Where are the women?
Yesterday on Twitter Jenny Symington asked the question, ‘Where are the women?’ in relation to The real face of White Australia: this is interesting. Where are the women?? @invisibleaus RT Invisible Australians project invisibleaustralians.org/faces/from @wragge @jonnybrownbill — Jenny Symington (@jcsymington)…
Ah Yin family of Adelong, c.1897
Every time I poke around in series NAA: SP42/1, I find something new and interesting that I hadn’t noticed before. Today’s find is a photograph of the family of Ah Yin (or Ah Yen), who was a storekeeper at Adelong…
‘Birth of a Chinese in the colony’, 1865
In July 1865, the Maitland Mercury carried an article announcing the birth of the second Chinese baby in the colony of New South Wales – a little boy named Henry Sydney Ah Foo – or, as recorded in the NSW…
Seeing the women and children
I’ve been thinking further about the possibilities of Tim’s wall of faces as a finding aid, as something to help both locate archival documents and to understand their context. The series we used in our test (ST84/1) was one in…
‘A pathetic story’
From the Northern Territory Times and Gazette on 14 February 1885 is this moving account of a mother’s struggle to get help for her ailing baby, and of the assistance given to her by an unnamed Chinese man. On Christmas…