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Family home in Surry Hills, Sydney or in Carlton, Melbourne, courtesy of Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History).
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House in De Carle St., Moreland, Victoria, 1919, courtesy of Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History).
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Side of house, next to 5 Oliver St, Inverell, courtesy of M. Mar (private hands).
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The Ah Moon family home at 19 Echlin Street, West End, Townsville. (ca 1920's), 1920s, courtesy of Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History).
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Blind Tommy’s hut (Chinese) [picture], c. 1914 - c. 1941, by Carroll, James, 23 Etnam, West Preston, courtesy of State Library of Victoria - Picture Collection.
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Charles Ah Moon, aged 55-60, circa mid to late 1920's. Taken at family home at 19 Echlin Street, West End, Townsville., c. 1920 - c. 1929, courtesy of Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History).
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Children sitting on table with vegetables outside bark hut, with Chinese calligraphy, Stanthorpe, 1875, courtesy of University of Queensland library - Fryer Library.
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Alley, c. June 1913, courtesy of Northern Territory Library.
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Chinatown, Darwin, 1930 - 1939, courtesy of Northern Territory Library.
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Chinese Baker, Pine Creek, c. 1913, courtesy of State Library of South Australia.
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Related Concepts

boarding houses and hotels

Related Corporate Bodies

Sam Hand's boarding house

Archival Collections

National Archives of Australia, National Office

A3/1, NT1915/1028 Premises owned by Mrs Kirkland - Condemned by Public Health Board, c. 1914 - c. 1915, A3/1, NT1915/1028; National Archives of Australia, National Office. Details

Published Resources

Theses

Bell, Peter, 'Houses and mining settlement in North Queensland, 1861-1920', PhD thesis, Department of History, James Cook University, 1982. Details

Images

Title: Chinn family home in Surry Hills, Sydney or in Carlton, Melbourne
Type: Photograph
Place: Australia - New South Wales - Sydney?; Details

Title: House and garden
Type: Photograph; Details

Title: House in De Carle St, Moreland, Victoria, 1919
Type: Photograph
Date: 1919
Place: Australia - Victoria - Melbourne - Moreland - De Carle Street; Details

Title: Man and child standing outside a building (their home?)
Type: Photograph; Details

Title: Unidentified boy in front of side of house, next to 5 Oliver St, Inverell
Type: Photograph
Place: Australia - New South Wales - Inverell; Details

Title: Unidentified dwelling in Bennett Street
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1913 - c. 1914
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Bennett Street; Details

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; Details

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Title: A garden and building of a Chinese character
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1913; Details

Title: A new Chinese laundry built on the site of a demolished house, 1914
Type: Photograph
Date: 1914
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston); Details

Title: Ah Moon family home at 19 Echlin Street, West End, Townsville
Type: Photograph
Date: 1920s
Place: Australia - Queensland - Townsville - West End - Echlin Street; Details

Title: Barry Lane, Little Bourke Street, near Elizabeth Street.
Type: Photograph
Date: 13 June 1908
Place: Australia - Victoria - Melbourne - Barry Lane; Details

Title: 'Blind Tommy's' hut on Chinamans' Flat
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1914 - c. 1941
Place: Australia - Victoria - Beechworth; Details

Title: Brock's Creek Chinatown
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1901 - c. 1904
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Brock's Creek; Details

Title: Brocks Creek mining settlement
Type: Photograph
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Brock's Creek; Details

Title: Charles Ah Moon, aged 55-60 at family home, 19 Echlin Street, West End, Townsville
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1920 - c. 1929
Place: Australia - Queensland - Townsville - West End - Echlin Street; Details

Title: Children sitting on table with vegetables outside bark hut, with Chinese calligraphy, Stanthorpe
Type: Photograph
Date: 1875
Place: Australia - Queensland - Stanthorpe; Details

Title: Chin Que Ave with three figures standing at one end
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1912 - c. 1913
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston); Details

Title: Chin Que Avenue, off Cavenagh St with sign
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1913 - c. 1914
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston); Details

Title: Chinatown, Darwin
Type: Photograph
Date: 1930 - 1939
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street; Details

Title: Chinese bakery, Pine Creek
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1913
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Pine Creek; Details

Title: Chinese houses in Cavenagh St, Darwin
Type: Photograph
Date: 1890s
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street; Details

Title: Chinese houses in Cavenagh Street, Darwin
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1890 - c. 1910
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street; Details

Title: Chinese housing in Palmerston (Darwin)
Type: Photograph
Date: 1870s - c. 1890
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston); Details

Title: Chinese hut at Pine Creek
Type: Photograph
Date: 1923
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Pine Creek; Details

Title: Chinese huts near Palmerston (Darwin)
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1895
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston); Details

Title: Chinese quarter, Broome. Western Australia
Type: Photograph
Date: 1947
Place: Australia - Western Australia - Broome; Details

Title: Chinese settlement area of Hepburn
Type: Photograph
Date: 1880s - 1890s
Place: Australia - Victoria - Hepburn; Details

Title: Chinese sleeping quarters at 230 George St, Sydney [1]
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1900
Place: Australia - New South Wales - Sydney - George Street; Details

Title: Chinese sleeping quarters at 230 George St, Sydney [2]
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1900
Place: Australia - New South Wales - Sydney - George Street; Details

Title: Chong family pruning branches in their garden
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1938
Place: Australia - Victoria - Bairnsdale; Details

Title: Coolies camp and pearling luggers, 1908
Type: Photograph
Date: 1908
Place: Australia - Western Australia; Details

Title: Daniel Poon Num with his eldest children, Clarence and Gwendolyn, at their house, 'Canton', 13 Grant Ave, Rose Park, Adelaide, in 1913
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1913
Place: Australia - South Australia - Adelaide - Rose Park - Grant Avenue; Details

Title: Darwin streetscape
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1870 - c. 1890
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston); Details

Title: Demolition of Chinese tenements underway in Darwin, 1914
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1914
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston); Details

Title: Gladys and Mei-Ling Chung Gon in the garden
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 25 July 1942
Place: Australia - Tasmania - Sandy Bay; Details

Title: Gladys Chung Gon sewing a dress for her daughter Mei-Ling
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 25 July 1942
Place: Australia - Tasmania - Sandy Bay; Details

Title: Group on front steps of Tock Liang's house in Camberwell
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1930
Place: Australia - Victoria - Melbourne - Camberwell; Details

Title: House and general store and two Chinese shopkeepers, Tambaroora
Type: Photograph
Date: 1870 - 1875
Place: Australia - New South Wales - Tambaroora; Details

Title: Housing at Daly River (or Waters)
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1893
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Daly River; Details

Title: Intersection in the town of Mossman, Queensland, ca. 1910
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1910
Place: Australia - Queensland - Mossman; Details

Title: Ironbark Chinese village
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1889 - c. 1890
Place: Australia - Victoria - Bendigo (Sandhurst) - Ironbark; Details

Title: Little Bourke Street near Exhibition St
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1908
Place: Australia - Victoria - Melbourne - Little Bourke Street; Details

Title: Market gardeners' huts in Urquhart Street (1)
Type: Photograph
Place: Australia - Victoria - Melbourne - Hawthorn - Urquhart Street; Details

Title: Market gardeners' huts in Urquhart Street (2)
Type: Photograph
Place: Australia - Victoria - Melbourne - Hawthorn - Urquhart Street; Details

Title: Market gardens and gardener's residence
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1901 - c. 1904
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston); Details

Title: Mei-ling Chung Gon bathing in bathroom wash basin
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 25 July 1942
Place: Australia - Tasmania - Sandy Bay; Details

Title: Mei-Ling in her nursery
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 25 July 1942
Place: Australia - Tasmania - Sandy Bay; Details

Title: Moorina view with a tent in foreground
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1900
Place: Australia - Tasmania - Moorina; Details

Title: New unidentified housing in Cavenagh St
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1913
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street; Details

Title: New unidentified housing in Cavenagh St
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1913
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street; Details

Title: Pine Creek Chinatown
Type: Photograph
Date: 1911
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Pine Creek; Details

Title: 'Pine Lodge'
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1902 - 1950s
Place: Australia - Victoria - Melbourne - Croydon; Details

Title: 'Pine Lodge'
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1902 - 1950s
Place: Australia - Victoria - Melbourne - Croydon; Details

Title: 'Pine Lodge' (in colour)
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1902 - 1950s
Place: Australia - Victoria - Melbourne - Croydon; Details

Title: 'Pine Lodge' (side view)
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1902 - 1950s
Place: Australia - Victoria - Melbourne - Croydon; Details

Title: 'Pine Lodge' [?] with garden in forefront (colour)
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1902 - 1950s
Place: Australia - Victoria - Melbourne - Croydon; Details

Title: Quong Tart's home in Ashfield
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1889 - c. 1892
Place: Australia - New South Wales - Sydney - Ashfield; Details

Title: Rear of 50 Wexford St showing Chinese bedroom
Type: Photograph
Date: 1900
Place: Australia - New South Wales - Sydney - Wexford Street; Details

Title: Rear of Chinese temple in Darwin
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1895
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston); Details

Title: Sam Hand's boardinghouse, (next to a butcher shop), Home Rule (?)
Type: Photograph
Date: 1870 - 1875
Place: Australia - New South Wales - Home Rule?; Details

Title: 'Sketches from the Queensland diggings'
Type: Illustration
Date: c. 22 January 1879
Place: Australia - Queensland; Details

Title: Small grass thatched hut with unidentified Chinese market gardener
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1889 - c. 1890
Place: Australia - Queensland - Cairns; Details

Title: Tambaroora Chinatown in foreground of view of Tambaroora
Type: Photograph
Date: 1870 - 1875
Place: Australia - New South Wales - Tambaroora; Details

Title: Three unidentified men outside corrugated iron building
Type: Photograph
Date: 1920s
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston); Details

Title: Tobacco plantation, Bathurst
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1880 - c. 1934
Place: Australia - New South Wales - Bathurst; Details

Title: Two Chinese men in front of whitewashed, bark roof house, Tambaroora
Type: Photograph
Date: 1870 - 1875
Place: Australia - New South Wales - Tambaroora; Details

Title: Two men outside hut
Type: Photograph
Date: - 18 February 1905
Place: Australia - Tasmania - Weldborough; Details

Title: Two of Darwin’s Chinese residents in front of condemned Chinatown dwellings
Type: Photograph
Date: 1914?
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston); Details

Title: Two unidentified men sit in front of a thatched hut
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1909 - c. 1914
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Pine Creek?; Details

Title: Two unidentified women and a girl walk around Pine Creek
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1910 - c. 1920
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Pine Creek; Details

Title: Unidentified building
Type: Photograph
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street; Details

Title: Unidentified Chinese garden in Darwin with house
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1890
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston); Details

Title: Unidentified Chinese man outside a house, Tambaroora
Type: Photograph
Date: 1870 - 1875
Place: Australia - New South Wales - Tambaroora - Mudgee Road; Details

Title: Unidentified Chinese miner outside wattle and daub hut with a dog
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1900
Place: Australia - Victoria; Details

Title: Unidentified housing 1
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1913
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston); Details

Title: Unidentified housing 2
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1913
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston); Details

Title: Unidentified housing 3
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1913
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston); Details

Title: Unidentified housing 4
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1913
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston); Details

Title: Unidentified housing 5
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1913
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston); Details

Title: Unidentified housing 6
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1913
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston); Details

Title: Unidentified housing 7
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1913
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston); Details

Title: Unidentified housing in the course of demolition
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1913
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston); Details

Title: Unidentified man ('bird catcher') outside his home at 10-Mile near Darwin
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1915
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston); Details

Title: Unidentified man and woman leaning against elevated timber residence
Type: Photograph
Place: Australia - Northern Territory?; Details

Title: Unidentified man and woman with three children outside a corrugated iron building
Type: Photograph
Place: Australia - Northern Territory?; Details

Title: Unidentified man next to a horse
Type: Photograph
Date: 1870 - 1875
Place: Australia - New South Wales?
Repository: State Library of New South Wales - Mitchell Library; Details

Title: Unidentified man sitting in front of corrogated iron house
Type: Photograph
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street?; Details

Title: Unidentified man standing outside bark hut, Stanthorpe
Type: Photograph
Date: 1870s
Place: Australia - Queensland - Stanthorpe; Details

Title: Unidentified ramshackle huts
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1910 - c. 1920
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Pine Creek?; Details

Title: Unidentified regulation approved well
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1913
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston); Details

Title: Unidentified urinal
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1913
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston); Details

Title: Unidentified well
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1913
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston); Details

Title: Unidentified woman and child standing outside a simple house with a picket fence
Type: Photograph; Details

Title: Unidentified woman examining burlap on a dwelling in Chinatown
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1911
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Pine Creek?; Details

Title: Unidentified woman standing in the doorway of a dwelling
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1910 - c. 1920
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Pine Creek; Details

Title: View of Ballarat Chinese camp
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1875 - c. 1938
Place: Australia - Victoria - Ballarat; Details

Title: View of Darwin with two men
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1879 - c. 1890
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street; Details

Title: View of Darwin's Chinatown area (rear?)
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1912 - c. 1914
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston); Details

Title: View of two houses, Scottsdale, Tasmania
Type: Photograph
Date: 22 September 1910
Place: Australia - Tasmania - Scottsdale; Details

Title: View of unidentified Chinatown
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1911
Place: Australia - Northern Territory; Details

Title: Well-known unidentified Chinese merchant with his family waiting in their home for Chinese New Year visitors
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 5 February 1911
Place: Australia - New South Wales - Sydney; Details

Title: William A. Sac's Chinese Boarding House, Gulgong
Type: Photograph
Date: 1870 - 1875
Place: Australia - New South Wales - Gulgong; Details

Title: Women of the Sue Wah Chin family on the verandha of their house, Darwin, 1955
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1955
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - East Point Road; Details

Title: Yam Creek Mine 1901-1904 Chinatown in the foreground
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1901 - c. 1904
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Yam Creek; Details

Created: 18 March 2004, Last modified: 22 July 2005