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    Quong Tart in National Guard uniform, c. 1900 - c. 1901, courtesy of Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History).

Title
Quong Tart in National Guard uniform
Date
c. 1900 - c. 1901
Place
Australia - New South Wales
Interpretive description

According to Travers, Quong Tart joined Sir George Dibbs' National Guard in 1900. It is assumed that this photograph shows him in his National Guard uniform and so was taken c1900.

Versions

  1. Click to view this print
    Title
    Quong Tart in National Guard uniform
    Type
    Print
    Control
    P00835 QT008
    Source

    Quong Tart collection; Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History). Details

  2. Published photograph
    Title
    Quong Tart - a military officer [online editon]
    Date
    - 1911
    Type
    Published photograph
    Control
    following p.52
    Source

    Tart, Margaret, The Life of Quong Tart: Or how a Foreigner Succeeded in a British Community, W. M. Maclardy, Sydney, 1911, http://purl.library.usyd.edu.au/setis/id/fed0048. Details

  3. Published photograph
    Title
    The mandarin takes the Queen's shilling
    Type
    Published photograph
    Control
    p.159
    Source

    Travers, Robert, Australian Mandarin: The Life and Times of Quong Tart, Kangaroo Press, New South Wales, 1981. Details

  4. Negative
    Type
    Negative
    Form
    4x5 inch black and white negative copied from an original (probably edition of Margaret Tart's biography of Quong Tart)
    Control
    N45-276
    Source

    Quong Tart collection; Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History). Details

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Created: 12 February 2003, Last modified: 19 March 2008