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    Sarah Lee Hang Gong (nee Bowman) with four of her children in Victoria mid 1880s

Title
Sarah Lee Hang Gong (nee Bowman) with four of her children in Victoria mid 1880s
Date
1880s
Place
Australia - Victoria

Versions

  1. Print
    Description

    Standing - Thomas Lee Hang Gong, Jane Lee Hang Gong (later Tye)
    Centre - Sarah Bowman (wife of Lee Hang Gong)
    Two children - Henry and Herbert.

    Type
    Print
    Form
    b/w copy photoprint.
    Source

    'Chinese' file; Creswick Historical Museum. Details

    Original held in the private collection (Lee Rubie)

  2. Click to view this print (cropped)
    Title
    Sarah Bowman
    Type
    Print (cropped)
    Form
    b/w photoprint; negative
    Control
    P00890 SH002
    Source

    Selina Hassan collection, SH; Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History). Details

    Rights
    Reproduction rights owned by the Chinese Museum
  3. Published photograph
    Title
    Lee Hong Gong's wife, Sarah, with four of their children.
    Date
    c. 1880 - c. 1885
    Type
    Published photograph
    Form
    Full caption: 'Standing left is Thomas, born in Napier St., Creswick, in 1864, standing right is Jane Elizabeth, born in Creswick in 1869, the other two are probably Henry, born in Creswick in 1873, and Herbert, born about 1876, probably in Creswick. Missing from the photograph, probably taken in Darwin in the ealry 1880s, are Arthur Edward, born 1867, and Selina, born 1871, both in Creswick, and Sarah and Lee Hong Gong's youngest child, Ernest, born in Hong King [sic].'
    Source

    'Chinese migrant set up a shop', Hepburn Advocate, 18 November 1998. Details

    Private collection Valerie Lee Ruby

  4. Print
    Title
    Sarah Lee Hang Gong (nee Bowman) with her children in Victoria mid 1880s
    Description

    Tom, Jane, Earnest, Herbert

    Date
    1880s
    Type
    Print
    Creator
    Studio Western
    Control
    LTA 658. f.18
    Source

    Hassan family, 1880s - 1950, LTA 658; State Library of Victoria - Picture Collection. Details

  5. Print
    Title
    Sarah Lee (nee Bowman), with four of her children, around 1882.
    Description

    Left to right: eldest son Tom, Herbert, Sarah, eldest daughter Jane (rear), and Earnest (front).

    Date
    c. 1882
    Type
    Print
    Control
    P00891 SH4 DJG3
    Source

    Selina Hassan collection, SH; Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History). Details

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Created: 17 May 2004, Last modified: 7 November 2005