Queensland

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Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History)

Cathy May collection; Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History). Details

James Cook University Archives

Images published in Cathy May's Topsawyers; James Cook University Archives. Details

State Library of Queensland - John Oxley

Album APE 25, APE 25; State Library of Queensland - John Oxley. Details
Album GS 66, GS 66; State Library of Queensland - John Oxley. Details
Clermont and its people (Box 12); State Library of Queensland - John Oxley. Details
James Cook Historical Museum photographic collection, 83-8-6; State Library of Queensland - John Oxley. Details
Miscellaneous collections; State Library of Queensland - John Oxley. Details

State Library of Victoria - Picture Collection

Daintree collection of glass negatives, PCV LTGN 185, PIC LTAF 225; State Library of Victoria - Picture Collection. Details

University of Queensland library - Fryer Library

Fryer Library, Hume Collection, http://www.library.uq.edu.au/fryer/hume/; University of Queensland library - Fryer Library. Details

Published Resources

Books

Bell, Peter, Historic Sites Associated with Mining and Chinese Settlement in North Queensland, Australian Heritage Commission, Canberra, 1992. Details
Ganter, Regina, Mixed Relations: Asian-Aboriginal Contact in North Australia, University of Western Australia, Crawley, 2006. Details
Taam Sry [Sze?] Pui, My Life and Work, Innisfail [sic], Queensland, 1925., 1925. Details

Book Sections

Comber, Jillian, 'Chinese sites on the Palmer Goldfield, far north Queensland', in P. Macgregor (ed.), Histories of the Chinese in Australasia and the South Pacific, Museum of Chinese Australian History, Melbourne, 1995, pp. 203-212. Details
Grimwade, Gordon, 'Of gods, timber and maize: Cultural heritage management at Cedar Camp (Atherton Chinatown Queensland)', in P. Macgregor (ed.), Histories of the Chinese in Australasia and the South Pacific, Museum of Chinese Australian History, Melbourne, 1995, pp. 307-319. Details
Kirkman, Noreen S, 'The Palmer River Goldfield', in Kennedy, K.H (ed.), Readings in North Queensland Mining History, vol. 1, James Cook University of North Queensland, Townsville, 1980. Details
Wong Hoy, Kevin, 'Chinese-Australian history vs huacqiao history: Chinese in north Queensland', in Sophie Couchman (ed.), Secrets, Silences and Sources: Five Chinese-Australian Family Histories (La Trobe Asian Studies Papers), Asian Studies, La Trobe University, 2005, pp. 3-16. Details

Journal articles

Grimwade, G, 'Atherton Chinatown: Site history', National Trust of Queensland Journal, February, pp. 30-31. Details
Grimwade, Gordon, 'Cedar camp: Atherton's Chinatown', National Trust Queensland Journal, April, pp. 19-20. Details
Grimwade, Gordon, 'Gold, gardens, temples and feasts: Chinese temple, Croydon, Queensland', Australasian Historical Archaeology, vol. 21, 2003, pp. 1-8. Details
Wong Hoy, Kevin, 'Thursday Island en route to citizenship and the Queensland goldfields: Chinese aliens and naturalised British subjects, 1879-1903', Journal of Australian Colonial History, vol. 6, 2004, pp. 159-174. Details

Reports

Grimwade, Gordon, Environmental Impact Study: Archaeology, Palmer River Goldfields MLs 3075-3077, 6719, 7355 and 40057 on the North Palmer River, Thomson, Thomson and Jarman, Cairns, 1993. Details
Reynolds, Barrie, Grimwade, Gordon, Knight, Ralph, Report on Atherton Chinatown, Northern Queensland, vols 1, 2, 3, 4, Report to National Trust of Queensland, Material Culture Unit, James Cook University of North Queensland Townsville, 1987-1986. Details

Theses

Bell, Peter, 'Houses and mining settlement in North Queensland, 1861-1920', PhD thesis, Department of History, James Cook University, 1982. Details
Ormston, Robert, 'The rise and fall of a frontier mining town: Cooktown, 1873-1885', PhD thesis, Department of History, University of Queensland, 1996. Details
Wong Hoy, Kevin, 'Becoming British subjects 1879-1903: Chinese in north Queensland', MA thesis, Asian Studies, La Trobe University, 2006. Details

Webpages

Museum and Gallery Services Queensland (eds), Innisfail Friends of the Temple. Also available at http://www.magsq.com.au/01_cms/details.asp?ID=731. Details

Online Resources

Harris, Julia, Willy Mar: the last of the Chinese market gardeners, ABC Western Queensland Stories, http://www.abc.net.au/westqld/stories/s2067922.htm. Details
A long life - Restoration of the See Poy portraits, http://www.visualarts.qld.gov.au/content/seepoy_home.asp?name=SeePoy_Home. Details
Kwok, Jen Tsen, Augmenting power through representation: Anti-Chinese representations and governance in Queensland, Crossings, vol. 9, 2004, http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/13231/20050203-0000/asc.uq.edu.au/crossings/9_3/kwok.htm. Details
Rains, Kevin, Webs of association: Examining the overeseas Chinese social landscape of early Cooktown, Chinese Southern Diaspora Studies, Special issue: 'Sources, Languages and Approaches in Chinese Australian History' edited by Bagnall, Kate and Couchman, Sophie, vol. 6, 2013, 25-44 pp, http://www.chl.anu.edu.au/publications/csds/csds2013/csds2013_05.pdf. Details
Williams, Michael, 'A brief note on some treasures in the Queensland State Archives', Journal of Chinese Australia, no. 1, May, http://www.chaf.lib.latrobe.edu.au/jca/issue01/09Williams.html. Details

Images

Title: A group of women and children standing in the vegetable garden which was run by a Chinese gardener.
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1910
Place: Australia - Queensland - Isisford District - 'Portland Downs' Station; Details

Title: Aerial view of Chinatown
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1888
Place: Australia - Queensland - Cairns; Details

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; Details

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; 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: Ah Moon family when they were living at Geraldton (now Innisfail)
Type: Photograph
Date: 1910
Place: Australia - Queensland - Innisfail (Geraldton); Details

Title: Ah Moon family, 1906, when the family was living at Sundown
Type: Photograph
Date: 1906
Place: Australia - Queensland - Sundown; Details

Title: Albert Street, Brisbane, c.1883
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1883
Place: Australia - Queensland - Brisbane - Albert Street; Details

Title: Altar, Church of the Sacred Heart
Type: Photograph
Place: Australia - Queensland - Townsville; Details

Title: Annie Chen Ki Chong, daughter of the Chinese Consul to Cooktown and his wife
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1907
Place: Australia - Queensland - Cooktown; Details

Title: Atherton Joss House
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1903 - c. 1910
Place: Australia - Queensland - Atherton; 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 in traditional Chinese costume, Cooktown, Queensland
Type: Photograph
Place: Australia - Queensland - Cooktown; 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: Chinese Consul to Cooktown Chen Ki Chong and his family
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1907
Place: Australia - Queensland - Cooktown; Details

Title: Chinese farm workers planting cane on Hambledon Sugar Plantation, Cairns, 1890s
Type: Photograph
Date: 1890s
Place: Australia - Queensland - Cairns; Details

Title: Chinese fruit and vegetable seller, Brisbane
Type: Photograph
Place: Australia - Queensland - Brisbane; Details

Title: Chinese Joss House in Atherton, Queensland
Type: Photograph
Place: Australia - Queensland - Atherton; Details

Title: Chinese labourers loading bananas onto a steamer at Geraldton (Innisfail) or Mouilyan, 1906
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1900 - c. 1906
Place: Australia - Queensland - Mouilyan; Details

Title: Chinese market garden with two unidentified gardeners at Kalinga, Brisbane
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1925
Place: Australia - Queensland - Brisbane - Kalinga; Details

Title: Chinese market gardener's house surrounded by a flooded Sandy Creek, Clermont
Type: Photograph
Place: Australia - Queensland - Clermont; Details

Title: 'Chinese on the road to the Palmer'
Type: Illustration
Date: 12 June 1875
Place: Australia - Queensland - Palmer River; Details

Title: Chinese quarters at Cairns after the cyclone
Type: Photograph
Date: 1906
Place: Australia - Queensland - Cairns - Grafton Street (Sachs Street); Details

Title: Chinese soccer players (Brisbane v China)
Type: Photograph
Date: 1923; Details

Title: Chinese temple, Atherton, c.1911
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1911
Place: Australia - Queensland - Atherton; Details

Title: Chinese temple, Breakfast Creek, 1886
Type: Photograph
Date: 1886
Place: Australia - Queensland - Breakfast Creek; Details

Title: Chinese temple, Innisfail, early 1900s?
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1890 - c. 1910
Place: Australia - Queensland - Innisfail (Geraldton); Details

Title: Chinese transporting bananas by punt, Innisfail area, Northern Queensland
Type: Photograph
Place: Australia - Queensland - Innisfail (Geraldton) - Johnstone River; Details

Title: Chinese welcome to the Governor at Innisfail, probably 1903
Type: Photograph
Date: 1903
Place: Australia - Queensland - Innisfail (Geraldton); Details

Title: Chinese welcome to the Governor in Cairns or Innisfail, 1903
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1903 - c. 1906
Place: Australia - Queensland - Cairns?; Details

Title: Collecting funds for medical aid to China, 1942
Type: Photograph
Date: October 1942
Place: Australia - Queensland - Brisbane - Queen Street; Details

Title: Daniells' family portrait
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1944 - c. 1945
Place: Australia - Queensland - Stanthorpe; Details

Title: Destruction of Chinese Mission Hall in Townsville caused by Cyclone 'Leonta', 1903
Type: Photograph
Date: 1903
Place: Australia - Queensland - Townsville; Details

Title: Dorothy Sarah O'Malley
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1909
Place: Australia - Queensland - Townsville; Details

Title: Entrance to Atherton temple
Type: Photograph
Date: 12 December 1929
Place: Australia - Queensland - Atherton; Details

Title: Entrance to Cairns temple
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1901 - c. 1904
Place: Australia - Queensland - Cairns; Details

Title: Family portrait of storekeeper and his wife at St. George, Queensland
Type: Photograph
Place: Australia - Queensland - St George; Details

Title: Frances (Brady) O'Malley, grave
Type: Photograph
Place: Australia - Queensland - Townsville or Brisbane; Details

Title: Frances Brady & Jeremiah Francis O'Malley
Type: Photograph
Date: 1880? - 1900?
Place: Australia - Queensland - Townsville; Details

Title: Gambling tables at the Cooktown races, ca. 1910
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1910
Place: Australia - Queensland - Cooktown; Details

Title: Gardeners on the railway station platform, Cairns
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1910
Place: Australia - Queensland - Cairns; Details

Title: Group of people at the Court House in Burketown, Queensland, ca. 1905
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1894 - 1900
Place: Australia - Queensland - Croydon; Details

Title: 'Hell gates on the road to the Palmer'
Type: Illustration
Date: 22 March 1876
Place: Australia - Queensland - Hell Gates; Details

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

Title: Japanese girl in the Chinese/Japanese section of Cairns, c.1902
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1902
Place: Australia - Queensland - Cairns; Details

Title: Jeremiah Francis O'Malley
Type: Photograph
Date: 1900?
Place: Australia - Queensland - Townsville?; Details

Title: Jeremiah Francis O'Malley (manager) with staff of Lennon's Cash Drapery Mart, Townsville
Type: Photograph
Date: 1895? - 1905?
Place: Australia - Queensland - Townsville; Details

Title: Jeremiah Francis, Isobel (Mc Lennan) O'Malley holding baby Sheila, Dorothy Sarah and Molly O'Malley
Type: Photograph
Date: 1912?
Place: Australia - Queensland - Townsville; Details

Title: Jim Leong’s shop in Brisbane
Type: Photograph
Place: Australia - Queensland - Brisbane; Details

Title: Labourer working on the Hambledon sugar plantation, Cairns
Type: Photograph
Date: 1890s
Place: Australia - Queensland - Cairns; Details

Title: Landing Chinese at Cooktown, Queensland
Type: Illustration
Date: c. 1877 - c. 17 May 1895
Place: Australia - Queensland - Cooktown; Details

Title: Leu Lee and Tommy Young dressed up as women
Type: Photograph
Place: Australia - Queensland - Brisbane; Details

Title: Leu Lee and Tommy Young dressed up as women
Type: Photograph
Place: Australia - Queensland - Brisbane; Details

Title: Loading bananas in Innisfail, c1900
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1900
Place: Australia - Queensland - Innisfail (Geraldton); Details

Title: Loading bananas on to boats on the Johnstone River, Queensland, 1922
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1922
Place: Australia - Queensland - Innisfail (Geraldton) - Johnstone River; Details

Title: Locally made junks in Trinity Bay, Cairns, c1907
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1907
Place: Australia - Queensland - Cairns - Trinity Bay; Details

Title: Looking down onto the Chinese Market Gardens at Mitchelton, Brisbane
Type: Photograph
Date: 1930 - 1940
Place: Australia - Queensland - Brisbane - Michelton; Details

Title: Low Fat, 1901
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1901
Place: Australia - Queensland - Maytown; Details

Title: Main street of Thursday Island showing a Chinese pawnbrokers
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1911
Place: Australia - Queensland - Thursday Island; Details

Title: Market garden run by unidentified Chinese gardener on 'Portland Downs' station
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1915
Place: Australia - Queensland - Isisford District - "Portland Downs" Station; Details

Title: Molly, Frances (Brady) & Dorothy O'Malley
Type: Photograph
Date: 1900? - 1915?
Place: Australia - Queensland - Townsville; Details

Title: Mrs Tam Sie [Taam Sze Pui]
Type: Photograph; Details

Title: Office bearers of the Darwin branch of the Kuo Min Tang
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1924 - c. 1935
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin; Details

Title: Procession in Cooktown
Type: Photograph
Date: 1887 - 1890
Place: Australia - Queensland - Cooktown; Details

Title: Reception to honour the Chinese Consul in Townsville, 1913
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 12 August 1913
Place: Australia - Queensland - Townsville; Details

Title: S.S. Caroo being loaded with bananas
Type: Photograph
Date: 1890s
Place: Australia - Queensland - Innisfail (Geraldton); Details

Title: Sally Brady?, Dorothy Sarah O'Malley (Whay)
Type: Photograph
Date: 1903?
Place: Australia - Queensland - Townsville; Details

Title: 'Sketches among the Chinese in North Queensland'
Type: Illustration
Date: c. 1878
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: Tam Sie [Taam Sze Pui]
Type: Photograph
Place: Australia - Queensland - Innisfail (Geraldton)?; Details

Title: Three unidentified Chinese gardeners with musical instruments from Irvinebank, Queensland, 1908
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 10 July 1908
Place: Australia - Queensland - Irvinebank; Details

Title: Tin miners, Stanthorpe mineral district
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1873
Place: Australia - Queensland - Stanthorpe; Details

Title: Twenty-five Chinese and Queensland police on horseback at the Northern Territory border
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1900
Place: Australia - Queensland; Details

Title: Two young unidentified children in Chinese-style dress
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1907
Place: Australia - Queensland - Cooktown; Details

Title: Unidentified Chinese being escorted by Queensland police to Burketown
Type: Photograph
Date: 1900
Place: Australia - Queensland; Details

Title: Unidentified Chinese event
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1900 - c. 1910
Place: Australia - Queensland - Innisfail (Geraldton); Details

Title: Unidentified Chinese man in Cooktown, Queensland
Type: Photograph
Place: Australia - Queensland - Cooktown; Details

Title: Unidentified Chinese playing tug-a-war in the gaol yard in Burketown
Type: Photograph
Date: 1900
Place: Australia - Queensland - Burketown; Details

Title: Unidentified Chinese stopkeeper in Croydon
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1909
Place: Australia - Queensland - Croydon; Details

Title: Unidentified Chinese worker carrying bananas to a train, near Innisfail
Type: Photograph
Place: Australia - Queensland - Innisfail (Geraldton); Details

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

Title: Unidentified man watering rows of peanuts using watering cans on shoulder poles
Type: Photograph
Place: Australia - Queensland - Cape York; Details

Title: Unidentified people in store
Type: Photograph
Date: 1948?
Place: Australia - Queensland - Atherton; Details

Title: Vegetable garden run by a Chinese gardener on 'Portland Downs station
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1915
Place: Australia - Queensland - Isisford District - "Portland Downs" Station; Details

Title: View of Ashgrove showing Chinese market gardens along Ithaca Creek
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1929
Place: Australia - Queensland - Brisbane - Ashgrove - Ithaca Creek; Details

Title: Wedding portrait of Francis George Mills and Queenie Ellen Sing with two unidentified groomsmen and one bridesmaid
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1919
Place: Australia - Queensland; Details

Title: Wedding portrait of Thomas Daniells and Iris Kay
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1933
Place: Australia - Queensland - Warwick; Details

Title: Willie Mar's fruit and vegetable shop, Winton, Queensland, c1947
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1947
Place: Australia - Queensland - Winton; Details

Title: Wong Bow's Certificate of Domicle
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1906
Place: Australia - Queensland - Cairns; Details

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