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The Australasian Sketcher - Chinese Lotteries. (Slide 3)

Andrew Jakubowicz.

In this image for readers of the Australasian Sketcher, Chinese gamblers are a subject of intense curiosity for a mixed Little Bourke Street audience.

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Date Added:

03 February 2009

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Transcript

In this image for readers of the Australasian Sketcher, Chinese gamblers are a subject of intense curiosity for a mixed Little Bourke Street audience. The combinations of light and shadow, of mystery, concealment and expose of the lottery recurs throughout the reportage of the ‘Chinese Quarter’ from the 1870s to the new century.
Museum of Chinese Australian History
Lotteries: Marking the Tickets
Wood engraving print, The Australasian Sketcher, 15 April 1876
Item 85.07.17

State Library of Victoria collections
Wood engraving print, The Australasian Sketcher, 15 April 1876
Accession A/S15/04/76/8