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Group of people at the Court House in Croydon, Queensland, ca. 1905, c. 1905, courtesy of State Library of Queensland - John Oxley.
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Jeremiah Francis O'Malley, 1895? - 1905?, courtesy of R. Ansell (private hands).
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'A happy family', Quong and Margaret Tart with two of their children, c. 1892, courtesy of Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History).
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Quong Tart seated in mandarin robes, c. 11 July 1894 - c. 29 January 1897, by Museum of Chinese Australian History, courtesy of Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History).
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Quong Tart's home in Ashfield, c. 1889 - c. 1892, courtesy of Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History).
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In a Chinese opium den. picture, 1 July 1896, by Luke, E. T., courtesy of State Library of Victoria - Picture Collection.
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Unidentified miner working a cradle near Ballarat, 1880s, courtesy of Knowledge Resource Centre, Department of Primary Industries, Victoria.
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Yin Bun Lowe cookstore, unloading bananas in Little Bourke Street, 1899, c. 11 February 1899, courtesy of Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History).
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Related Concepts

Chinese-language Australian newspapers

Published Resources

Newspaper articles

'Chinese demonstration in aid of the Melbourne Hospital', Weekly Times, 5 May 1900, pp. 9-10, 15. Details
''The Mercury' goes to a Chinese christening dinner', The Mercury (Hobart, Tasmania), 20 January, p. 16. Details

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'Sydney society homes, Gallop House, Ashfield, Mr Quong Tart's residence [photograph and text]', Illustrated Sydney News, 22 April 1893 [?]. Details
'Mr Quong Tart, proposed visit to China, China a probable market for Australian wool, Chinese and the opium trade [photograph]', Australian Town and Country Journal, 14 April 1894, p. 30. Details
'Chinese mandarins [with photograph]', Australian Town and Country Journal, 23 February 1895, p. 28. Details
'Mr Quong Tart in his mandarin dress [photograph]', Chinese Australian Herald, Supplement, 29 January 1897. Details
'The Chinese gala on the Agricultural Society's Ground [with 3 x photographs]', Sydney Mail, 2 October. Details
'A Chinese farewell [with photograph]', Australian Town and Country Journal, 26 March 1898, p. 38. Details
'[photograph and untitled article about On Lee's return to China]', The Sketch, 4 May. Details
'[Little Bourke Street photo-essay]', The Leader, 11 February 1899, p. 34. Details
'[Yin Bun Lowe cookstore, unloading bananas in Little Bourke Street, 1899]', The Leader, 11 February, p. 34. Details
'Chinese football team, St Vincent's Bazaar [photograph]', The Leader, 8 April, p. 36. Details
'St Vincent fairings', Melbourne Punch, 6 April, pp. 37, 335-336. Details
'Prosperous Chinese miner [photograph]', Australasian, 31 March 1900, p. 703. Details
'Exercises in arithmetic [photograph]', Australasian, 20 December 1902, p. 10. Details
'Dinnertime [photograph]', Australasian, 20 December 1902, p. 1457. Details
'Bible lessons with the Chinese in Melbourne [photograph]', Australasian, 20 December 1902, p. 1457. Details
'Christian Chinese Union of Victoria [photograph caption]', Weekly Times, 25 April 1903, p. 12, 15. Details
'The Chinese Picnic at Aspendale Park [includes photographs]', The Leader, 18 February, p. 36. Details
'Chinese Empire Reform Picnic at Aspendale Park [includes photograph]', Chinese Times supplement, 24 [25] February 1905. Details
'Kyte's-Lane, Looking towards Bourke-Street from Little Bourke-Street [photograph caption and other related photographs]', Australasian, 13 June 1908, p. 1463. Details
'Robert Fun Yet, a familiar figure in the Creswick district. He is probably the last survivor [with photograph]', Sun [Victoria], 21 October 1922. Details
'[photograph: Chinese miner cradling for gold]', The Courier (Ballarat), 17 September 1983. Details
Clarion, 'Chinese in Sydney', Sydney Mail, 25 February 1903. Details
Holland, F.D., 'The Northern Territory: Its goldfields II', Australian Mining Standard, vol. 1, no. 6, 12 April 1900, pp. 339-340. Details
Roberts, Mark, 'Hostile welcome for Chinese men', Examiner Express, 23 August 1980. Details
'The Baron', 'Chinese mission work in Victoria', Weekly Times, 2 September 1899, pp. 10, 14-15. Details

Images

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

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

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Title: Ancestral altar
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 5 February 1911
Place: Australia - New South Wales - Sydney; Details

Title: Assistant missionaries
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 2 September 1899
Place: Australia - Victoria; Details

Title: Bible Lessons with the Chinese in Melbourne
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1902
Place: Australia - Victoria - Melbourne; Details

Title: Caleb Cheong
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 2 September 1899
Place: Australia - Victoria; Details

Title: Cheok Hong Cheong, supt Chinese Missionary
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 2 September 1899
Place: Australia - Victoria; Details

Title: Children of Chinese Converts
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 2 September 1899
Place: Australia - Victoria; Details

Title: Chinese converts
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 2 September 1899
Place: Australia - Victoria; Details

Title: Chinese converts
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 2 September 1899
Place: Australia - Victoria; Details

Title: Chinese dragon procession for Melbourne charity event
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 5 May 1900
Place: Australia - Victoria - Melbourne; Details

Title: Chinese football team, St Vincent's Bazaar
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 8 April 1899
Place: Australia - Victoria - Melbourne - South Melbourne; Details

Title: Christian Chinese Union of Victoria
Type: Photograph
Date: 1903
Place: Australia - Victoria - Melbourne; Details

Title: Chung Gon family eating a Chinese-style christening banquet 1
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 20 January 1944
Place: Australia - Tasmania - Hobart; Details

Title: Chung Gon family eating a Chinese-style christening banquet 2
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 20 January 1944
Place: Australia - Tasmania - Hobart; Details

Title: Chung Gon family gather around as Mrs Edward Chung Gon helps her son Edward James Joseph (Kwok-weng) Chung Gon cut his christening cake
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 20 January 1944
Place: Australia - Tasmania - Hobart; Details

Title: Collection of pictures from a picnic in Aspendale Park
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 7 February 1905 - c. 18 February 1905
Place: Australia - Victoria - Melbourne - Aspendale; Details

Title: Converts in Chinese costume
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 2 September 1899
Place: Australia - Victoria; Details

Title: Dinnertime
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 20 December 1902
Place: Australia - Victoria - Melbourne; Details

Title: Dr James Lamsey in buggy
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 17 April 1900
Place: Australia - Victoria - Bendigo (Sandhurst); Details

Title: Edward, Gladys and daughter Mei-Ling Chung Gon dine with James Chung Gon
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 25 July 1942
Place: Australia - Tasmania - Sandy Bay; Details

Title: Exercises in arithmetic
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 20 December 1902
Place: Australia - Victoria - Melbourne; Details

Title: First page of published photographs from the Melbourne Hospital Parade
Type: Photograph
Date: 5 May 1900
Place: Australia - Victoria - Melbourne; Details

Title: Five unidentified children in Little Bourke Street
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 11 February 1899
Place: Australia - Victoria - Melbourne - Little Bourke Street; Details

Title: Forty-head battery, Howley Ltd
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1900
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Howley; Details

Title: George Young (En Young Fun) and family
Type: Photograph
Date: 31 March 1900
Place: Australia - Victoria - Eaglehawk; Details

Title: Gladys and Mei-Ling Chung Gon in the garden
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 25 July 1942
Place: Australia - Tasmania - Sandy Bay; Details

Title: Gladys Chung Gon preparing a meal
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 25 July 1942
Place: Australia - Tasmania - Sandy Bay; Details

Title: Gladys Chung Gon sewing a dress for her daughter Mei-Ling
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 25 July 1942
Place: Australia - Tasmania - Sandy Bay; Details

Title: James Chung Gon holding Edward James Joseph Chung Gon
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 20 January 1944
Place: Australia - Tasmania - Hobart; 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: Kytes Lane, looking to Bourke Street from Little Bourke Street
Type: Photograph
Date: 1908
Place: Australia - Victoria - Melbourne - Kytes Lane; Details

Title: Lin Yik Tong, Merchant Society of Sydney (seated and standing)
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1902 - c. 31 January 1903
Place: Australia - New South Wales - Sydney; Details

Title: Main shaft, Howley Ltd
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1900
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Howley; Details

Title: Mei-ling Chung Gon bathing in bathroom wash basin
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 25 July 1942
Place: Australia - Tasmania - Sandy Bay; Details

Title: Mei-Ling in her nursery
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 25 July 1942
Place: Australia - Tasmania - Sandy Bay; Details

Title: Men entering a lottery bank
Type: Photograph
Date: 11 February 1899
Place: Australia - Victoria - Melbourne - Little Bourke Street; Details

Title: Miss B. Eager, Hon Secty Ladies Council
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 2 September 1899
Place: Australia - Victoria; Details

Title: Miss Davies, Organist & secty Adult Mission Service
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 2 September 1899
Place: Australia - Victoria; Details

Title: Miss Locke, Secty Mission Worker Society
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1899
Place: Australia - Victoria; Details

Title: Mr James Cheong M.A., late organist
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 2 September 1899
Place: Australia - Victoria; Details

Title: Mr Joshua Cheong, organist
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 2 September 1899
Place: Australia - Victoria; Details

Title: Mr M.C. Bridger
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 2 September 1899
Place: Australia - Victoria; Details

Title: Mr Wm Davies, Hon Treasurer
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 2 September 1899
Place: Australia - Victoria; Details

Title: Mrs C.H. Cheong
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 2 September 1899
Place: Australia - Victoria; Details

Title: Mrs Edward Chung Gon and her daughter Mei-ling holding Edward James Joseph Chung Gon
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 20 January 1944
Place: Australia - Tasmania - Hobart; Details

Title: Norma Quon and Beverly Geechoun, Jubilee Day procession, Melbourne
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1951
Place: Australia - Victoria - Melbourne; Details

Title: Picnic of the Chinese Empire Reform Association at Oakleigh Park
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1906
Place: Australia - Victoria - Melbourne; Details

Title: Portrait of class and teachers at Sydney Chinese school run by Look Yet (Look Sing Sang)
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 16 February 1910 - c. 17 February 1910
Place: Australia - New South Wales - Sydney; Details

Title: Potential Chinese arrivals being questioned by Customs officials
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 2 December 1895
Place: Australia - Victoria - Melbourne; Details

Title: Pupils & teachers
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 2 September 1899
Place: Australia - Victoria; Details

Title: Quong and Margaret Tart with two of their children
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1892
Place: Australia - New South Wales - Sydney; Details

Title: Quong Tart seated in mandarin robes
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 11 July 1894 - c. 29 January 1897
Place: Australia - New South Wales - Sydney; Details

Title: Quong Tart's home in Ashfield
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 1889 - c. 1892
Place: Australia - New South Wales - Sydney - Ashfield; Details

Title: Robert Fun Yet in top hat
Type: Photograph
Date: - 1922
Place: Australia - Victoria - Creswick; Details

Title: School children in costume
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 2 September 1899
Place: Australia - Victoria; Details

Title: Second page of published photographs from the Melbourne Hospital Parade
Type: Photograph
Date: 1900?
Place: Australia - Victoria - Melbourne; Details

Title: Suey Land
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 22 October 1913
Place: Australia - Victoria - Melbourne; Details

Title: Three unidentified boys in Little Bourke Street
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 11 February 1899
Place: Australia - Victoria - Melbourne - Little Bourke Street; Details

Title: Three unidentified men and a woman lying smoking opium
Type: Photograph
Date: 1 July 1896
Place: Australia - Victoria - Melbourne; Details

Title: Two unidentified children in Little Bourke Street
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 11 February 1899
Place: Australia - Victoria - Melbourne - Little Bourke Street; Details

Title: Two unidentified school boys on either side of an altar to Confucius
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 16 February 1910 - c. 17 February 1910
Place: Australia - New South Wales - Sydney; Details

Title: Two unidentified young men on a street corner in Little Bourke Street
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 11 February 1899
Place: Australia - Victoria - Melbourne - Little Bourke Street; Details

Title: Unidentified man selling poultry for Chinese New Year
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 5 February 1911
Place: Australia - New South Wales - Sydney; Details

Title: Unidentified man shoping in Chinese store in Sydney
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 5 February 1911
Place: Australia - New South Wales - Sydney - Campbell St; Details

Title: Unidentified miner working a cradle near Ballarat
Type: Photograph
Date: 1880s
Place: Australia - Victoria - Ballarat; Details

Title: Unidentified woman in doorway in Little Bourke Street
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 11 February 1899
Place: Australia - Victoria - Melbourne - Little Bourke Street; Details

Title: Well-known unidentified Chinese merchant with his family waiting in their home for Chinese New Year visitors
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 5 February 1911
Place: Australia - New South Wales - Sydney; Details

Title: Yin Bun Lowe cookstore, unloading bananas in Little Bourke Street
Type: Photograph
Date: c. 11 February 1899
Place: Australia - Victoria - Melbourne - Little Bourke Street; Details

Created: 8 February 2005, Last modified: 4 October 2011