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    Quong Tart and his wife Margaret, c. 1892 - c. 1894, courtesy of Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History).

Title
Quong Tart and his wife Margaret
Description

Both wear traditional Chinese dress. Quong Tart wears mandarin robes. He wears a mandarin button in his hat, described by Travers as a crystal button, but no mandarin chains.

Date
c. 1892 - c. 1894
Place
Australia - New South Wales
Interpretive description

This photograph appears to have been taken after 1892 as Quong Tart's hat now has a small button on the top that is not present in this earlier photograph. However the hat does not appear to have the peacock feather he was awarded in 1894. Margaret Tart's dress however appears to be identical. The photograph published in 'Parade' has been cropped into a head and shoulders portrait of the couple.

Versions

  1. Click to view this print
    Type
    Print
    Form
    photograph - black and white
    Control
    P00603
    Source

    Quong Tart collection; Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History). Details

  2. Published photograph
    Title
    Quong Tart, mandarin, and Mrs. Tart in costume [online edition]
    Date
    - 1903
    Type
    Published photograph
    Control
    following p.36
    Source

    Tart, Margaret, The Life of Quong Tart: Or how a Foreigner Succeeded in a British Community, W. M. Maclardy, Sydney, 1911, http://purl.library.usyd.edu.au/setis/id/fed0048. Details

  3. Published photograph
    Title
    Quong Tart, Mandarin of the Crystal Button, and wife
    Type
    Published photograph
    Control
    p.95
    Source

    Travers, Robert, Australian Mandarin: The Life and Times of Quong Tart, Kangaroo Press, New South Wales, 1981. Details

  4. Negative
    Type
    Negative
    Form
    4x5 inch black and white negative copied from an original (probably edition of Margaret Tart's biography of Quong Tart)
    Control
    N45-043
    Source

    Negative collection (4x5 inch), N45; Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History). Details

  5. Published photograph
    Title
    Quong Tart and his wife.
    Description

    Hie was befriended by a number of Scottish families, which explains why he jokingly referred to himself as MacTart. He was widely respected.

    Type
    Published photograph
    Form
    Cropped so that is a head and shoulder portrait of the couple.
    Control
    p.44
    Source

    ''My name's MacTart': The little Sydney merchant who devoted his life to fighting anti-Chinese prejudice also did his best to wipe out faction-fighting among his people', Parade, March, p. 44. Details

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Created: 12 February 2003, Last modified: 7 April 2006