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    Jarrah paving blocks being laid in Hay Street Perth, 1901, courtesy of State Library of Western Australia - Battye Library.
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Archival Collections

Royal Australian Historical Society

Published Resources

See also

  • Atkinson, Anne, 'The responses of Chinese capital to social and eocnomic restrictions and exclusion in Western Australia', in P. Macgregor (ed.), Histories of the Chinese in Australasia and the South Pacific, Museum of Chinese Australian History, Melbourne, 1995, pp. 29-46. Details
  • Nicholas, Diane & Sheehan, Mary, Faint Traces: Chinese in Hawthorn before the Second World War, Hawthorn historical Society & City of Boroondara Library Service, Hawthorn, 2002. 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
Sam Lee laundry, St George's Tce
Type
Photograph
Date
1911
Place
Australia - Western Australia - Perth
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See also

Title
A new Chinese laundry built on the site of a demolished house, 1914
Type
Photograph
Date
1914
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
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Title
Cavenagh Street, Darwin
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1928 - c. 1931
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street
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Title
Soon Lee laundry with Jarrah paving blocks being laid in front in Hay Street
Type
Photograph
Date
1901
Place
Australia - Western Australia - Perth - Hay Street
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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
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Title
Wong Gin
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1897
Place
Australia - Western Australia
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Created: 23 May 2003, Last modified: 22 September 2005