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Photograph

Title
Unemployed men on verandah of Government Offices
Description

There is a man who appears to have Chinese ancestry playing a harpisord.

Date
c. 1930 - c. 1931
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
Interpretive description

Photograph dated from another photograph of unemployed men demonstrating in Darwin that appeared on the same album page as this photograph. See photograph D001143.

Versions

  1. Print
    Title
    Unemployed on Verandah of Govt Offices
    Type
    Print
    Form
    Handwritten caption in album: 'Unemployed on Verandah of Govt Offices'
    Control
    Album 3, Page 12
    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

  2. Print
    Title
    A few of the unemployed sleeping…
    Date
    January 1931
    Type
    Print
    Form
    Caption: 'A few of the unemployed sleeping on Govt Offices' verandah night before disturbance. Jan. 1931. Darwin'.
    Source

    R. Brian W. Browning papers 1909-1945, pictorial material, c. 1921 - c. 1934, Pic Acc 3557; Photographs of people and events at Darwin, c1921-1934; State Library of New South Wales - Mitchell Library. Details

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Created: 16 August 2006, Last modified: 25 January 2007