigration Authorities" in Washington. One page, 11 x 8¼ inches, on Johnson's illustrated letterhead; tasteful repairs of short separations at folds. Chicago, 8 February 1924

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Paul Emerson Johnson (1892-1945) was a Georgia-born Black inventor and entrepreneur in Chicago. This letterhead promotes his "Universal Electro-Physiotherapeutic Equipment" and "Sun-Ray Dry-O-Lites." His therapeutic lamp business was featured at the 1926 meeting of the National Negro Business League, and profiled in Opportunity Magazine in October 1926, which noted that "the personnel of his plant is selected according to merit and consists of workmen of Polish, Jewish, Negro, Swedish, German and Irish extraction." This letter was written in support of one of Johnson's German employees, John Paetz: "His wages run about $40 per week, and we feel that with his apparent industrial habits, this will be ample to properly maintain his family. If it is within your power to aid in securing the passports or other necessary documents to gain this family's admission to the country, we would greatly appreciate same."