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Photograph

Title
Unidentified Chinese gardener, c.1893
Date
c. 1893
Place
Australia - Queensland
Interpretive description

There are very slight variations between to the negatives of this image held at the University of Aberdeen. The Priscis collection image looks to be a slightly cropped version of A1853 before the negative was cracked.

External Url
http://onesearch.slq.qld.gov.au/primo_library/libweb/action/dlDisplay.do?vid=SLQ&docId=slq_digitool158229

Versions

  1. Click to view this print
    Title
    A Chinese Gardener
    Description

    Photographed by Fred Hardie who toured the east coast of Australia in 1892-3 taking photographs for his employer, the George Washington Wilson Studio of Aberdeen, Scotland, which were later sold commercially.

    Date
    c. 1892 - c. 1893
    Type
    Print
    Creator
    Hardie, Fred, for George Washington Wilson Studio of Aberdeen, Scotland
    Control
    Reference #5547
    Source

    Australia - People and Fauna, http://www.priscus.co.uk; Priscus collection. Details

    Digital photograph provided courtesy of Mark Butterworth, www.priscus.co.uk

  2. Print
    Title
    A Chinese gardener in Australia
    Description

    STUDY OF CHINESE MAN DIGGING

    Date
    1853 - 1908
    Type
    Print
    Form
    1 glass plate negative. 'A' series plates (Axxxx) are 12" by 10" (30cm by 25cm) in size. 12"X10". REGISTERED 22 DEC 1902 FRED HARDIE. Related to D1853.
    Creator
    George Washington Wilson & Co.
    Control
    D0953
    Source

    George Washington Wilson collection, http://ibase.abdn.ac.uk/aberdeenic/; Aberdeen University, Special Libraries and Archives. Details

  3. Print
    Title
    A Chinese gardener
    Description

    STUDY OF CHINESE MAN DIGGING

    Date
    1853 - 1908
    Type
    Print
    Form
    1 glass plate negative. 'A' series plates (Axxxx) are 12" by 10" (30cm by 25cm) in size. 12"X10". REGISTERED 22 DEC 1902 FRED HARDIE. Related to D0953.
    Creator
    George Washington Wilson & Co.
    Control
    D1853
    Source

    George Washington Wilson collection, http://ibase.abdn.ac.uk/aberdeenic/; Aberdeen University, Special Libraries and Archives. Details

  4. Click to view this catalogue record + digital image
    Title
    Chinese gardener, ca. 1893
    Description

    A Chinese man gardening, around 1893.

    Date
    c. 1893
    Type
    catalogue record + digital image
    Form
    copy print : b&w
    Creator
    Wilson, G. W.
    Control
    D1-10-96; 121707; picqld-2002-12-16-08-17
    Source

    Miscellaneous collections; State Library of Queensland - John Oxley. Details

    Rights
    Reproduction rights owned by the State Library of Queensland.

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Created: 29 September 2004, Last modified: 12 January 2007