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Frank Chinn collection

Collection Title
Frank Chinn collection
Repository
Museum of Chinese Australian History (Chinese Museum)
Reference
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Description

Frank (Tung Foo) Chinn (April 1897-ca1986), from the tin mining Maa/Chinn family of North East Tasmania, moved to Melbourne in the late 1910s, where he and his family became key members of the Chinese community. Frank donated over 130 photographs to the Museum of Chinese Australian History in 1986. These document his own family, his extensive friendship and community networks around Australia, and Chinese community events. A range of other Chinese-Australian families are included in his collection. Oral histories of Frank and his niece Thelma Cremin are held at the Museum of Chinese Australian history.

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  • Negative collection (4x5 inch), N45; Museum of Chinese Australian History (Chinese Museum). Details

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Title
Albert 'Moses' (Tung Yot) Chinn
Type
Photograph
Details
Title
Albert 'Moses' (Tung Yot) Chinn (?), Tue Gee Chinn, Mr Chung Gon (senior), with other unidentified friends
Type
Photograph
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne
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Title
Albert 'Moses' (Tung Yot) Chinn, Anne Wong Hee (?), Frank (Tung Foo) Chinn and Reginald (Tung Hee) Chinn
Type
Photograph
Date
1940s
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne
Details
Title
Alice Lim Kee
Type
Photograph
Place
Australia - Victoria
Details
Title
Alice Lim Kee with fan
Type
Photograph
Place
Australia?
Details
Title
American Chinese Mr Loong in American Army stationed in Australia
Type
Photograph
Details
Title
Anna May Wong
Type
Photograph
Details
Title
Arthur (Tung Chin) Chinn
Type
Photograph
Details
Title
Arthur 'Chinny' (Tung Chin) Chinn
Type
Photograph
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne
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Title
Australian friends of the Chinn family
Type
Photograph
Details
Title
Balfour Mills
Type
Photograph
Details
Title
Boxer David Kui Kong Young
Type
Photograph
Date
1940s
Place
Hawaii?
Details
Title
Cedric Wong Hee and wife Edna ('Gee') Ah Gee Kong
Type
Photograph
Date
1950s - 1960s
Details
Title
Celebrating Double Ten in the 1930s. Frank (Tung Foo) Chinn, third from left with Taiwanese consuls and the Consul General, and their wives
Type
Photograph
Details
Title
Children of Chinese Minister, Church of England in Little Bourke St
Type
Photograph
Date
1930s - 1940s
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne
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Title
Chinese from Hong Kong, connected with the Christian Church
Type
Photograph
Place
Australia?
Details
Title
Chinn brothers at Victoria Market, ca 1960s
Type
Photograph
Date
1960s
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne - Queen Victoria Market
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Chinn daughters and family friends, in Queensland
Type
Photograph
Place
Australia - Queensland
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Title
Chinn family at 62 or 66 Chaucer St, St Kilda, Melbourne, c1960s
Type
Photograph
Date
1960s
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne - St Kilda
Details
Title
Chinn family portrait
Type
Photograph
Details
Title
Dance function (possibly Chinese Progress Association dance) in Melbourne, circa 1920s
Type
Photograph
Date
1920s
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne
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Title
Daughter of Ruby (Tue Gnoak) Chinn
Type
Photograph
Details
Title
Daughter of Ruby (Tue Gnoak) Chinn
Type
Photograph
Details
Title
Donald Lee
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 10 October 1943
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Dorothy 'Biddy' (Tue Foang) Chinn and friend
Type
Photograph
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Dorothy 'Biddy' (Tue Foang) Chinn and son Ming Balintong
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1950
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Dorothy 'Biddy' (Tue Foang) Chinn and son Ming Balintong
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1947
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Title
Dorothy 'Biddy' (Tue Foang) Chinn with children of her friend
Type
Photograph
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Dorothy 'Biddy' (Tue Foang) Chinn, Ming Balintong, Wing Chinn and friends
Type
Photograph
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Dorothy 'Biddy' (Tue Foang) Chinn, Mrs Poy and Albert 'Moses' (Tung Yot) Chinn with Ming Balintong
Type
Photograph
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne
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Dorothy Chinn and Mrs Amy Moo Tong Young playing Chinese instruments
Type
Photograph
Control
N45-152
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Title
Dorris ('Dorrie') Chung Gon, daughter of Joseph Chung Gon, and her cousin in Launceston
Type
Photograph
Place
Australia - Tasmania - Launceston
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Dorris ('Dorrie') Chung Gon, her father Joseph Chung Gon and friend
Type
Photograph
Details
Title
Douglas Fairbank, Alice Lim Kee and Mary Pickford in Shanghai
Type
Photograph
Date
1929?
Place
China - Shanghai
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Title
Edward ('Teddy') Chung Gon and his children
Type
Photograph
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Title
Edward ('Teddy') Chung Gon, his father Mr Chung Gon, Tue Gee Chinn with two friends on either side
Type
Photograph
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne
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Title
Emily How Kee from Innisfail, North Queensland
Type
Photograph
Details
Title
Family group including members of the Chung Gon family
Type
Photograph
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Family of part Chinese Mr Jin Gong Fon in Launceston
Type
Photograph
Date
1890s - 1910s
Place
Australia - Tasmania - Launceston
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Title
Frank (Tung Foo) Chinn (3rd from right?) and friends by a car at a picnic in Melbourne
Type
Photograph
Date
1920s
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne
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Frank (Tung Foo) Chinn (with flowers, possibly second from left) and friends at a picnic in Melbourne.
Type
Photograph
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne
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Frank (Tung Foo) Chinn and Donald Lee, Melbourne
Type
Photograph
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne
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Frank (Tung Foo) Chinn and Jan O'Hoy (a friend from Bendigo) taken in Melbourne
Type
Photograph
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne
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Frank (Tung Foo) Chinn and Mrs Amy Mou Tong Young
Type
Photograph
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Frank (Tung Foo) Chinn and opera star Lila Pirani
Type
Photograph
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Frank (Tung Foo) Chinn at 16 or 17 years old
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1913
Place
Australia?
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Frank (Tung Foo) Chinn at 74, showing decoration from Taiwanese Government, 1971
Type
Photograph
Date
1971
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne
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Frank (Tung Foo) Chinn at about 19 or 20 years old
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1916
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne
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Frank (Tung Foo) Chinn making a presentation to Taiwanese Consul at a function in the 1950s
Type
Photograph
Date
1950s
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Title
Frank (Tung Foo) Chinn, 22 years old
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1919
Place
Australia?
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Title
Frank (Tung Foo) Chinn, Chinese Consul and wife
Type
Photograph
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne
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Title
Frank Wong Hee
Type
Photograph
Date
1940s
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Friends of Frank (Tung Foo) Chinn
Type
Photograph
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Friends of the Chinn family
Type
Photograph
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne
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Friends of Vance (Tung Gow) Chinn
Type
Photograph
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Grandchildren of Mick (Tung Tarn) Chinn (Possibly children of Wing Chinn, Mick's son) in Melbourne
Type
Photograph
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne
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Title
Group of children with car, part Chinese Ethel Mook (3rd from left)
Type
Photograph
Date
1920s
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Title
Harry (Tung Chow) Chinn
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1908 - c. 1920
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney?
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Title
Harry (Tung Chow) Chinn
Type
Photograph
Details
Title
Harry (Tung Chow) Chinn and friend
Type
Photograph
Details
Title
Jacqueline (nee Cremin daughter of Thelma Cremin) and Victor Ma with Nicky, Amanda and Mitzi
Type
Photograph
Details
Title
Jan O'Hoy, Ming Balintong and friend holding 1955 pennants
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1960
Place
Australia - Victoria?
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Title
Joyce Lee?
Type
Photograph
Details
Title
Leslie Kong, Consul from Taiwan, his wife and Frank (Tung Foo) Chinn
Type
Photograph
Date
1940s - 1950s
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Title
Lula Kow Yonn and her younger children
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1913
Place
Australia - Tasmania
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Title
Lula Kow Yonn with Tutoy Chinn, Tue Gee Chinn and Len Heng
Type
Painting
Date
c. 1891
Place
Australia - Tasmania
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Title
Lula Kow Yonn with youngest children Ruby (Tue Gnoak) Chinn and Arthur (Tung Chin) Chinn
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1910
Place
Australia - Tasmania - Weldborough
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Title
Maa Mon Chinn and eldest son Harry (Tung Chow) Chinn
Type
Painting
Date
c. 1888
Place
Australia - Tasmania
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Title
Maa Mon Chinn and eldest son Harry (Tung Chow) Chinn
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1908
Details
Title
Mabel Wang, Tue Gee Chinn and Daisy Quon at Young Chinese League Ball
Type
Photograph
Date
1969
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne
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Title
Members of the Chinn family
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1903
Place
Australia - Tasmania - Weldborough
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Title
Mick (Tung Tarn) Chinn and wife
Type
Photograph
Details
Title
Ming Balintong
Type
Photograph
Details
Title
Ming Balintong (or Wing Chinn) and possibly Margaret Kong
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1946
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne - Little Bourke Street
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Ming Balintong and friend
Type
Photograph
Place
Australia - Victoria?
Details
Title
Ming Balintong and friend in Melbourne
Type
Photograph
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne
Details
Title
Ming Balintong and friends at function
Type
Photograph
Details
Title
Ming Balintong?
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1938 - c. 1946
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne?
Details
Title
Ming Balintong's wedding in Melbourne to Ann Hutchins
Type
Photograph
Date
10 June 1972
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne
Details
Title
Mr Kong and family
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1950
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne
Details
Title
Mrs How Kee in Melbourne
Type
Photograph
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne
Details
Title
Mrs Louey and son
Type
Photograph
Details
Title
Olive Gooey
Type
Photograph
Details
Title
Part photograph of unknown girl with older woman
Type
Photograph
Place
Australia?
Details
Title
Queenie Lim Kee (left) and Alice Lim Kee (right)
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1915
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne
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Title
Queenie Lim Kee, her husband Benjamin Poon and their two children
Type
Photograph
Date
1930s
Place
China
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Title
Reginald (Tung Hee) Chinn
Type
Photograph
Details
Title
Reginald (Tung Hee) Chinn
Type
Photograph
Details
Title
Reginald (Tung Hee) Chinn
Type
Photograph
Place
Australia?
Details
Title
Ruby (Tue Gnoak) Chinn
Type
Photograph
Date
1920s
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne
Details
Title
Ruby (Tue Gnoak) Chinn
Type
Photograph
Details
Title
Ruby (Tue Gnoak) Chinn
Type
Photograph
Details
Title
Ruby (Tue Gnoak) Chinn and daughter
Type
Photograph
Details
Title
Ruby (Tue Gnoak) Chinn and husband Harry Wong, 1934
Type
Photograph
Date
1934
Details
Title
Ruby (Tue Gnoak) Chinn with unidentified child
Type
Photograph
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne
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Title
Seventy-fourth celebration for President Chiang Kaishek
Type
Photograph
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Title
Thelma and Lionel Chinn
Type
Photograph
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Title
Three seated women with child and man standing
Type
Photograph
Date
1920s
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Title
Tue Gee Chinn
Type
Photograph
Place
Australia?
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Title
Tue Gee Chinn and Dorothy 'Biddy' (Tue Foang) Chinn
Type
Photograph
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Title
Tue Gee Chinn and friends of the Church
Type
Photograph
Details
Title
Tue Gee Chinn in front of church (?) building
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1950
Details
Title
Unidentified Sydney Chinese couple
Type
Photograph
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney
Details
Title
Unidentified Sydney Chinese couple
Type
Photograph
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney
Details
Title
Unknown function showing: Chinese Consul's wife, Frank (Tung Foo) Chinn and Tue Gee Chinn
Type
Photograph
Details
Title
Vance (Tung Gow) Chinn and friends in Melbourne
Type
Photograph
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne
Details
Title
Vance (Tung Gow) Chinn dressed as a manservant outside Her Majesty's Theatre
Type
Photograph
Date
1920s - 1930s
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne
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Vance (Tung Gow) Chinn dressed as a soldier beside Her Majesty's Theatre
Type
Photograph
Date
1920s - 1930s
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne - Little Bourke Street
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Wedding of Albert (Albie) Quay and Joyce Fong in Geraldton
Type
Photograph
Place
Australia - Western Australia - Geraldton
Details
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Wedding of Edward Chung Gon and Gladys Sym Choon, in 1939
Type
Photograph
Date
1939
Place
Australia - South Australia - Adelaide
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Wedding of friends of Frank (Tung Foo) Chinn from NSW in Sydney
Type
Photograph
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney
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Wedding of Lim On in Launceston Tasmania, around 1900
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1900
Place
Australia - Tasmania
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Title
Wedding of Ruby (Tue Gnoak) Chinn, and husband Harry Wong
Type
Photograph
Place
Hong Kong
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Wedding of Sam Chung Gon and Queenie in Sydney
Type
Photograph
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney
Details
Title
Wedding of Victor Ma and Jacqueline Cremin
Type
Photograph
Details
Title
Wedding of Wing Chinn and wife
Type
Photograph
Details
Title
Wedding of Wing Chinn and wife
Type
Photograph
Place
Hong Kong?
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Title
Wedding portrait of Bill Moy (Bor Nam) and Ethel Tong with Charles Moy and Rose Moy
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 26 February 1927
Place
Australia - Victoria - Bendigo (Sandhurst)
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Title
Wedding portrait of Cedric Wong Hee and Edna ('Gee') Ah Gee Kong
Type
Photograph
Date
1940s
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne
Details
Title
Wedding portrait of Cedric Wong Hee and Edna Ah Gee Kong ('Gee')
Type
Photograph
Date
1940s
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne
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Title
Wedding portrait of friends of Harry (Tung Chow) Chinn
Type
Photograph
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney
Details
Title
Wedding portrait of Harry (Tung Chow) Chinn and Florence Winch
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1915
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney
Details
Title
Wedding portrait of Mr Lew Fatt in Melbourne
Type
Photograph
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne
Details
Title
Wedding portrait of Norman Wong Hee and Dolly Chang (half Chinese)
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1955
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne
Details
Title
Wedding portrait of Peter Louey, friend of Frank (Tung Foo) Chinn
Type
Photograph
Details
Title
Wedding portrait of Ruby (Tue Gnoak) Chinn and Harry Wong in Hong Kong
Type
Photograph
Date
1930s
Place
Hong Kong
Details
Title
Wedding portrait of Sylvia Chew and Roy Lee Dow
Type
Photograph
Details
Title
Wedding portrait of the Loueys
Type
Photograph
Details
Title
Wedding portrait of Tutoy Chinn and Charles Wong Hee
Type
Photograph
Date
28 September 1904
Place
Australia - Tasmania - Launceston
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Title
Weight lifter from Taiwan
Type
Photograph
Date
1950s - 1960s
Place
Australia?
Details
Title
Wing Chinn
Type
Photograph
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne
Details
Title
Wing Chinn in Little Bourke Street
Type
Photograph
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne - Little Bourke Street
Details
Title
Young debutantes
Type
Photograph
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne - St Kilda
Details
Title
Young debutantes in Melbourne in the early 1960s
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1960 - c. 1965
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne
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