The previous year only 2,716 had arrived. By the end of the 1850s, Chinese immigrants made up one-fifth of the population of the four counties that constituted the Southern Mines. One Yankee miner ...

Amazing pictures of 19th century Sydney show life for women in an era when it was a 'rough man's town' The never before seen photographs show how women of all classes were able to mix for the ...

During the 1890s and the 1900s, more than a thousand Chinese laundries ... restaurant and other services which were provided by Chinese immigrants. According to the 1901 census, the Chinese population ...