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Photograph

Title
Cavenagh Street looking towards the Banyan tree
Description

There are electric light poles, a car (on left) and two boys on bicycles (on right) in the image. Man Fong Lau's shop sign can just be seen on the second two-storey building on the left.

Date
c. 1928 - c. 1931
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street
Interpretive description

Date of photograph based on dates Charles Wilson in Darwin (see oral history at Northern Territory Archives Service). Caption on photograph suggests it was produced as a postcard.

Versions

  1. Print
    Title
    Chinatown
    Type
    Print
    Form
    Handwritten caption in album: 'Chinatown', Caption on print: 'CAVENAGH ST. DARWIN'.
    Control
    Album 1, page 2
    Source

    NTRS 3336 (formally 854 which is now closed to the public) Photographs of Darwin and the Northern Territory ca.1920-ca.1930, 1920s - 1930s, NTRS 3336; Wilson, Charles; Northern Territory Archives Service, Darwin Branch. Details

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Created: 16 August 2006, Last modified: 18 January 2007