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    View of Beaconsfield and Tasmania Mine., courtesy of Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History).
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    View of T.T.S. Works, courtesy of Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History).
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    View of T.T.S. Works, courtesy of Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History).
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    View of T.T.S. Works, by Henry W. Grattan, courtesy of Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History).
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    T.T.S. Works with pond, courtesy of Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History).
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    Tin miners, Stanthorpe mineral district, ca. 1873, c. 1873, by Boag, William, 1838?-1878, courtesy of State Library of Queensland - John Oxley.
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Published Resources

Book Sections

  • Gaughwin, Denise, 'Chinese settlement sites in north east Tasmania: An archaeological view', in P. Macgregor (ed.), Histories of the Chinese in Australasia and the South Pacific, Museum of Chinese Australian History, Melbourne, 1995, pp. 230-245. Details
  • Walden, Sue, 'The tinfields of North East Tasmania - A regional variation?', in P. Macgregor (ed.), Histories of the Chinese in Australasia and the South Pacific, Museum of Chinese Australian History, Melbourne, 1995, pp. 177-190. Details

Theses

  • Easteal, B.V, 'The Chinese in Tasmania, 1870-1909', BA (hons) Thesis, University of Tasmania. Details

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See also

  • Gaughwin, Denise, North East Tasmania Historic Sites Inventory Project, Forestry Commission, Launceston, 1991. Details
  • Miller, G. and Miller, S., Of Rascals and Rusty Relics: An Introduction to North-East Tasmania, OBM, Hobart, 1979. Details
  • Scott, Joan, Celestial Sojourn: The Chinese on the Tinfields of North East Tasmania, St Helens History Room Association, St Helens, 1997. Details
  • Vivian, Helen, Tasmania's Chinese heritage: An historical record of Chinese sites in North Eastern Tasmania, Unpublished report for Australian Heritage Comission and the Queen Victoria Museum, Launceston, 1985. Details
  • Winter, Wilfred, 'Burnie's Chinese', 31 January 1976, p. 14. Details

Images

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Beaconsfield and Tasmanian mine
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Photograph
Place
Australia - Tasmania - Beaconsfield
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View of T.T.S. Works
Type
Photograph
Place
Australia - Tasmania
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Title
View of T.T.S. Works
Type
Photograph
Place
Australia - Tasmania
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Title
View of T.T.S. Works
Type
Photograph
Place
Australia - Tasmania
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View of T.T.S. Works with pond
Type
Photograph
Place
Australia - Tasmania
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Title
A tin mining group with Gee Backhap, a well-known Lottah resident
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1908
Place
Australia - Tasmania - Lottah?
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Tin miners, Stanthorpe mineral district
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1873
Place
Australia - Queensland - Stanthorpe
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