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Photograph

Title
The last Chinaman on the Jordan goldfield, a market gardener
Date
c. 1906 - c. 1907
Place
Australia - Victoria - Gippsland - Jericho
Interpretive description

Information at Chinese Museum states photograph is 1906. State Library of Victoria states it is 1907.

Versions

  1. Print
    Title
    The last Chinaman on the Jordan Goldfields, taking his produce to sell to the townsfolk, 1906.
    Date
    c. 1906
    Type
    Print
    Form
    Black and white photocopy from a book.
    Control
    P00711
    Source

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

  2. Published photograph
    Type
    Published photograph
    Control
    p.101
    Source

    Tomlin, Owen F., Gold for the finding: A pictorial history of Gippsland's Jordan goldfield, Hill of Content, Melbourne, 1979. Details

  3. Click to view this published photograph
    Title
    The last Chinese man on the Jordan. Note the vegetables on the ground ready for packing
    Type
    Published photograph
    Control
    p.114
    Source

    Rogers, J.G., Jericho on theJordan: A Gippsland Goldfield History, J.G. Rogers, Moe, Victoria, 1997. Details

    Original source: O. Tomlin Collection.

  4. Published photograph
    Description

    Black and white photograph taken by an unidentified photographer in 1906 of a market gardener in Jordan as published in Owen F. Tomlin's Gold for the Finding.

    Type
    Published photograph
    Control
    p.88
    Source

    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

    Owen F. Tomlin, Gold for the Finding: A Pictorial History of Gippsland's Jordan Goldfield, Melbourne: Hill of Content, 1979, p.101

  5. Print
    Date
    c. 1907
    Type
    Print
    Control
    LTA 81, f.42
    Source

    Tomlin's Jericho photographic collection, 1892 - 1976, LTA 81; State Library of Victoria - Picture Collection. Details

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