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Pine Creek (Northern Territory)

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    Bananas, 1912, courtesy of Northern Territory Library.
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    Carcass, 1910s, courtesy of Northern Territory Library.
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    Chinese Baker, Pine Creek, c. 1913, courtesy of State Library of South Australia.
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    Dwelling at Pine Creek, 1923, courtesy of State Library of South Australia.
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    Gardens, 1910s, by Miller, William Charles, courtesy of Northern Territory Library.
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    [Woman, a man and girl, all wearing hats, walking along a road of houses and flags, Darwin trip with Francis Birtles?] [picture] : [Darwin, Northern Territory], c. 1910 - c. 1962, by Hurley, Frank (1885-1962), courtesy of National Library of Australia - Picture collection.
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    Man, courtesy of Northern Territory Library.
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    People, by NTGP, courtesy of Northern Territory Library.
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    Bananas, 1912, courtesy of Northern Territory Library.
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    [Two women and a girl, all wearing hats, walking along a road with houses and flags] [picture] : [Darwin, Northern Territory] / [Frank Hurley]., c. 1910 - c. 1962, by Hurley, Frank (1885-1962), courtesy of National Library of Australia - Picture collection.
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Archival Collections

Northern Territory Archives Service, Darwin Branch

  • NTRS 3143 Photographs featuring Darwin, Pine Creek and the Top End Railways [Previously registered as F319], c. 1900 - c. 1913, NTRS 3143 (previously F319); Kilgour, John; Northern Territory Archives Service, Darwin Branch. Details

Northern Territory Library

  • Shu Ack Fong collection, c. 1942 - c. 1948, 0497; Northern Territory Library. Details

State Library of South Australia

  • Pine Creek, N.T. Collection; State Library of South Australia. Details

Published Resources

Books

  • Birtles, Francis, Lonely Lands: Through the Heart of Australia, NSW Bookstall, Sydney, 1909. Details

See also

  • Masson, Elsie R., An Untamed Territory: The Northern Territory of Australia, Macmillan, London, 1915. Details
  • Rees, Mary, 'Nellie (Shu Ack Chan) Fong', Journal of Northern Territory History, no. 6, 1995, pp. 45-51. 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
  • Strutton, S, 'Chinese tracks through the north', Walkabout, 1 July 1942, p. 31. Details

Images

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Banana crop believed to be growing in a Chinese market garden
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1912
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Pine Creek
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Carcass hung in slaughterhouse and two Chinese workers
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1909 - c. 1914
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Pine Creek
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Carriers on the track between Pine Creek and Katherine 2
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1912
Place
Australia - Northern Territory
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Chinese bakery, Pine Creek
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1913
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Pine Creek
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Chinese hut at Pine Creek
Type
Photograph
Date
1923
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Pine Creek
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Diggers at Pine Creek, 1910
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1910
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Pine Creek
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Gardens with dead tree in the background
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1909 - c. 1914
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Pine Creek
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Main street, Pine Creek
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1910
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Pine Creek
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Mon Cham of Pine Creek standing in the doorway of Chinese temple
Type
Photograph
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Pine Creek?
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Mr and Mrs Lowe Dep with Jack and Harry Lowe
Type
Photograph
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Pine Creek
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Paw paw and cabbages believed to be growing in a Chinese market garden
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1912
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Pine Creek
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Pine Creek Chinatown
Type
Photograph
Date
1911
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Pine Creek
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Title
Pine Creek Chinese gardens
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1909 - c. 1914
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Pine Creek
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Pine Creek football club
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1945
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Pine Creek
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Title
Pine creek school and scholars
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1912
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Pine Creek
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Title
Pine Creek temple
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1910
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Pine Creek
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Potatoes and cabbages believed to be growing in a Chinese market garden
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1912
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Pine Creek
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Tommy Fong and his daughters on a tilling machine
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 29 August 1943
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Pine Creek - Green Valley Garden
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Two identified children
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1909 - c. 1914
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Pine Creek
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Two unidentified men sit in front of a thatched hut
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1909 - c. 1914
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Pine Creek?
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Two unidentified women and a girl walk around Pine Creek
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1910 - c. 1920
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Pine Creek
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Title
Unidentified Chinese man using a wooden rocker for gold prospecting at Pine Creek
Type
Photograph
Date
1922
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Pine Creek
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Title
Unidentified garbage man
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1909
Place
Australia - Northern Territory
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Unidentified man
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1909
Place
Australia - Northern Territory
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Unidentified ramshackle huts
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1910 - c. 1920
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Pine Creek?
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Unidentified woman and child packing lettuce for supply to the Army
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1943
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Pine Creek - Green Valley Garden
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Title
Unidentified woman examining burlap on a dwelling in Chinatown
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1911
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Pine Creek?
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Title
Unidentified woman standing in the doorway of a dwelling
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1910 - c. 1920
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Pine Creek
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Title
View believed to include a Chinese market garden
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1912
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Pine Creek
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