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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 - Picture 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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The main street of a settlement, possibly Darwin, c. 1900, courtesy of State Library of South Australia.
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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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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

Northern Territory Archives Service, Darwin Branch

Copyprint of Chinatown, Darwin 1879-1879, NTRS 1656; Unknown; Northern Territory Archives Service, Darwin Branch. 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. 1912 - 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: Cavenagh streetscape with vehicle on the left and tree on the right
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1900
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street; Details

Title: Chin Que Ave with three figures standing at one end
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1912 - c. 1913
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston); 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: Chinese New Year procession, Cavenagh Street, Darwin, 1923
Type: Photograph
Date: 1923
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street; 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: c. 1931 - 1940s
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 with horse and buggy
Type: Photograph
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street; Details

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 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 with Man Fong Lau and banyan tree on right
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1920
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 outside Man Fong Lau's building [?]
Type: Photograph
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh 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 children under a Chinese dragon in front of a house in Darwin.
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1915
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 Darwin's Chinatown area (rear?)
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1912 - c. 1914
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston); 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