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Photograph

Title
'Blind Tommy' in his hut on Chinamans' Flat
Description

Tommy stands in his hut with two rags [?] in his hands. He does not pose for the camera.

Date
c. 1914 - c. 1941
Place
Australia - Victoria - Beechworth
External Url
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  1. Click to view this catalogue record + digital image
    Title
    An old Chinese known as Blind Tommy & lives about one and a half miles out from Beechworth, Vic.
    Date
    c. 1914 - c. 1941
    Type
    catalogue record + digital image
    Form
    photograph : gelatin silver ; Dimensions: 8.8 x 13.8 cm. approx. "JAMES CARROLL, PHOTO, 23 ETNAM STREET, WEST PRESTON."
    Creator
    Carroll, James, 23 Etnam, West Preston
    Control
    H23576
    Source

    A.C. Dreier postcard collection; State Library of Victoria - Picture Collection. Details

    Rights
    Reproduction rights owned by the State Library of Victoria.
  2. Published photograph
    Description

    Black and white photographic print of Wong Hor ('Blind Tommy') outside his home in the Beechworth area, Victoria, taken by James Carroll, c1941.

    Type
    Published photograph
    Control
    p.79
    Source

    Couchman, Sophie, 'Making the 'last Chinaman': Photography and Chinese as a 'vanishing' people in Australia's rural local histories', Australian Historical Studies, vol. 42, no. 1, 2011, pp. 78-91. Details

    State Library of Victoria, Picture collection,k A.C. Dreier postcard collection, H23576

  3. Published photograph
    Title
    'Blind Tommy', an elderly Chinese miner pictured in 1941 at his hut on Chinaman's Flat
    Description

    This is a joint caption for two photographs

    Date
    c. 1941
    Type
    Published photograph
    Control
    p.36
    Source

    Griffiths, Tom, Beechworth: An Australian Country Town and its Past, Greenhouse Publications, Richmond, Vic, 1987. Details

    Original source listed as 'La Trobe collection'

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Created: 8 March 2006, Last modified: 25 April 2006