• Title
  Chang Chinese Giant [Chang Woo Gow, 1871] / [carte de visite] Bardwell's Royal Studio, Ballarat
• Creator
  Vic.) Bardwell's Royal Studio (Ballarat
• Call number
  P1/333
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  1871
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  442197
• Physical Description
  Photographs - carte de visite - 10.5 x 6.1 cm.
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Chang the Chinese Giant was born in 1841 in Canton Province, China. At a claimed 8 feet 2 inches (2.49 metres) tall, he travelled the world as a curiosity for twenty-five years. He arrived in Victoria from America via New Zealand at the end of 1870 and was photographed at Ballarat. He later married his second wife Catherine Santley in Australia, before settling in Bournemouth, England. -- Notes by the Curator of Photographs, State Library of NSW, Sept 2004
• Scope and Content
  Portrait of 2 males, full-length, one seated, Chang at right.
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: created before 1955
• General note
  
  From `Scott family papers' MLMSS 38 Mitchell Library.
  
  Transferred from P1/C (BM), December 2009
  Digital order no:a128702
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Chang Chinese Giant in pencil below image.
  Photographer's stamp on reverse.
  Chinese characters on reverse.
• Name
  Chang, Woo Gow, 1841-1893
  
• Subject
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  Chinese peoples
  performers
  portraits
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Eye 4 photography - State Library of New South Wales (8 January - 29 May, 2005)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1547230

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