Related Subjects
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Archival Collections
State Library of Victoria - Picture Collection
- Daintree, Richard [Collection of scenes in Victoria, streetscapes and portraits], LTA 669; State Library of Victoria - Picture Collection. Details
Published Resources
Books
- Butler, Peter, Opium and Gold, Alister Taylor, Waiura, Martinborough, New Zealand, 1977. Details
- McCoy, Alfred W., Drug Traffic: Narcotics and Organised Crime in Australia, Harper and Row Publishers, Sydney, 1980. Details
- Tart, Quong, A Plea for the Abolition of the importation of opium, with appendix, H. T. Dunn & Co, Sydney, 1890. Details
- Tart, Quong, Official Report of anti-opium demonstration held at the Congregational Church, Pitt St, Sydney, on Thurs, April 5, 1894 [convened by Quong Tart], T. J. Houghton & Co., Sydney, 1894. Details
Newspaper articles
- 'The Opium Act', Sydney Morning Herald, 21 November, p. 4. Details
- 'Opium duty bill', Sydney Morning Herald, 28 August, p. 5. Details
- 'Opium duty bill', Sydney Morning Herald, 29 October, pp. 4-5. Details
- 'Chinese in Sydney: sketches of opium smoking, and gambling', Illustrated Sydney News, October. Details
- 'Mr Quong Tart, proposed visit to China, China a probable market for Australian wool, Chinese and the opium trade [photograph]', Australian Town and Country Journal, 14 April 1894, p. 30. Details
- 'In a Chinese opium den [photograph]', Illustrated Australian News, 1 July. Details
- 'Concerning opium', Northern Territory Times and Gazette, 8 February. Details
- 'Opium smoking and betting in NSW', The Worker, 22 October 1908. Details
- 'Big opium prosecution', The Worker, 29 April 1909, p. 11. Details
- 'Organized opium smuggling', The Worker, 8 December 1910, p. 12. Details
- 'Another big opium coup made by customs officers', Labor Daily, 16 March, p. 5. Details
Theses
- Gillett, A., 'Opium smoking in Australia 1850-1915', BA (hons) Thesis, Department of History, University of Queensland, 1986. Details
- Moody, Andrew, 'Gambling, opium and violence: Sydney's fragmented Chinese communities, 1888-1906', BA (hons) Thesis, Chinese/History, University of New South Wales, 2004. Details
Images
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- Title
- 'An opium den at Sydney'
- Type
- Illustration
- Date
- 26 February 1881
- Place
- Australia - New South Wales - Sydney
- Details
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- Title
- 'Chinese opium-smokers'
- Type
- Illustration
- Date
- 18 April 1874
- Place
- Australia
- Details
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- Title
- 'In an opium den' and 'The vegetarian's friend'
- Type
- Illustration
- Date
- 26 April 1888
- Place
- Australia - New South Wales
- Details
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- Title
- Two unidentified opium smokers
- Type
- Illustration
- Date
- c. 1887
- Place
- Australia - Victoria - Melbourne - Little Bourke Street
- Details
See also
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- Title
- Searching for contraband
- Type
- Photograph
- Date
- c. 1909
- Place
- Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
- Details
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- Title
- Three unidentified men and a woman lying smoking opium
- Type
- Photograph
- Date
- 1 July 1896
- Place
- Australia - Victoria - Melbourne
- Details
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- Title
- Two unidentified travellers
- Type
- Photograph
- Date
- c. 1 March 1911
- Place
- Australia - Northern Territory
- Details
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- Title
- Unidentified Chinese man seated smoking a pipe
- Type
- Photograph
- Date
- c. 1864 - c. 1871
- Place
- Australia - Queensland?
- Details
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- Title
- Unidentified man
- Type
- Photograph
- Details
Created: 19 May 2003, Last modified: 22 September 2005
