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Photograph

Title
Ah Pen and Fisher outside Ah Pen's hut
Description

Two men sitting on their hunches - Fisher on left, Ah Pen right - in front of a bark roofed hut slab hut. There is a neat wall of firewood to the right of the hut with something, possibly fish, drying on it. Ah Pen does not look to the camera.

Place
Australia - Victoria - Creswick
Interpretive description

Although the caption states this is Ah Pen he does look a little different in this photograph to the other portraits of him.

Versions

  1. Print
    Title
    Ah Pen and his hut, not far from Plantation gates
    Type
    Print
    Form
    Typed label on front: 'Ah Pen and his hut, not far from Plantation gates'. On back: 'Creswick. Ah Pen's hut in [Beens?] at entrance to State Nursery. Fisher on left, Ah Pen right'. Stamps on back: 'Creswick' and 'E.J. Semmens, Creswick'. No date, 11.5 x 16 cm.
    Control
    102/534
    Source

    E.J. Semmens collection, 76/33, 76/42, 77/42; University of Melbourne Archives. Details

  2. Published photograph
    Title
    A Chinese humpy at Creswick c1890
    Type
    Published photograph
    Form
    Caption typed on print: 'Ah Pen and his hut, not far from the plantation gates'
    Source

    Oddie, G., 'The Chinese in Victoria, 1870-1890', MA thesis, University of Melbourne, 1959. Details

    In possession of Mr E.J. Semmens of Creswick

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Created: 21 May 2004, Last modified: 8 June 2009