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Digitised?YesLocation IDNg-FS.1-99TitleChinese Gold Miner's CottageDescriptionTwo stand one either side of a wood-sided cottage with a corrugated roof and a brick chimney. There are glass-paned windows with lace curtains. A number of smaller out-buildings, also wood sided are in the yard. A hill with scrub trees is behind the home.
Publication: "Windows on a Chinese Past - Vol. 1", by James Ng, pub. Nov. 1993. Image on page 327 ("Above" photograph).
Caption from book: "The Many unidentified photographs left behind by Alexander Don show that while most of the old Otago Chinese lived close to destitution, some of those who became established on the goldfields occupied substantial dwellings of sod, stone, or timber. Above, the Rev. w. Mawson visits a neat wooden cottage, probably in 1902-03. . . [Kirkland Collection]" (the lower photograph is number Ng-FS-1-063.)TypeBlack & white negativeDimensions35mm x 24mmDate Createdc. 1900CreatorDon, Alexander RevSubjectPortraits - GroupChinese Gold MiningGoreChinese Market GardenSourceEva 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.1-99TitleChinese Gold Miner's CottageDescriptionTwo stand one either side of a wood-sided cottage with a corrugated roof and a brick chimney. There are glass-paned windows with lace curtains. A number of smaller out-buildings, also wood sided are in the yard. A hill with scrub trees is behind the home.Publication: "Windows on a Chinese Past - Vol. 1", by James Ng, pub. Nov. 1993. Image on page 327 ("Above" photograph).
Caption from book: "The Many unidentified photographs left behind by Alexander Don show that while most of the old Otago Chinese lived close to destitution, some of those who became established on the goldfields occupied substantial dwellings of sod, stone, or timber. Above, the Rev. w. Mawson visits a neat wooden cottage, probably in 1902-03. . . [Kirkland Collection]" (the lower photograph is number Ng-FS-1-063.)
TypeBlack & white negativeDimensions35mm x 24mmDate Createdc. 1900CreatorDon, Alexander RevSubjectPortraits - GroupChinese Gold MiningGoreChinese Market GardenSourceEva 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 Gold Miner's Cottage. Presbyterian Research Centre, accessed 29/05/2026, https://pcanzarchives.recollect.co.nz/nodes/view/127669
