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The Home Of Mr. And Mrs. Gay Tan
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Digitised?YesLocation IDNg-FS.1-129TitleThe Home Of Mr. And Mrs. Gay TanDescriptionA block and plaster one-story home with a corrugated roof. The home is behind a hedge. Mr. Louis Gay Tan (Looi Yi Tsaan) stands on the camera side of the hedge.
Publication: "Windows on a Chinese Past - Vol. 1", by James Ng, pub. Nov. 1993. Image on page 250
Caption from book: "The Gay Tans, who left Naseby in 1875, later lived by the main road at the northern entrance to Macraes, where the shell of their sod-and-plaster house still stands. This photograph of Louis gay Tan (Looi Yi Tsaan) was taken just after the turn of the century. His wife Emma died in 1904, aged 42. [A. Don, Kirkland Collection]"TypeBlack & white negativeDimensions24mm x 35mmDate Createdc. 1901CreatorDon, Alexander RevSubjectPortraits - IndividualChinese in New ZealandGold Mining-Buildings-DwellingsBuildings - ExteriorSourceEva and James NgAccession No2018/73/5/2CollectionEva and James Ng Photographic CollectionNoteImage from positive, black and white filmstripRecollect 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.1-129TitleThe Home Of Mr. And Mrs. Gay TanDescriptionA block and plaster one-story home with a corrugated roof. The home is behind a hedge. Mr. Louis Gay Tan (Looi Yi Tsaan) stands on the camera side of the hedge.Publication: "Windows on a Chinese Past - Vol. 1", by James Ng, pub. Nov. 1993. Image on page 250
Caption from book: "The Gay Tans, who left Naseby in 1875, later lived by the main road at the northern entrance to Macraes, where the shell of their sod-and-plaster house still stands. This photograph of Louis gay Tan (Looi Yi Tsaan) was taken just after the turn of the century. His wife Emma died in 1904, aged 42. [A. Don, Kirkland Collection]"
TypeBlack & white negativeDimensions24mm x 35mmDate Createdc. 1901CreatorDon, Alexander RevSubjectPortraits - IndividualChinese in New ZealandGold Mining-Buildings-DwellingsBuildings - ExteriorSourceEva and James NgAccession No2018/73/5/2CollectionEva and James Ng Photographic CollectionNoteImage from positive, black and white filmstripRecollect 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, The Home Of Mr. And Mrs. Gay Tan. Presbyterian Research Centre, accessed 16/04/2026, https://pcanzarchives.recollect.co.nz/nodes/view/127728
