Portrait of YOUNG Sou Lum (b. 1889, d.1961)

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Portrait of YOUNG Sou Lum (b. 1889, d.1961)

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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

Collection

Te Papa Collections Online

Description

The man in this photograph is YOUNG Sou Lum, b. 1889, d.1961. He was born in Pong Woo village, Poon Yue county (now a district of modern Guangzhou), China and came to New Zealand in 1908 at the age of 19. Sou Lum worked on market gardens in the Horowhenua and Hawkes Bay areas, and later as a fruiterer in Lower Hutt. Although Sou Lum was unable to bring his family in China to New Zealand to settle with him, he remained in contact with them, returning to China for a family visit in the early 1...

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Image

Date created

circa 1930s

Creator

Cuba Photographic Studio

URL

https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/380449

Related subjects

men / farmers / Sou Lum Young / Chinese / photographic gelatin / silver / photographic film / nitrocellulose / black-and-white negatives / gelatin silver negatives / studio portraits / Emigration & immigration / Poll taxes / Wellington

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