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Photograph

Title
Chinese transporting bananas by punt, Innisfail area, Northern Queensland
Description

Three men navigate a punt load of bananas along a river/stream. A banana plantation can be seen in the background.

Place
Australia - Queensland - Innisfail (Geraldton) - Johnstone River
Interpretive description

Copy reproduced by Reynolds is more cropped than Oxley library copy. Oxley library does not have the oval framing that copy in Cathy May's has.

External Url
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Versions

  1. Click to view this catalogue record + digital image
    Title
    Chinese workers on banana punts in the Innisfail district, Queensland
    Description

    Chinese farm workers transporting bananas along a waterway, on punts, in the Innisfail District. Note banana plantations in the background.

    Type
    catalogue record + digital image
    Form
    copy print : b&w
    Control
    60933; picqld-2003-01-28-16-25
    Source

    Album APE 25, APE 25; State Library of Queensland - John Oxley. Details

    Rights
    Reproduction rights owned by the State Library of Queensland.
  2. Print
    Title
    Transporting bananas on punts near Innisfail
    Type
    Print
    Form
    Black and white copy of a photograph.
    Control
    P00655 NKK02, OHT3a.
    Source

    Norma King Koi collection, NKK; Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History). Details

    Rights
    Reproduction rights owned by the Chinese Museum
  3. Print
    Title
    Chinese transporting bananas by punt, Innisfail area, Northern Queensland
    Type
    Print
    Form
    copyprint, no negative
    Source

    Images published in Cathy May's Topsawyers; James Cook University Archives. Details

  4. Published photograph
    Title
    A sampan loaded with bananas negotiating a rapidly flowing Johnstone River
    Type
    Published photograph
    Control
    p.68
    Source

    Reynolds, Henry, North of Capricorn: The Untold Story of Australia's North, Allen & Unwin, Crows Nest, NSW, 2003. Details

    Reproduced from photograph held in Reynolds' private collection

  5. Published photograph
    Title
    Chinese banana punt, Innisfail
    Type
    Published photograph
    Control
    between pp.210-211
    Source

    Rolls, Eric, Citizens: Flowers and the Wide Sea; Continuing the Epic Story of China's Centuries-old Relationship with Australia, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, Brisbane, 1996. Details

    John Oxley Library

  6. Published photograph
    Title
    Chinese transporting bananas by punt, Innisfail area, Northern Queensland
    Date
    1903?
    Type
    Published photograph
    Control
    facing p.22, fig 2.1
    Source

    May, Cathie R., Topsawyers: The Chinese in Cairns, 1870-1920, James Cook University, History Department, Queensland, 1984. Details

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Created: 3 February 2003, Last modified: 20 July 2005