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    Arthur Junior (right), friend and Arthur Tye in Queensland, courtesy of Chinese Museum.
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    Members of the Chinese Nationalist League in Cairns, ca. early 1900s, c. 1900 - c. 1910, courtesy of State Library of Queensland - John Oxley.
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    Chinese gold digger starting for work, ca. 1860s, by Daintree, Richard, 1832-1878, photographer, courtesy of State Library of Queensland - John Oxley.
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    Chinn daughters and family friends, in Queensland. 2nd from right: Dorothy "Biddy" (Tue Foang) Chinn. 4th from right: Ruby (Tue Gnoak) Chinn., courtesy of Chinese Museum.
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    Jack Lee (left), Arthur Lee junior (right) and their brother-in-law Edward Kwong (middle), probably in Darwin or North Queensland, 1920s, courtesy of Chinese Museum.
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    Portrait of Mr. and Mrs. Chick Tong, courtesy of State Library of Queensland - John Oxley.
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    Portrait of Taam Sze Pui, 1877 - 1926, courtesy of State Library of Queensland - John Oxley.
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    Transporting bananas on punts near Innisfail, courtesy of Chinese Museum.
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    A Chinese Gardener, c. 1892 - c. 1893, by Hardie, Fred, for George Washington Wilson Studio of Aberdeen, Scotland, courtesy of Priscus 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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Archival Collections

Chinese Museum

  • Cathy May collection; Chinese Museum [ Details... ].

James Cook University Archives

  • Images published in Cathy May's Topsawyers; James Cook University Archives [ Details... ].

State Library of Queensland - John Oxley

  • Album APE 25, APE 25; State Library of Queensland - John Oxley [ Details... ].
  • Album GS 66, GS 66; State Library of Queensland - John Oxley [ Details... ].
  • Clermont and its people (Box 12); State Library of Queensland - John Oxley [ Details... ].
  • James Cook Historical Museum photographic collection, 83-8-6; State Library of Queensland - John Oxley [ Details... ].
  • Miscellaneous collections; State Library of Queensland - John Oxley [ Details... ].

State Library of Victoria - Picture Collection

  • Daintree collection of glass negatives, PCV LTGN 185, PIC LTAF 225; State Library of Victoria - Picture Collection [ Details... ].

University of Queensland library - Fryer Library

Published Resources

Books

  • Bell, Peter, Historic Sites Associated with Mining and Chinese Settlement in North Queensland, Australian Heritage Commission, Canberra, 1992. [ Details... ]
  • Ganter, Regina, Mixed Relations: Asian-Aboriginal Contact in North Australia, University of Western Australia, Crawley, 2006. [ Details... ]

Book Sections

  • Comber, Jillian, 'Chinese sites on the Palmer Goldfield, far north Queensland', in P. Macgregor (ed.), Histories of the Chinese in Australasia and the South Pacific, Museum of Chinese Australian History, Melbourne, 1995, pp. 203-212. [ Details... ]
  • Grimwade, Gordon, 'Of gods, timber and maize: Cultural heritage management at Cedar Camp (Atherton Chinatown Queensland)', in P. Macgregor (ed.), Histories of the Chinese in Australasia and the South Pacific, Museum of Chinese Australian History, Melbourne, 1995, pp. 307-319. [ Details... ]
  • Kirkman, Noreen S, 'The Palmer River Goldfield', in Kennedy, K.H (ed.), Readings in North Queensland Mining History, vol. 1, James Cook University of North Queensland, Townsville, 1980. [ Details... ]
  • Wong Hoy, Kevin, 'Chinese-Australian history vs huacqiao history: Chinese in north Queensland', in Sophie Couchman (ed.), Secrets, Silences and Sources: Five Chinese-Australian Family Histories (La Trobe Asian Studies Papers), Asian Studies, La Trobe University, 2005, pp. 3-16. [ Details... ]

Journal articles

  • Grimwade, G, 'Atherton Chinatown: Site history', National Trust of Queensland Journal, February, pp. 30-31. [ Details... ]
  • Grimwade, Gordon, 'Cedar camp: Atherton's Chinatown', National Trust Queensland Journal, April, pp. 19-20. [ Details... ]
  • Wong Hoy, Kevin, 'Thursday Island en route to citizenship and the Queensland goldfields: Chinese aliens and naturalised British subjects, 1879-1903', Journal of Australian Colonial History, vol. 6, 2004, pp. 159-174. [ Details... ]

Reports

  • Grimwade, Gordon, Environmental Impact Study: Archaeology, Palmer River Goldfields MLs 3075-3077, 6719, 7355 and 40057 on the North Palmer River, Thomson, Thomson and Jarman, Cairns, 1993. [ Details... ]
  • Reynolds, Barrie, Grimwade, Gordon, Knight, Ralph, Report on Atherton Chinatown, Northern Queensland, vols 1, 2, 3, 4, Report to National Trust of Queensland, Material Culture Unit, James Cook University of North Queensland Townsville, 1987-1986. [ Details... ]

Theses

  • Bell, Peter, 'Houses and mining settlement in North Queensland, 1861-1920', PhD thesis, Department of History, James Cook University, 1982. [ Details... ]
  • Ormston, Robert, 'The rise and fall of a frontier mining town: Cooktown, 1873-1885', PhD thesis, Department of History, University of Queensland, 1996. [ Details... ]
  • Wong Hoy, Kevin, 'Becoming British subjects 1879-1903: Chinese in north Queensland', MA thesis, Asian Studies, La Trobe University, 2006. [ Details... ]

Online Resources

See also

  • Birtles, Francis, 'Strange Australia: A series of out-of-the-way photographs of the North, with notes, by Francis Birtles', The Lone Hand, 1 December, pp. 158-165. [ Details... ]
  • May, Catherine, See Poy, Tom (1853? - 1926), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 11, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1988, 562-563 pp, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A110574b.htm. [ Details... ]
  • May, Cathie, 'The Chinese in Cairns and Atherton: Contrasting studies in race relations, 1876-1920', in P. Macgregor (ed.), Histories of the Chinese in Australasia and the South Pacific, Museum of Chinese Australian History, Melbourne, 1995, pp. 47-58. [ Details... ]
  • May, Cathie R., 'The Chinese in Cairns and District, 1876-1920', PhD thesis, Department of History and Politics, James Cook Universtiy of North Queensland, 1978. [ Details... ]
  • Reynolds, Henry, North of Capricorn: The Untold Story of Australia's North, Allen & Unwin, Crows Nest, NSW, 2003. [ Details... ]
  • Taplin, Harry, Shang, Caleb James (1884 - 1953), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 11, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1988, 574 pp, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A110587b.htm. [ Details... ]

Images

Title
Arthur Junior (right), friend and Arthur Tye
Type
Photograph
Place
Australia - Queensland
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Title
Cairns-Atherton Nationalist League, probably 1920s
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1910 - c. 1920
Place
Australia - Queensland
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Title
Chinese gold digger starting for work, ca. 1860s
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1864 - c. 1871
Place
Australia - Queensland
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Title
Chinn daughters and family friends, in Queensland
Type
Photograph
Place
Australia - Queensland
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Title
Entrance of one of the two temples in Cairns
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1890
Place
Australia - Queensland - Cairns
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Title
Funeral procession in Cooktown, 1890
Type
Photograph
Date
1890
Place
Australia - Queensland - Cooktown
Creator
Brassy, Lord
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Title
Jack Lee (left), Arthur Lee junior (right) and their brother-in-law Edward Kwong (middle), probably in Darwin or North Queensland, 1920s
Type
Photograph
Date
1920s
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
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Title
Loading bananas from sampans onto the S.S. Seymour on the Tully River
Type
Photograph
Date
1907
Place
Australia - Queensland
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Man using shoulder poles walking along the main street of the 'Chinese section' of Geraldton
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1900
Place
Australia - Queensland - Innisfail (Geraldton)
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Title
Mr and Mrs Chick Tong
Type
Photograph
Place
Australia - Queensland?
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Portrait of Taam Sze Pui
Type
Painting
Date
1877 - 1926
Place
Australia - Queensland?
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Title
Transporting bananas on punts near Innisfail
Type
Photograph
Place
Australia - Queensland
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Title
Unidentified Chinese Consul
Type
Photograph
Place
Australia - Queensland
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Unidentified Chinese gardener, c.1893
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1893
Place
Australia - Queensland
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Unidentified Chinese man seated smoking a pipe
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1864 - c. 1871
Place
Australia - Queensland?
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Unidentified man watering rows of peanuts using watering cans on shoulder poles
Type
Photograph
Place
Australia - Queensland - Cape York
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Unidentified man with Chinese-style hat holding bag [?] and blanket
Type
Photograph
Place
Australia - Northern Territory?
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Unidentified seated man
Type
Photograph
Place
Australia - Queensland?
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Title
William Fang Yuen and Bessie (nee Wing)
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1912
Place
Australia - Queensland?
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Title
Yun Ying, c1925
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1925
Place
Australia - Queensland?
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