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Photograph

Title
Samuel Lougoon and his wife Mary Ellen and two of their sons, Percival and Clarence
Description

Photographed with two of their sons, Percival and Clarence. Samuel was a successful market gardener. Mary’s sister Louisa married Ah Loong and later their mother Anastasia Maher (nee Gray) married a Chinese.

Date
c. 1895
Place
Australia - Victoria - Bendigo (Sandhurst)?
Interpretive description

Date of photograph and description text taken from reference to image in Bendigo Golden Dragon Museum catalogue, 'The Chinese Community in Bendigo - A Unique History', p.28.

Versions

  1. Print
    Title
    Samuel Lougoon and his wife Mary Ellen and their children
    Type
    Print
    Form
    Black and white copy of a photograph published in Kathryn Cronin's 'Colonial Casualties' in chapter titled: 'In a union real and vital'. Photograph caption in publication: '. 'Bendigo gardener and his family'.
    Control
    P00652
    Source

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

    Copy of photograph reproduced in K. Cronin, Colonial Casualtiesp25. Original in possession of the Bendigo family.

  2. Published photograph
    Title
    Bendigo gardener and his family
    Type
    Published photograph
    Control
    p.25
    Source

    Cronin, Kathryn, Colonial Casualties: Chinese in Early Victoria, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1982. Details

    Original in possession of the Bendigo family

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Created: 12 February 2003, Last modified: 14 July 2010