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pearling industry

Archival Collections

National Library of Australia - Picture collection

  • Axel Poignant exhibited at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1982, PIC P1831 LOC R9B; National Library of Australia - Picture collection. Details

Published Resources

Books

  • Ganter, Regina, The Pearl-Shellers of Torres Strait: Resource Use, Development and Decline 1860s-1960s, Melbourne University Press, Carlton, 1994. Details

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

Images

Title
Coolies camp and pearling luggers, 1908
Type
Photograph
Date
1908
Place
Australia - Western Australia
Details
Title
Opening pearlshell on a lugger
Type
Photograph
Date
1919
Place
Australia - Western Australia
Details
Title
Packing shell
Type
Photograph
Date
1919
Place
Australia - Western Australia
Details
Title
Pearling luggers, Broome 1908
Type
Photograph
Date
1908
Place
Australia - Western Australia - Broome
Details
Title
Sam Sue, Pearl buyer in Broome
Type
Photograph
Date
1947
Place
Australia - Western Australia - Broome
Details