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    Chinese workers carrying bananas to a train, near Innisfail, courtesy of State Library of Queensland - John Oxley.

Title
Unidentified Chinese worker carrying bananas to a train, near Innisfail
Description

Walking along railway line with bananas.

Place
Australia - Queensland - Innisfail (Geraldton)
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    Title
    Chinese workers carrying bananas to a train, near Innisfail
    Description

    'Carrying bananas to train, No. 7 branch' (Description supplied with photograph). Chinese workers carrying bananas loaded in baskets hanging from yokes on their shoulders. They are walking along a train track through the middle of a banana plantation in the Innisfail district, Queensland.

    Type
    catalogue record + digital image
    Form
    copy print : b&w
    Control
    19468; picqld-2003-01-28-15-32
    Source

    Album APE 25, APE 25; State Library of Queensland - John Oxley. Details

    Rights
    Reproduction rights owned by the State Library of Queensland.
  2. Published photograph
    Title
    Chinese carrying bananas, Innisfail area. This banan plantation on the edge of dense tropical rainforest had probably been clearly by Chinese labour
    Type
    Published photograph
    Control
    p.67
    Source

    Reynolds, Henry, North of Capricorn: The Untold Story of Australia's North, Allen & Unwin, Crows Nest, NSW, 2003. Details

    Oxley Library

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Created: 30 September 2004, Last modified: 10 October 2005