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    'Chinese lottery', 15 April 1876, courtesy of Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History).
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    'Interior of a Chinese gambling house', c. 10 August 1871, courtesy of Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History).
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    'Melbourne Illustrated - In the Chinese quarter', 13 November 1880, courtesy of Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History).
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    'Sketches among the Chinese in North Queensland', c. 1878, courtesy of Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History).
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    'Sketches in Australia', 10 August 1872, courtesy of Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History).
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    'Sketches in our Chinese Quarter: Fan Tan playing, and a Chinese restaurant', 22 May 1880, courtesy of Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History).
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    'Various ways of enjoying Christmas', courtesy of Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History).
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    Gambling tables at the Cooktown races, ca. 1910, c. 1910, courtesy of State Library of Queensland - John Oxley.
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Published Resources

Newspaper articles

  • 'Chinese in Sydney: sketches of opium smoking, and gambling', Illustrated Sydney News, October. Details

Theses

  • 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

See also

  • Wickham, H.F., 'China in Sydney', The Red Funnel, no. 1 August 1906, 1906, pp. 54-60. Details

Images

Title
'Chinese lottery'
Type
Illustration
Date
15 April 1876
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'Interior of a Chinese gambling house'
Type
Illustration
Date
c. 10 August 1871
Place
Australia
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Title
'Melbourne Illustrated - In the Chinese quarter'
Type
Illustration
Date
13 November 1880
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne - Little Bourke Street
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Title
'Sketches among the Chinese in North Queensland'
Type
Illustration
Date
c. 1878
Place
Australia - Queensland
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Title
'Sketches in Australia'
Type
Illustration
Date
10 August 1872
Details
Title
'Sketches in our Chinese Quarter: Fan Tan playing, and a Chinese restaurant'
Type
Illustration
Date
22 May 1880
Place
Australia
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Title
Unidentified men gambling and a man working in a kitchen
Type
Illustration
Date
c. 1887
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne - Little Bourke Street
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Title
'Various ways of enjoying Christmas'
Type
Illustration
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See also

Title
Gambling tables at the Cooktown races, ca. 1910
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1910
Place
Australia - Queensland - Cooktown
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Men entering a lottery bank
Type
Photograph
Date
11 February 1899
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne - Little Bourke Street
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Created: 18 March 2004, Last modified: 21 October 2005