a multicultural Research Library
Making multicultural Australia
The 'Chinese Quarter' - Chinese Slums 1893 (Slide 6)
Andrew Jakubowicz.
The 'Chinese Quarter' centred on Little Bourke, Lonsdale and Little Lonsdale Streets and their alleyways.
Created:
unknown
Date Added:
03 February 2009
Source:
source not available
Format:
jpg (JPEG Image);
File size:
52 KB
Dimensions:
278 x 400
Transcript
The 'Chinese Quarter' centred on Little Bourke, Lonsdale and Little Lonsdale Streets and their alleyways. With their diverse social mixes and proximity to the red light and working class districts, their boundaries blurred. The catch all, 'slums' was applied in this account of 'Making cheap furniture – In a Chinese eating house – A hawker – The Chinese quarter, Little Bourke Street – In an opium den – A laundry man – In a Chinese gambling hell – Their victims.
State Library of Victoria collections
Accession IAN01/09/93/17
Wood engraving published in the The Illustrated Australian News, 1 September 1893
View other images on Cultural Studies
Turkish newspaper - reprint of Herald article- Sydney Road Brunswick Music Festival 2006 - 3
- Asylum seekers support rally
- Serap Baycan with father and siblings
- Chinese benefit concert for Japanese occupied China
- The Chen family in the 1920s
View other Archival Images
- Vietnamese Celebration prayers, Phat Da Monsatery, Brisbane, 2005 (Slide 6)
- Sefer Torah Celebrations at Caufield
- Victoria Religious Leaders (Slide 1)
- Maurice Leong at the See Yup Temple, south Melbourne, March 2008
- "Brisbane Buddhas", Museum of Brisbane exhibition, 2005 (Slide 1)
- Young Muslim girls at Auburn Mosque
Visit the multicultural Library for other documents, video, audio and images.