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  Chinese Temple, Darwin, 1922, courtesy of State Library of South Australia.
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  Scout group, c. 1938 - , courtesy of Northern Territory Library.
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  Ali and Selina Hassan with their children Ruby and Connie in Darwin 1920s, courtesy of Chinese Museum.
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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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Alternative Names

• Darwin (Northern Territory)
• Palmerston (Northern Territory)

Related Subjects

Related Concepts

• junks

Related Corporate Bodies

• Darwin Chinese Recreation Club
• Man Fong Lau
• P.R. Allen & Co
• Pak Poy

Related Families

• Hassan family
• Kwong Sue Duk family
• Lowe (Dep) family

Related People

• Allen, P.
• Charlie (Darwin, NT)
• Chin Fong
• Chin Gong
• Chin Pon
• Chin Sam
• Chin, Botany
• Chin, Darwina (c. 1929 - )
• Chong, Bessie
• Fong, A.
• Fong, Charlie
• Henry (Darwin, NT)
• Jan, Alfred
• Jessie (Darwin, NT)
• Lee, G.
• Lee, Jamie
• Lee, T.
• Low Wah
• Lowe Dep
• Lu Moo ( - 1980)
• Mah Buk
• Moo, F.
• Ng, Clarence
• Que Noy, Lucy
• Sang, C.M.
• Shang, Gertie
• Sing Lip
• Tang, Heather
• Wong, Noreen
• Yee (Darwin, NT)
• Yee (On), Charlie
• Yee, Charlie (Darwin, c1930s)
• Yuen, Dorothy (Dolly)
• Yuen, Jimmy

Related Places

• Darwin's Chinatown - Cavenagh Street area (Northern Territory)
• Darwin's temple
• Fisherman's temple
• Northern Territory

Archival Collections

National Library of Australia - Picture collection

• Collection of photographs of Darwin and the Northern Territory, http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an11360266; National Library of Australia - Picture collection [ Details... ].

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... ].

Northern Territory Library

• Jean A. Austin collection, c. 1911 - c. 1918, 0412; Northern Territory Library [ Details... ].
• Paul Foelsche collection (0754), c. 1873 - c. 1891, 0754; 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... ].

State Library of South Australia

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

Published Resources

Books

• Birtles, Francis, Lonely Lands: Through the Heart of Australia, NSW Bookstall, Sydney, 1909. [ 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... ]
• Giese, Diana, Beyond Chinatown: Changing Perspectives on the Top End Chinese Experience, National Library of Australia, Canberra, 1995. [ 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... ]
• Masson, Elsie R., An Untamed Territory: The Northern Territory of Australia, Macmillan, London, 1915. [ 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... ]
• 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... ]
• 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... ]
• 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... ]

Edited Books

• 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

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

See also

• 'Our cameraman's walkabout', Walkabout, 1 January 1936. [ Details... ]
• Christie, Michael F, 'The end of Darwin's Chinatown', Northern Perspective, vol. 18, no. 2, 1995, pp. 45-52. [ Details... ]
• Ganter, Regina, Mixed Relations: Asian-Aboriginal Contact in North Australia, University of Western Australia, Crawley, 2006. [ 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... ]
• Rees, Mary, 'Nellie (Shu Ack Chan) Fong', Journal of Northern Territory History, no. 6, 1995, pp. 45-51. [ Details... ]
• Stephen, Matthew, 'Darwin oval: Field of dreams, battleground for rights. Australian Rules Football in Darwin, 1916-1942', Oral History Assocation of Australia Journal, no. 29, 2007, pp. 1-10. [ Details... ]
• Strutton, S, 'Chinese tracks through the north', Walkabout, 1 July 1942, p. 31. [ Details... ]

Images

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Interior of Darwin temple showing detail of altar

Type

Photograph

Date

c. 1922

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)

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War damaged property of Chin Loong Pak and Chin Loong Kang, Lot 253, Wood Street, Darwin

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Photograph

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Woods Street

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2nd Darwin scout troop

Type

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

Type

Photograph

Date

1914

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)

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Ali and Selina Hassan with their children Ruby and Connie in Darwin 1920s

Type

Photograph

Date

1920s

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)

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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

Type

Photograph

Date

1940s

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Woods Street

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Altar at Woods Street temple

Type

Photograph

Date

1940

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Woods Street

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Title

Altar at Woods Street temple

Type

Photograph

Date

c. 1908 - c. 1942

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Woods Street

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Title

Altar in Darwin temple

Type

Photograph

Date

1941

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)

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Title

Altar in Darwin's temple

Type

Photograph

Date

1941

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)

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Title

Altar in Woods Street temple

Type

Photograph

Date

1920s

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Woods Street

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Title

Altar in Woods Street temple

Type

Photograph

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Woods Street

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Title

Altar in Woods Street temple

Type

Photograph

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Woods Street

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Title

Altar in Woods Street temple

Type

Photograph

Date

c. 1940

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Woods Street

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Title

Altar of Woods Street temple

Type

Photograph

Date

c. 1908 - c. 1942

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Woods Street

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Bennett Street showing Wing Cheong Sing

Type

Photograph

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Bennett Street

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Bennett Streetscape showing tailors, Wing Cheong Sing

Type

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

Type

Photograph

Date

1940

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Esplanade

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Bringing the dragon (or lion?) out of a Chinese temple at New Years Festival

Type

Photograph

Date

1922

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)

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Buffalos, Chinese carting dried fish

Type

Photograph

Date

c. 1901 - c. 1904

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)

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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

Type

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

Place

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

Type

Photograph

Date

1920s

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street

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Cavenagh Street view

Type

Photograph

Date

c. 1935

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street

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Cavenagh Street view from under the Banyan tree

Type

Photograph

Date

1939

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street

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Cavenagh Street with Gordon's Don on the right

Type

Photograph

Date

c. 1938 - c. 1940

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street

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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

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Cavenagh Street with no people or vehicles

Type

Photograph

Date

1930s

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street

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Title

Cavenagh Street, Darwin

Type

Photograph

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street

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Cavenagh Street, Darwin streetscape

Type

Photograph

Date

c. 1886 - c. 1900

Place

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

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)

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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

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Cavenagh streetscape with two men on bicycles and other men

Type

Photograph

Date

c. 1915

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street

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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

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Chin Pak Cheong and friends on a Darwin beach c1930s

Type

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

Type

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

Type

Photograph

Date

c. 1926

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)

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Chin Que Avenue, off Cavenagh St with sign

Type

Photograph

Date

c. 1913 - c. 1914

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)

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Chinatown, Darwin

Type

Photograph

Date

1930 - 1939

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street

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Chinese (over 80 years old, living 12 miles out of Darwin) with his buffalo and dray

Type

Photograph

Date

1890s - 1911

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)

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Chinese children gathered for New Year Festival

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Photograph

Date

1922

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)

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Chinese employees of Dr Gilruth (Darwin Administrator)

Type

Photograph

Date

c. 1910 - c. 1920

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Esplanade

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Chinese funeral

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Photograph

Date

c. 1901 - c. 1904

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)

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Chinese Gardens, Mr and Mrs Tindal of the B.A.T.

Type

Photograph

Date

c. 1901 - c. 1904

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)

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Chinese housing in Palmerston (Darwin)

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Photograph

Date

c. 1880 - c. 1899

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)

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Chinese huts near Palmerston (Darwin)

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Photograph

Date

c. 1895

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)

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Chinese junk

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Photograph

Date

c. 1901 - c. 1904

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

Type

Photograph

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)

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Chinese man and his buffalo team and cart, Darwin, Northern Territory

Type

Photograph

Date

1927

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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Chinese New Year procession

Type

Photograph

Date

c. February 1929

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street

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Title

Chinese New Year Procession

Type

Photograph

Date

c. 1901 - c. 1904

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)

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Chinese New Year procession showing lion/dragon from above

Type

Photograph

Date

1920s

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)

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Chinese New Year procession with banners and flags

Type

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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Chinese school, Lot 700, Schultze Street, Darwin

Type

Photograph

Date

1946

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Schultze Street

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Chinese wood-carter with buffalo, Darwin

Type

Photograph

Date

1890s - 1905

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)

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Title

Chinese wood-carter, Darwin

Type

Photograph

Date

1890s - 1911

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)

Creator

Foelsche, Paul (1831 - 1914)

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Chinese wood-carters with buffalo, Darwin

Type

Photograph

Date

c. 1911 - c. 1918

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)

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Chinese-style wedding in Cavenagh Street

Type

Photograph

Date

c. 1 July 1936

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street

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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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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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Darwin Chinese Association Soccer Team

Type

Photograph

Date

1930 - 1961

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)

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Darwin Chinese Recreation Club Soccer Team, 1923

Type

Photograph

Date

1923

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)

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Darwin Public School students 1921

Type

Photograph

Date

1921

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)

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Darwin street, possibly Cavenagh Street

Type

Photograph

Date

c. 1910 - c. 1962

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street?

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Darwin temple altar

Type

Photograph

Date

1915 - 1930

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Woods Street

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Daughters of Arthur Lee senior with their sister-in-law Lily Chin

Type

Photograph

Date

c. 1920

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)

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Demolition of Chinese tenements underway in Darwin, 1914

Type

Photograph

Date

c. 1914

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)

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Dorothy (Dolly) Yuen Ng standing outside the Chinese Temple, Darwin, dressed in 'Princess of the Float' costume

Type

Photograph

Date

c. 1926

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Woods Street

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Dr Seabrook & gig in front of Inspector Foelsche house

Type

Photograph

Date

c. 1901 - c. 1904

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)

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Dragon with unidentified man looking on

Type

Photograph

Date

c. 1936 - c. 1958

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)?

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Entrance to Darwin's temple

Type

Photograph

Date

c. 1901 - c. 1904

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)

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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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Entrance to principal Joss house, Prayer furnace at left

Type

Photograph

Date

c. 1901 - c. 1904

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)

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Entrance to the temple

Type

Photograph

Date

1925

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Woods Street

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Fort Hill, Gulnare Jetty, Chinese camp and Government Residence

Type

Photograph

Date

c. 1890

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)

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Gathering at the Residency

Type

Photograph

Date

1905

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Esplanade

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Grave with food offerings, including a roast pig

Type

Photograph

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)

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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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Group portrait commemorating transfer of the Territory to Commonwealth

Type

Photograph

Date

2 January 1911

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)

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Head and shoulders portrait of unidentified woman facing down

Type

Photograph

Date

1 October 1942

Place

Australia - Northern Territory

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Herbert family with others

Type

Photograph

Date

c. 1899

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)

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Title

Interior of Darwin temple

Type

Photograph

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)

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Interior of Darwin's temple

Type

Photograph

Date

c. 1920 - c. 1924

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)

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Interior of P.R. Allen & Co's store

Type

Photograph

Date

c. December 1897

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)

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Interior of Woods Street temple

Type

Photograph

Date

1908 - 1942

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Woods Street

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Interior ornament, Chinese temple, Darwin

Type

Photograph

Date

1922

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)

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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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Jack Lee (left), Arthur Lee junior (right) and their brother-in-law Edward Kwong (middle), probably in Darwin or North Queensland, 1920s

Type

Photograph

Date

1920s

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)

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Title

Jane Tye and Sarah Bowman

Type

Photograph

Date

c. 1908

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)

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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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Lion dance in Chinese New Year procession

Type

Photograph

Date

1920s

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)

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Lion dancer in procession

Type

Photograph

Date

- 1939

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street

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Long banner being carried in a procession along Cavenagh Street

Type

Photograph

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street

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Margaret Gilruth with servants Shephard and Dobie at Government House

Type

Photograph

Date

1910s

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)

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Market gardens and gardener's residence

Type

Photograph

Date

c. 1901 - c. 1904

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)

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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

Methodist Church, Chinese and buffalos

Type

Photograph

Date

c. 1901 - c. 1904

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Knuckey Street

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Mon Cham of Pine Creek standing in the doorway of Chinese temple

Type

Photograph

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Pine Creek?

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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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New unidentified housing in Cavenagh St

Type

Photograph

Date

c. 1913

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street

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New unidentified housing in Cavenagh St

Type

Photograph

Date

c. 1913

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street

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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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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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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

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

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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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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Procession along Cavenagh Street

Type

Photograph

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street

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Procession marching along Mitchell Street

Type

Photograph

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Mitchell Street

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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

Pupils of Darwin Public School with their teacher Catherine Pett

Type

Photograph

Date

c. 1905

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)

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Title

Rear of Chinese temple in Darwin

Type

Photograph

Date

c. 1895

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)

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Title

Searching for contraband

Type

Photograph

Date

c. 1909

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)

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Title

Selina Lee and her sister Mary Lee, Darwin, c1920

Type

Photograph

Date

c. 1920

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)

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Title

Selina Lee in Chinese dress, 1917

Type

Photograph

Date

c. 1917 - 1920s

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)

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Title

Selina Lee in western dress

Type

Photograph

Date

1920s

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)

Details

Title

Soccer match

Type

Photograph

Date

1 January 1924

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Esplanade

Details

Title

Street scene of Darwin with unidentified Chinese man walking away

Type

Photograph

Date

c. 1909

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)

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)

Details

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

Tomb at the Chinese Cemetery, Darwin

Type

Photograph

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)

Details

Title

Truck outside Wing Hing Cheong & Co in Cavenagh Street, Darwin

Type

Photograph

Date

1937

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street

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Title

Two buffalo carting wood with partial obscured man to walking beside

Type

Photograph

Date

1919 - 1931

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)

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 unidentified children on beach with fisherman's temple behind

Type

Photograph

Date

- 1925

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Fisherman's beach

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Title

Unemployed demonstrating at the government offices

Type

Photograph

Date

c. 21 January 1931

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)

Details

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

Details

Title

Unidentified Chinese garden in Darwin with house

Type

Photograph

Date

c. 1890

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)

Details

Title

Unidentified Chinese garden with Darwin hospital in background

Type

Photograph

Date

c. 1890

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Doctor's Gully

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 man with buffalo cart, Darwin

Type

Photograph

Date

c. 1920

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)

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)

Details

Title

Unidentified cook

Type

Photograph

Date

c. 1901 - c. 1904

Place

Australia - Northern Territory

Details

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

Type

Photograph

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Esplanade - Government House

Details

Title

Unidentified domestic servant with young girl

Type

Photograph

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Esplanade - Government House

Details

Title

Unidentified fruit merchant with shoulder pole

Type

Photograph

Date

c. 1909

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)

Details

Title

Unidentified group of domestic staff outside Government House

Type

Photograph

Date

c. 1910 - c. 1920

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)

Details

Title

Unidentified guilded idol in Darwin Chinese Temple

Type

Photograph

Date

c. 1922

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)

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 examining processional lion

Type

Photograph

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)

Details

Title

Unidentified man in procession costume

Type

Photograph

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 man sitting in temple

Type

Photograph

Date

1930s

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)

Details

Title

Unidentified man working in a vegetable garden

Type

Photograph

Date

c. 1901 - c. 1904

Place

Australia - Northern Territory

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 person carrying child on back

Type

Photograph

Date

c. 1909

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)

Details

Title

Unidentified procession from the corner of Mitchell and Bennett Streets in Darwin

Type

Photograph

Date

c. 1893

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)

Details

Title

Unidentified regulation approved well

Type

Photograph

Date

c. 1913

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)

Details

Title

Unidentified servant hanging out the washing at Government House

Type

Photograph

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Esplanade - Government House

Details

Title

Unidentified skull in a burial container at Darwin Chinese cemetery

Type

Photograph

Date

1915

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Stuart Park

Details

Title

Unidentified town crier

Type

Photograph

Date

c. 1909

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

Unidentified youths dressed for procession

Type

Photograph

Date

c. 1914

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)

Details

Title

Vesty's premiers, 1921-1922

Type

Photograph

Date

c. 1921 - c. 1922

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)

Details

Title

Vestys, premiers 1921-1922

Type

Photograph

Date

1920s

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 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's Chinatown from the temple after cyclone damage in 1897

Type

Photograph

Date

1897

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

Willie Lee with other power house workers

Type

Photograph

Date

1940s

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Armidale St

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

Title

Women of the Sue Wah Chin family on the verandha of their house, Darwin, 1955

Type

Photograph

Date

c. 1955

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - East Point Road

Details

Title

Wong-Pan family just prior to evacuation from Darwin

Type

Photograph

Date

1941

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)

Details

Title

Young man and woman pose in festival costume

Type

Photograph

Date

c. 1923 - 1930s

Place

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)?

Details

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