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    'In an opium den' and 'The vegetarian's friend', 26 April 1888, courtesy of Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History).
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    Montage of images: 'Our Chinamen': 'Cheap John', 'A Hawker', 'Swearing a witness', 'New Chums', 'A Chinese Ragpicker', 'A Merchant'., 1874, courtesy of Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History).
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    'The Chinese hawker', 1873, courtesy of Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History).
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    Chinese fancy hawker, c. 10 June 1876, by Hugh George for Wilson and MacKinnon, publisher, courtesy of Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History).
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    Chinese fruit and vegetable seller, Brisbane, courtesy of State Library of Queensland - John Oxley.
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    'Christmas in Melbourne: A Chinese pedlar making presents to his customers', c. 24 December 1887, courtesy of Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History).
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    Ginge, Chinese hawker in Linton, c. 1900, courtesy of Linton & District Historical Society.
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    Jimmy selling vegetables in Linton township, c. 1900, courtesy of Linton & District Historical Society.
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    Chinese man, c. 1917 - c. 1918, courtesy of Northern Territory Library.
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    Chinese, c. 1910 - c. 1920, courtesy of Northern Territory Library.
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Published Resources

Newspaper Articles

  • 'Christmas in Melbourne: A Chinese pedlar making presents to his customers', The Graphic, no. 943, 24 December 1887. Details

See also

  • Yu, Ouyang, 'All the lower order: Representations of Chinese cooks, market gardeners, street hawkers, laundrymen, storekeepers, domestic servants and herbalists in Australian literature from 1888-1988', in P. Macgregor (ed.), Histories of the Chinese in Australasia and the South Pacific, Museum of Chinese Australian History, Melbourne, 1995, pp. 100-112. Details

Images

Title
'In an opium den' and 'The vegetarian's friend'
Type
Illustration
Date
26 April 1888
Place
Australia - New South Wales
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'Our Chinamen'
Type
Illustration
Date
1 February 1874
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'The Chinese hawker'
Type
Illustration
Date
1873
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Title
unidentified man carrying shoulder poles
Type
Illustration
Date
c. 1887
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne - Little Bourke Street
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See also

Title
Ah Chook with basket of fruit
Type
Photograph
Date
1924
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
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Title
'Chinese fancy hawker'
Type
Illustration
Date
c. 10 June 1876
Place
Australia
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Title
Chinese fruit and vegetable seller, Brisbane
Type
Photograph
Place
Australia - Queensland - Brisbane
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Title
'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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Title
Ginge, Chinese hawker in Linton
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1900
Place
Australia - Victoria - Linton
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Hawker's wagon, suburban Perth
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1950
Place
Australia - Western Australia - Perth
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Jimmy selling vegetables in Linton township
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1900
Place
Australia - Victoria - Linton
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Title
Unidentified hawker at Herberton, c1929
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1929
Place
Australia - Queensland - Herberton
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Unidentified hawker with buffalo
Type
Photograph
Date
1912? - c. 1919
Place
Australia - Northern Territory
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Title
Unidentified man
Type
Photograph
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Title
Unidentified man carrying chopped wood on a shoulder pole
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1917 - c. 1918
Place
Australia - Northern Territory?
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Title
Unidentified man with shoulder pole and baskets
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1910 - c. 1920
Place
Australia - Northern Territory?
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Title
Unidentified man with shoulder poles
Type
Photograph
Date
1920s
Place
Australia - Northern Territory
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Title
Unidentified vegetable hawker with two baskets of vegetables balanced on his shoulders
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1895
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Created: 8 April 2004, Last modified: 22 September 2005