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Photograph

Title
Cavenagh Street with no people or vehicles
Description

Gordon's Don Hotel can just be seen on the right.

Date
1930s
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street
Interpretive description

Caption printed below image suggests copyprints are of postcards.

Versions

  1. Print
    Title
    Cavenagh Street
    Description

    Cavenagh Street, Palmerston, originally intended as the main street of the town, eventually became the centre of Chinese merchants and received the name of Chinatown. Pre World War II

    Date
    1930s
    Type
    Print
    Form
    2x black and white copyprints. Printed caption below image: 'CAVENAGH STREET, DARWIN'
    Control
    1328 and 2207 (Widdup)
    Source

    NTRS 1854 Photographs of the Northern Territory 1860-1982, NTRS 1854; Historical Society of the Northern Territory; Northern Territory Archives Service, Darwin Branch. Details

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