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cartoons and etchings, 19th century

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    Chinese lotteries - drawing the numbers for the bank ticket. From montage of images of Chinese lotteries., 26 February 1881, courtesy of Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History).
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    'Arrival of Chinese Immigrants in Little Bourke Street', 27 September 1866, courtesy of Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History).
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    'Arrival of the First Gold Escort', c. 1852, courtesy of Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History).
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    BALLARAT BENEVOLENT ASYLUM FETE - THE CHINESE PROCESSION. [picture], 1 December 1875, courtesy of State Library of Victoria - Picture Collection.
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    'Bourke Street, Melbourne, from the Post Office', 3 June 1878, courtesy of Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History).
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    'Castlemaine', courtesy of Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History).
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    'Chinese furniture makers, Little Bourke Street', c. 24 April 1880, courtesy of Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History).
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    'Chinese lottery', 15 April 1876, courtesy of Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History).
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    'Chinese mortuary chapel, Joss House, Emerald Hill', 7 July 1875, courtesy of Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History).
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    'Chinese opium-smokers', 18 April 1874, courtesy of Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History).
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Archival Collections

Royal Australian Historical Society

State Library of Victoria - Picture Collection

  • Illustrated newspaper file collection; State Library of Victoria - Picture Collection. Details

Published Resources

Books

  • Mahood, Marguerite, The Loaded Line: Australian Political Caricature 1788-1901, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1973. Details
  • Willis, Anne-Marie, Illusions of Identity: The art of nation, Hale & Iremonger, Sydney, 1993. Details

Newspaper articles

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

Theses

  • Woodrow, Ross, 'Darwinism and Images of Race in the Australian Popular Press', PhD thesis, University of Sydney, 1994. Details

Online Resources

See also

  • 'Quong Tart, Anglo-Mongolian cricketer [ illustrated]', Bulletin, 9 June 1883, p. 14. Details
  • 'A red letter day at Liverpool Asylum [illustrated montage]', Illustrated Sydney News, 14 August, p. 16. Details
  • 'Mr Quong Tart [with illustration]', Australian Town and Country Journal, 21 August. Details

Images

Title
'An opium den at Sydney'
Type
Illustration
Date
26 February 1881
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney
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'Arrival of Chinese Immigrants in Little Bourke Street'
Type
Illustration
Date
27 September 1866
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne
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'Arrival of the first gold escort'
Type
Illustration
Date
c. 1852
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne
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'Ballarat Benevolent Asylum Fete - The Chinese Procession'
Type
Illustration
Date
c. 1 December 1875
Place
Australia - Victoria - Ballarat
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'Bourke Street, Melbourne, from the Post Office'
Type
Illustration
Date
3 June 1878
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne - Bourke Street
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Title
'Castlemaine'
Type
Illustration
Place
Australia - Victoria - Castlemaine
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'Ceremonies at the Chinese Josshouse, Emerald-Hill'
Type
Illustration
Date
1875
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne - South Melbourne
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Title
'Chinese furniture makers, Little Bourke Street'
Type
Illustration
Date
c. 24 April 1880
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne
Control
N57-011
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Title
'Chinese lottery'
Type
Illustration
Date
15 April 1876
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Title
'Chinese mortuary chapel, Joss House, Emerald Hill'
Type
Illustration
Date
7 July 1875
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne - South Melbourne
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Title
'Chinese opium-smokers'
Type
Illustration
Date
18 April 1874
Place
Australia
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Title
Cityscape with view of Argyle Place
Type
Illustration
Date
1850s
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney - Argyle Place
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'Digging life 25 years ago'
Type
Illustration
Date
20 December 1879
Place
Australia - Victoria - Bendigo (Sandhurst)
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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
'Mr Lowe Kong Meng - [from a photograph by Frite]'
Type
Illustration
Date
c. 20 September 1866 - c. 27 September 1866
Place
Australia - Victoria
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Title
'Our Chinamen'
Type
Illustration
Date
1 February 1874
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'Sketches in Australia'
Type
Illustration
Date
10 August 1872
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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
'The arrival of a China trader: Chinese passengers at the Customs House.'
Type
Illustration
Date
c. 1 October 1892
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Title
'The Chinese hawker'
Type
Illustration
Date
1873
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Title
'The Chinese Quarter'
Type
Illustration
Date
1888
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne
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'The humours of the election'
Type
Illustration
Date
9 June 1877
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See also

Title
'Chinese fancy hawker'
Type
Illustration
Date
c. 10 June 1876
Place
Australia
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'Chinese gardens'
Type
Illustration
Date
c. 1886
Place
Australia - Victoria
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'Christmas in Melbourne: A Chinese pedlar making presents to his customers'
Type
Illustration
Date
c. 24 December 1887
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne
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Landing Chinese at Cooktown, Queensland
Type
Illustration
Date
c. 1877 - c. 17 May 1895
Place
Australia - Queensland - Cooktown
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Title
Lowe Kong Meng (1888)
Type
Illustration
Date
c. 29 November 1888
Place
Australia - Victoria
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Lowe Kong Meng holding Chinese book
Type
Illustration
Date
c. 1863
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne
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Quong Tartan or He would be a Scots-man
Type
Illustration
Date
c. 28 January 1902
Place
Australia - New South Wales
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'Sketches from the Queensland diggings'
Type
Illustration
Date
c. 22 January 1879
Place
Australia - Queensland
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Title
Unidentified Chinese garden
Type
Illustration
Place
Australia?
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