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Photograph

Title
Ah Pen standing in his mine with hat on
Description

Stands bowed over holding a shovel in his left hand. He stands in his mine. He wears a beard and a very old ragged suit with a hat.

Date
c. 1917
Place
Australia - Victoria - Creswick
Interpretive description

Based on other photographs of Ah Pen and Bobby, this photograph is believed to show Ah Pen. It is also believed to have been created by Daryl Lindsay based on his first person annotation on back of the University of Melbourne Archives print of this photograph.

Versions

  1. Print
    Title
    An old Chines [sic] fossicker Photo By Lionel Lindsy [sic]
    Type
    Print
    Form
    b/w print and negative. There is a scratch across the middle of the negative which is reproduced on the print. Hand written on back of print and on small manilla envelope which contained negative is: 'An old Chinese fossicker. Photo by Lionel Lindsay'. Lindsay attribution added in pencil.
    Creator
    Lindsay, Lionel (1899-1958)
  2. Print
    Title
    Old Bobby [sic Ah Pen] - The last of the Chinese fossickers in Creswick
    Date
    c. 1917
    Type
    Print
    Form
    b/w photoprint. Handwritten on back: 'Old Bobby - The last of the Chinese fossickers in Creswick who lives in a one Room hut just below the old Chinese cemetery. I cannot remember the date when I took this snapshot but think about 1917. Daryl Lindsay.'
    Creator
    Lindsay, Daryl
    Control
    [uncatalogued]
    Source

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

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Created: 26 May 2004, Last modified: 8 June 2009