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 from the nineteenth century prison registers and trial briefs.

Together the photographs and the text help us to better understand what it must have been like to be Chinese in nineteenth-century Australia and to understand the attitudes and behaviours of European Australians towards them.

Forgotten Faces is also a travelling exhibition that can be borrowed from PROV.

This online resource can be used in conjunction with a visit to the touring exhibition 'Forgotten Faces'. Original documents and photographs shown on this site are displayed at the exhibiton.

Public Record Office Victoria houses the records of the Victorian Government from the 1830s to the present day. Within these archives are many fascinating stories waiting to be told. Forgotten Faces: Chinese and the Law tells part of that hidden story.

Chinese language text on this site

Some of the text has been translated into Traditional Chinese characters. The will only display if Chinese language fonts are installed on the computer you are using. See the Sources and Links page for more information. The menu will allow you to navigate these pages.

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