Photograph

Title: Chin Que Avenue, off Cavenagh St with sign
Description: 'Chin Que' is painted on the corrogated iron on the left hand side. Chin Que Avenue is a lane which comes off Cavenagh Street in Darwin.
Date: c. 1913 - c. 1914
Place: Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
External Url: http://hdl.handle.net/10070/33399

Versions

Title
Alley

Description
Chin Que Avenue, Chinatown (in Elsie Masson's bood [sic]). A view down an alleyway with corrugated iron buildings on the left and corrugated iron fences on the right.

Date
c. June 1913

Type
catalogue record + digital image

Form
black and white copyprint

Control
34\34434, PH0412/0085

Source
Jean A. Austin collection, c. 1911 - c. 1918, 0412; Northern Territory Library. Details

Rights
Reproduction rights owned by Northern Territory Library and Information Service
Title
Lane looking in direction opposite to No. 7.

Description
Lane looking in direction opposite to No. 7.[see D000013] These are house fronts, not rear to drainage. Note Chinese urinal in middle distance. A spout of galvanised iron passes from the interior of the dwelling through a hole in the wall & into a bucket which is to be seen in the lane. The urine from this bucket is constantly overflowing and is always decomposed.'

Date
c. 1912

Type
Print

Control
8

Source
Removal of Insanitary Chinese Tenements - Darwin, c. 1912 - c. 1913, A3, NT1914/4383; National Archives of Australia, Northern Territory Office. Details
Title
Chin Que Avenue, Chinatown, Darwin

Date
c. 1913 - c. 1914

Type
Published photograph

Control
p.30

Source
Masson, Elsie R., An Untamed Territory: The Northern Territory of Australia, Macmillan, London, 1915. Details

Original photograph from Dr Mervyn Holmes
Title
Side lane off Cavanagh St.

Date
1914 - 1915

Type
Print

Control
barcode 7649205

Source
A3/1, NT1915/1028 Premises owned by Mrs Kirkland - Condemned by Public Health Board, c. 1914 - c. 1915, A3/1, NT1915/1028; National Archives of Australia, National Office. Details