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Chinese market gardener on ‘Toorale’ with a cauliflower – Bourke, NSW, c.1930. Courtesy State Library of NSW.
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Watering can used by Chinese market gardeners at Grenfell. Photograph by Janis Wilton.
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Chinese opium pipe, c.1860-70s. Photograph Stephen Thompson. Museum of the Riverina, Wagga Wagga.
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Yoke for carrying bananas, c.1900 – 1940s, Photograph Joanna Boileau. Courtesy Tweed River Regional Museum.
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Chinese vegetable hawker, c.1895. Courtesy National Library of Australia.
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‘Roll Up’ banner, 1860, Young Museum, NSW, Australia.
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Wing Sang & Co sign, c.1935, Photograph Marinco Kojdanovski, Courtesy Collection: Powerhouse Museum, Sydney. Wing Sang & Co bought and sold fruit and vegetables in Sydney’s markets, specialising as banana wholesalers. The company expanded rapidly and became the marketing agent, for fruit and vegetables produced by Chinese growers in northern NSW, Qld and the Pacific.
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Chinese harrow, c.1860-70s. Photograph Stephen Thompson. Museum of the Riverina, Wagga Wagga. Chinese gardeners made and used various improvised and traditional agricultural tools. Harrows were used by market gardeners to cultivate the surface of the soil. In this way it is distinct in its effect from the plough, which is used for deeper cultivation. Harrows were originally horse-drawn. This harrow was used in the Wagga Wagga area by Chinese market gardeners.
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Trucks built for Tong Sing & Co., Chinese market gardener, by J E Neasby of Aberdeen. Advertising photograph, Muswellbrook, NSW, c.1920s.Courtesy of the State Library of NSW. The gardeners distributed their produce throughout their local area themselves by foot or dray. Later more prosperous entrepreneurs were able to buy trucks to make work easier.
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Basket belonging to Narrandera Chinese market gardener King Fan, c.1900. Photograph Janis Wilton.
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Chongsing Chinese Market Gardens, Matraville, c.1970’s. Courtesy Randwick City Library.
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Chinese market gardens, c.1901. Courtesy Pictures Collection: State Library of Victoria. This is a typical scene of the rural Chinese market garden. Labour intensive and simple.
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Chinese market garden at 212 West Botany Street, Banksia, c.2006. Courtesy John Lachlan Hunter. This is one of the last few Chinese market garden areas left in Sydney. It was first worked by Sun Kuong-War, Lee How and Sin Hop Sing in 1892. Despite an evergrowing international airport nearby, this site has been in continuous use for market gardening for over a century.
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Chinese Market Gardens, Matraville, c.2009. Courtesy Randwick City Library.
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