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Title
Wing Sang & Co. Importers, Exporters, Fruit Merchants and Commission Agents
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney - Hay Street
External Url
http://www2.photosau.com/cossql/scripts/extSearch.asp?searchTerm=000732

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  1. Print
    Title
    Wing Sang & Co. Importers, Exporters, Fruit Merchants and Commission Agents
    Type
    Print
    Form
    black and white print
    Control
    P00873
    Source

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

    Rights
    Reproduction rights owned by the Chinese Museum
  2. Published photograph
    Title
    Wing Sang & Co was established in 1890, with stores in Campbell Street and later at the corner of Sussex and Hay Streets, near the new markets.
    Type
    Published photograph
    Control
    pp.78-79
    Source

    Fitzgerald, Shirley, Red Tape and Gold Scissors: The Story of Sydney's Chinese, State Library of NSW Press, Sydney, 1996. Details

    Copied from original held by the Council Record Services of the City of Sydney

  3. Click to view this catalogue record + digital image
    Title
    Wing Sang & Co (2), Sussex & Hay Sts, c1909-13
    Description

    Three-storey brick offices with carved sandstone windows and ledges and ornate parapet bearing a shield of crossed cornucopia and the date 'Est 1890'. Below the name on facade is painted 'Fruit Merchants and Commission Agents'. Ground floor is occupied by a newsagent, whose shop window has a blind and a gaslamp over it. Two men stand reading the newsboards of The Evening News and The Herald. Chinese business which exported Australian produce.

    Date
    c. 1909 - c. 1913
    Type
    catalogue record + digital image
    Form
    Black and white photographic print in album. Glass plate original negatives also exist for many images in this series. For reference and copy purposes we hold a 35mm mounted slide, and a high-res digital copy of this image.
    Control
    NSCA CRS 51/507
    Source

    Demolition books 1906-1949, NSCA CRS 51/1671; City of Sydney Archives. Details

    Rights
    Reproduction rights City of Sydney

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Created: 10 March 2004, Last modified: 17 September 2005