- Title
- Man using shoulder poles walking along the main street of the 'Chinese section' of Geraldton
- Date
- c. 1900
- Place
- Australia - Queensland - Innisfail (Geraldton)
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- Description
The neat and orderly Chinese section at Geraldton (later Innisfail) about 1900. The Chinese provided vital labour as scrub fellers, cane cutters and carriers, and railway navvies. A Chinese mercantile quarter - stores and joss house - had emerged at Geraldton by the late 1880s.
- Type
- Published photograph
- Control
- p.140
- Source
Waterson, Duncan Bruce, From the Frontier: A Pictorial History of Queensland to 1920, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia; New York, 1987. Details
Published source: Gorse Smith Collection, Fryer Library, University of Queensland
Related Subjects
People
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Created: 7 June 2008
