Photograph

Title: Unidentified Chinese school children
Description: Ah Hen's mother in black (centre front).
Date: 1900? - c. 1913
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
Interpretive description: Photograph has been dated based on the dates of the Kilgour collection. The Northern Territory Library version of this image has been cropped slightly more than the Northern Territory Archives Service version. The NTAS version has also been taken from a slightly different angle. John Kilgour left the Northern Territory in 1917.
External Url: http://hdl.handle.net/10070/19938

Versions

Title
Children

Description
Chinese children in Darwin. Caption reads "Before Chin Gong can remember". Ah Hen's mother in black (centre front)

Type
catalogue record + digital image

Control
17\17540, PH0238/0480

Source
Peter Spillett collection, - 1980s, 0238; Northern Territory Library. Details

Rights
Reproduction rights owned by the Northern Territory Library.
Title
Chinese school children

Description
Chinese school children Shows children gathered in front of old building. Child in front is holding a baby

Type
catalogue record + digital image

Control
06\06165, PH0095/0326

Source
Northern Territory Government Photographer collection, 0095; Northern Territory Library. Details

Rights
Reproduction rights owned by the Northern Territory Library.
Title
Chinese school children, Darwin, date unknown.

Description
If anything, Asian children caused more concern among racist zealots than did adult men. The children suggested a future for the Chinese community that was deeply troubling.

Type
Published photograph

Control
p.120

Source
Reynolds, Henry, North of Capricorn: The Untold Story of Australia's North, Allen & Unwin, Crows Nest, NSW, 2003. Details

Reproduced from the NT Government collection, NT Library
Title
Chinese school children

Date
1900

Type
Print

Form
Black and white print

Creator
George Jaensch

Control
2272 (Jaensch)

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
Title
Chinese school, about 1908

Date
c. 1908

Type
Published photograph

Control
p.29

Source
Read, Peter (ed.), Darwin life 1870-1940 : spoken, written and photographed by those who took part, A Social History of the Northern Territory, vol. 6, Professional Services Branch, N.T. Department of Education, Darwin, 1979. Details

Original source: Katherine Historical Society