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    Scout group, c. 1938 - , courtesy of Northern Territory Library.
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    Cheon, a Chinese man, Northern Territory [transparency] : taken on a survey trip re Flying Doctor Scheme. Rev J.A. Barber and Dr George Simpson 1927 / [John Flynn?], c. 1912 - c. 1955, by Flynn, John, 1880-1951, courtesy of National Library of Australia - Picture collection.
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    Mr. Ah Hong, courtesy of Northern Territory Library.
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    Chinese Joss House and temple, 1939, by Hodder, Ivan, courtesy of Northern Territory Library.
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    Temple, c. 1908 - c. 1942, by Litchfield, Jessie, courtesy of Northern Territory Library.
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    Temple, 1940, by Jenkins, Duncan, courtesy of Northern Territory Library.
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    Temple, 1940, by Jenkins, Duncan, courtesy of Northern Territory Library.
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    Chinese Temple (Joss House), 1920s, courtesy of Northern Territory Library.
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    Joss House, by Fletcher, Mrs, courtesy of Northern Territory Library.
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    Chinese Joss House, courtesy of Northern Territory Library.
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Archival Collections

Charles Darwin University Library (Casuarina)

  • Northern Territory University Library (Casuarina) picture collection; Charles Darwin University Library (Casuarina) [ Details... ].

National Archives of Australia, National Office

  • Stokes, John - Northern Territory (b&w postcards and photographs), 1936 - 1958, M105; National Archives of Australia, National Office [ Details... ].

National Archives of Australia, Northern Territory Office

  • Removal of Insanitary Chinese Tenements - Darwin, c. 1912 - c. 1913, A3, NT1914/4383; National Archives of Australia, Northern Territory Office [ Details... ].

National Library of Australia - Picture collection

Northern Territory Archives Service, Darwin Branch

  • Charles Wilson - Photographs of Darwin and the Northern Territory, 1920s - 1930s, NTRS 854/P1; Northern Territory Archives Service, Darwin Branch [ Details... ].
  • Colin Meaker collection, NTRS 234, CP 409-412; Northern Territory Archives Service, Darwin Branch [ Details... ].
  • Photographs of the Herbert family, c. 1896 - c. 1932, NTRS 1357/P1; Northern Territory Archives Service, Darwin Branch [ Details... ].

Northern Territory Library

  • Bleakley (J.W.) collection, 0256; Northern Territory Library [ Details... ].
  • Bucknall collection, 0147; Northern Territory Library [ Details... ].
  • C. A. Beurle collection, 0426; Northern Territory Library [ Details... ].
  • C.W. Macpherson collection, 0346; Northern Territory Library [ Details... ].
  • Chan collection, c. 1930 - 1940?, 0771; Northern Territory Library [ Details... ].
  • Darwina and William Fong collection, 1930s - 1970s, 0553; Northern Territory Library [ Details... ].
  • Dawn Keay collection, 0252; Northern Territory Library [ Details... ].
  • Duncan Jenkins collection, 1940s, 0094 and 0106; Northern Territory Library [ Details... ].
  • Edwards and NTGP 1480 or Roy Edwards collection, 0274; Northern Territory Library [ Details... ].
  • Federal Parliamentary Party Visit 1912, 1912, 0100; Northern Territory Library [ Details... ].
  • Fong Lim collection, c. 1927 - c. 1974, 0224; Northern Territory Library [ Details... ].
  • Frank Tranter collection, 0500; Northern Territory Library [ Details... ].
  • Frank Young collection, 0569; Northern Territory Library [ Details... ].
  • George Hulme Cole collection, 0570; Northern Territory Library [ Details... ].
  • Gilruth collection, 0190; Northern Territory Library [ Details... ].
  • Goodale collection, 0345; Northern Territory Library [ Details... ].
  • Harold Snell collection, 0233; Northern Territory Library [ Details... ].
  • Hodder collection, 0195; Northern Territory Library [ Details... ].
  • Howard Truran collection, 0406; Northern Territory Library [ Details... ].
  • J.T. & A. Turner collection, 0382; Northern Territory Library [ Details... ].
  • Jean A. Austin collection, c. 1911 - c. 1918, 0412; Northern Territory Library [ Details... ].
  • Jeffs collection, 0116; Northern Territory Library [ Details... ].
  • John Blakeman collection, 0057; Northern Territory Library [ Details... ].
  • John Clancy collection, 0169; Northern Territory Library [ Details... ].
  • Karilyn Brown collection, 0413; Northern Territory Library [ Details... ].
  • Keith Winterbotham collection, 0308; Northern Territory Library [ Details... ].
  • L.M. Berry (Sgt) collection, 0277; Northern Territory Library [ Details... ].
  • Leo Jessup collection, 0098; Northern Territory Library [ Details... ].
  • M J Holmes collection, 1913, NAC PAM 613.10994 HDL and 0203; Northern Territory Library [ Details... ].
  • Margaret Widdup collection, 1870s - 1930s, 0297; Northern Territory Library [ Details... ].
  • Marie & Lindsay Perry collection, 1890s - 1900s, 0560; Northern Territory Library [ Details... ].
  • Mayse Young collection, 0200; Northern Territory Library [ Details... ].
  • Mervyn York collection, 0172; Northern Territory Library [ Details... ].
  • Miller (David R.) collection, c. 1910 - 1940s, 0188; Northern Territory Library [ Details... ].
  • Morris collection, 0352; Northern Territory Library [ Details... ].
  • Moyle collection, 1890s - 1970s, 0112; Northern Territory Library [ Details... ].
  • Mrs A. Jarvis collection, 0340; Northern Territory Library [ Details... ].
  • Nichols collection, 0384; Northern Territory Library [ Details... ].
  • NT Govt Photographer collection, 0095; Northern Territory Library [ Details... ].
  • NTGP collection, 0107; Northern Territory Library [ Details... ].
  • Paul Foelsche collection (0754), c. 1873 - c. 1891, 0754; Northern Territory Library [ Details... ].
  • Percy Brown collection, c. 1919 - , 0155; Northern Territory Library [ Details... ].
  • Price collection, 1890s - 1920s, 0373; Northern Territory Library [ Details... ].
  • Redco collection, 0075; Northern Territory Library [ Details... ].
  • Roderick collection, 0110; Northern Territory Library [ Details... ].
  • Rodgers collection, 0329; Northern Territory Library [ Details... ].
  • Roger Nott collection, c. 1869 - c. 1938, 0002; Northern Territory Library [ Details... ].
  • Ronald Lister collection, 0135; Northern Territory Library [ Details... ].
  • Shu Ack Fong collection, c. 1942 - c. 1948, 0497; Northern Territory Library [ Details... ].
  • Spillett collection, - 1980s, 0238; Northern Territory Library [ Details... ].
  • Tracey collection, c. 1874 - 1890s, 0001; Northern Territory Library [ Details... ].
  • World War 2 collection, 0425; Northern Territory Library [ Details... ].

State Library of New South Wales - Mitchell Library

  • Notes re: Foelsche: Lantern slides of old Darwin, PXN 254, ON 30; State Library of New South Wales - Mitchell Library [ Details... ].
  • Small Picture Collection; State Library of New South Wales - Mitchell Library [ Details... ].

State Library of South Australia

  • Alice Springs collection; State Library of South Australia [ Details... ].
  • Darwin Collection, 1860 - 1940; State Library of South Australia [ Details... ].
  • General collection; State Library of South Australia [ Details... ].
  • Northern Territory collection; State Library of South Australia [ Details... ].
  • Pine Creek, N.T. Collection; State Library of South Australia [ Details... ].

Published Resources

Books

  • Birtles, Francis, Lonely Lands: Through the Heart of Australia, NSW Bookstall, Sydney, 1909. [ Details... ]
  • Chan, Frances, Cathay to the North: Darwin Chinese in the Late 20th Century, Langford Publications, Pialba, 1992. [ Details... ]
  • Ganter, Regina, Mixed Relations: Asian-Aboriginal Contact in North Australia, University of Western Australia, Crawley, 2006. [ Details... ]
  • Giese, Diana, All the Flavour of the Time Returns', Using Oral History to Explore the Top End's Chinese Heritage, Occasional Papers, vol. 45, State Library of the Northern Territory, Darwin, 1994. [ Details... ]
  • Giese, Diana, Beyond Chinatown: Changing Perspectives on the Top End Chinese Experience, National Library of Australia, Canberra, 1995. [ Details... ]
  • Greenwood, Helen & See-Kee, Charles, The influence of Chinese migration to the Northern Territory, vol. 4, SEE Australia Research Publications, Blackburn, 1981, 11-13 pp. [ Details... ]
  • Jones, Timonthy, Chinese in the Northern Territory, Northern Territory University Press, Darwin, 1997. [ Details... ]
  • Kok, Hu Jin, Chinese Temples in Australia: Hall of the Ranking Sages, Darwin, Northern Territory, Chinese Temples in Australia, vol. 4, Bendigo Golden Dragon Museum, Bendigo, Victoria, 2005. [ Details... ]
  • Lim, Alec Fong,, Memories of pre-war Northern Territory towns, Northern Territory Library Service Occasional Papers, State Reference Library of the Northern Territory, Darwin, 1990. [ Details... ]
  • Lo, Sui Kwong (Rev), From my Darwin notebook and Lich-Sheng-Kung (Chinese temple or Joss house), prepared and printed by the Northern Territory Archives Service Oral History Unit, Darwin, 1989. [ Details... ]
  • Masson, Elsie R., An Untamed Territory: The Northern Territory of Australia, Macmillan, London, 1915. [ Details... ]
  • McCarthy, Justin, 'Would be Diggers and Old Travellers': The Chinese at the Union Reefs and the Twelve Mile in the Northern Territory, 1876-1910, National Trust of Australia (Northern Territory), Darwin, 1989. [ Details... ]
  • See-Kee, Charles & Greenwood, Helen, The Influence of Chinese Migration to the Northern Territory, Research Publications, Blackburn, 1981. [ Details... ]
  • Yee, Glenice, Through Chinese Eyes: The Chinese Experience in the Northern Territory 1874-2004, Glenice Yee, PO Box 2365, Parap, NT, 2006. [ Details... ]

Book Sections

  • Dewar, Mickey, 'The orient in the outback: Europeans and Chinese in the Northern Territory', in Glenys Dimond (ed.), Sweet and Sour: Experiences of Chinese Families in the Northern Territory, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin, 1996. [ Details... ]
  • Giese, Diana, ''Where others failed, the Chinese succeeded': Collecting and re-evaluating the history of the Chinese in the context of top end Northern Territory history', in P. Macgregor (ed.), Histories of the Chinese in Australasia and the South Pacific, Museum of Chinese Australian History, Melbourne, 1995, pp. 261-273. [ Details... ]
  • Healy, Jacqueline, 'Foreward', in Glenys Dimond (ed.), Sweet and Sour: Experiences of Chinese Families in the Northern Territory, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin, 1996, pp. 3-5. [ Details... ]
  • McCarthy, Justin, 'Tales from the Empire City: Chinese miners in the Pine Creek region, Northern Territory, 1872-1915', in P. Macgregor (ed.), Histories of the Chinese in Australasia and the South Pacific, Museum of Chinese Australian History, Melbourne, 1995, pp. 191-202. [ Details... ]
  • Riddett, Lyn, 'On the ouside gazing in: European settler impressions of the Chinese community in Darwin - The first sixty years', in Glenys Dimond (ed.), Sweet and Sour: Experiences of Chinese Families in the Northern Territory, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin, 1996, pp. 22-24. [ Details... ]
  • See-Kee, Charles, 'Chinese contribution to Early Darwin', in Northern Territory Library Service Occasional Papers, Northern Territory Library Service, Darwin, 1987. [ Details... ]
  • Yee, Raymond, 'Introduction', in Glenys Dimond (ed.), Sweet and Sour: Experiences of Chinese Families in the Northern Territory, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin, 1996, pp. 6-7. [ Details... ]

Conference Papers

  • O'Neil, Allan, 'Chinese workers and merchants in the Northern Territory', in Chinese Heritage of Australian Federation, unpublished, 2001. [ Details... ]

Edited Books

  • Carment, David (ed.), Northern Territory Dictionary of Biography, vol. 1-3, Northern Territory University Press, 1990-1996. [ Details... ]
  • Dimond, Glenys (ed.), Sweet and Sour: Experiences of Chinese Families in the Northern Territory, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin, 1996. [ Details... ]

Journal articles

  • Giese, Diana, 'The heart of Darwin and beyond', Australia-China Review, May. [ Details... ]
  • Hill, Ernestine, 'The Dragon doors of Pan Ku', Walkabout, vol. 8, no. 12, 1 October 1942, pp. 4-8. [ Details... ]
  • McCarthy, Justin, 'Would Be Diggers And Old Travellers, The Chinese At The Union Reefs and the Twelve Mile in the Northern Territory 1876-1910', Trust News, Northern Territory, vol. 6-2, June, pp. 6-10. [ Details... ]
  • Stone, Shane and Steele, Roger, 'Progress of the Chinese community of the Northern Territory', Northern Perspective, vol. 18, no. 1, 1995, pp. 28-37. [ Details... ]

Newspaper articles

  • 'China remembers Darwin storekeeper', Sunday Territorian (Northern Territory Times), 14 October. [ Details... ]
  • Birtles, Francis, 'Through the unknown Territory [with photographs]', The Lone Hand, 1 March, pp. 361-367. [ Details... ]
  • Holland, F.D., 'The Northern Territory: Its goldfields II', Australian Mining Standard, vol. 1, no. 6, 12 April 1900, pp. 339-340. [ Details... ]
  • Holland, F.D., 'The Northern Territory: Its goldfields III', Australian Mining Standard, 19 April 1900, p. 357. [ Details... ]

Theses

  • Fletcher, Valerie, 'The Commonwealth takes over the Northern Territory 1901-1910: People. progress, postponement and promises', MA thesis, Department of History, University of Queensland, 1992. [ Details... ]
  • Hannan, Agnes, 'All out! The effects of evacuation and land acquisition on the Darwin Chinese, 1941-1951', BA (hons) Thesis, Department of History, Monash University, 1985. [ Details... ]
  • Hutchings, Susan (Suzi) Jane, 'The Darwin Chinese 1874-1983: Transformations in ethnic identity and its situation', BA (hons) Thesis, Anthropology, University of Adelaide, 1984. [ Details... ]
  • Inglis, Christine, 'The Darwin Chinese: A study of assimilation', MA thesis, Sociology, Australian National University, 1967. [ Details... ]
  • Karlsen, Christine, 'Cultural exclusion and interaction an historical study of the Aboriginal, Anglo-Australian, Chinese and Greek groups in Darwin, Northern Territory of Australia, 1880-1980', PGDip thesis, Northern Territory University, 1996. [ Details... ]
  • Rendell, Margaret,, 'The Chinese in South Australia and the Northern Territory in the nineteenth century: A study of the social, economic and legislative attitudes adoped towards the Chinese in the colony', MA thesis, University of Adelaide, 1952. [ Details... ]

Online Resources

See also

  • 'Our cameraman's walkabout', Walkabout, 1 January 1936. [ Details... ]
  • 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... ]
  • Christie, Michael F, 'The end of Darwin's Chinatown', Northern Perspective, vol. 18, no. 2, 1995, pp. 45-52. [ Details... ]
  • De La Rue, Kathy, The Evolution of Darwin: A History of the Northern Territory's Captial City During the Years of South Australian Administration, Charlies Darwin University Press, Darwin, 2004. [ Details... ]
  • Fletcher, V., 'The Northern Territory 1895-1900: The Royal Commission of 1895 and its results', PGDip thesis, Department of History, University of Queensland, 1988. [ Details... ]
  • Hill, Ernestine, 'Driving around Darwin', Walkabout, 1 July 1936, pp. 40-41. [ Details... ]
  • James, Barbara, No Man's Land: Women of the Northern Territory, Collins Publishers Australia, Australia, 1989. [ Details... ]
  • Jones, Timothy G, Pegging the Northern Territory: The History of Mining in the Northern Territory of Australia, 1873-1946, Northern Territory Government Printer, Darwin, 1987. [ Details... ]
  • Martinez, Julia, 'Separatism and solidarity: Chinese and Aboriginal Sporting connections', in Edwards, Penny and Shen, Yuanfang (eds), Lost in Whitewash: Aboriginal-Chinese Encounters from Federation to Reconciliation, Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University, Canberra, 2003, pp. 103-114. [ Details... ]
  • McLaren, Bill, The Northern Territory and its Police Force, vols I & II, self published, 1997. [ Details... ]
  • On, Robyn, 'The Chung Wah Society: Past & Present', in Glenys Dimond (ed.), Sweet and Sour: Experiences of Chinese Families in the Northern Territory, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin, 1996, pp. 39-49. [ Details... ]
  • Powell, Alan, Far Country: A Short History of the Northern Territory, 4th edition edn, Melbourne University Press, Carlton South, Vic, 2000. [ Details... ]
  • Read, Peter (ed.), Darwin life 1870-1940 : spoken, written and photographed by those who took part, A Social History of the Northern Territory, vol. 6, Professional Services Branch, N.T. Department of Education, Darwin, 1979. [ Details... ]
  • Rees, Mary, 'Nellie (Shu Ack Chan) Fong', Journal of Northern Territory History, no. 6, 1995, pp. 45-51. [ Details... ]
  • Reynolds, Henry, North of Capricorn: The Untold Story of Australia's North, Allen & Unwin, Crows Nest, NSW, 2003. [ Details... ]
  • Searcy, Alfred, In Australian Tropics, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, London, 1907. [ Details... ]
  • Smith, W. Ramsay, In Southern Seas: Wanderings of a Naturalist, J. Murray, London, 1924. [ Details... ]

Images

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Cavenagh Street with no people or vehicles
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Photograph
Date
1930s
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street
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2nd Darwin scout troop
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Photograph
Date
c. 1938 -
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
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A new Chinese laundry built on the site of a demolished house, 1914
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Photograph
Date
1914
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
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Ah Cheon in Chinese-style dress
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Photograph
Date
c. 1908 - c. 1955
Place
Australia - Northern Territory
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Ah Hong with unidentified child posed with pile of potatoes
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Photograph
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Alice Springs?
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Altar and interior of Darwin temple
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Photograph
Date
c. 1939
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
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Altar at Woods Street temple
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Photograph
Date
1940s
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Woods Street
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Altar at Woods Street temple
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Photograph
Date
1940
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Woods Street
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Altar at Woods Street temple
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Photograph
Date
c. 1908 - c. 1942
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Woods Street
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Altar in Darwin temple
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Photograph
Date
1941
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
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Altar in Darwin's temple
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Photograph
Date
1941
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
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Altar in Woods Street temple
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Photograph
Date
c. 1940
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Woods Street
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Altar in Woods Street temple
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Photograph
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Woods Street
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Altar in Woods Street temple
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Photograph
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Woods Street
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Altar in Woods Street temple
Type
Photograph
Date
1920s
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Woods Street
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Altar of Woods Street temple
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Photograph
Date
c. 1908 - c. 1942
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Woods Street
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Banana crop believed to be growing in a Chinese market garden
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Photograph
Date
c. 1912
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Pine Creek
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Bennett Street showing Wing Cheong Sing
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Photograph
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Bennett Street
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Bennett Streetscape showing tailors, Wing Cheong Sing
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Photograph
Date
c. 1901 - c. 1904
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Bennett Street
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Boys (some of Chinese ancestry?) carrying coconuts on the parth leading from the Esplanade to Stokes Hill Wharf
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Photograph
Date
1940
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Esplanade
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Brocks Creek mining settlement
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Photograph
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Brock's Creek
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Buffalo and owner, motor car and passengers
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Photograph
Date
c. 1915 - 1920s
Place
Australia - Northern Territory
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Buffalo pulling cartload of wood with unidentified man beside
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Photograph
Date
c. 1936 - c. 1958
Place
Australia - Northern Territory
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Carcass hung in slaughterhouse and two Chinese workers
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Photograph
Date
c. 1909 - c. 1914
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Pine Creek
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Cart and buffalo with unidentified man on far side
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Photograph
Place
Australia - Northern Territory
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Cavenagh St, Darwin, 1940s
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Photograph
Date
1940s
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street
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Cavenagh Street
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Photograph
Date
c. 1915
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street
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Cavenagh Street and shopfront verandah (without people)
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Photograph
Date
1900s - c. 1911
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Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street
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Cavenagh Street looking towards the Banyan tree
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Photograph
Date
c. 1928 - c. 1931
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street
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Cavenagh Street row of buildings
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Photograph
Date
July 1913
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street
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Cavenagh Street showing Tree of Knowledge side of street
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Photograph
Date
1920s
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street
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Cavenagh Street view
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Photograph
Date
c. 1935
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street
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Cavenagh Street view from under the Banyan tree
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Photograph
Date
1939
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street
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Cavenagh Street with Gordon's Don on the right
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Photograph
Date
c. 1938 - c. 1940
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Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street
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Cavenagh Street with horse and cart from under a verandah
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Photograph
Date
c. 1899 - c. 1928
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street
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Title
Cavenagh Street, Darwin
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Photograph
Date
c. 1928 - c. 1931
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street
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Cavenagh Street, Darwin
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Photograph
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street
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Cavenagh Street, Darwin streetscape
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Photograph
Date
c. 1886 - c. 1900
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Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street
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Cavenagh Street, pre-war
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Photograph
Date
c. 1 October 1942
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Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
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Cavenagh streetscape showing people standing in front of Don's Picture Theatre (?)
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Photograph
Date
c. 1920
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street
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Cavenagh streetscape with two men on bicycles and other men
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Photograph
Date
c. 1915
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street
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Title
Celebration of the Goddess Chui-Lau Kwoon's birthday outside Man Fong Lau's
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Photograph
Date
c. 1914 - c. 1920
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street
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Title
Chin Pak (Joseph) Cheong
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Photograph
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Chin Pak Cheong and friends on a Darwin beach c1920s
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Photograph
Date
1920s
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Rapid Creek
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Chin Pak Cheong and friends on a Darwin beach c1930s
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Photograph
Date
1930s
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
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Chin Pak Cheong with his children and mother-in-law in front of his truck
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Photograph
Date
1930s
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
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Chin Pak Cheong, his wife Ethel and his four children in their Model T Ford car No 224
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Photograph
Date
c. 1926
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
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Chin Que Avenue, off Cavenagh St with sign
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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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Chinese cook's vegetable garden, Manbullo Station, 25 June 1921
Type
Photograph
Date
25 June 1921
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Katherine - Manbullo Station
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Chinese garden at Wave Hill Station, 16 October 1926
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Photograph
Date
16 October 1926
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Wave Hill station
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Chinese houses in Cavenagh Street, Darwin
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Photograph
Date
c. 1890 - c. 1910
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street
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Chinese housing in Palmerston (Darwin)
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1880 - c. 1899
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
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Chinese lion outside Woods Street temple
Type
Photograph
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Woods Street
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Chinese lion/dragon with procession
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Photograph
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
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Chinese New Year parade with men marching with flags and banners
Type
Photograph
Date
1920s
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street
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Title
Chinese New Year procession
Type
Photograph
Date
c. February 1929
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street
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Chinese New Year procession showing lion/dragon from above
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Photograph
Date
1920s
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
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Chinese New Year procession with banners and flags
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Photograph
Date
1920s
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
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Chinese New Year procession with cars and people under umbrellas
Type
Photograph
Date
1920s
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
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Chinese procession with banners, lion and firecrackers
Type
Photograph
Date
1920s
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
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Title
Chinese procession with flags and car
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Photograph
Place
Australia - Northern Territory
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Title
Chinese school, Lot 700, Schultze Street, Darwin
Type
Photograph
Date
1946
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Schultze Street
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Title
Chinese wood-carters
Type
Photograph
Date
1890s - 1911
Place
Australia - Northern Territory
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Chinese worker amongst sugar cane in the Northern Territory
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1896
Place
Australia - Northern Territory
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Title
Chinese-style wedding in Cavenagh Street
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Photograph
Date
c. 1 July 1936
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street
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Title
Chinese-style wedding proceding past 'Tree of Knowledge' banyan tree
Type
Photograph
Date
1931
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street
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Title
Corner of Cavenagh Street and the Esplanade, near the road leading down to the wharf
Type
Photograph
Date
1920s
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
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Title
Cutting sugar cane in the Northern Territory
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1896
Place
Australia - Northern Territory
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Title
Daly River cattle station with unidentified Chinese [?] servants
Type
Photograph
Date
September 1887
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Daly River
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Title
Darwin Chinese Association Soccer Team
Type
Photograph
Date
1930 - 1961
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
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Title
Darwin Chinese Recreation Club Soccer Team, 1923
Type
Photograph
Date
1923
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
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Title
Darwin Public School students 1921
Type
Photograph
Date
1921
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
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Title
Darwin soccer team
Type
Photograph
Place
Australia - Northern Territory
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Title
Darwin street, possibly Cavenagh Street
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1910 - c. 1962
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street?
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Title
Darwin temple altar
Type
Photograph
Date
1915 - 1930
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Woods Street
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Title
Darwin's temple altar
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1928 - c. 1931
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
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Title
Darwin's temple altar against corrogated iron wall
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1928 - c. 1931
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
Detail of temple altar
Type
Photograph
Date
- 1900
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
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Title
Diggers at Pine Creek, 1910
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1910
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Pine Creek
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Title
Domesticated buffalo pulling cartload of wood
Type
Photograph
Date
1914
Place
Australia - Northern Territory?
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Title
Entrance to Cairns temple
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1901 - c. 1904
Place
Australia - Queensland - Cairns
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Title
Entrance to first Government Garden with unidentified Chinese [?] gardeners
Type
Photograph
Date
1874 - January 1876
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
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Title
Fisherman's temple and residences
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1901 - c. 1904
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Fisherman's beach
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Title
Fishing station at the mouth of the Daly River
Type
Photograph
Date
1907
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Daly River
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Title
Four unidentified men with two-horse drawn cart with fish
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1914
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Daly River
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Title
Garden with building in background and unidentified man posed in foreground
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1909
Place
Australia - Northern Territory
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Title
Gardener in garden with indigenous female staff
Type
Photograph
Date
1931
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Wave Hill station
Details
Title
Gardener with horse and cart
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1909 - c. 1914
Place
Australia - Northern Territory
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Title
Gardens with dead tree in the background
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1909 - c. 1914
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Pine Creek
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Title
'Georgie' carrying baskets with shoulder poles
Type
Photograph
Place
Australia - Northern Territory
Details
Title
Goot Ying (Ethel) Cheong (nee Lee)
Type
Photograph
Details
Title
Group of unidentified men before repatriation to China
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1914
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Woods Street
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Title
Head and shoulders portrait of unidentified woman facing down
Type
Photograph
Date
1 October 1942
Place
Australia - Northern Territory
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Title
Herbert family with others
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1899
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
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Title
Hong Pak Cheong
Type
Photograph
Place
Australia - Northern Territory?
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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
Interior of Darwin temple
Type
Photograph
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
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Title
Interior of Darwin temple showing detail of altar
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1922
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
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Title
Interior of Darwin's temple
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1920 - c. 1924
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
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Title
Interior of P.R. Allen & Co's store
Type
Photograph
Date
c. December 1897
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
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Title
Interior of Woods Street temple
Type
Photograph
Date
1908 - 1942
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Woods Street
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Title
Interior view of the Woods Street temple with streamers
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1928 - c. 1929
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Woods Street
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Title
Jane Elizabeth Tye
Type
Photograph
Date
- 1934
Place
Australia - Northern Territory
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Title
Jimmy Panquee (right) and another man
Type
Photograph
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Daly River
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Title
Kuomintang meeting with Dr Chan (Chinese Consul-General) with other leading Chinese residents
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 24 January 1932
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
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Title
Lion dance in Chinese New Year procession
Type
Photograph
Date
1920s
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
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Title
Lion dancer in procession
Type
Photograph
Date
- 1939
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street
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Title
Lion with white legs and man holding the tail
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1928 - c. 1931
Place
Australia - Northern Territory
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Title
Long banner being carried in a procession along Cavenagh Street
Type
Photograph
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street
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Title
Long procession with six flags along sparsely populated street
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1928 - c. 1931
Place
Australia - Northern Territory
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Title
Main street, Pine Creek
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1910
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Pine Creek
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Title
Margaret Gilruth with servants Shephard and Dobie at Government House
Type
Photograph
Date
1910s
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
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Title
Market gardens in Doctor's Gully with hospital on hill behind
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1890
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Doctor's Gully
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Title
Members of the Monastery Mess including unidentified Chinese cook
Type
Photograph
Date
May 1918
Place
Australia - Northern Territory
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Title
Miner's hospital and Chinese [?] gardens at Yam Creek
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1878
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Yam Creek
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Title
Mrs Linoy Wong and her granddaughter Gloria Hee (now Sue See) walking on Cavenagh Street footpath
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1939
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street
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Title
North side of Cavenagh Street near Bennett Street intersection
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1913 -
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street
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Title
Palanquin used in New Year ceremonies inside Chinese temple, Darwin
Type
Photograph
Date
1922
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Woods Street
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Title
Passing the Territory to the Commonwealth
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1911
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
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Title
Paul Foelsche's family at Mindil Beach with unidentified Chinese servant
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1896
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Mindil Beach
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Title
Paw paw and cabbages believed to be growing in a Chinese market garden
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1912
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Pine Creek
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Title
Peel's Well gardens with Port Darwin Hospital in background
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1878
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Doctor's Gully
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Title
Pine Creek Chinese gardens
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1909 - c. 1914
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Pine Creek
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Title
Pine Creek football club
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1945
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Pine Creek
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Title
Pine creek school and scholars
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1912
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Pine Creek
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Title
Pine Creek temple
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1910
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Pine Creek
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Title
Port Darwin, early photo of railway yard, Government buildings and Chinatown on the hill above
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1886 - c. 1900
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
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Title
Potatoes and cabbages believed to be growing in a Chinese market garden
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1912
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Pine Creek
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Title
Procession along Cavanagh Street with one triangular flag and two rectangular ones
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1915 - c. 1916
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street
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Title
Procession along Cavenagh Street
Type
Photograph
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street
Details
Title
Procession marching along Mitchell Street
Type
Photograph
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Mitchell Street
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Title
Procession passing O. Jensen's store in Cavenagh Street
Type
Photograph
Date
1930s
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street
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Title
Procession with four flags and a horse
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1928 - c. 1931
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)?
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Title
Rice fields with buildings on the outskirts of Darwin
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1891
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
Details
Title
Roy Seek Hem Cheong
Type
Photograph
Date
1940s
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney
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Title
Searching for contraband
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1909
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
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Title
Shops on one side of Cavenagh Street
Type
Photograph
Date
1930s
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street
Details
Title
Side view of Darwin temple
Type
Photograph
Date
1930s
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
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Title
Stone lion
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1946
Place
Australia - Northern Territory
Details
Title
Temple altar
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1960
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Woods Street
Details
Title
Temple idol
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1 January 1936
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
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Title
The 'N.T. Lot' at Fraser's Hill
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1903 - c. 1946
Place
Malaysia?
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Title
The participants (complete with marching girls) in a Chinese New Year procession
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1968 - c. 1969
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
Details
Title
Three unidentified girls of mixed Aboriginal ancestry
Type
Photograph
Date
1928
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Groote Eylandt
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Title
Three unidentified men standing with stone lion
Type
Photograph
Date
- 1959
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Brock's Creek - Burnside Station
Details
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 servicemen examining stone lions outside a temple
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1939 - c. 1945
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Brock's Creek
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Title
Two unidentified children on beach with fisherman's temple behind
Type
Photograph
Date
- 1925
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Fisherman's beach
Details
Title
Two unidentified men in procession costume
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1928 - c. 1931
Place
Australia - Northern Territory
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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
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Title
Unemployed demonstrating at the government offices
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 21 January 1931
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
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Title
Unemployed men on verandah of Government Offices
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1930 - c. 1931
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
Details
Title
Unidentified building
Type
Photograph
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street
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Title
Unidentified children standing in vegetable garden beds
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 9 August 1945
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Adelaide River
Details
Title
Unidentified children's ball
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1928 - c. 1931
Place
Australia - Northern Territory
Details
Title
Unidentified Chinese garden, Darwin
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1900
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
Details
Title
Unidentified Chinese man walking beside buffalo pulled wood cart
Type
Photograph
Date
1913? - c. 1914
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
Details
Title
Unidentified Chinese market gardeners in garden with bananas behind
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1885
Place
Australia - Northern Territory
Details
Title
Unidentified Chinese school children
Type
Photograph
Date
1900? - c. 1913
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
Details
Title
Unidentified Chinese school children in Darwin
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1900 - c. 1917
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
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Title
Unidentified domestic servant ('houseboy') posing beside coconut palm outside Government House
Type
Photograph
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Esplanade - Government House
Details
Title
Unidentified domestic servant in grounds of Government House
Type
Photograph
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Esplanade - Government House
Details
Title
Unidentified domestic servant outside Government House
Type
Photograph
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Esplanade - Government House
Details
Title
Unidentified domestic servant outside Government House