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    In a Chinese opium den. picture, 1 July 1896, by Luke, E. T., courtesy of State Library of Victoria - Picture Collection.
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    Portrait of a man with a pipe, 1860 - 1870, by Daintree, Richard, 1832-1878, photographer, courtesy of State Library of Queensland - John Oxley.
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State Library of Victoria - Picture Collection

  • Daintree, Richard [Collection of scenes in Victoria, streetscapes and portraits], LTA 669; State Library of Victoria - Picture Collection [ Details... ].

Published Resources

Books

  • Butler, Peter, Opium and Gold, Alister Taylor, Waiura, Martinborough, New Zealand, 1977. [ Details... ]
  • McCoy, Alfred W., Drug Traffic: Narcotics and Organised Crime in Australia, Harper and Row Publishers, Sydney, 1980. [ Details... ]
  • Tart, Quong, A Plea for the Abolition of the importation of opium, with appendix, H. T. Dunn & Co, Sydney, 1890. [ Details... ]
  • Tart, Quong, Official Report of anti-opium demonstration held at the Congregational Church, Pitt St, Sydney, on Thurs, April 5, 1894 [convened by Quong Tart], T. J. Houghton & Co., Sydney, 1894. [ Details... ]

Newspaper articles

  • 'The Opium Act', Sydney Morning Herald, 21 November, p. 4. [ Details... ]
  • 'Opium duty bill', Sydney Morning Herald, 28 August, p. 5. [ Details... ]
  • 'Opium duty bill', Sydney Morning Herald, 29 October, pp. 4-5. [ Details... ]
  • 'Chinese in Sydney: sketches of opium smoking, and gambling', Illustrated Sydney News, October. [ Details... ]
  • 'Mr Quong Tart, proposed visit to China, China a probable market for Australian wool, Chinese and the opium trade [photograph]', Australian Town and Country Journal, 14 April 1894, p. 30. [ Details... ]
  • 'In a Chinese opium den [photograph]', Illustrated Australian News, 1 July. [ Details... ]
  • 'Concerning opium', Northern Territory Times and Gazette, 8 February. [ Details... ]
  • 'Opium smoking and betting in NSW', The Worker, 22 October 1908. [ Details... ]
  • 'Big opium prosecution', The Worker, 29 April 1909, p. 11. [ Details... ]
  • 'Organized opium smuggling', The Worker, 8 December 1910, p. 12. [ Details... ]
  • 'Another big opium coup made by customs officers', Labor Daily, 16 March, p. 5. [ Details... ]

Theses

  • Gillett, A., 'Opium smoking in Australia 1850-1915', BA (hons) Thesis, Department of History, University of Queensland, 1986. [ Details... ]
  • Moody, Andrew, 'Gambling, opium and violence: Sydney's fragmented Chinese communities, 1888-1906', BA (hons) Thesis, Chinese/History, University of New South Wales, 2004. [ Details... ]

Images

Title
Two unidentified opium smokers
Type
Illustration
Date
c. 1887
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne - Little Bourke Street
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See also

Title
Searching for contraband
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1909
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
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Title
Three unidentified men and a woman lying smoking opium
Type
Photograph
Date
1 July 1896
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne
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Title
Unidentified Chinese man seated smoking a pipe
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1864 - c. 1871
Place
Australia - Queensland?
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Title
Unidentified man
Type
Photograph
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Created: 19 May 2003, Last modified: 22 September 2005