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    Blue Bird milk bar, c. 20 March 1956, by Unknown creator (see disclaimer), courtesy of Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History).
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    Blue Bird Milk Bar, 11-13 Koornong Road, Carnegie, c. 13 March 1956, by Unknown creator (see disclaimer), courtesy of Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History).
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    Display shelves probably from Blue Bird milk bar, c. 20 March 1956, by Unknown creator (see disclaimer), courtesy of Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History).
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    Display shelves probably inside Blue Bird milk bar, c. 13 March 1956, by Unknown creator (see disclaimer), courtesy of Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History).
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    Display shelves, probably inside Blue Bird milk bar, c. 20 March 1956, by Unknown creator (see disclaimer), courtesy of Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History).
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    Easter egg display probably from Blue Bird milk bar 1, c. 13 March 1956, by Unknown creator (see disclaimer), courtesy of Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History).
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    Front of Blue Bird milk bar, c. 13 March 1956, by Unknown creator (see disclaimer), courtesy of Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History).
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    Front of Blue Bird milk bar, c. 20 March 1956, by Unknown creator (see disclaimer), courtesy of Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History).
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    Goods for display, Blue Bird milk bar 1956, c. 13 March 1956, by Unknown creator (see disclaimer), courtesy of Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History).
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    Atherton 5. Chinese people running a store. On back "1948"., c. 1948, courtesy of Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History).
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Archival Collections

Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History)

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

Published Resources

Books

  • Wilton, Janis, Hong Yuen: A Country Store and its People, New South Wales Multicultural Education Coordinating Committee & Armidale College of Advanced Education, Armidale, NSW, 1988. Details

Newspaper articles

  • 'Five stores run by Chinese in Roeburne and Cossack much patronised by coloured population of all races', Inquirer, 28 December, p. 2c. Details
  • 'China remembers Darwin storekeeper', Sunday Territorian (Northern Territory Times), 14 October. Details

Webpages

Online Resources

See also

  • '[unidentified article]', Australasian Post, 23 October 1947. Details
  • The Guo Brothers and the Yong An Company (Cantonese: The Kwok Family and the Wing On Company), http://arrow.latrobe.edu.au/store/3/4/5/5/1/public/guo_bros.htm. Details
  • Golden Threads, photographs (2), Ruby (nee Wong Chee) and Harry Fay from the Hong Yuen store in Inverell, at the time of their marriage in 1916., People and Collections database, Golden Threads project, http://hosting.collectionsaustralia.net/goldenthreads/collections/recordCObject.asp?ID=380. Details
  • Chun Yut, http://arrow.latrobe.edu.au/store/3/4/5/5/1/public/chun_yut.htm. Details
  • Wickham, H.F., 'China in Sydney', The Red Funnel, no. 1 August 1906, 1906, pp. 54-60. Details
  • Wilton, Janis, 'The Chinese history and heritage of regional New South Wales', in Chan, Henry; Curthoys, Ann & Chiang, Nora (ed.), The Overseas Chinese in Australasia: History, Settlement and Interactions, Interdisciplinary Group for Australian Studies, National Taiwan University and Centre for the Study of the Chinese Southern Disapora, Australian National University, Taiwan and ACT, 2001, pp. 91-101. Details
  • Winter, Wilfred, 'Burnie's Chinese', 31 January 1976, p. 14. Details
  • Yu, Ouyang, 'All the lower order: Representations of Chinese cooks, market gardeners, street hawkers, laundrymen, storekeepers, domestic servants and herbalists in Australian literature from 1888-1988', in P. Macgregor (ed.), Histories of the Chinese in Australasia and the South Pacific, Museum of Chinese Australian History, Melbourne, 1995, pp. 100-112. Details

Images

Title
Blue Bird milk bar
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 20 March 1956
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne - Carnegie
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Title
Blue Bird Milk Bar, 11-13 Koornong Road, Carnegie
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 13 March 1956
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne - Carnegie
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Title
Display shelves probably from Blue Bird milk bar
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 20 March 1956
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne - Carnegie
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Title
Display shelves probably inside Blue Bird milk bar
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 13 March 1956
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne - Carnegie
Details
Title
Display shelves, probably inside Blue Bird milk bar
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 20 March 1956
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne - Carnegie
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Title
Easter egg display probably from Blue Bird milk bar 1
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 13 March 1956
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne - Carnegie
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Title
Front of Blue Bird milk bar
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 20 March 1956
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne - Carnegie
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Title
Front of Blue Bird milk bar
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 13 March 1956
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne - Carnegie
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Title
Goods for display, Blue Bird milk bar 1956
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 13 March 1956
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne - Carnegie
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Title
Unidentified people in store
Type
Photograph
Date
1948?
Place
Australia - Queensland - Atherton
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Title
Unidentified women standing in front of Anguey & Sons general store in Little Collins Street, Melbourne
Type
Photograph
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne - Little Collins Street
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Title
Wing Hing Long
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1900
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Tingha
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See also

Title
Ah Moon family business at 17 Echlin St, West End, Townsville
Type
Photograph
Date
1921 - 1931
Place
Australia - Queensland - Townsville - West End - Echlin Street
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Title
Ah Moon family business at 17 Echlin Street, West End, Townsville
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1921 - c. 1931
Place
Australia - Queensland - Townsville - West End - Echlin Street
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Title
Albert Street, Brisbane, c.1883
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1883
Place
Australia - Queensland - Brisbane - Albert Street
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Title
Cavenagh Street, pre-war
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1 October 1942
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
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Title
Cavenagh Streetscape
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1915
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street
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Title
Charlie Ah Moon and Norma Walsh (Norma King Koi's late cousin) inside the Ah Moon family shop
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1932
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Title
Chinatown, Darwin
Type
Photograph
Date
1930 - 1939
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street
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Title
Chinese bakery, Pine Creek
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1913
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Pine Creek
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Title
Chinese quarter, Broome. Western Australia
Type
Photograph
Date
1947
Place
Australia - Western Australia - Broome
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Title
Chinese shopkeeper Kao On
Type
Photograph
Date
1870 - 1875
Place
Australia - New South Wales?
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Title
Construction of Denyer's Building Swanston St, Melbourne with Ah Mouy Bros building next door
Type
Photograph
Date
14 May 1914
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne - Swanston Street
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Title
Construction of Denyer's Building Swanston St, Melbourne with Ah Mouy Bros building next door 2
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1914
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne - Swanston Street
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Title
E.A. Lums & Co Cash Grocers and Provision Merchants, Subiaco
Type
Photograph
Date
1916
Place
Australia - Western Australia - Perth - Subiaco - Hay Street
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Title
Group of unidentified men, including one possibly Chinese man outside what was probably Harriet Beard's general store, Tambaroora
Type
Photograph
Date
1870 - 1875
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Tambaroora
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Title
House and general store and two Chinese shopkeepers, Tambaroora
Type
Photograph
Date
1870 - 1875
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Tambaroora
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Title
Interior of P.R. Allen & Co's store
Type
Photograph
Date
c. December 1897
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
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Title
Jim Leong’s shop in Brisbane
Type
Photograph
Place
Australia - Queensland - Brisbane
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Title
Kum Chong Loong's I.X.L. Stores, Merriwa, late 19th/early 20th century
Type
Photograph
Date
1880s - 1920s
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Merriwa
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Title
Kwong Sing War, Furniture show rooms
Type
Photograph
Date
1905
Place
Australia - New South Wales - New England - Glen Innes
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Title
Main street, Parkes
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1881 - c. 1887
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Lachlan - Parkes
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Title
O.L. On Hing's Wholesale & Retail Store, Gulgong
Type
Photograph
Date
1870 - 1875
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Gulgong
Details
Title
O.L. On-Hing's store, Gulgong
Type
Photograph
Date
1870 - 1875
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Gulgong
Details
Title
On Gay & Co., general storekeepers (grocery & drapery), Hill End
Type
Photograph
Date
1870 - 1875
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Hill End
Details
Title
On Gay, Chinese shopkeeper at Hill End
Type
Photograph
Date
1870 - 1875
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Hill End
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Title
Shopkeeper Kao On
Type
Photograph
Date
1870 - 1875
Place
Australia - New South Wales?
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Title
Sun Tong Lee General Store, Gulgong
Type
Photograph
Date
1870 - 1875
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Gulgong
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Title
Sun Tong Lee's Store
Type
Photograph
Date
1872
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Gulgong
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Title
Unidentified Chinese (?) store, Hill End
Type
Photograph
Date
1870 - 1875
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Hill End
Details
Title
Unidentified Chinese family outside their store at Broome
Type
Photograph
Date
1928
Place
Australia - Western Australia - Broome
Details
Title
Unidentified Chinese stopkeeper in Croydon
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1909
Place
Australia - Queensland - Croydon
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Title
Unidentified man shoping in Chinese store in Sydney
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 5 February 1911
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney - Campbell St
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Title
Unidentified Residency gathering
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1910 - c. 1920
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
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Title
Unidentified Residency gathering 2
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1910 - c. 1920
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
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Title
View along Esplanade from Cavenagh showing Chinese-owned businesses.
Type
Photograph
Date
1920s
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Esplanade
Details
Title
Willie Mar's fruit and vegetable shop, Winton, Queensland, c1947
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1947
Place
Australia - Queensland - Winton
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Created: 19 May 2003, Last modified: 22 September 2005