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Forgotten Faces - Sources and Links - PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE VICTORIA (website Public Record Office of Victoria (PRO) )The material on these pages is based on the PROV travelling exhibition Forgotten Faces: Chinese and the Law. Copyright in text and images on these pages is held by the State of Victoria except where otherwise noted. Use PROV's online catalogue Archives@...
Chinese writing, like the different Chinese languages, appeared rather strange to Europeans. The different appearance alone meant that to understand what each other was writing both European Australians and the Chinese had to learn to write and read usin...
The 'Golden Age' in Australian history brought thousands of Chinese gold-seekers from the thirteen counties near Canton to the goldfields. As a result, many joss-houses or temples were built by immigrant Chinese on the goldfields and in Melbourne at this...
Phrenology claims to be able to determine a person s character and personality by looking at the person s head shape and the bumps on their head. Death masks of prisoners and photographs of people s heads were used in this study during the nineteenth cen...
Prisoners punishments for breaking the strict prison rules could be extra work, solitary confinement and withdrawal of their food. List the main foods that the Chinese and other prisoners ate. Investigate Chinese customs about food. ...
Nevertheless, many pockets of permanent Chinese residents remained and Melbourne, Bendigo, Beechworth and other towns had their own Chinatowns. In Melbourne the Chinese community was centred in Little Bourke Street and in Victoria the Chinese population ...
What are some of the things you notice about the appearance and clothing of this set of Chinese prisoners? Suggest reasons for similarities and differences with the clothing worn by Europeans at that time. Others are wearing regulation prison clothes-shi...
The pronunciation of Chinese names and their translation into Roman script (our way of writing) presented an even greater challenge to Europeans and Chinese alike. Chinese names caused many problems for the officials and others trying to record the detail...
A photograph of a person, even a black and white one, gave the viewer more accurate information than did a written description. People believed that by examining large numbers of these photographs of people they would collect scientific evidence to prove ...
The new prisons were designed with separate cells and prisoners were segregated according to the type of crime they had committed. Read the text about Ah Ling's prison record. Show a list of the information recorded in the prison registers about each pr...
At the time these Chinese people arrived in Victoria, people of European descent believed in their racial superiority. They were strange people with strange customs that the European Australians did not understand and did not always want to understand. ...
One theory claims the gang was inspired by seeing ancient Chinese armour imported for the Beechworth carnival in 1873. Superintendent Hare wanted a Chinese detective sent to Beechworth to assist with finding the gang. 1879 t, ïºu¢^~ ( Fook Shing ) ëáfÖ(...
Burial, like many other aspects of Chinese life, is based on customs and traditions. If you visit the Chinese section of a cemetery you will often see funerary burners which stand over 2 metres tall. Some Chinese people, especially Taoists, are buried. ...
Chinese languages created many difficulties for government officials and others in nineteenth century Victoria. Few if any would have been able to speak any of the many Chinese languages of which Mandarin and Cantonese are the main ones spoken. The soun...
Forgotten Faces: Chinese and the Law is an online education resource based on a series of nineteenth century photographs of Chinese prisoners held in Public Record Office Victoria's collections, enriched by the use of other stories about Chinese prisoners...
-- -- How did societies help the Chinese in a new land? To help them adjust to living in a new land, most Chinese miners joined a society of people from their home districts in China. Next read Ah Chee s story and look at Ah Chee s photograph too. ...
At Level 3 students describe & key aspects of the histories of cultural groups that make up their class, community and nation. At Level 3 students use a range of historical evidence, including oral history, artefacts, narratives and pictures, to retell ev...
-- -- How did photography help the prison system? They form one of the largest collections of individual photographs of Chinese people in Victoria during the latter half of the nineteenth century. Photographs of Chinese people and communities in Victoria ...
5', as varied by the Senate on 3rd December 1998, relevant files created by the National Museum of Australia and the Council of the National Museum of Australia between 1 July and 31 December 2006 are detailed below. 06/1193DIRECTORATE - INTERNATIONAL COU...
Enjoy a free, one-hour guided tour of the magnificent exhibition Mirror of the World: books and ideas to see rare and beautiful books from the Middle Ages to today. Then join in an optional half-hour activity where children can make their own illustrated...
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