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Photograph

Title
Unidentified man ploughing using a buffalo
Description

Man appears to be of Chinese ancestry.

Date
c. 1910 - c. 1920
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Copperfield Gorge
Interpretive description

Photograph dated according to dates provided for whole collection.

Versions

  1. Published photograph
    Title
    Chinese gardener ploughing with a Water Buffalo in the Northern Territory
    Type
    Published photograph
    Control
    between pp.210-211
    Source

    Rolls, Eric, Citizens: Flowers and the Wide Sea; Continuing the Epic Story of China's Centuries-old Relationship with Australia, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, Brisbane, 1996. Details

    La Trobe Picture Collection, State Library of Victoria

  2. Print
    Title
    [Ploughing Rice fields with Buffalo - Copperfield Gorge]
    Description

    State Library inventory caption: 'Ploughing Rice fields with Buffalo - Copperfield Gorge'. Inside album cover list caption: 'Ploughing Rice fields with Buffalo - Copperfield Gorge'.

    Date
    c. 1910 - c. 1920
    Type
    Print
    Control
    Contact print: plastic sleeve 82, Original: page 67, number 54
    Source

    Charles Kirkbride collection of photographs, c. 1900 - c. 1920, H27744 (contact prints of images at LTAEF 8 NEW); State Library of Victoria - Picture Collection. Details

    Rights
    Reproduction rights owned by State Library of Victoria

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Created: 16 January 2007, Last modified: 9 June 2009