PHOTOGRAPH: PORTRAIT OF CHARLES LUMS, CIRCA 1920
c. 1920Black and white photograph of Charles Lums, taken in Glen Innes, Victoria, 1920's. He is dressed in heavy tweed-like trousers with deep black cummerbund which has a fob watch chain attached, a dark jacket, white shirt, bow tie and small flower buttonhole, and is wearing a straw hat on the back of his head. In the studio portrait, he is standing next to a small table with white lace cloth on which is a white bowl of flowers. He is touching a thick leather bound book with metal clasp, which is resting upright on the table.
Charles Lums was born in Kwong Tung, China, in November 1869, and arrived in Western Australia in 1880. He opened a grocery store in 1916 at 449 Hay Street Subiaco, E.A. Lums and Co. (named for his wife Emily Antoinette) and left for Sydney in October 1919. The store remained in the family until the 1950's - Charles and Emily both died in the 1960's.
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