- Functions
- merchant
- Summary
Man Fong Lau is described in a photograph caption as being a Chinese Merchant. He lived in Darwin c1911 and was part of a group photograph commemorating the transfer of the Territory to Commonwealth control. This may have been in real name but he may also have been referred to be the name of his business.
Man Fong Lau's was also the name of a large grocer's business which had its premises in a prominent two-storey building in Cavenagh Street, Darwin.
Man Fong Lau's is also mentioned in a poem written by Ernestine Hill about Darwin in The Great Australian Loneliness.
Related Subjects
Published Resources
See also
- Hill, Ernestine, The Great Australian Loneliness, Imprint Travel edition edn, Angus and Robertson, North Ryde, NSW, 1991 (1940). Details
- Stone, Shane and Steele, Roger, 'Progress of the Chinese community of the Northern Territory', Northern Perspective, vol. 18, no. 1, 1995, pp. 28-37. Details
Images
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- Title
- Cavenagh Street
- Type
- Photograph
- Date
- c. 1912 - c. 1915
- Place
- Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street
- Details
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- Title
- Group portrait commemorating transfer of the Territory to Commonwealth
- Type
- Photograph
- Date
- 2 January 1911
- Place
- Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
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- Title
- Unidentified Residency gathering
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- Photograph
- Date
- c. 1910 - c. 1920
- Place
- Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
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- Title
- Unidentified Residency gathering 2
- Type
- Photograph
- Date
- c. 1910 - c. 1920
- Place
- Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
- Details
See also
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- Title
- Cavenagh Street looking towards the Banyan tree
- Type
- Photograph
- Date
- c. 1928 - c. 1931
- Place
- Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street
- Details
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- Title
- Cavenagh Street showing Tree of Knowledge side of street
- Type
- Photograph
- Date
- 1920s
- Place
- Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street
- Details
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- Title
- Cavenagh Street with Man Fong Lau and banyan tree on right
- Type
- Photograph
- Date
- c. 1920
- Place
- Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street
- Details
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- Title
- Cavenagh Street, pre-war
- Type
- Photograph
- Date
- c. 1 October 1942
- Place
- Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
- Details
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- Cavenagh Streetscape
- Type
- Photograph
- Date
- c. 1915
- Place
- Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street
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- Celebration of the Goddess Chui-Lau Kwoon's birthday outside Man Fong Lau's
- Type
- Photograph
- Date
- c. 1914 - c. 1920
- Place
- Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street
- Details
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- Title
- Chinese houses in Cavenagh Street, Darwin
- Type
- Photograph
- Date
- c. 1890 - c. 1910
- Place
- Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street
- Details
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- Lucy (nee Yet Loong) Lee wedding portrait
- Type
- Photograph
- Date
- c. 1930
- Place
- Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)?
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- Procession along Cavanagh Street with one triangular flag and two rectangular ones
- Type
- Photograph
- Date
- c. 1915 - c. 1916
- Place
- Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street
- Details
Sources used to compile this entry: Hill, Ernestine, The Great Australian Loneliness, Imprint Travel edition edn, Angus and Robertson, North Ryde, NSW, 1991 (1940); Stone, Shane and Steele, Roger, 'Progress of the Chinese community of the Northern Territory', Northern Perspective, vol. 18, no. 1, 1995, pp. 28-37.
Created: 3 November 2005, Last modified: 30 March 2009
