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Chinn Brothers fruit and vegetable wholesalers (fl. 1940 - 1970)

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    Chinn brothers at Victoria Market, ca 1960s, by Unknown creator (see disclaimer)
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From
1940
Little Bourke Street, Melbourne, Victoria
To
1970
Queen Victoria Market, Melbourne, Victoria
Summary

Four of the Chinn brothers were involved in this business. In the 1940s, the Chinn brothers, like most of the Chinese fruit and vegetable wholesalers in Little Bourke Street, moved their premises to the Queen Victoria Market as part of a general process of centralizing all fruit and vegetable wholesaling on the Queen Victoria site.

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Title
Chinn brothers at Victoria Market, ca 1960s
Type
Photograph
Date
1960s
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne - Queen Victoria Market
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Sources used to compile this entry: Cole, Colin E. (ed.), Melbourne markets, 1841-1979: the story of the fruit and vegetable markets in the City of Melbourne, Melbourne Wholesale Fruit and Vegetable Market Trust, [Footscray, Vic.], 1980; Couchman, Sophie, 'The banana trade: Its importance to Melbourne's Chinese and Little Bourke Street, 1880s-1930s', in P. Macgregor (ed.), Histories of the Chinese in Australasia and the South Pacific, Museum of Chinese Australian History, Melbourne, 1995, pp. 75-90; Museum of Chinese Australian History collection.