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Digitised?YesLocation IDNg-FS.1-85TitleChinese Market HawkerDescriptionChinese Market Hawker (Young Lee Gardener) seated in his two-wheeled, horse-pulled cart. A young person is seated next to him and Rev Don is standing next to the cart on the road. Buildings can be seen along the road on the hill on the right side of the image.
Publication: "Windows on a Chinese Past - Vol. 3", by James Ng, pub. Sept. 1999. Image on page 214.
Caption from book: "A Chinese hawker greeted by the Rev. A. Don at Forbury Corner, Dunedin, c. 1904. [Kirkland Collection]. The hawkers progressed from bamboo pole and basket to horse and cart, then to trucks until as late as the 1960s. Besides selling fruit, vegetables, preserved ginger, fireworks, and fancy items, they took orders and picked up clothes for laundering."TypeBlack & white negativeDimensions35mm x 24mmDate Createdc. 1904CreatorDon, Alexander RevSubjectPortraits - GroupMarket SalesmanHorsesTransportation - CartSourceEva and James NgAccession No2018/73/5/2CollectionEva 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.1-85TitleChinese Market HawkerDescriptionChinese Market Hawker (Young Lee Gardener) seated in his two-wheeled, horse-pulled cart. A young person is seated next to him and Rev Don is standing next to the cart on the road. Buildings can be seen along the road on the hill on the right side of the image. Publication: "Windows on a Chinese Past - Vol. 3", by James Ng, pub. Sept. 1999. Image on page 214.
Caption from book: "A Chinese hawker greeted by the Rev. A. Don at Forbury Corner, Dunedin, c. 1904. [Kirkland Collection]. The hawkers progressed from bamboo pole and basket to horse and cart, then to trucks until as late as the 1960s. Besides selling fruit, vegetables, preserved ginger, fireworks, and fancy items, they took orders and picked up clothes for laundering."
TypeBlack & white negativeDimensions35mm x 24mmDate Createdc. 1904CreatorDon, Alexander RevSubjectPortraits - GroupMarket SalesmanHorsesTransportation - CartSourceEva and James NgAccession No2018/73/5/2CollectionEva 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 Market Hawker. Presbyterian Research Centre, accessed 29/05/2026, https://pcanzarchives.recollect.co.nz/nodes/view/127642
