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Group of "Nine" Unknown Chinese Men Standing Outside A Merchant's Store
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Digitised?YesLocation IDNg-FS.1-115TitleGroup of "Nine" Unknown Chinese Men Standing Outside A Merchant's StoreDescriptionGroup of "nine" unknown Chinese men standing outside a merchant's store - the door is to the right of them all and has a sign written in Chinese characters on it. The men are arranged in two rows with the first row seated on a bench and the back row standing. Although only seven are easily seen, one person standing on the far left is only partially visible and the person seated on the bench on the far left has been scratched out (yet his right shoe is visible and his face is faintly visible as well.)
There is also a small cat, with his back to the camera, in the lower right corner of the image.TypeBlack & white negativeDimensions35mm x 24mmDate Createdc. 1900CreatorDon, Alexander RevSubjectPortraits - GroupChinese in New ZealandSourceEva 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.1-115TitleGroup of "Nine" Unknown Chinese Men Standing Outside A Merchant's StoreDescriptionGroup of "nine" unknown Chinese men standing outside a merchant's store - the door is to the right of them all and has a sign written in Chinese characters on it. The men are arranged in two rows with the first row seated on a bench and the back row standing. Although only seven are easily seen, one person standing on the far left is only partially visible and the person seated on the bench on the far left has been scratched out (yet his right shoe is visible and his face is faintly visible as well.) There is also a small cat, with his back to the camera, in the lower right corner of the image.
TypeBlack & white negativeDimensions35mm x 24mmDate Createdc. 1900CreatorDon, Alexander RevSubjectPortraits - GroupChinese in New ZealandSourceEva 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, Group of "Nine" Unknown Chinese Men Standing Outside A Merchant's Store. Presbyterian Research Centre, accessed 28/05/2026, https://pcanzarchives.recollect.co.nz/nodes/view/127697
