Beechworth Banner
Date Published
: banner, gifts to non-Chinese, China-made
: Central Goldfields (Vic)
: Beechworth
: 1875
Banner commissioned in China by Donald Fiddes, President of the Ovens District Hospital, Beechworth and presented to the Chinese community.
Beechworth Hospital Banner - gift to the Chinese community
<p>"This banner was one of five banners gifted to the Beechworth Chinese community in recognition of their support of the Hospital and Benevolent Asylum in 1875, from the Carnival Committee. These banners had been purchased in China by a social envoy from Beechworth then presented to the Chinese community during the Beechworth Fine Arts Exhibition in May of that same year, by Donald Fiddes, President of the Ovens District Hospital."</p>
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Beechworth Hospital Banner, detail
