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Title
Jane Elizabeth Tye
Date
- 1934
Place
Australia - Northern Territory

Versions

  1. Published photograph
    Title
    Jane Elizabeth Tye was the Top End's leading midwife for nearly forty years until her death in 1934.
    Description

    She inherited her skills from her mother, Sarah Bowman, an Englishwoman who studied midwifery in London. Janes's father was wealthy Chinese businessman Lee Hang Gong. Several women in Darwin in 1988 could still recall how 'Granny Tye' helped them during and after their pregnancies.

    Type
    Published photograph
    Control
    p.100
    Source

    James, Barbara, No Man's Land: Women of the Northern Territory, Collins Publishers Australia, Australia, 1989. Details

    Original photograph held in the Spillett collection at the Northern Territory State Reference Library.

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