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    Group of Chinese, c. 1910 - c. 1920, courtesy of Northern Territory Library.

Title
Chinese employees of Dr Gilruth (Darwin Administrator)
Description

Ah Chow (sitting), Ah Bong (table boy, Dobie Ah How and Houseboy

Date
c. 1910 - c. 1920
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Esplanade
Interpretive description

Note that the Austin and Gilruth versions of this photograph are slightly different. The photographs was clearly taken at the same moment as the subjects are posed identically in both images but different photographers have taken the photographs from slightly different positions. The Gilruth version has been taken directly in front of the subjects and the Austin one from slight to one side.

External Url
http://hdl.handle.net/10070/12510

Versions

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    Title
    Group of Chinese
    Description

    Chinese staff employed by Dr Gilruth No. 1, Ah Chow (sitting), Ah Bong (table boy, Dobie Ah How and Houseboy

    Date
    c. 1910 - c. 1920
    Type
    catalogue record + digital image
    Control
    14\14579, PH0190/0033
    Source

    Gilruth collection, 0190; Northern Territory Library. Details

    Rights
    Reproduction rights owned by the Northern Territory Library.
  2. Published photograph
    Title
    The Chinese staff employed by the government Resident, Dr Gilruth.
    Type
    Published photograph
    Form
    Caption continued: 'Regardless of their professed views about the white Australia policy, most well-to-do European families in northern Australia employed Chinese, Japanese or Filipino servants at the time of Federation'.
    Control
    p.112
    Source

    Reynolds, Henry, North of Capricorn: The Untold Story of Australia's North, Allen & Unwin, Crows Nest, NSW, 2003. Details

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    Title
    Four Chinese
    Description

    Four Chinese staff pose outside Government House. Ah Chou seated. The others are Ah bong (table boy), Dobie Ah How and Houseboy.

    Type
    catalogue record + digital image
    Control
    34/34350, PH0412/0001
    Source

    Jean A. Austin collection, c. 1911 - c. 1918, 0412; Northern Territory Library. Details

    Rights
    Reproduction rights owned by the Northern Territory Library.
  4. Print
    Title
    Chinese staff employed by Dr Gilruth
    Description

    Ah Gou (sitting), Ah Bong (tableboy), Dobie Ah How & House Boy

    Type
    Print
    Control
    No.33 (previously no.29)
    Source

    NTAS 410 Photograph album of Gilruth family, ca.1912-1919, c. 1912 - c. 1919, NTRS 410 (original album) and NTRS 234, CP 881-886 (for copyprints); Gilruth family; Northern Territory Archives Service, Darwin Branch. Details

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Created: 4 October 2004, Last modified: 8 June 2009