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Digitised?YesLocation IDNg-FS.1-41TitleChinese Gold Miner's Home In The SnowDescriptionPhoto of a Chinese man siting on a ledge or pile of rocks outside a dirt-block hut. Snow covers the roof of the hut, most of the ground, and the hillside behind the dwelling.
Publication: "Windows on a Chinese Past - Vol. 1", by James Ng, pub. Nov. 1993. Image on page 312.
Caption from book: "Winters were hard on the goldfields and the Chinese suffered their share of problems from extreme cold. Curiously, however, only three photographs are known - this being one of the them - showing them under snow. Don, on whose photographic record history largely has had to rely, usually undertook his inland tours in summer. [G.H. McNeur, The church and the Chinese in New Zealand, 1951]." Duplicate NG1-11.10-26TypeBlack & white negativeDimensions36mm x 24mmDate Createdc. 1900CreatorDon, Alexander RevSubjectPortraits - IndividualGold Mining-Central Otago-DwellingsBuildings - ExteriorSnowSourceEva and James NgAccession No42018/73/5/2CollectionEva and James Ng Photographic CollectionNoteImage from positive, black and white filmstrip.Recollect CollectionNew Zealand Chinese CollectionAcknowledgementThank you to the New Zealand Lotteries Commission and the Synod of Otago and Southland for together providing funding to digitise these images.
Digitised?YesLocation IDNg-FS.1-41TitleChinese Gold Miner's Home In The SnowDescriptionPhoto of a Chinese man siting on a ledge or pile of rocks outside a dirt-block hut. Snow covers the roof of the hut, most of the ground, and the hillside behind the dwelling.Publication: "Windows on a Chinese Past - Vol. 1", by James Ng, pub. Nov. 1993. Image on page 312.
Caption from book: "Winters were hard on the goldfields and the Chinese suffered their share of problems from extreme cold. Curiously, however, only three photographs are known - this being one of the them - showing them under snow. Don, on whose photographic record history largely has had to rely, usually undertook his inland tours in summer. [G.H. McNeur, The church and the Chinese in New Zealand, 1951]." Duplicate NG1-11.10-26
TypeBlack & white negativeDimensions36mm x 24mmDate Createdc. 1900CreatorDon, Alexander RevSubjectPortraits - IndividualGold Mining-Central Otago-DwellingsBuildings - ExteriorSnowSourceEva and James NgAccession No42018/73/5/2CollectionEva and James Ng Photographic CollectionNoteImage from positive, black and white filmstrip.Recollect CollectionNew Zealand Chinese CollectionAcknowledgementThank you to the New Zealand Lotteries Commission and the Synod of Otago and Southland for together providing funding to digitise these images.Click on the image to add
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Don, Alexander Rev, Chinese Gold Miner's Home In The Snow. Presbyterian Research Centre, accessed 29/05/2026, https://pcanzarchives.recollect.co.nz/nodes/view/127547
