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    Quong Tart's tea house at 137 King Street, Sydney, 1881 - 1903
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    King St., Sydney from Pitt St., looking E [East, 1892] / [photographed by] H King Syd., c. 1892, by King, Henry, 1855-1923, courtesy of State Library of New South Wales - Mitchell Library.
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Alternative Names
  • Guang-Da Hao (pinyin)
  • 光達號 (Chinese characters - traditional)

Controlling People

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

  • Photographs - New South Wales, 1879 - ca 1891, 1879 - c. 1891, PXD 855; State Library of New South Wales - Mitchell Library. Details
  • Picture collection; State Library of New South Wales - Mitchell Library. Details

Published Resources

Book Sections

  • Pratten, Chris, 'Quong Tart', in Pratten, Chris (ed.), Ashfield at Federation, Ashfield and District Historical Society, Ashfield, Sydney, NSW, 2001, pp. 143-166. Details

See also

  • Teffer, Nicola, No Ordinary Man: Sydney's Quong Tart, citizen, merchant & philanthropist, Quong Tart Centenary Commemoration Committee and Newcontemporaries gallery, Sydney, 2004. Details

Images

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
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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?
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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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See also

Title
Streetscape including Quong Tart's Loong Shan Tea House, c1892
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1892
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney - King Street
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Sources used to compile this entry: Pratten, Chris, 'Quong Tart', in Pratten, Chris (ed.), Ashfield at Federation, Ashfield and District Historical Society, Ashfield, Sydney, NSW, 2001, pp. 143-166.

Created: 16 April 2004, Last modified: 18 March 2008