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    Chinese Houses, 1890?, courtesy of Northern Territory Library.

Title
Chinese houses in Cavenagh St, Darwin
Description

Figures just visible under the verandah.

Date
1890s
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street
External Url
http://hdl.handle.net/10070/20057

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    Title
    Chinese Houses
    Description

    Chinese houses in Cavenagh Street. Names on buildings written in Chinese. Pet bird, and two people in Chinese dress outside.

    Date
    1890?
    Type
    catalogue record + digital image
    Control
    17/17493, PH0238/0433
    Source

    Peter Spillett collection, - 1980s, 0238; Northern Territory Library. Details

    Rights
    Reproduction rights owned by the Northern Territory Library.
  2. Published photograph
    Title
    19th century Chinese houses in Cavenagh Street, Palmerston (Darwin).
    Description

    Note that the footpath is regarded as an extension of the house.

    Type
    Published photograph
    Source

    Rolls, Eric, Sojourners: The Epic Story of China's Centuries-old Relationship with Australia; Flowers and the Wide Sea, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, Queensland, 1992. Details

    Courtesy State Reference Library of the Northern Territory

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    Title
    Darwin
    Description

    Chinese houses in Cavanagh St., Darwin (Palmerston)

    Date
    c. 1890
    Type
    catalogue record + digital image
    Form
    photograph
    Control
    B 13251
    Source

    Darwin Collection, 1860 - 1940; State Library of South Australia. Details

    Rights
    Reproduction rights owned by the State Library of South Australia.
  4. Published photograph
    Title
    Chinatown (Cavenagh Street, Darwin) in the 1890s
    Date
    1890s
    Type
    Published photograph
    Control
    p.6
    Source

    Giese, Diana, All the Flavour of the Time Returns', Using Oral History to Explore the Top End's Chinese Heritage, Occasional Papers, vol. 45, State Library of the Northern Territory, Darwin, 1994. Details

    Original source: Peter Spillett collection

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Title
Unidentified building
Note
Both photographs appear to show the same building.
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Created: 17 May 2003, Last modified: 4 January 2007