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    [Portrait of unidentified Chinese fruit and vegetable hawker with baskets of produce] [picture]., c. 23 April 1895, courtesy of National Library of Australia - Picture collection.

Title
Unidentified vegetable hawker with two baskets of vegetables balanced on his shoulders
Date
c. 1895
External Url
http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an24615958

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  1. Click to view this catalogue record + digital image
    Title
    [Portrait of unidentified Chinese fruit and vegetable hawker with baskets of produce] [picture].
    Date
    c. 23 April 1895
    Type
    catalogue record + digital image
    Form
    1 photograph : albumen ; 14.9 x 21.0 cm. Condition: Good but fading along edges and glued to page.; Part of collection: Australian reminiscences.; Title devised by cataloguer.
    Control
    PIC PIC/7596/56 LOC Album 83*
    Source

    Australian reminiscences [picture] / Kerry & Co., PIC PIC/7596/1-64 LOC Album 83*; National Library of Australia - Picture collection. Details

    Rights
    Reproduction rights owned by the National Library of Australia.
  2. Print
    Type
    Print
    Form
    Copy print or photocopy
    Control
    P00642
    Source

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

    Reproduced from K. Cronin, Colonial Casualties, p.125.

  3. Published photograph
    Title
    Vegetable Hawker
    Type
    Published photograph
    Control
    PXA 841, 61-64
    Source

    Photographic album of Sydney and environs, including The Rangers, Mosman, ca 1875-1905, c. 1875 - c. 1904, PXA 841; State Library of New South Wales - Mitchell Library. Details

  4. Print
    Title
    A chinese hawker
    Date
    1870 - 1915
    Type
    Print
    Control
    No.26
    Source

    Photographs of New South Wales: [Volume] 3, country life, etc, c. 1870 - c. 1915, PEX 676 (v.3); State Library of New South Wales - Mitchell Library. Details

    Rights
    Reproduction rights owned by State Library of New South Wales
  5. Published photograph
    Title
    A Chinese vegetable hawker
    Date
    c. 1897
    Type
    Published photograph
    Form
    Attached text: 'No work which deals with the characteristics of Australian life would be complete without some representation of this type. Every Australian legislature has dealt from time to time, and has still to deal further with the influx of alien races, whose presence is extremely obnoxious to the native born Austrlaian with his ideal and battle cry of 'white Australia'. The chinese, who are content to work for low wage, and can thrive where the ordinary workman with his much more expensive wants and habits would starve, have come in for especial object. They have, however, proved themselves from time to time exceedingly useful to the community. In far back stations and camps where such a thing as a vegetable was once never grown, the Chinese gardeners establsihed themselves, and did well in supplying the whites with vegetables which they grow with great skill; and around the cities they leased waste spaces of land and turned them into gardens of wonderful fertility. The vegetable supply of many towns is practically in their hands. They are also in demand as cooks on stations and in hotels, and have a large number of laundries established throughout the country.'
    Control
    pp.162-3
    Source

    Glimpses of Australia: Depicting scenes, cities, industries and interesting phases of Australian life, with concise literary descriptions: An album of photographic gems, vol. 1 of 2, Gordon & Gotch, Melbourne, 1987. Details

  6. Published photograph
    Title
    A Chinese Vegetable Hawker
    Date
    c. 1900 - c. 1910
    Type
    Published photograph
    Form
    Photomechanical prints of photographs. Attached text: 'No work which deals with the characteristics of Australian life would be complete without some representation of this type. Every Australian legislature has dealt from time to time, and has still to deal further with the influx of alien races, whose presence is extremely obnoxious to the native born Austrlaian with his ideal and battle cry of 'white Australia'. The chinese, who are content to work for low wage, and can thrive where the ordinary workman with his much more expensive wants and habits would starve, have come in for especial object. They have, however, proved themselves from time to time exceedingly useful to the community. In far back stations and camps where such a thing as a vegetable was once never grown, the Chinese gardeners establsihed themselves, and did well in supplying the whites with vegetables which they grow with great skill; and around the cities they leased waste spaces of land and turned them into gardens of wonderful fertility. The vegetable supply of many towns is practically in their hands. They are also in demand as cooks on stations and in hotels, and have a large number of laundries established throughout the country.'
    Control
    p.81
    Source

    Sunlight album of Australian views, vol. II of VI, Lever Brothers Limited, Sydney, 190?. Details

  7. Published photograph
    Title
    Chinese Vegetable Hawker
    Date
    c. 1901
    Type
    Published photograph
    Control
    p.21
    Source

    Nicholas, Diane & Sheehan, Mary, Faint Traces: Chinese in Hawthorn before the Second World War, Hawthorn historical Society & City of Boroondara Library Service, Hawthorn, 2002. Details

    Original source of published photograph: Federated Australia, vol.1, p.81 [?1901]; La Trobe Picture Collection, State Library of Victoria

  8. Published photograph
    Title
    Vegetable hawker
    Date
    c. 1904
    Type
    Published photograph
    Control
    p.125
    Source

    Cronin, Kathryn, Colonial Casualties: Chinese in Early Victoria, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1982. Details

    Original source for published photograph: Federated Australia : a collection of photographic views, London, 1904

  9. Published photograph
    Date
    c. 1904
    Type
    Published photograph
    Form
    Published photograph
    Control
    vol. 1, p.81
    Source

    Federated Australia: a collection of photographic views, depicting sceneries, cities, industries, and interesting phases of Australian life: New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia and Tasmania, London, 1904?. Details

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Created: 12 February 2003, Last modified: 3 November 2005