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Title
Ah Cheon standing with umbrella
Place
Australia - Northern Territory?

Versions

  1. print
    Title
    Chef
    Description

    Cheong, the Chinese chef of Elsey Station, mentioned in Mrs Aeneas Gunn's book We of the Never Never

    Type
    print
    Control
    08\08400, PH0112/0092
    Source

    Moyle collection, 1890s - 1970s, 0112; Northern Territory Library. Details

    Rights
    Reproduction rights owned by the Northern Territory Library.
  2. Print
    Title
    Ah Cheon
    Description

    Ah Cheon, an outstanding personality in 'We of the Never Never' - The kindly volatile station cook - 'A fat jovial, Chinese John Falstaff' as Mrs Gunn called him 'a born ruler and organiser'.

    Type
    Print
    Control
    1357
    Source

    NTRS 1854 Photographs of the Northern Territory 1860-1982, NTRS 1854; Historical Society of the Northern Territory; Northern Territory Archives Service, Darwin Branch. Details

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Title
Ah Cheon seated
Note
These photographs were probably taken at the same sitting.
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Created: 28 July 2006, Last modified: 4 January 2007