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Photograph

Title
Citizens Arch, Duke of York visit
Description

Shows tail of dragon passing through archway and crowd closing in behind.

Date
1901
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne - Swanston Street
Interpretive description

The banner in the foreground is held in the Museum of Chinese Australian History collection.

External Url
http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/54018

Versions

  1. Print (front)
    Title
    Citizens Arch, Duke of York visit
    Description

    Shows tail of dragon passing through archway and crowd closing in behind.

    Date
    1901
    Type
    Print (front)
    Control
    P00007 P00062
    Source

    Chinese Museum copies of selected holdings at State Library of Victoria; Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History). Details

    Copied from Copyright ENV15. Number 45 (3295) held by the State Library of Victoria

  2. Print
    Title
    Citizens Arch, Duke of York visit
    Type
    Print
    Form
    Black and white photograph. Handwritten at top '3295'.
    Control
    Copyright ENV15. Number 45 (3295)
    Source

    Copyright Collection, Env25; State Library of Victoria - Picture Collection. Details

  3. Published photograph
    Title
    Chinese procession and Arch, Swanston Street
    Type
    Published photograph
    Form
    Full caption: 'The Chinese Arch is in the familiar style of the old willow-pattern plate with up curved red-tiled roofs above an open-air pagoda, in which Chinese bands of musicians were massed amid draperies of about 400 pounds worth of Chinese silk, provided by Chinese merchants of Little Bourke Street.'
    Control
    p.54
    Source

    Craw, Leslie W., The Duke and Duchess: A Momento of their visit to melbourne and Opening of the first Commonwealth Parliament of Australia May 1901, Leslie W. Craw, Melbourne, c1901. Details

  4. Print
    Title
    Citizens Arch, Duke of York visit
    Type
    Print
    Form
    Black and white photograph mounted on cardboard.
    Control
    H96.160/651
    Source

    Chinese Museum copies of selected holdings at State Library of Victoria; Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History). Details

    Copied from State Library and used in exhibition.

  5. Print
    Title
    Citizens Arch, Duke of York visit
    Type
    Print
    Form
    Copy print clearly taken from a copy of this photograph that was originally printed in a newspaper or book.
    Control
    P00007a
    Source

    P Series general picture collection, P series; Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History). Details

    Unknown newspaper or book source

  6. Print
    Title
    The Duke and Duchess of York and Cornwall, visiting Victoria in 1901 to perform the hat-and-rabbit trick of Federation without independence, were welcomed by various sectors of the community.
    Description

    This arch was erected in Swanston Street, Melbourne, by Chinese citizens. The British Imperialists were no strangers to exotic flamboyance of this kind though a mild eyebrow might have been raised at seeing it here in Australia. The Duke had visited China itself on his previous voyage to the South Seas.

    Date
    1901
    Type
    Print
    Control
    p.124
    Source

    Moore, David & Hall, Rodney, Australia: Image of a Nation 1850-1950, Collins, Sydney, 1983. Details

    Original source for published photograph is National Library of Australia

  7. Print
    Title
    Commonwealth Celebrations: Chinese Arch Melbourne
    Description

    Melbourne, Vic

    Date
    May 1901
    Type
    Print
    Form
    photograph
    Control
    negative 51.18
    Source

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

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Created: 12 February 2003, Last modified: 20 September 2012