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…
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…
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[Family group] [picture]
One of the first things I learnt in my training in arrangement and description was the meaning of those neat square brackets—they tell you that the archivist has, heaven forbid, used or added something other than the record’s original title….
NSW History Week 2011: EAT (Chinese Australian) History
The theme for this year’s NSW History Week is EAT History – the edible, appetising and tasty history of food. Not surprisingly there are a number of events highlighting the connection between Chinese Australian history and food. It may not…
Going against the grain
I’ve just begun writing a book chapter about the travels of white wives of Chinese men from Australia/NZ to China in the period 1880 to 1930. It’s a topic that I’ve been gathering material on for years and years, but…
A transnational Chinese-Australian family and the ‘New China’ – Melbourne Chinese Studies Group
Date: Friday, 6 August 2010 Time: 6pm Admission: $2 Venue: Jenny Florence Room, 3rd Floor, Ross House, 247 Flinders Lane, Melbourne (between Swanston and Elizabeth Streets) Topic: A transnational Chinese-Australian family and the ‘New China’ Speaker: Pauline Rule Chung Mow…