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    Family home in Surry Hills, Sydney or in Carlton, Melbourne, courtesy of Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History).
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    House in De Carle St., Moreland, Victoria, 1919, courtesy of Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History).
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    Side of house, next to 5 Oliver St, Inverell, courtesy of M. Mar (private hands).
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    The Ah Moon family home at 19 Echlin Street, West End, Townsville. (ca 1920's), 1920s, courtesy of Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History).
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    Blind Tommy’s hut (Chinese) [picture], c. 1914 - c. 1941, by Carroll, James, 23 Etnam, West Preston, courtesy of State Library of Victoria - Picture Collection.
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    Charles Ah Moon, aged 55-60, circa mid to late 1920's. Taken at family home at 19 Echlin Street, West End, Townsville., c. 1920 - c. 1929, courtesy of Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History).
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    Children sitting on table with vegetables outside bark hut, with Chinese calligraphy, Stanthorpe, 1875, courtesy of University of Queensland library - Fryer Library.
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    Alley, c. June 1913, courtesy of Northern Territory Library.
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    Chinatown, Darwin, 1930 - 1939, courtesy of Northern Territory Library.
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    Chinese Baker, Pine Creek, c. 1913, courtesy of State Library of South Australia.
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Archival Collections

National Archives of Australia, National Office

  • A3/1, NT1915/1028 Premises owned by Mrs Kirkland - Condemned by Public Health Board, c. 1914 - c. 1915, A3/1, NT1915/1028; National Archives of Australia, National Office. Details

Published Resources

Theses

  • Bell, Peter, 'Houses and mining settlement in North Queensland, 1861-1920', PhD thesis, Department of History, James Cook University, 1982. Details

Images

Title
Chinn family home in Surry Hills, Sydney or in Carlton, Melbourne
Type
Photograph
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney?
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Title
House and garden
Type
Photograph
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Title
House in De Carle St, Moreland, Victoria, 1919
Type
Photograph
Date
1919
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne - Moreland - De Carle Street
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Title
Man and child standing outside a building (their home?)
Type
Photograph
Details
Title
Unidentified boy in front of side of house, next to 5 Oliver St, Inverell
Type
Photograph
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Inverell
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Title
Unidentified dwelling in Bennett Street
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1913 - c. 1914
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Bennett Street
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Title
Unidentified women standing in front of Anguey & Sons general store in Little Collins Street, Melbourne
Type
Photograph
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne - Little Collins Street
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See also

Title
A garden and building of a Chinese character
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1913
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Title
A new Chinese laundry built on the site of a demolished house, 1914
Type
Photograph
Date
1914
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
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Title
Ah Moon family home at 19 Echlin Street, West End, Townsville
Type
Photograph
Date
1920s
Place
Australia - Queensland - Townsville - West End - Echlin Street
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Title
Barry Lane, Little Bourke Street, near Elizabeth Street.
Type
Photograph
Date
13 June 1908
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne - Barry Lane
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Title
'Blind Tommy's' hut on Chinamans' Flat
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1914 - c. 1941
Place
Australia - Victoria - Beechworth
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Title
Brock's Creek Chinatown
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1901 - c. 1904
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Brock's Creek
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Title
Brocks Creek mining settlement
Type
Photograph
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Brock's Creek
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Title
Charles Ah Moon, aged 55-60 at family home, 19 Echlin Street, West End, Townsville
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1920 - c. 1929
Place
Australia - Queensland - Townsville - West End - Echlin Street
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Title
Children sitting on table with vegetables outside bark hut, with Chinese calligraphy, Stanthorpe
Type
Photograph
Date
1875
Place
Australia - Queensland - Stanthorpe
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Title
Chin Que Ave with three figures standing at one end
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1912 - c. 1913
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
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Title
Chin Que Avenue, off Cavenagh St with sign
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1913 - c. 1914
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
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Title
Chinatown, Darwin
Type
Photograph
Date
1930 - 1939
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street
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Title
Chinese bakery, Pine Creek
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1913
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Pine Creek
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Title
Chinese houses in Cavenagh St, Darwin
Type
Photograph
Date
1890s
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street
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Title
Chinese houses in Cavenagh Street, Darwin
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1890 - c. 1910
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street
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Title
Chinese housing in Palmerston (Darwin)
Type
Photograph
Date
1870s - c. 1890
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
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Title
Chinese hut at Pine Creek
Type
Photograph
Date
1923
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Pine Creek
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Title
Chinese huts near Palmerston (Darwin)
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1895
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
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Title
Chinese quarter, Broome. Western Australia
Type
Photograph
Date
1947
Place
Australia - Western Australia - Broome
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Title
Chinese settlement area of Hepburn
Type
Photograph
Date
1880s - 1890s
Place
Australia - Victoria - Hepburn
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Title
Chinese sleeping quarters at 230 George St, Sydney [1]
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1900
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney - George Street
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Title
Chinese sleeping quarters at 230 George St, Sydney [2]
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1900
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney - George Street
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Title
Chong family pruning branches in their garden
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1938
Place
Australia - Victoria - Bairnsdale
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Title
Coolies camp and pearling luggers, 1908
Type
Photograph
Date
1908
Place
Australia - Western Australia
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Title
Daniel Poon Num with his eldest children, Clarence and Gwendolyn, at their house, 'Canton', 13 Grant Ave, Rose Park, Adelaide, in 1913
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1913
Place
Australia - South Australia - Adelaide - Rose Park - Grant Avenue
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Title
Darwin streetscape
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1870 - c. 1890
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
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Title
Demolition of Chinese tenements underway in Darwin, 1914
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1914
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
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Title
Gladys and Mei-Ling Chung Gon in the garden
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 25 July 1942
Place
Australia - Tasmania - Sandy Bay
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Title
Gladys Chung Gon sewing a dress for her daughter Mei-Ling
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 25 July 1942
Place
Australia - Tasmania - Sandy Bay
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Title
Group on front steps of Tock Liang's house in Camberwell
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1930
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne - Camberwell
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Title
House and general store and two Chinese shopkeepers, Tambaroora
Type
Photograph
Date
1870 - 1875
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Tambaroora
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Title
Housing at Daly River (or Waters)
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1893
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Daly River
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Title
Intersection in the town of Mossman, Queensland, ca. 1910
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1910
Place
Australia - Queensland - Mossman
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Title
Ironbark Chinese village
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1889 - c. 1890
Place
Australia - Victoria - Bendigo (Sandhurst) - Ironbark
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Title
Little Bourke Street near Exhibition St
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1908
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne - Little Bourke Street
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Title
Market gardeners' huts in Urquhart Street (1)
Type
Photograph
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne - Hawthorn - Urquhart Street
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Title
Market gardeners' huts in Urquhart Street (2)
Type
Photograph
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne - Hawthorn - Urquhart Street
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Title
Market gardens and gardener's residence
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1901 - c. 1904
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
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Title
Mei-ling Chung Gon bathing in bathroom wash basin
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 25 July 1942
Place
Australia - Tasmania - Sandy Bay
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Title
Mei-Ling in her nursery
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 25 July 1942
Place
Australia - Tasmania - Sandy Bay
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Title
Moorina view with a tent in foreground
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1900
Place
Australia - Tasmania - Moorina
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Title
New unidentified housing in Cavenagh St
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1913
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street
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Title
New unidentified housing in Cavenagh St
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1913
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street
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Title
Pine Creek Chinatown
Type
Photograph
Date
1911
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Pine Creek
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Title
'Pine Lodge'
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1902 - 1950s
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne - Croydon
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Title
'Pine Lodge'
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1902 - 1950s
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne - Croydon
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Title
'Pine Lodge' (in colour)
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1902 - 1950s
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne - Croydon
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Title
'Pine Lodge' (side view)
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1902 - 1950s
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne - Croydon
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Title
'Pine Lodge' [?] with garden in forefront (colour)
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1902 - 1950s
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne - Croydon
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Title
Quong Tart's home in Ashfield
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1889 - c. 1892
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney - Ashfield
Details
Title
Rear of 50 Wexford St showing Chinese bedroom
Type
Photograph
Date
1900
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney - Wexford Street
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Title
Rear of Chinese temple in Darwin
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1895
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
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Title
Sam Hand's boardinghouse, (next to a butcher shop), Home Rule (?)
Type
Photograph
Date
1870 - 1875
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Home Rule?
Details
Title
'Sketches from the Queensland diggings'
Type
Illustration
Date
c. 22 January 1879
Place
Australia - Queensland
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Title
Small grass thatched hut with unidentified Chinese market gardener
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1889 - c. 1890
Place
Australia - Queensland - Cairns
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Title
Tambaroora Chinatown in foreground of view of Tambaroora
Type
Photograph
Date
1870 - 1875
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Tambaroora
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Title
Three unidentified men outside corrugated iron building
Type
Photograph
Date
1920s
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
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Title
Tobacco plantation, Bathurst
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1880 - c. 1934
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Bathurst
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Title
Two Chinese men in front of whitewashed, bark roof house, Tambaroora
Type
Photograph
Date
1870 - 1875
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Tambaroora
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Title
Two men outside hut
Type
Photograph
Date
- 18 February 1905
Place
Australia - Tasmania - Weldborough
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Title
Two of Darwin’s Chinese residents in front of condemned Chinatown dwellings
Type
Photograph
Date
1914?
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
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Title
Two unidentified men sit in front of a thatched hut
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1909 - c. 1914
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Pine Creek?
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Title
Two unidentified women and a girl walk around Pine Creek
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1910 - c. 1920
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Pine Creek
Details
Title
Unidentified building
Type
Photograph
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street
Details
Title
Unidentified Chinese garden in Darwin with house
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1890
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
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Title
Unidentified Chinese man outside a house, Tambaroora
Type
Photograph
Date
1870 - 1875
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Tambaroora - Mudgee Road
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Title
Unidentified Chinese miner outside wattle and daub hut with a dog
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1900
Place
Australia - Victoria
Details
Title
Unidentified housing 1
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1913
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
Details
Title
Unidentified housing 2
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1913
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
Details
Title
Unidentified housing 3
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1913
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
Details
Title
Unidentified housing 4
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1913
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
Details
Title
Unidentified housing 5
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1913
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
Details
Title
Unidentified housing 6
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1913
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
Details
Title
Unidentified housing 7
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1913
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
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Title
Unidentified housing in the course of demolition
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1913
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
Details
Title
Unidentified man ('bird catcher') outside his home at 10-Mile near Darwin
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1915
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
Details
Title
Unidentified man and woman leaning against elevated timber residence
Type
Photograph
Place
Australia - Northern Territory?
Details
Title
Unidentified man and woman with three children outside a corrugated iron building
Type
Photograph
Place
Australia - Northern Territory?
Details
Title
Unidentified man next to a horse
Type
Photograph
Date
1870 - 1875
Place
Australia - New South Wales?
Repository
State Library of New South Wales - Mitchell Library
Details
Title
Unidentified man sitting in front of corrogated iron house
Type
Photograph
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street?
Details
Title
Unidentified man standing outside bark hut, Stanthorpe
Type
Photograph
Date
1870s
Place
Australia - Queensland - Stanthorpe
Details
Title
Unidentified ramshackle huts
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1910 - c. 1920
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Pine Creek?
Details
Title
Unidentified regulation approved well
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1913
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
Details
Title
Unidentified urinal
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1913
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
Details
Title
Unidentified well
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1913
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
Details
Title
Unidentified woman and child standing outside a simple house with a picket fence
Type
Photograph
Details
Title
Unidentified woman examining burlap on a dwelling in Chinatown
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1911
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Pine Creek?
Details
Title
Unidentified woman standing in the doorway of a dwelling
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1910 - c. 1920
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Pine Creek
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Title
View of Ballarat Chinese camp
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1875 - c. 1938
Place
Australia - Victoria - Ballarat
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Title
View of Darwin with two men
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1879 - c. 1890
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street
Details
Title
View of Darwin's Chinatown area (rear?)
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1912 - c. 1914
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
Details
Title
View of two houses, Scottsdale, Tasmania
Type
Photograph
Date
22 September 1910
Place
Australia - Tasmania - Scottsdale
Details
Title
View of unidentified Chinatown
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1911
Place
Australia - Northern Territory
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Title
Well-known unidentified Chinese merchant with his family waiting in their home for Chinese New Year visitors
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 5 February 1911
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney
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Title
William A. Sac's Chinese Boarding House, Gulgong
Type
Photograph
Date
1870 - 1875
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Gulgong
Details
Title
Women of the Sue Wah Chin family on the verandha of their house, Darwin, 1955
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1955
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - East Point Road
Details
Title
Yam Creek Mine 1901-1904 Chinatown in the foreground
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1901 - c. 1904
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Yam Creek
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