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    Chinese lotteries - drawing the numbers for the bank ticket. From montage of images of Chinese lotteries., 26 February 1881, courtesy of Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History).
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    Family home in Surry Hills, Sydney or in Carlton, Melbourne, courtesy of Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History).
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    Dragon Ball, Sydney, NSW, c1945, c. 1945, courtesy of National Library of Australia - Picture collection.
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    Ellen Nomchong, Randwick, NSW, 1920, courtesy of National Library of Australia - Picture collection.
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    中澳協會紐修威執行委員會委員近照，1949-50及1950-51。 Portrait of officials of the Australian Chinese Association of NSW Executive Committee, 1949-1950 and 1950-51. , 1949 - 1951, courtesy of Chinese Nationalist Party of Australasia (Sydney).
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    Home of Mr. and Mrs. William James Nomchong, Clovelly, NSW, 1927, courtesy of National Library of Australia - Picture collection.
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    Ida Liu and Florence Liu Lum, courtesy of M. Mar (private hands).
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    Miss Joan Frances Nomchong, Corporal Lionel Joseph Nomchong and Miss Mary Phyllis Nomchong, taken at Moore Park, Sydney, N.S.W., 1940, courtesy of National Library of Australia - Picture collection.
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    澳洲總支部接受總裁玉照典禮 Ceremony in the KMT headquarters , 29th March 1941 , courtesy of Chinese Nationalist Party of Australasia (Sydney).
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    Lionel Joseph and Mary Phyllis [with their father William James] Nomchong, Sydney, NSW, 1920, courtesy of National Library of Australia - Picture collection.
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Archival Collections

Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History)

  • Quong Tart collection; Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History). Details

State Library of New South Wales - Mitchell Library

  • 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
  • Photographs of Sydney - the streets, public buildings, views in the Harbour, suburbs etc., chiefly pre 1885; State Library of New South Wales - Mitchell Library. Details
  • Sydney City and Suburban Sewage and Health Board photographs for 1875 report, November 1875 - December 1875, PXA 984; State Library of New South Wales - Mitchell Library. Details

State Library of South Australia

  • Searcy Collection, - 1935; State Library of South Australia. Details

State Records New South Wales, Sydney Reading Room

  • Public Works; CGS 12487, Views taken during cleansing operations, Quarantine areas, Sydney, 1900, 1900; McCredie, George; State Records New South Wales, Sydney Reading Room. Details

Published Resources

Books

  • Lydon, Jane, Many Inventions: The Chinese in the Rocks 1890-1930, Monash Publications in History, Clayton, 1999. Details
  • Stephen, Ann, The Lions of Retreat Street: A Chinese Temple in Inner Sydney, Powerhouse Publishing and Hale & Iremonger, Sydney, 1997. Details

Journal Articles

  • Kuo, Mei-fen, 'Confucian heritage, public narratives and community politics of Chinese Australians at the beginning of the twentieth century', Journal of Chinese Overseas, vol. 9, no. 2, 2013, pp. 212-244. Details

Webpages

Online Resources

  • Edwards, Grace, Dancing dragons: Reflections on creating a cultural history of the Chinese Australian community, Chinese Southern Diaspora Studies, Special issue: 'Sources, Languages and Approaches in Chinese Australian History' edited by Bagnall, Kate and Couchman, Sophie, vol. 6, 2013, 102-111 pp, http://www.chl.anu.edu.au/publications/csds/csds2013/csds2013_09.pdf. Details

See also

Images

Title
'An opium den at Sydney'
Type
Illustration
Date
26 February 1881
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney
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Title
Chinese and Australian soccer players chasing ball
Type
Photograph
Date
19231
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney
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Title
Chinese player heads soccer ball, Sydney
Type
Photograph
Date
1923
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney
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Title
Chinese soccer player [cartoon]
Type
Illustration
Date
1923
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney
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Title
Chinn family home in Surry Hills, Sydney or in Carlton, Melbourne
Type
Photograph
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney?
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Title
Cityscape with view of Argyle Place
Type
Illustration
Date
1850s
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney - Argyle Place
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Title
Dragon Ball, Sydney, NSW, c1945
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1945
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney
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Title
Ellen Nomchong, Randwick, NSW, 1920
Type
Photograph
Date
1920
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney - Randwick
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Title
Executive Committee of the Australian Chinese Association of New South Wales, 1949-50 and 1950-51
Type
Photograph
Date
1949 - 1951
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney
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Title
Four photograph brochure of Quong Tart's Elite tea rooms
Type
Photograph
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney - Queen Victoria Markets
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Title
Henry and Lily May (nee Ah Poo) Fine Chong in their going-away clothes
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 24 June 1896
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney
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Title
Henry Fine Chong and Lily May Ah Poo in their wedding clothes
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 24 June 1896
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney
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Title
Home of Mr. and Mrs. William James Nomchong, Clovelly, NSW, 1927
Type
Photograph
Date
1927
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney - Clovelly
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Title
Ida Liu and Florence Liu Lum
Type
Photograph
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney - Parramatta
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Title
Joan Frances Nomchong, Corporal Lionel Joseph Nomchong and Miss Mary Phyllis Nomchong
Type
Photograph
Date
1940
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney - Moore Park
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Title
KMT officials receiving a photograph of Chiang Kai-shek from the Chinese Consul General of China
Type
Photograph
Date
29th March 1941
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney
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Title
Lionel Joseph and Mary Phyllis [with their father William James] Nomchong, Sydney, NSW, 1920
Type
Photograph
Date
1920
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney
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Title
Lionel Joseph Rowland Nomchong, aged 15 months, Sydney, 1919
Type
Photograph
Date
1919
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney
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Title
Loy and Fay family grouping
Type
Photograph
Date
1944
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney
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Title
Lum Tock
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 23 December 1918
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney
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Title
Mabel and Roy Cheong
Type
Photograph
Date
1951
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney - Maroubra
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Title
Mabel Wong (15 years old) dressed for procession in Sydney
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1899
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney
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Title
Mabel Wong (15 years) and unknown man dressed for procession in Sydney
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1899
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney
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Title
Mabel Wong with church choir aged 18 years
Type
Photograph
Date
1902
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney
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Title
Maud Shing and Ellen Shing, Sydney, ca. 1905-6
Type
Photograph
Date
1905 - 1906
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney
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Title
Nomchong family at Clovelly, NSW, 1927
Type
Photograph
Date
1927
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney - Clovelly
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Title
Quong Tart, c1880s
Type
Photograph
Date
1883s - c. 1888
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney
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Title
Quong Tart, League of Wheelmen Starter, with Mr Bagnall
Type
Photograph
Date
1890? - 1903?
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney
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Title
Rear of Shanghai Café, Chinese Chop Suey House & Restaurant at 65-67 Campbell Street, Sydney
Type
Photograph
Date
6 August 1934
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney - Campbell St
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Title
Representatives of the 1st KMT convention in front of the KMT headquarters
Type
Photograph
Date
6 May 1921
Place
Australia - New South Wales- Sydney - Haymarket - Thomas Street
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Title
Roy Seek Hem Cheong
Type
Photograph
Date
1940s
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney
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Title
Ruby Fay in Sydney Hotel
Type
Photograph
Date
1943
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney
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Title
Second class, St. Anthony's Convent School, Clovelly, NSW, 1929 - 1930
Type
Photograph
Date
1929 - 1930
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney - Clovelly
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Title
Soccer player diving at ball
Type
Photograph
Date
1923
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney
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Title
Soccer players in front of goal
Type
Photograph
Date
1923
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney
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Title
Spectators at soccer game, Sydney
Type
Photograph
Date
1923
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney
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Title
Team photo of Chinese soccer players in Sydney
Type
Photograph
Date
1923
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney
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Title
Thirty KMT representatives of the 1st KMT Convention in front of the KMT's new headquarters in Sydney
Type
Photograph
Date
1927
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney
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Title
Thirty representatives of the 1st KMT convention in front of the new KMT headquarters in Sydney
Type
Photograph
Date
May 1922
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney
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Title
Thirty-three KMT representatives at the 2nd KMT Convention in 1927
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1927
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney
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Title
Wedding banquet of Miu Huili and Sun Jinrong, Sydney
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 13 February 1926
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney
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Title
Wedding of Luo Weixin and Ye Meigui
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 17 February 1923
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney
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Title
Welcome the Chinese Consul General by KMT members at their headquarters
Type
Photograph
Date
1941
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney
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Title
Well-known unidentified Chinese merchant with his family waiting in their home for Chinese New Year visitors
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 5 February 1911
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney
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Title
William James Nomchong and Ellen Nomchong, overlooking the ocean, Clovelly, NSW, 1927
Type
Photograph
Date
1927
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney - Clovelly
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Title
William James Nomchong and Mrs. Ellen Nomchong, Clovelly, NSW, 1926
Type
Photograph
Date
1926
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney - Clovelly
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Title
William James Nomchong, Sydney, 1917
Type
Photograph
Date
1917
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney
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See also

Title
A street parade float in Sydney
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1918
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney
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Title
Ancestral altar
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 5 February 1911
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney
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Title
Charles See's house (back)
Type
Photograph
Date
1930
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney
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Title
Charles See's house with five unidentified people standing out the front
Type
Photograph
Date
1930
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney
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Title
Charles See's house with six unidentified people standing out the front
Type
Photograph
Date
1930
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney
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Title
Chinese commissioners, General Ho and Tsing with Chinese male, 1887
Type
Photograph
Date
1887
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney
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Title
Chinese procession at Sports Agricultural Grounds - Sydney, NSW
Type
Photograph
Date
April 1897
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney
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Title
Chinese procession at Sports Agricultural Grounds - Sydney, NSW
Type
Photograph
Date
April 1897
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney
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Title
Chinese procession at Sports Agricultural Grounds - Sydney, NSW
Type
Photograph
Date
April 1897
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney
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Title
Chinese procession at the Agricultural Ground, Sydney
Type
Photograph
Date
1897
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney
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Title
Chinese sleeping quarters at 230 George St, Sydney [1]
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1900
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney - George Street
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Title
Chinese sleeping quarters at 230 George St, Sydney [2]
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1900
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney - George Street
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Title
Chong family with friends in front of rock cliff in Sydney
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1927
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney
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Title
Decorated photographic montage of Quong Tart and his family
Type
Photograph
Date
1892
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney - Ashfield
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Title
Elizabeth Tankey
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1890
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney
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Title
Five men, including Lew Goot-chee and Ng Hung-pui, pose at an unidentified location
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1915
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney
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Title
Forty-one KMT representatives of the 2nd KMT Convention posed in the KMT hall in Sydney
Type
Photograph
Date
1927
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney
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Title
Funeral procession for Quong Tart
Type
Photograph
Date
1903
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney - Liverpool Road
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Title
George Henry Bruce Tart
Type
Photograph
Date
1911?
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney
Details
Title
Harry (Tung Chow) Chinn
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1908 - c. 1920
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney?
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Title
Lin Yik Tong, Merchant Society of Sydney (seated and standing)
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1902 - c. 31 January 1903
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney
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Title
Margaret Tart
Type
Photograph
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney
Details
Title
Mr & Mrs Biu & Sim Wong, their two daughters and Mr Wong's parents in Wong's garden in Camden
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1969
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney - Camden
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Title
Port scene overlooking harbour and market gardens
Type
Photograph
Date
1890s
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney?
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Title
Portrait of Arthur Markham Quong Tart (eldest son of Quong Tart)
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1899 - 1900
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney
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Title
Portrait of class and teachers at Sydney Chinese school run by Look Yet (Look Sing Sang)
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 16 February 1910 - c. 17 February 1910
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney
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Title
Portrait of Quong Tart with Citizens' Presentation Salver
Type
Photograph
Date
c. October 1902
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney
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Title
Quong and Margaret Tart with five children
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1900
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney
Details
Title
Quong and Margaret Tart with two of their children
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1892
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney
Details
Title
Quong Tart (Tesla Studios)
Type
Photograph
Date
1890s - 1902?
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney
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Title
Quong Tart and family in sitting room at Gallop House, Arthur Street, Ashfield
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1899 - 1900
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney - Ashfield
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Title
Quong Tart and family sitting in front of the Gallop house fernery
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1899 - 1900
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney
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Title
Quong Tart in front of tea rooms, possibly 777 George Street
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1886 - c. 1903
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney - George Street?
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Title
Quong Tart posed with two staff members inside one of his tearooms
Type
Photograph
Date
1889 - 1903
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney - King Street
Details
Title
Quong Tart posed with unidentified staff in private room [?] of one of his tearooms
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1886 - 1898?
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney - George Street?
Details
Title
Quong Tart seated in mandarin robes
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 11 July 1894 - c. 29 January 1897
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney
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Title
Quong Tart's funeral cortege leaving Ashfield residence
Type
Photograph
Date
1903
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney - Ashfield
Details
Title
Quong Tart's hearse
Type
Photograph
Date
1903
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney - Ashfield
Details
Title
Quong Tart's home in Ashfield
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1889 - c. 1892
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney - Ashfield
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Title
Quong Tart's tea house at 137 King Street, Sydney
Type
Photograph
Date
1881 - 1903
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney - King Street
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Title
Quong Tart's tea rooms (ground floor) in Royal Arcade, Sydney
Type
Photograph
Date
1879 - c. 1891
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney - Royal Arcade
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Title
Rear of 50 Wexford St showing Chinese bedroom
Type
Photograph
Date
1900
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney - Wexford Street
Details
Title
Residence of Ah Loon, off Queen's Place, Sydney, Nov 1875
Type
Photograph
Date
November 1875 - December 1875
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney - Queens Place
Details
Title
Selina Hassan (nee Lee) with her children (from left) Connie, Allan and Ruby in Sydney
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1928
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney
Details
Title
St. Philip's Church School pupils - Sydney, NSW
Type
Photograph
Date
1880 - 1940
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney
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Title
Streetscape including Quong Tart's Loong Shan Tea House, c1892
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1892
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney - King Street
Details
Title
Streetscape showing Volunteer Artillery Hotel and Ah Toy Cabinet Factory
Type
Photograph
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney
Details
Title
Sydney Cove (including Yee Sang Loong)
Type
Photograph
Date
1875 - 1877
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney - Circular Quay
Details
Title
Two unidentified school boys on either side of an altar to Confucius
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 16 February 1910 - c. 17 February 1910
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney
Details
Title
Unidentified Chinese street float in Sydney
Type
Photograph
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney
Details
Title
Unidentified man selling poultry for Chinese New Year
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 5 February 1911
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney
Details
Title
Unidentified man shoping in Chinese store in Sydney
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 5 February 1911
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney - Campbell St
Details
Title
Unidentified men and boys, some holding brass instruments, in KMT hall in Sydney
Type
Photograph
Date
1 June 1929
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney
Details
Title
Unidentified street float in Sydney
Type
Photograph
Date
1930
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney
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
Wedding of friends of Frank (Tung Foo) Chinn from NSW in Sydney
Type
Photograph
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney
Details
Title
Wedding of Sam Chung Gon and Queenie in Sydney
Type
Photograph
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney
Details
Title
Wedding portrait Lydia E. Chi and Judges Kay
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1902
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney
Details
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 Thomas Daniells and Iris Kay
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1933
Place
Australia - Queensland - Warwick
Details
Title
Wing Sang & Co. Importers, Exporters, Fruit Merchants and Commission Agents
Type
Photograph
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney - Hay Street
Details
Title
Wong Ah Sat, aged 66, seated, 1904
Type
Photograph
Date
1904
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney
Details
Title
Wreaths at Quong Tart's funeral
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1903
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney - Ashfield
Details
Title
Yeesang Loong, Importer and Exporters
Type
Photograph
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney - George Street
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Created: 7 November 2005