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    Group of people at the Court House in Croydon, Queensland, ca. 1905, c. 1905, courtesy of State Library of Queensland - John Oxley.
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    Jeremiah Francis O'Malley, 1895? - 1905?, courtesy of R. Ansell (private hands).
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    'A happy family', Quong and Margaret Tart with two of their children, c. 1892, courtesy of Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History).
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    Quong Tart seated in mandarin robes, c. 11 July 1894 - c. 29 January 1897, by Museum of Chinese Australian History, courtesy of Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History).
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    Quong Tart's home in Ashfield, c. 1889 - c. 1892, courtesy of Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History).
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    In a Chinese opium den. picture, 1 July 1896, by Luke, E. T., courtesy of State Library of Victoria - Picture Collection.
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    Unidentified miner working a cradle near Ballarat, 1880s, courtesy of Knowledge Resource Centre, Department of Primary Industries, Victoria.
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    Yin Bun Lowe cookstore, unloading bananas in Little Bourke Street, 1899, c. 11 February 1899, courtesy of Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History).
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Published Resources

Newspaper articles

  • 'Chinese demonstration in aid of the Melbourne Hospital', Weekly Times, 5 May 1900, pp. 9-10, 15. Details
  • ''The Mercury' goes to a Chinese christening dinner', The Mercury (Hobart, Tasmania), 20 January, p. 16. Details

See also

  • 'Sydney society homes, Gallop House, Ashfield, Mr Quong Tart's residence [photograph and text]', Illustrated Sydney News, 22 April 1893 [?]. Details
  • 'Mr Quong Tart, proposed visit to China, China a probable market for Australian wool, Chinese and the opium trade [photograph]', Australian Town and Country Journal, 14 April 1894, p. 30. Details
  • 'Chinese mandarins [with photograph]', Australian Town and Country Journal, 23 February 1895, p. 28. Details
  • 'Mr Quong Tart in his mandarin dress [photograph]', Chinese Australian Herald, Supplement, 29 January 1897. Details
  • 'The Chinese gala on the Agricultural Society's Ground [with 3 x photographs]', Sydney Mail, 2 October. Details
  • 'A Chinese farewell [with photograph]', Australian Town and Country Journal, 26 March 1898, p. 38. Details
  • '[photograph and untitled article about On Lee's return to China]', The Sketch, 4 May. Details
  • '[Little Bourke Street photo-essay]', The Leader, 11 February 1899, p. 34. Details
  • '[Yin Bun Lowe cookstore, unloading bananas in Little Bourke Street, 1899]', The Leader, 11 February, p. 34. Details
  • 'Chinese football team, St Vincent's Bazaar [photograph]', The Leader, 8 April, p. 36. Details
  • 'St Vincent fairings', Melbourne Punch, 6 April, pp. 37, 335-336. Details
  • 'Prosperous Chinese miner [photograph]', Australasian, 31 March 1900, p. 703. Details
  • 'Exercises in arithmetic [photograph]', Australasian, 20 December 1902, p. 10. Details
  • 'Dinnertime [photograph]', Australasian, 20 December 1902, p. 1457. Details
  • 'Bible lessons with the Chinese in Melbourne [photograph]', Australasian, 20 December 1902, p. 1457. Details
  • 'Christian Chinese Union of Victoria [photograph caption]', Weekly Times, 25 April 1903, p. 12, 15. Details
  • 'The Chinese Picnic at Aspendale Park [includes photographs]', The Leader, 18 February, p. 36. Details
  • 'Chinese Empire Reform Picnic at Aspendale Park [includes photograph]', Chinese Times supplement, 24 [25] February 1905. Details
  • 'Kyte's-Lane, Looking towards Bourke-Street from Little Bourke-Street [photograph caption and other related photographs]', Australasian, 13 June 1908, p. 1463. Details
  • 'Robert Fun Yet, a familiar figure in the Creswick district. He is probably the last survivor [with photograph]', Sun [Victoria], 21 October 1922. Details
  • '[photograph: Chinese miner cradling for gold]', The Courier (Ballarat), 17 September 1983. Details
  • Clarion, 'Chinese in Sydney', Sydney Mail, 25 February 1903. Details
  • Holland, F.D., 'The Northern Territory: Its goldfields II', Australian Mining Standard, vol. 1, no. 6, 12 April 1900, pp. 339-340. Details
  • Roberts, Mark, 'Hostile welcome for Chinese men', Examiner Express, 23 August 1980. Details
  • 'The Baron', 'Chinese mission work in Victoria', Weekly Times, 2 September 1899, pp. 10, 14-15. Details

Images

Title
Group of people at the Court House in Burketown, Queensland, ca. 1905
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1894 - 1900
Place
Australia - Queensland - Croydon
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Title
Twenty-five Chinese and Queensland police on horseback at the Northern Territory border
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1900
Place
Australia - Queensland
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Unidentified Chinese playing tug-a-war in the gaol yard in Burketown
Type
Photograph
Date
1900
Place
Australia - Queensland - Burketown
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Title
Ancestral altar
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 5 February 1911
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney
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Title
Assistant missionaries
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 2 September 1899
Place
Australia - Victoria
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Title
Bible Lessons with the Chinese in Melbourne
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1902
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne
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Title
Caleb Cheong
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 2 September 1899
Place
Australia - Victoria
Details
Title
Cheok Hong Cheong, supt Chinese Missionary
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 2 September 1899
Place
Australia - Victoria
Details
Title
Children of Chinese Converts
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 2 September 1899
Place
Australia - Victoria
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Title
Chinese converts
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 2 September 1899
Place
Australia - Victoria
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Title
Chinese converts
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 2 September 1899
Place
Australia - Victoria
Details
Title
Chinese dragon procession for Melbourne charity event
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 5 May 1900
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne
Details
Title
Chinese football team, St Vincent's Bazaar
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 8 April 1899
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne - South Melbourne
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Title
Christian Chinese Union of Victoria
Type
Photograph
Date
1903
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne
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Title
Chung Gon family eating a Chinese-style christening banquet 1
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 20 January 1944
Place
Australia - Tasmania - Hobart
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Title
Chung Gon family eating a Chinese-style christening banquet 2
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 20 January 1944
Place
Australia - Tasmania - Hobart
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Title
Chung Gon family gather around as Mrs Edward Chung Gon helps her son Edward James Joseph (Kwok-weng) Chung Gon cut his christening cake
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 20 January 1944
Place
Australia - Tasmania - Hobart
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Title
Collection of pictures from a picnic in Aspendale Park
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 7 February 1905 - c. 18 February 1905
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne - Aspendale
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Title
Converts in Chinese costume
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 2 September 1899
Place
Australia - Victoria
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Title
Dinnertime
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 20 December 1902
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne
Details
Title
Dr James Lamsey in buggy
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 17 April 1900
Place
Australia - Victoria - Bendigo (Sandhurst)
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Title
Edward, Gladys and daughter Mei-Ling Chung Gon dine with James Chung Gon
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 25 July 1942
Place
Australia - Tasmania - Sandy Bay
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Title
Exercises in arithmetic
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 20 December 1902
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne
Details
Title
First page of published photographs from the Melbourne Hospital Parade
Type
Photograph
Date
5 May 1900
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne
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Title
Five unidentified children in Little Bourke Street
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 11 February 1899
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne - Little Bourke Street
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Title
Forty-head battery, Howley Ltd
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1900
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Howley
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Title
George Young (En Young Fun) and family
Type
Photograph
Date
31 March 1900
Place
Australia - Victoria - Eaglehawk
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Title
Gladys and Mei-Ling Chung Gon in the garden
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 25 July 1942
Place
Australia - Tasmania - Sandy Bay
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Title
Gladys Chung Gon preparing a meal
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 25 July 1942
Place
Australia - Tasmania - Sandy Bay
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Title
Gladys Chung Gon sewing a dress for her daughter Mei-Ling
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 25 July 1942
Place
Australia - Tasmania - Sandy Bay
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Title
James Chung Gon holding Edward James Joseph Chung Gon
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 20 January 1944
Place
Australia - Tasmania - Hobart
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Title
Jeremiah Francis O'Malley (manager) with staff of Lennon's Cash Drapery Mart, Townsville
Type
Photograph
Date
1895? - 1905?
Place
Australia - Queensland - Townsville
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Title
Kytes Lane, looking to Bourke Street from Little Bourke Street
Type
Photograph
Date
1908
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne - Kytes Lane
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Title
Lin Yik Tong, Merchant Society of Sydney (seated and standing)
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1902 - c. 31 January 1903
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney
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Title
Main shaft, Howley Ltd
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1900
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Howley
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Title
Mei-ling Chung Gon bathing in bathroom wash basin
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 25 July 1942
Place
Australia - Tasmania - Sandy Bay
Details
Title
Mei-Ling in her nursery
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 25 July 1942
Place
Australia - Tasmania - Sandy Bay
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Title
Men entering a lottery bank
Type
Photograph
Date
11 February 1899
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne - Little Bourke Street
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Title
Miss B. Eager, Hon Secty Ladies Council
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 2 September 1899
Place
Australia - Victoria
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Title
Miss Davies, Organist & secty Adult Mission Service
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 2 September 1899
Place
Australia - Victoria
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Title
Miss Locke, Secty Mission Worker Society
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1899
Place
Australia - Victoria
Details
Title
Mr James Cheong M.A., late organist
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 2 September 1899
Place
Australia - Victoria
Details
Title
Mr Joshua Cheong, organist
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 2 September 1899
Place
Australia - Victoria
Details
Title
Mr M.C. Bridger
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 2 September 1899
Place
Australia - Victoria
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Title
Mr Wm Davies, Hon Treasurer
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 2 September 1899
Place
Australia - Victoria
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Title
Mrs C.H. Cheong
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 2 September 1899
Place
Australia - Victoria
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Title
Mrs Edward Chung Gon and her daughter Mei-ling holding Edward James Joseph Chung Gon
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 20 January 1944
Place
Australia - Tasmania - Hobart
Details
Title
Norma Quon and Beverly Geechoun, Jubilee Day procession, Melbourne
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1951
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne
Details
Title
Picnic of the Chinese Empire Reform Association at Oakleigh Park
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1906
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne
Details
Title
Portrait of class and teachers at Sydney Chinese school run by Look Yet (Look Sing Sang)
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 16 February 1910 - c. 17 February 1910
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney
Details
Title
Potential Chinese arrivals being questioned by Customs officials
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 2 December 1895
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne
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Title
Pupils & teachers
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 2 September 1899
Place
Australia - Victoria
Details
Title
Quong and Margaret Tart with two of their children
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1892
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney
Details
Title
Quong Tart seated in mandarin robes
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 11 July 1894 - c. 29 January 1897
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney
Details
Title
Quong Tart's home in Ashfield
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1889 - c. 1892
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney - Ashfield
Details
Title
Robert Fun Yet in top hat
Type
Photograph
Date
- 1922
Place
Australia - Victoria - Creswick
Details
Title
School children in costume
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 2 September 1899
Place
Australia - Victoria
Details
Title
Second page of published photographs from the Melbourne Hospital Parade
Type
Photograph
Date
1900?
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne
Details
Title
Suey Land
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 22 October 1913
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne
Details
Title
Three unidentified boys in Little Bourke Street
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 11 February 1899
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne - Little Bourke Street
Details
Title
Three unidentified men and a woman lying smoking opium
Type
Photograph
Date
1 July 1896
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne
Details
Title
Two unidentified children in Little Bourke Street
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 11 February 1899
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne - Little Bourke Street
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Title
Two unidentified school boys on either side of an altar to Confucius
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 16 February 1910 - c. 17 February 1910
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney
Details
Title
Two unidentified young men on a street corner in Little Bourke Street
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 11 February 1899
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne - Little Bourke Street
Details
Title
Unidentified man selling poultry for Chinese New Year
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 5 February 1911
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney
Details
Title
Unidentified man shoping in Chinese store in Sydney
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 5 February 1911
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney - Campbell St
Details
Title
Unidentified miner working a cradle near Ballarat
Type
Photograph
Date
1880s
Place
Australia - Victoria - Ballarat
Details
Title
Unidentified woman in doorway in Little Bourke Street
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 11 February 1899
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne - Little Bourke Street
Details
Title
Well-known unidentified Chinese merchant with his family waiting in their home for Chinese New Year visitors
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 5 February 1911
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney
Details
Title
Yin Bun Lowe cookstore, unloading bananas in Little Bourke Street
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 11 February 1899
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne - Little Bourke Street
Details