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Photograph

Title
Market gardeners in Kiandra
Description

Figures have partially shaved heads and wear Chinese work clothes.

Date
c. 1860 - c. 1900
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Kiandra
Interpretive description

Archaeological research in Kiandra does not support the earlier attributed date of 1860s.

Versions

  1. Print (front)
    Title
    Human-drawn plough
    Date
    1860 - 1861
    Type
    Print (front)
    Form
    Black and white photograph copied from original in State Library of Victoria. Back in pencil 'Original on tinted rice-paper, found in a workman's hut on the Buckley family property near Kiandra. Chinese ploughing and planting (seed potatoes?) in the Kiandra district late 19th century'.
    Control
    P00008
    Source

    Chinese Museum copies of selected holdings at State Library of Victoria; Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History). Details

    Copy of LTA 552 f.4 held by the State Library of Victoria

  2. Print
    Title
    Chinese plowing, using only manpower. As gold supplies decreased, Chinese were forced from the goldfields to their only other enterprise - agriculture
    Type
    Print
    Form
    Photocopy
    Control
    P00008
    Source

    P Series general picture collection, P series; Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History). Details

    The Courier, Ballarat, Sat, Sept, 17, 1983

  3. Print
    Title
    Human-drawn plough
    Type
    Print
    Control
    LTA 552 f.4
    Source

    Miscellaneous Chinese photographs, c. 1885 - c. 1982, LTA 552; State Library of Victoria - Picture Collection. Details

  4. Published photograph
    Description

    Shows one Chinese pulling a wooden plough, another leaning down on the blade, and a third laying seed in a furrow. Believed to be taken in Kiandra (NSW).

    Date
    c. 1859
    Type
    Published photograph
    Form
    Published black and white photograph of original photograph attributed to be printed on sensitised rice paper.
    Control
    p.38
    Source

    Cannon, Michael, Australia: A History of Photographs, Curry O'Neil Ross Pty Ltd, South Yarra, Melbourne, 1983. Details

    Original source: State Library of Victoria picture collection

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Created: 12 February 2003, Last modified: 25 October 2010