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Photograph

Title
Unidentified Chinese grave with offerings
Date
c. 1911
Place
Australia

Versions

  1. Published photograph
    Title
    A Chinese Grave
    Description

    Wax flowers, tin dishes, candles and bottles of rum are reverently placed on these tombstones. The rum is reverently appreciated by stray beach-combers.

    Date
    1 December 1911
    Type
    Published photograph
    Creator
    Birtles, Francis E
    Control
    p.163
    Source

    Birtles, Francis, 'Strange Australia: A series of out-of-the-way photographs of the North, with notes, by Francis Birtles', The Lone Hand, 1 December 1911, pp. 158-165. Details

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