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Photograph

Title
Main street of Thursday Island showing a Chinese pawnbrokers
Date
c. 1911
Place
Australia - Queensland - Thursday Island

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  1. Published photograph
    Title
    The Main Street, Thursday Island
    Description

    This Australian outpost, 20 miles from the mainland, is six miles in circumference. It contains a garrison, a Chinese pawnbroker, and some smells.

    Date
    1 December 1911
    Type
    Published photograph
    Creator
    Birtles, Francis E
    Control
    p.165
    Source

    Birtles, Francis, 'Strange Australia: A series of out-of-the-way photographs of the North, with notes, by Francis Birtles', The Lone Hand, 1 December 1911, pp. 158-165. Details

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Created: 6 June 2007