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    An old Chinese known as Blind Tommy & lives about one and a half miles out from Beechworth, Vic., c. 1914 - c. 1941, by Carroll, James, 23 Etnam, West Preston, courtesy of State Library of Victoria - Picture Collection.
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    Ginge, Chinese hawker in Linton, c. 1900, courtesy of Linton & District Historical Society.
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    [Chinese miner outside wattle & daub hut with a dog] [picture], c. 1900, by Ferguson, W. H., courtesy of State Library of Victoria - Picture Collection.
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    Postcard, courtesy of Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History).
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    Jimmy selling vegetables in Linton township, c. 1900, courtesy of Linton & District Historical Society.
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    [uncaptioned], - c. 1936, courtesy of Malcolm Drinkwater.
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    Chinese market garden Camden, c. 1969, courtesy of Camden Historical Society.
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    New Chip standing beside a car
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Summary

There is a genre of photographs that capture the last Chinese person, usually an elderly man, in various places around Australia. They are generally referred to as 'last Chinamen' in associated text.

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Published Resources

Journal Articles

  • Couchman, Sophie, 'Making the 'last Chinaman': Photography and Chinese as a 'vanishing' people in Australia's rural local histories', Australian Historical Studies, vol. 42, no. 1, 2011, pp. 78-91. Details

Images

Title
Robert Fun Yet in top hat
Type
Photograph
Date
- 1922
Place
Australia - Victoria - Creswick
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Title
Unidentified Chinese men
Type
Photograph
Place
Australia - Victoria?
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Title
Unidentified man in Hill End
Type
Photograph
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Hill End
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See also

Title
Ah Lok in front of his hut in Hunter's Paddock
Type
Photograph
Place
Australia - Victoria
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Title
Ah Pen standing in his mine with hat on
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1917
Place
Australia - Victoria - Creswick
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Title
Jimmy selling vegetables in Linton township
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1900
Place
Australia - Victoria - Linton
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Title
Mew Chip seated by a wall
Type
Photograph
Date
- c. 1936
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Hill End
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Title
Mr & Mrs Biu & Sim Wong, their two daughters and Mr Wong's parents in Wong's garden in Camden
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1969
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney - Camden
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Title
New Chip standing beside a car
Type
Photograph
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Hill End
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Title
Portrait of Chinese miner called 'Hatto'
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1910
Place
Australia - New South Wales - New England - Rocky River
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Title
The last Chinaman on the Jordan goldfield, a market gardener
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1906 - c. 1907
Place
Australia - Victoria - Gippsland - Jericho
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Unidentified elderly Chinese men at the Ovens Benevolent Asylum
Type
Photograph
Date
1900s - 1930s
Place
Australia - Victoria - Beechworth
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Sources used to compile this entry: Couchman, Sophie, 'Making the 'last Chinaman': Photography and Chinese as a 'vanishing' people in Australia's rural local histories', Australian Historical Studies, vol. 42, no. 1, 2011, pp. 78-91.

Created: 17 May 2004, Last modified: 23 April 2012