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Cavenagh Street, 1940s, courtesy of Northern Territory Library.
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Shops, Chinatown, Cavenagh Street, Darwin, 1915, courtesy of Northern Territory Library.
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Darwin views, 1900s - c. 1911, by Ryko, Ted, courtesy of Northern Territory Library.
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Cavenagh Street, July 1913, courtesy of Northern Territory Library.
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[Horse and dray on the street in Chinatown, Darwin, Northern Territory], 1899 - 1928, courtesy of National Library of Australia - Menzies Asian collection.
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Cavenagh Street, by Brown, Percy, courtesy of Northern Territory Library.
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Cavenagh Street, c. 1886 - c. 1900, courtesy of Northern Territory Library.
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Alley, c. June 1913, courtesy of Northern Territory Library.
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Cavenagh Street Darwin - showing buildings on north, c. 1913 - , courtesy of Northern Territory Library.
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Chinatown, 1910s, by Miller, William Charles, courtesy of Northern Territory Library.
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From: Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia

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Archival Collections

National Library of Australia - Picture collection

Darwin in 1897 and 1926, PIC P553/3 LOC Drawer A113; National Library of Australia - Picture collection [ Details... ].

Royal Australian Historical Society

Glass slide collection, http://www.rahs.org.au/rahs%20library.html#Library%20intro; Royal Australian Historical Society [ Details... ].

State Library of South Australia

Darwin Collection, 1860 - 1940; State Library of South Australia [ Details... ].

Published Resources

Books

Chan, Frances, Cathay to the North: Darwin Chinese in the Late 20th Century, Langford Publications, Pialba, 1992. [ Details... ]

Book Sections

See-Kee, Charles, 'Chinese contribution to Early Darwin', in Northern Territory Library Service Occasional Papers, Northern Territory Library Service, Darwin, 1987. [ Details... ]

Journal Articles

Christie, Michael F, 'The end of Darwin's Chinatown', Northern Perspective, vol. 18, no. 2, 1995, pp. 45-52. [ Details... ]
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... ]

Newspaper articles

'China remembers Darwin storekeeper', Sunday Territorian (Northern Territory Times), 14 October. [ Details... ]

Reports

James, Barbara, Chinatown - Darwin's "hub" for seventy years, The Litchfield Street Study, Talbot Hunt and Partners Pty Ltd, Architects and Town Planners, 1940. [ Details... ]

Theses

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... ]

See also

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... ]
Hill, Ernestine, 'Driving around Darwin', Walkabout, 1 July 1936, pp. 40-41. [ Details... ]

Images

Title: Cavenagh St, Darwin, 1940s
Type: Photograph
Date: 1940s
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street; Details

Title: Cavenagh Street
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1915
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street; Details

Title: Cavenagh Street and shopfront verandah (without people)
Type: Photograph
Date: 1900s - c. 1911
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street; Details

Title: Cavenagh Street looking towards the Banyan tree
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1928 - c. 1931
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street; Details

Title: Cavenagh Street row of buildings
Type: Photograph
Date: July 1913
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street; Details

Title: Cavenagh Street showing Tree of Knowledge side of street
Type: Photograph
Date: 1920s
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street; Details

Title: Cavenagh Street view from under the Banyan tree
Type: Photograph
Date: 1939
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street; Details

Title: Cavenagh Street with Gordon's Don on the right
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1938 - c. 1940
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street; Details

Title: Cavenagh Street with horse and cart from under a verandah
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1899 - c. 1928
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street; Details

Title: Cavenagh Street with no people or vehicles
Type: Photograph
Date: 1930s
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street; Details

Title: Cavenagh Street, Darwin
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1928 - c. 1931
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street; Details

Title: Cavenagh Street, Darwin
Type: Photograph
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street; Details

Title: Cavenagh Street, Darwin streetscape
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1886 - c. 1900
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street; Details

Title: Cavenagh streetscape with two men on bicycles and other men
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1915
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street; Details

Title: Chin Que Avenue, off Cavenagh St with sign
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1913 - c. 1914
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston); Details

Title: North side of Cavenagh Street near Bennett Street intersection
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1913 -
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street; Details

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); Details

Title: View down Cavenagh Street towards the harbour
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1884
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street; Details

Title: View from a height of 'Tree of Knowledge' and Cavenagh Street
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1909 - c. 1914
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street; Details

Title: View of Cavenagh Street
Type: Photograph
Date: 1940s
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street; Details

Title: View of Cavenagh Street
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1931 - 1940s
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street; Details

Title: View of Cavenagh Street with horse and buggy
Type: Photograph
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street; Details

Title: View of Darwin's Chinatown from the temple after cyclone damage in 1897
Type: Photograph
Date: 1897
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston); Details

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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); Details

Title: Bennett Street showing Wing Cheong Sing
Type: Photograph
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Bennett Street; Details

Title: Bennett Streetscape showing tailors, Wing Cheong Sing
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1901 - c. 1904
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Bennett Street; Details

Title: Cavenagh Street view
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1935
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street; Details

Title: Cavenagh Street, pre-war
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1 October 1942
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston); Details

Title: Cavenagh Streetscape
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1915
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street; Details

Title: Cavenagh streetscape showing people standing in front of Don's Picture Theatre (?)
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1920
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street; Details

Title: Celebration of the Goddess Chui-Lau Kwoon's birthday outside Man Fong Lau's
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1914 - c. 1920
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street; Details

Title: Chinatown, Darwin
Type: Photograph
Date: 1930 - 1939
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street; Details

Title: Chinese houses in Cavenagh St, Darwin
Type: Photograph
Date: 1890s
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street; Details

Title: Chinese houses in Cavenagh Street, Darwin
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1890 - c. 1910
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street; Details

Title: Chinese lion outside Woods Street temple
Type: Photograph
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Woods Street; Details

Title: Chinese New Year procession
Type: Photograph
Date: c. February 1929
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street; Details

Title: Chinese-style wedding in Cavenagh Street
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1 July 1936
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street; Details

Title: Chinese-style wedding proceding past 'Tree of Knowledge' banyan tree
Type: Photograph
Date: 1931
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street; Details

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); Details

Title: Darwin street, possibly Cavenagh Street
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1910 - c. 1962
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street?; Details

Title: Demolition of Chinese tenements underway in Darwin, 1914
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1914
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston); Details

Title: Entrance to the temple
Type: Photograph
Date: 1925
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Woods Street; Details

Title: Lion dancer in procession
Type: Photograph
Date: - 1939
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street; Details

Title: Long banner being carried in a procession along Cavenagh Street
Type: Photograph
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street; Details

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; Details

Title: New unidentified housing in Cavenagh St
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1913
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street; Details

Title: New unidentified housing in Cavenagh St
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1913
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street; Details

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; Details

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; Details

Title: Procession passing O. Jensen's store in Cavenagh Street
Type: Photograph
Date: 1930s
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street; Details

Title: Selina Lee on verandah in a cane chair
Type: Photograph
Date: 1920s
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Bennett Street; Details

Title: Shops on one side of Cavenagh Street
Type: Photograph
Date: 1930s
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street; Details

Title: Truck outside Wing Hing Cheong & Co in Cavenagh Street, Darwin
Type: Photograph
Date: 1937
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street; Details

Title: Two of Darwin’s Chinese residents in front of condemned Chinatown dwellings
Type: Photograph
Date: 1914?
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston); Details

Title: Unidentified building
Type: Photograph
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street; 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); Details

Title: Unidentified housing in the course of demolition
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1913
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston); Details

Title: Unidentified man sitting in front of corrogated iron house
Type: Photograph
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street?; Details

Title: Unidentified men sitting under a Cavenagh Street verandah
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1914
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street; 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: View along Esplanade from Cavenagh showing Chinese-owned businesses.
Type: Photograph
Date: 1920s
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Esplanade; Details

Title: View of lion in procession from above
Type: Photograph
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street; Details

Title: Women crossing Cavenagh street under umbrellas
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1930 - 1 October 1942
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street; Details

Created: 19 March 2004, Last modified: 7 November 2005