General
General
Object Auto ID
68003
Alternate Codes
159147
Common Name
Posters
Classified Name
Poster
Local Name
Chinese labour agitation; Yellow Labour for the Rand: Ghosts of the British Dead (2), The New British Miner, Wake up John.
Quantity
1.00
Object Description

The Parliament Collection:
Seven pages with four (one double size) posters of Chinese labour agitation. Two British solders on the right watch a chain gang of Chinese labourers identified by their hats and pigtails (same image used with variants in three of the posters, 2,4); Head and shoulders of Chinese labourer against chimney stacks named "El Dorado Mine" and "Diamond Mine (5); Chinese labourers with John Bull (7).

Provenance

Mendelssohn Bequest 1922

Description
Technique Types
Printing
Distinguishing Features

Chinese Labourers workers

Inscriptions
Part of poster
Measurement Type Unit Value
Dimension Comments
Unframed bound in a book; Paper size 752 x 500 mm
History
Object Age Comment
1903
Maker Comment
M.A.
Production Place
London
Collector Comment
Lithograph
Date Retrieved Reference Types Citation
Site Association
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