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domestic work, including cooks not working in businesses

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    Chinese cook's vegetable garden, Manbullo Station, 25 June 1921, courtesy of Charles Darwin University Library (Casuarina).
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    Group of Chinese, c. 1910 - c. 1920, courtesy of Northern Territory Library.
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    Homestead, 1887, courtesy of Northern Territory Library.
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    Group at Government House, 1910s, courtesy of Northern Territory Library.
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    Group of men, May 1918, courtesy of Northern Territory Library.
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    Beach Picnic, Darwin, c. 1890, by Foelsche, P. (Paul), 1831-1914, courtesy of State Library of South Australia.
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    Chinese man, courtesy of Northern Territory Library.
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    Chinese man, courtesy of Northern Territory Library.
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    Chinese man, courtesy of Northern Territory Library.
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    Chinese man, courtesy of Northern Territory Library.
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Published Resources

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
Ah Chook with basket of fruit
Type
Photograph
Date
1924
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
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Chinese cook's vegetable garden, Manbullo Station, 25 June 1921
Type
Photograph
Date
25 June 1921
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Katherine - Manbullo Station
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Chinese employees of Dr Gilruth (Darwin Administrator)
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1910 - c. 1920
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Esplanade
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Title
Daly River cattle station with unidentified Chinese [?] servants
Type
Photograph
Date
September 1887
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Daly River
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Title
Herbert family with others
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1899
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
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Margaret Gilruth with servants Shephard and Dobie at Government House
Type
Photograph
Date
1910s
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
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Title
Members of the Monastery Mess including unidentified Chinese cook
Type
Photograph
Date
May 1918
Place
Australia - Northern Territory
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Paul Foelsche's family at Mindil Beach with unidentified Chinese servant
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1896
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Mindil Beach
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Title
'Sketches from the Queensland diggings'
Type
Illustration
Date
c. 22 January 1879
Place
Australia - Queensland
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Title
Unidentified cook
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1901 - c. 1904
Place
Australia - Northern Territory
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Unidentified domestic servant ('houseboy') posing beside coconut palm outside Government House
Type
Photograph
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Esplanade - Government House
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Unidentified domestic servant in grounds of Government House
Type
Photograph
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Esplanade - Government House
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Unidentified domestic servant outside Government House
Type
Photograph
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Esplanade - Government House
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Title
Unidentified domestic servant outside Government House
Type
Photograph
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Esplanade - Government House
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Title
Unidentified domestic servant with young girl
Type
Photograph
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Esplanade - Government House
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Unidentified group of domestic staff outside Government House
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1910 - c. 1920
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
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Unidentified man standing outside bark hut, Stanthorpe
Type
Photograph
Date
1870s
Place
Australia - Queensland - Stanthorpe
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Unidentified man watering plants with two watering cans on a shoulder pole
Type
Photograph
Place
Australia - Northern Territory?
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Unidentified servant hanging out the washing at Government House
Type
Photograph
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Esplanade - Government House
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